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My understanding is that it's also a legal CYA. If you have SLAs in place, outages might mean you owe money. So companies tend to err on the side of underreporting.

Someone's also purchased setwitter.com to prevent the same attack on another obvious domain

My understanding of this tech is pretty minimal, so please bear with me, but is the basic idea is something like this? Before: Evaluate the image in a little region around each pix…

A more subtle aspect of customer service here is that, as the dev or PM responding to the customer, you have a lot more power to give the customer what they want. A BigCo can hire …

I tried that but it's just really hard to keep up over time -- e.g. I used a rule based on the domain name but domain names change somewhere often. Toss in things like "ugh, which …

Eh, I'm not sure that follows. So under U.S. law, the more "transformative" something is (as opposed to "derivative"), the more likely it is to be deemed fair use. The line between…

Even if the AI didn't make stuff up, it's unclear to me what value it adds over... - The existing human edited text already on the page - The playground to run the code in question…

I think this is Supabase's whole schtick, right? It's an open source, optionally self hosted Firebase alternative.

If you're going to use an ML model, you might as well use an existing language translation model rather than asking ChatGPT or the like to convert words one by one. You'd probably …

I'm still annoyed they got rid of the ultrasonic sensors on the latest model. I test drove a 2022 (or maybe a 2021) and the park assist was pretty good. And then I get the 2023 del…

Well, it sort of is OpenAI's fault that it presented the interface as a chat bot though. > It was given a sequence of words and tasked with producing a subsequent sequence of words…

By virtual DOM, what I mean is telling the browser I would like to replace the innerHTML of an element with another bit of HTML, and the browser should figure out an efficient way …

At this point, I feel like the party best equipped to reduce JavaScript bloat are the web browsers themselves. There's the obvious stuff, like simply blocking third party tracking …

Seems to be a thing: https://www.meetup.com/mountain-view-area-runclub/

I have no sailing or nautical or any relevant experience, so apologies if this is obvious, but what keeps the sail from getting blown off the ship? My understanding is that the con…

YMMV I suppose but the "auto" options for climate + wipers do not work well for me. Single droplet in the right spot => furious wiping. 100 droplets in the wrong spots => no wipe. …

The short-term case for other banks bailing out depositors is that any systemic risk affects all banks and the rest of the citizenry, albeit indirectly. But I think it's probably e…

I hope they get perf down. The first game runs great on my M1 until we get to around 100K residents or so. That's not a huge number of people for a real world city, but I guess sim…

Similar concern here about the lack of snapshot files. Can "locally stored" captured data points be version controlled, even if it's some special Touca binary that makes no sense i…

> ex post facto (laws cannot apply retroactively) Funny enough, deportation is regarded as a civil matter and thus the ex post facto clause does not apply here. Nothing in the cons…

Warnock's first case doesn't seem to apply to modern social media? A "perfect" post that doesn't warrant a comment will simply get upvoted / liked / boosted / etc. And in a suffici…

If it doesn't exist already, someone should write a story where the USG patents a ludicrously impossible perpetual motion machine or something to force China to burn cash, but then…

The interesting aspect IMHO is not that they set aside 10% of their time to fix tech debt per se, but that they set aside 10% of their time to collaborate on it / engage in mob pro…