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@gabrielesvelto Its a wealth indicator for people with too much money.

@HoustonDog @LivingCooki Depending on perspective it's just as easy to run a VM to run a Windows program or use Internet Explorer. Assume Ng the software wasn't on a CD :)

@marti @rebeccawatson Black unemployment went down a lot and Lina Khan is doing good pro-worker and pro-competition work.

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Have you tried turning it off and never turning it back on again?

@lcamtuf I never make mistakes and despise people who do.

@tante Fascism is more streamlined because you only need to pay one politician.

@ramsey If you actually need to do it this way (i.e. calculate from imperfect data) and along the stats you've stored the number of items in each bucket (parameter set), you can do a weighted average to emphasize the larger buckets, that should be closer to the actual result.

@chris @ramsey That in turn feels like dating advice. Find someone whose strengths impress you and whose weaknesses you find funny.

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My son was reading about Marine Le Pen and remarked, “the funny thing about holocaust deniers is that they never seem happy that it didn’t happen”

@rebeccawatson Unless next time you'll hallucinate him barking.

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I spent 10+ years doing security at Google. I did a bunch of clever things while there - AFL, The Tangled Web, and a lot more.

But to be honest, my most valuable contribution to the business was a JavaScript web form that I put together. It saved untold person-years of back-and-forth with product teams, reduced launch latency, and greatly improved the consistency of product security reviews. It earned me some promos, too.

We like to celebrate big ideas, but boring work often matters more. It's also why your corporate job is not a durable legacy: I'm sure the form has been since refactored or deprecated, and soon, all memory of it will be gone.

@dgar So it's just the running and screaming?

@Jasonact @caseynewton @mosseri If they show you posts from potential advertisers because you're subscribed to them, they loose out on advertising revenue. Enshittification.

@falcennial If you're discussing reasons for pink unicorns not existing, you're already in too deep into pink unicorn cult territory. Arguments don't make people religious, arguments can't help them stop.

@davep @genehack I just meant I think it's not very intuitive.

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The code we use to launch the crash reporter is incompatible with Android 11+. This means we might have missed some major stability issues because nobody could submit the reports.

The reason why we didn't notice is that some device vendors - like Samsung, Sony and OnePlus - have likely disabled some backwards incompatible changes in the system to accommodate for their apps being incompatible with newer versions of Android... and those changes made our code appear to work on those devices.

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My drink came with a maraschino and I don't like those, so I asked a random guy if he wanted my cherry.

It was an accident!
...the first time

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