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Lots of parallels to the crypto wars / export controls on cryptography. The main difference here is that cryptography didn't require significant compute hardware, which is the perf…

I'm guessing the kids who didn't do the standardized tests at/shortly after 2021 were already prepared for it. The kids who saw the removal of standardized testing 3 years out from…

The parallels to comic sans are so obvious that first thing I did in the article is Ctrl-F "comic", because my first thought was: how much further has this taken the concept. The d…

So one of the ways Robinhood makes money is payment for order flow (PFOF). One lens to view PFOF is that it connects the most sophisticated traders (HFTs, etc.) with the least soph…

Suspect there's a cultural aspect as well. As in, US is more of a monoculture (particulary, consumption-wise), than many other countries. Oh and advertising being widespread and ef…

Eh, I think this depends on what you're shopping for? I'm in Australia as well, and Amazon is good for certain products, regularly price matching (or slightly cheaper than) other s…

if the pilot doesn't have their hands on the stick flying the plane, i don't think those hours (... less than single digit minutes?) count.

Very nice! I skimmed TFA, came back here to ask for the obligatory 11:59:59 rollover, but then went back and found it.

Windows had autorun starting Windows 95, but stopped shipping it as a default in Windows 7 (2009). So, yeah, no we haven't learned our lesson.

oopsie, has someone burned their proprietary intel for internet points?

this can only be effective if the school isn't counting on the bully to help the school win various sports competitions over the next few years. often the school is in a tough spot…

This just moves the problem to support. The app doesn't work for users, they don't remember clicking no, and then some CSR has to hand-hold them through clicking "yes".

Hard to get promoted at Google doing that

> The fact this is part of a move off a "legacy" system to "modern" "microservices" suggests there's a huge amount of developers having fun ... I don't think it suggests that at al…

Reddit was founded in 2005, Go was released in 2007. They picked the tech that was available and mature at the time, and enabled them to scale for 20 years (to 100M+ DAUs + IPO) - …

Some of these would be retries that wouldn't have happened if not for earlier errors.

Yep, a decent canary mechanism should have caught this. There's a trade off between canarying and rollout speed, though. If this was a system for fighting bots, I'd expect it to be…

It's probably not ok to silently run with a partial config, which could have undefined semantics. An old but complete config is probably ok (or, the system should be designed to be…

This isn't what they do, though. This is a data/config push - original article says _a “feature file” used by our Bot Management system_