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A self validating loop goes a long way with getting AI to optimize stuff. We had some builds that used to take a long time (15-20~ minutes), that i just asked Claude to reduce the …

Dunno if this is the same issue, but someone found malware in their projector. I'm not sure about the accuracy since the report is blatantly AI generated: https://github.com/jrm360…

Use openWrt ( https://openwrt.org ), and use their hardware list to pick a consumer router with the feature set you need that can be flashed to use openWrt.

This will fly in EU. As long as the company states the time period for which it will keep data and clean it afterwards, gdpr has no issues with the data retention. Their carve-outs…

How is this different from Jellyfish? I recall reading a paper around that back in the 2010s https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi12/nsdi12... Edit: Answering my own …

I work at AWS (disclaimer opinions are my own, do not reflect views of my employer) and i think the existence of a leaderboard has led to folks gamifying it. People see peers in a …

This blog is basically openAI admitting that Hey we parse and store your prompts! I know it's well known in tech crowds that they use all prompt data for training, but most non tec…

Some really big/rich markets on the list (Brazil, India, ME..). I don't think LEGO is big in most of those countries (at least not in India), so they might be trying to slow down t…

Well, not that great for current workers either. Microsoft RSUs are usually 20% (compared to 40-80% in other big tech) or less for most employees, and on average msft has 30-50% le…

My sports sedan gives 25 mpg, and my parent's Toyota hybrid SUV gives 58 mpg.

It's enshittification because most people don't need the 2 year upgrade cycle. For most individuals and small businesses, it was more like buy once and use forever.

Isn't it exactly the opposite? It used to be low salary + gambling, but now that most people know how easy it is to screw early employees, folks ask for high(er) salary + gambling

I went digging for this, and their SEC filing for 2024 mention they have a stay from the Irish High Court. > The IDPC issued an administrative fine of EUR €1.2 billion as well as c…

I would be really surprised if Amazon didn't have algorithms running that price matched other stores automatically.

I thought the CEO was trying to take the company private, for pennies to the dollar which caused the independent board to resign (see: https://investors.23andme.com/news-releases/n…

> Financial literacy itself is quite simple: spend less than you make. I'd disagree with this. Financial literacy includes understanding how /how much to save as well. Too many peo…

Interesting read, the fix seems to be straightforward, but I'd have a few more questions if I was trying to do something similar. Is software deployed regularly on this cluster? Do…

>every single team is distributed. Unfortunately this isn't true. Amazon already forced all teams to co-locate, calling it RTT (return to team). So majority of teams are in the sam…

> Although the problem is with the hood latch, as with many Tesla safety recalls, the problem can be fixed with an over-the-air software patch. The new software is able to detect i…

Link to the Reuters report the article is based off: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-mu...

Seems to be specifically the Dutch entity. I wonder how this would affect their USA business, since i see VanMoof bikes pretty often in Seattle

In this context (the blog post) and the reason firecracker was created, was to isolate workloads. And if youre running untrusted code, then using a virtualized environment is the e…

I'm curious what the terms of usage would be, since eventually people will figure out how to block all the ads one way or another. Also after having seen a few cheap Walmart tvs, s…

Not really. According to the CEO's tweets the payroll funds are stuck in SVB, but Rippling is using their own funds/collateral to fund the payroll. Ref: https://twitter.com/parkerc…