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• Post #3677498

  I saw a service offering "115M ethically-sourced residential IPs". Is there even such a category for ethical residential proxies, or are they all underhanded things and botnets??

• Post #3672315

  Doing fuzz testing, I've seen the same performance bug in parsers for at least 3 systems, where a line number for location reporting is determined from a byte offset by looping through the input, itself done in a loop. Surprise O(n^2)! It probably doesn't show up easily in "normal" use patterns, but when you start fuzz testing you hit it all the time.

• Post #3083687

  Aetna sending me an apology email for their AI slop search feature. They are "taking steps" and I can call them to talk to a human. A word extruder answering health and insurance policy questions. What could possibly go wrong??

• Post #3083686

  I play double bass, but also sometimes play electric bass through headphones after my kids go to bed. It's interesting to me that I can tell when my ears get tired! After 40 minutes or so, I have a harder time distinguishing between half steps below 60Hz or so... they all start to sound samesies

• Post #3083685

  The last couple months I have noticed a UI bug on several major websites on mobile: you scroll down a while, then make the "scroll to top" gesture. The page scrolls to the top, but form elements (like a search bar) become unselectable until a full page refresh. My (non-techie) spouse has also noticed this and was complaining about it today! Are all these sites using the same Javascript framework that introduced a bug or breaking change a couple months ago??

• Post #3083684

  @regehr once pointed out that Anthropic's logo for Claude looks like something else, and I cannot unsee it now