elischleifer

Of all the things Amazon brings to the marketplace - global surveillance is not one I would advertise on the superbowl.

"The less polished and coherent something is, the more value I assign to it." - maybe a bit of an overstatement ;)

100% - targeted advertising lives and breathes on data - this is par for the course

This headline could be written about every major social network on our planet. Tracking pixels are not something TikTok invented.

Detection of copy-pasta is interesting - what it's calling out is not a deficiency in LLM's to code but in agentic rules in place that should just remind the agent to refactor into a common function when appropriate.

We already are performing our own unintentional form of geo-engineering with our relentless pumping of CO2 into the air. That said, not sure blocking the sun is our best plan right now for avoiding the worst of climate change. Instead of trying to have our cake and eat it too, we need to accelerate our focus on reducing carbon output, decarbonize electricity and transportation, and invest in massive amounts of energy production to the point where energy is so cheap we can use it to pull carbon from the air.

fair point. I think I've just been burned too many times by dependabot looking to update single ts packages with single line changes. it's default configuration is overly aggresive

Working at Microsoft back in the early 00s I spent a lot of unfriendly hours with windbg. On one particular project we hunted for a terrible crash for months until it was uncovered that we were compiling against the single thread CRT when using threads extensively...whoops

Just another reason not to use dependabot - it's default configuration appears to be created to burn money on GH Actions / Azure.

The security breaches be damned - the UI was terrible / constantly prompted me to store credit card info in LastPass and I was just not interested...but couldn't get it to stop this. deleted and moved to Dashlane.

better and better visuals....still looking for a killer app.