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I remember being asked this during my interview at Google. It was the first time I heard it and I gave an answer that iterated over the list twice. The interviewer said that it was…

Why this is interesting: a major defense against mass account takeovers (ATOs) at large scale companies has been fingerprinting browsers. You as a normal user see this most when yo…

I haven't tried it yet, but if it does what you say it does, I honestly think you underpriced this.

Awhile ago I wrote a Python library called LiveStats[1] that computed any percentile for any amount of data using a fixed amount of memory per percentile. It uses an algorithm I fo…

I think the simplest solution to this would be to simply hide comment/retweet/like counts. It will be possible to sort of figure this out from the engagement, but it won't be easy …

Spiritless Kentucky 74: https://spiritless.com/products/kentucky-74 It's pretty good!

That website is not a quality source of information. Media Bias/Fact Check rates it as questionable, low quality, and far to the right: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/here-is-the-e…

> They pay for expensive ($$$$$$) cloud anti-bot/anti-scraping, captcha you after a few requests if you run adblock, they pay for extensive browser/device (attempting to reidentify…

The parent commenter was discussing revenue and not profit. If they were aggressively expanding, I would expect that profits to remain small or negative, but I'd expect revenue to …

It's important to know the limits of your knowledge and reasoning capabilities and defer to relevant experts, which is known as epistemic learned helplessness[1]. This is also much…

Yes! https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

NIST 800-63b actually recommends against character class requirements[1] in favor of minimum length requirement and blacklists of breached passwords and other obvious passwords. Si…

The thing is running a marathon isn't that hard and there's little to no luck involved. By following a rigid plan most people can do it in about a year. Millions of people do it ev…

This phenomenon is called cost disease and it's really hard to figure out why exactly it's happening. https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...

I think you underestimate how many people blindly copy examples without understanding them. Safe example code results in more correct programs.