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estensen··on Human coders are still better than LLMs
Most of the work software engineers do is not fixing complicated bugs.
estensen··on ReMarkable Paper Pro
In research this is called Online Handwriting Recognition

reMarkable does Online Handwriting Recognition with MyScript running in the cloud, not on the tablet https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2

estensen··on Coinbase awarded a $500k bug bounty
saurik got $2.1M from Optimism/Boba Network via Immunefi https://www.saurik.com/optimism.html
estensen··on We're improving search results when you use quotes
Staying in Italy for a while I got Italian ads (and I don't speak Italian), and was also often redirected to Italian pages when I explicitly wanted the English version. For example, looking up an error code for my watch I was redirected to the Italian product page for the watch instead of the forum with the answer I wanted.

I guess a VPN could be a workaround, but does the average Joe know what a VPN is?

estensen··on Airbnb May 2022 Release
I've stayed in multiple Airbnbs avg 6 weeks since January. The first one had mold everywhere. Took two weeks to get refunded by Airbnb. Talked with like 10 customer service people. Customer service found alternatives that was 50% more expensive, but we couldn't afford that, so had to book something not-so-great ourselves. Got a small coupon as compensation.
estensen··on D1: Our SQL database
Too bad you probably can't use this to store data about EU citizens. Phone numbers like they show in the demo are considered PII, right?
estensen··on Spotify was down
Spotify is on GCP
estensen··on Kafka: The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time
And line 3 in the article mentions Prometheus
estensen··on Azure Appears to Be Full
We're having problems creating VMs and databases in West Europe and North Europe, so it's not just a UK problem.
estensen··on Azure Appears to Be Full
I think it's very problematic that a major cloud provider is unable to update their status page, even when this has been ongoing for days. All green ticks here: https://status.azure.com/en-us/status
estensen··on Jira Is Down
Confluence is also down