andrewfong

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by andrewfong 1y ago
My understanding is that it's also a legal CYA. If you have SLAs in place, outages might mean you owe money. So companies tend to err on the side of underreporting.
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Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents(sparktoro.com)
333 points by andrewfong 2y ago|296 comments
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by andrewfong 2y ago
Someone's also purchased setwitter.com to prevent the same attack on another obvious domain
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by andrewfong 3y ago
My understanding of this tech is pretty minimal, so please bear with me, but is the basic idea is something like this? Before: Evaluate the image in a little region around each pixel against the prompt as a whole -- e.g. how well does a lit
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by andrewfong 3y ago
A more subtle aspect of customer service here is that, as the dev or PM responding to the customer, you have a lot more power to give the customer what they want. A BigCo can hire a lot of CS people but the best they can do sometimes is &qu
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by andrewfong 3y ago
I tried that but it's just really hard to keep up over time -- e.g. I used a rule based on the domain name but domain names change somewhere often. Toss in things like "ugh, which of my three emails did I use on this site" or
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by andrewfong 3y ago
Eh, I'm not sure that follows. So under U.S. law, the more "transformative" something is (as opposed to "derivative"), the more likely it is to be deemed fair use. The line between derivative and transformative is f
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by andrewfong 3y ago
Even if the AI didn't make stuff up, it's unclear to me what value it adds over... - The existing human edited text already on the page - The playground to run the code in question - One of the many existing autocomplete / st
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by andrewfong 3y ago
I think this is Supabase's whole schtick, right? It's an open source, optionally self hosted Firebase alternative.
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by andrewfong 3y ago
If you're going to use an ML model, you might as well use an existing language translation model rather than asking ChatGPT or the like to convert words one by one. You'd probably get better results treating American English and B
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by andrewfong 3y ago
I'm still annoyed they got rid of the ultrasonic sensors on the latest model. I test drove a 2022 (or maybe a 2021) and the park assist was pretty good. And then I get the 2023 delivered and there's no park assist for the first 6
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by andrewfong 3y ago
Well, it sort of is OpenAI's fault that it presented the interface as a chat bot though. > It was given a sequence of words and tasked with producing a subsequent sequence of words that satisfy with high probability the constraints
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by andrewfong 3y ago
By virtual DOM, what I mean is telling the browser I would like to replace the innerHTML of an element with another bit of HTML, and the browser should figure out an efficient way to "diff" the update rather than replace all the c
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by andrewfong 3y ago
At this point, I feel like the party best equipped to reduce JavaScript bloat are the web browsers themselves. There's the obvious stuff, like simply blocking third party tracking JS. There's some small quality of life bits -- a n
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by andrewfong 3y ago
Seems to be a thing: https://www.meetup.com/mountain-view-area-runclub/
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by andrewfong 3y ago
I have no sailing or nautical or any relevant experience, so apologies if this is obvious, but what keeps the sail from getting blown off the ship? My understanding is that the container is lifted and placed on top of a typical container ve
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by andrewfong 3y ago
YMMV I suppose but the "auto" options for climate + wipers do not work well for me. Single droplet in the right spot => furious wiping. 100 droplets in the wrong spots => no wipe. Climate - My preferred mode is to have the A
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by andrewfong 4y ago
The short-term case for other banks bailing out depositors is that any systemic risk affects all banks and the rest of the citizenry, albeit indirectly. But I think it's probably economically sound in the long-term as well. That is, as
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by andrewfong 4y ago
I hope they get perf down. The first game runs great on my M1 until we get to around 100K residents or so. That's not a huge number of people for a real world city, but I guess simulating traffic + pathfinding for 100K+ actors is a dic
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by andrewfong 4y ago
Similar concern here about the lack of snapshot files. Can "locally stored" captured data points be version controlled, even if it's some special Touca binary that makes no sense in GitHub? I'm coming at this from a &quo
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by andrewfong 4y ago
> ex post facto (laws cannot apply retroactively) Funny enough, deportation is regarded as a civil matter and thus the ex post facto clause does not apply here. Nothing in the constitution prevents the U.S. from deporting him to Antarcti
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by andrewfong 4y ago
Warnock's first case doesn't seem to apply to modern social media? A "perfect" post that doesn't warrant a comment will simply get upvoted / liked / boosted / etc. And in a sufficiently large communit
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by andrewfong 4y ago
If it doesn't exist already, someone should write a story where the USG patents a ludicrously impossible perpetual motion machine or something to force China to burn cash, but then China actually claims to have created one and then bot
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by andrewfong 4y ago
The interesting aspect IMHO is not that they set aside 10% of their time to fix tech debt per se, but that they set aside 10% of their time to collaborate on it / engage in mob programming.
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by andrewfong 4y ago
Something that might help is creating typed / untyped boundaries. Wrap a (possibly untyped) library with your own (maybe incomplete) typed wrapper. Then let Typescript check everything up to your particular boundary and ignore everythi
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by andrewfong 4y ago
I'd guess you could get pretty far by just adding comments with links to product specs, JIRA tickets, or Slack/chat threads, as applicable.
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by andrewfong 4y ago
That's a good way to prevent regressions but it's not the same thing as documentation or a mental model. The tests tell you what it's supposed to do, not how it does it.
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by andrewfong 4y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Slack. Yeah, search could be better sometimes. But for this particular problem, I personally find search useful in two contexts: * Even if I can't remember the exact phrasing I used for something, I often remember
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by andrewfong 4y ago
I like Mastodon but agree about the bubble. I think the best case scenario is something like a return to the glory days of RSS.
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by andrewfong 4y ago
The paywall on Medium prompts me to subscribe to Medium (and presumably, some of the money goes to the authors). It feels like a magazine. My relationship is with Medium, not individual authors. With Substack, I'm prompted to subscribe

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