zackwu

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by zackwu 22d ago
yeah I found it out a while back and since then I've been using randomly generated names during checkout every time - no issues ever
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by zackwu 22d ago
no one is saying Apple is the saint. It's just better in comparison to other big techs who want your privacy as much and don't even pretend to care
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by zackwu 1mo ago
It depends on your lens, some may think it's a way to show them the doors after failed corp politics.
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by zackwu 2mo ago
Is it surprising? Let's face it - distillation is common practice and every lab does it either intentionally or unintentionally (your training corpus always includes AI generated content in the post ChatGPT era).
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by zackwu 2mo ago
There are zero-retention 3rd party providers (EU/US companies), but it's your choice whether to trust their claims or not.
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by zackwu 2mo ago
Made in Shanghai Gigafactory. Some may even argue Tesla would have died without the manufacture capacity in China
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by zackwu 3mo ago
Fintech/finance is a very big industry and there are a lot of sub-domains. A HFT system programmer thinks about how to colocate their prod machines in NYSE and use zero alloc techniques to ingest marketdata as fast as possible, while a
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by zackwu 3mo ago
I'm a programmer and I understand Git internals decently well, but unless something went wrong, I pay zero attention to the verbose output of `git push`. BTW, isn't "avoid unnecessary output" one of the Unix philosophies
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by zackwu 3mo ago
oh man, "we have nothing to lose but our jobs" really cracked me up in a sad way
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by zackwu 6mo ago
yeah this is indeed a good insight. Back in the days, who would expect so many bots to "review" code and leave overly verbose comments under every PR in a popular repo?
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by zackwu 6mo ago
As pointed out by many comments, the post seems US-centric and using zip code doesn't work for all countries. But just for reference, in Singapore, we use 6-digit zip codes, each of which can uniquely locate a single building, so yes,
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by zackwu 4y ago
True. But this only mitigate the problem, doesn't solve it. Whatever BINs they use, there must be some noticeable patterns, simply because these cards are NOT regular cards.