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by cddotdotslash 2y ago
Some more details[1] about this. [1] https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1a1jn00hc
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by cddotdotslash 2y ago
I’ve had multiple purchases recently where the product I ordered (new) arrived in obviously-used condition. First was a metal kitchen trash can that had scratches and small dents on it. Second was a stroller cover for the airplane that arri
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by cddotdotslash 2y ago
I hate seeing Techmeme links because it always guarantees I'll need to click yet another link before getting to the original URL. It's like a useless middleman.
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by cddotdotslash 2y ago
This is nice! Did you use a library for the visualization part (the dotted background with the zoom/pan)?
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by cddotdotslash 2y ago
Another article[1] cites AT&T's Snowflake deployment as the source of the breach: > It’s not clear for what reason AT&T was storing customer data in Snowflake, and the spokesperson would not say. [1] https://techc
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by cddotdotslash 2y ago
As a consumer of Product Hunt (I used to browse it at least 4-5x/week), it has become completely overrun with AI "spam," low effort apps, and comments that are just variations of "this looks nice!" (likely AI-genera
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by cddotdotslash 2y ago
I managed to snag "wut.dev" (a rare 3-letter!) and have mostly been tossing personal side projects on it so far.
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by cddotdotslash 2y ago
Google has done the exact same thing in the past, deleting Google accounts without warning (which is arguably worse because not only can you not access your phone backups but your email, calendar, drive, etc. is gone too).
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Same, canceled my subscription of nearly 10 years last week. It felt like every inch of the interface was being used to push podcasts in my face. I came to Spotify to play music and discover new music. Both of those were getting more diffic
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Confidently incorrect is certainly the worst kind.
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Anecdotal, but I have Google Fi and was on a ~1 hour call this AM during the height of the outage and had zero issues.
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I’ve had a different, but similarly strange, issue with Drive on Mac (after using it for 5+ years without issue). It suddenly started moving tons of random files from deep in my Drive folder tree at the root of my drive. So files that were
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Is this comment tongue-in-cheek? We all know any increases in the stock price are certainly not going to fund "safety efforts" unless "safety efforts" has become a euphemism for "executive bonuses."
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
There’s definitely a science to it. To complicate matters, the way you explore those connections, take backups, identify owners, and perform restores is different across pretty much every cloud service.
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I’m convinced that once a company reaches ~$10m/year in AWS spend it becomes entirely reasonable to hire an in-house engineer whose sole job is to find cost savings opportunities. Literally a “find unused stuff and turn it off” enginee
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Google Flights first, and then I go to the airline's site to purchase. I never deal with third-party resellers - they might be cheaper in some cases but a nightmare to deal with if the flight changes or gets canceled. I like Google Fli
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
One party consent states exist (in fact, most US states are this way). So no, it’s not illegal.
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Maybe it’s time for some startups to evaluate whether they should have 60 employees when they’re only bringing in $1M in ARR.
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Exactly, and most countries promoting these visas refuse to clearly state what the foreign employers are exempt from or responsible for. I went through this myself a few years ago. I applied for, and received, a Taiwanese Gold Card (a simil
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
In my experience, while these kinds of visas address personal tax liability, many US-based companies are still unlikely to allow W2 employees to participate due to (very real) tax, jurisdiction, and legal concerns (if a W2 employee is worki
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
It gets worse than that at some places. I was just in Vietnam and some restaurants offered discounts if you left 5-star reviews. In China, a place actually went as far as confirming you'd left the review by viewing it on their device (
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Genuinely curious: what kinds of policies do you see the alternate party implementing that you feel would help you?
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I just spent two weeks in Vietnam, one in Hanoi. The motorbikes were actually something I could deal with - it was chaos, but organized. Everyone on the road seemed hyper alert and traffic just sort of flowed. The thing I could not get used
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I’ve been working on a small project to get familiar with building Chrome extensions. It makes tweaks to Google Flights to add data like transfer partners, estimated point redemption costs, etc. that can be helpful for folks redeeming credi
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Do you get to the checkout line and name your price to the store because you’re “not paying $6 for that sandwich since I don’t like the bread they used and don't plan to eat it” too?
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
At some point it becomes a failure to deliver goods and warrants a credit card chargeback. If you bought a 10-piece kitchen set on Amazon and only 3 pieces arrived, you’d want a refund.
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
My theory is that we’re just going to read about a never-ending (but possibly increasingly rare) series of edge cases. And in every one, it’ll be dismissed as “oh that was a really rare edge case” yet humans would have been able to make a b
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I started a Google Chrome extension called “SkySavvy” to enhance Google Flights searches with additional data (airport lounges, seatmaps, points and miles award data, better filters for suites and lie flat business class seats, etc.) It’s s
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
And if you did ask "where will my children be safer?" the statistical answer would be NYC by a factor of 2 across nearly every crime category [1]. [1] https://www.nextburb.com/us/compare-places/new-york-n
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Sure, but the argument kind of loses merit, no? I remember the entire collective internet having site wide shutdowns, urging users to write to congress, etc. It was an extensive campaign that looped in many non technical folks to a very tec

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