lukebennett

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S. "Soma" Somasegar, 1966-2026(geekwire.com)
3 points by lukebennett 4mo ago|0 comments
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by lukebennett 6mo ago
You can't unless you've chosen to back up your WhatsApp messages to iCloud/Google in which case it's Apple/Google responsible for preserving the messages and subject to their encryption standards, nothing to do with
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The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble(wheresyoured.at)
219 points by lukebennett 1y ago|163 comments
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OpenAI has undergone its first ever rebrand(wallpaper.com)
1 points by lukebennett 2y ago|0 comments
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Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters(biilmann.blog)
1 points by lukebennett 2y ago|0 comments
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Codeium launches Windsurf – the first agentic IDE(codeium.com)
31 points by lukebennett 2y ago|6 comments
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OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI(bloomberg.com)
625 points by lukebennett 2y ago|604 comments
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by lukebennett 2y ago
Firefox offers this in the dropdown when typing a URL, there's a "Switch to Tab" option to take you straight to the existing tab instead of creating a duplicate.
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by lukebennett 3y ago
> I think we need to force all financial companies to have a modern API and OAuth available for everyone via legislation. That already exists[0] in the UK [0] https://www.openbanking.org.uk/
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Tech Nation shutting down as UK government controversially pulls key funding(sifted.eu)
2 points by lukebennett 4y ago|0 comments
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Parents urged not to post videos of their children on social media as no consent(nbcnews.com)
5 points by lukebennett 4y ago|2 comments
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by lukebennett 4y ago
This is explicitly accounted for, as per the README: > Many Postgres clients also inspect the pg_catalog to determine system information so Postlite mirrors this catalog by using an attached in-memory database with virtual tables.
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by lukebennett 5y ago
What if you are logging into something on a device that doesn't have your email on it? So called magic links are an absolute nightmare.
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by lukebennett 6y ago
Whilst there is an element of lab measurement involved, they do use field measurement, so metrics are collated from users rather than their own connection. This means that your data could just as easily be skewed by a browser/OS update
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by lukebennett 6y ago
Yep, that's exactly what Splunk have done - scroll down the release notes linked to by the grandparent and the faulty regex is shown. What's super daft is the proposed fix is only a further sticking plaster, adding support for the
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Facebook says Apple rejected its attempt to tell users about App Store fees(reuters.com)
6 points by lukebennett 6y ago|0 comments
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by lukebennett 6y ago
Yep that's right, the liability shifts from the merchant to the bank.
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by lukebennett 6y ago
Not for long, it will be mandatory in the EU from the end of the year under the PSD2 regulations (though the deadline has moved back into 2021 for some countries, including the UK which is adopting them despite Brexit). Issuers will start t
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Pandemic Offers Solution to Tech Industry’s Big Brexit Problem(bloomberg.com)
1 points by lukebennett 6y ago|0 comments
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by lukebennett 6y ago
> Claudia's theme from Once Upon A Time in The West is as good as it gets. Hear hear, one of the most evocative pieces ever written, sends shivers down my spine every time. A real masterpiece.
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by lukebennett 6y ago
So very sad :( One of my all time favourite composers. Such emotive music that bring back so many memories, not least my wife walking down the aisle to me to Gabriel's Oboe. RIP.
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Monzo gets £60m fundraise over the line; confirms 40% valuation drop(sifted.eu)
2 points by lukebennett 6y ago|0 comments
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by lukebennett 7y ago
There are a lot of DSL-driven diagramming tools out there, but most produce functional diagrams rather than visually appealing ones. Whilst these are fine for many use cases, there are plenty of others where the look is too dated, and somet
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by lukebennett 8y ago
Not directly related to the story, but just for info - "British Telecom" is an incorrect name (it's not used in the BBC article). The company renamed from that to BT in 1991.
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by lukebennett 8y ago
I have no objection to them offering Facebook/Google etc for those who wish to use them. The problem is the lack of an alternative which is how this whole thread started - their approach allows you to choose between logging in via a th
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by lukebennett 8y ago
It's not so much the choice of email address (throwaway or not) but the fact that you physically can't log in on a machine where you can't/don't want to access your email. You can't access the link and it'
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by lukebennett 8y ago
Medium is frustratingly guilty here. Your login choices are limited to sharing data with Google/Facebook/Twitter or clicking a magic link in an email. If you don't like to share your data with third parties then you are basic
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Atlassian Launches the New JIRA Software Cloud(techcrunch.com)
3 points by lukebennett 8y ago|1 comments
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Rich-text editing platform Tiny raises $4M, launches file management service(techcrunch.com)
3 points by lukebennett 8y ago|0 comments
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by lukebennett 8y ago
This looks a great resource - thanks! Quick query - both lessons 1 and 7 are titled “Introduction to Random Forests”, is that intentional?

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