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It’s irrelevant if they’re a freedom fighter or a terrorist. Extra judicial killings are not justified.

I’m not sure if this particular killing was done by India, but either way it’s not great timing.

Google Maps has also become extremely cluttered and filled with ads.

I was a heavy user of their biking directions and those became significantly worse with a single update overnight a few years ago.

Google Maps is still better than Apple Maps (and outside the U.S. the competition isn’t even close) but Google seems to be going out of their way to reduce that gap.

I suspect MS is working on some sort of common browser layer for Electron apps on Windows.

Their primary reasoning for picking V8 for Edge was that node, electron etc were built on V8.

We haven’t seen anything specific to those environments in Windows yet. I expect that to probably change pretty soon.

If not creating documentation is leading to bad PR why doesn’t MS just create the documentation instead?

Occam’s razor would suggest it’s because accurate documentation would create worse PR.

That’s not reassuring at all.

Right and when you accidentally say no to the ones that actually matter?

The whole problem with a sea of notifications is that it’s hard to identify what’s important and what’s not. Your suggested solution does nothing to solve that problem other than to relocate when the problem arises.

I dont get this defense of using JS.

Ok, maybe a dev is much faster writing JS because they keep stuff in their head better. But I’m assuming they also use third party libs, or functions that other devs in their team have written that they just need to call.

Typescript makes it easy for the IDE to show you what exactly you need to pass to call the teammate’s function (and this was the originally motivation behind typescript…improving MS dev tooling) without having to dig into the code or read the documentation.

And type inference means you’re rarely actually writing out the types. So I find it hard to believe that anyone writing a relatively complicated piece of code would be faster using JS over TS.

Small scripts and the like, sure. But complete complex applications? I doubt it.

You’re assuming this was the only location they showed ads.

It could have been one of the many components displaying ads. And this specific component might have accounted for a small percentage of those ads.

And presumably this wasn’t the only feature deployed so any noticeable change in revenues could have been attributed to many other things before a typo in the ID would have been discovered.

Cant I write whatever code I want and run it on the A chips through MacOS?

These companies negotiate everything, including where the boxes will be located on the shelves, the angles they will be placed at, which competitors will be allowed, the pricing schemes, etc. They will never go “well for the price per unit, let’s just go with whatever random unit our internal systems spit out”.

Its extremely convenient that the mandated data that helps customers cut through the millions they spend on marketing and pricing schemes is the one that is completely uncared for.

The price per unit in US groceries is ridiculous.

You will literally have 3 packages of soda all of the same size listing the price per unit in completely different units. Some in ml, some in oz, some in pts.

This doesn’t seem like a particularly prestigious contest.

It seems the people doing the “prank” intended to show that a lot of these contests are not legitimate and just an opportunity for the organizers to make some money.

It would be interesting to see whether a legitimate contest that did blind taste tests would fall for such a trick.

Azure Devops existed well before GitHub was owned by MS under Visual Studio Online moniker.

It was intended to be a SAAS version of the on Prem offerings MS has provided since before GitHub even existed.

3rd party tracking cookies are highly limited in the access they have. And they can easily be blocked using readily available 3rd party extensions or by clearing your browser of cookies.

This is tracking that’s baked right into the browser. There is very little limit to what data it can use to generate whatever information it does, and it follows you across the internet for perpetuity. It’s also a first party implementation so you’re completely beholden to Google’s decision to do what they want with it, and considering the IE like chokehold Chromium has on internet browsing, most people will be subject to whatever Google decides to do.

Finally, your steps only tell me what Google is telling others. It tells me nothing about what data the browser itself might be collecting and passing onto Google.

There is a substantial qualitative difference between a 3rd party tool that can easily be blocked by the first party vendor (the browser) and or modifications to it using extensions, and a first party tool doing the tracking itself.