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andy81 commented on Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says   reuters.com/world/spain-h... · Posted by u/xavaki
energy123 · 6 days ago
I want to see regulation of the algorithm. Something like forcing a chronological feed, or somehow nerfing the recommendation engine. Figure out a way to make it boring, bypass the whole censorship debate.
andy81 · 6 days ago
There are more options -

Banning advertising targeted at the user rather than the context

Enforcing Do Not Track

Enforcing GDPR (especially sites that use cookie banners)

andy81 commented on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time   data.stackexchange.com/st... · Posted by u/maartin0
specproc · a month ago
What I always appreciate about SO is the dialogue between commenters. LLMs give one answer, or bullet points around a theme, or just dump a load of code in your IDE. SO gives a debate, in which the finer points of an issue are thrashed out, with the best answers (by and large) floating to the top.

SO, at its best, is numerous highly-experienced and intelligent humans trying to demonstrate how clever they are. A bit like HN, you learn from watching the back and forth. I don't think this is something that LLMs can ever replicate. They don't have the egos and they certainly don't have the experience.

Whatever people's gripes about the site, I learned a hell of a lot from it. I still find solutions there, and think a world without it would be worse.

andy81 · a month ago
SO also isn't afraid to tell you that your question is stupid and you should do it a better way.

Some people take that as a personal attack, but it can be more helpful than a detailed response to the wrong question.

andy81 commented on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026   economist.com/leaders/202... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
toxic72 · a month ago
To my knowledge Amazon never debt financed their ops like this
andy81 · a month ago
Amazon paid no dividends, that's their big debt financing.

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andy81 commented on Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying   privacybadger.org/... · Posted by u/doener
hedora · 4 months ago
Traditionally, these are called display ads.

They require more effort on the part of the site that produced the content, but are much more lucrative for that site.

Since most of the internet has been low-effort algorithmic slop for the last twenty years, tracking ads are more popular. They let low quality sites “steal” audience impressions from higher quality sites by displaying ads to people that happened to visit both sites.

I think personalized ads / algorithmic targeting (and even collecting the datasets that enable it) should be banned.

andy81 · 4 months ago
There's no reason that contextual ads couldn't be automated at scale.

It might even be easier than automating targeted ads, given the incredible level of research and compute that gets wasted on targeting.

andy81 commented on Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto   theglobeandmail.com/busin... · Posted by u/bookmtn
gamblor956 · 10 months ago
"Code as law" was attempted as a defense in another token-related "hacking" case.

It didn't work there, and it won't work here either.

If you end up using the legal system to remediate undesired transactions, what's the point of cryptocurrencies in the first place?

That is a philosophical argument completely unrelated to whether or not something is illegal. Cryptocurrencies aren't a replacement for the law, nor do they stand outside of it.

andy81 · 10 months ago
> That is a philosophical argument completely unrelated to whether or not something is illegal.

Most comments saying that cryptocurrency holders should abide by "code is law", are not actually saying that we should abide by "code is law" and abandon the legal system.

It's a classic argument to show that the purported benefits of cryptocurrency are a farce.

andy81 commented on A 10x Faster TypeScript   devblogs.microsoft.com/ty... · Posted by u/DanRosenwasser
uticus · a year ago
Yes, but C# is the Microsoft language, and I would say TypeScript is 2nd place Microsoft language (sorry F# folks - in terms of popularity not objective greatness of course).

So it's not just that the lead architect of C# is involved in the TypeScript changes. It's also that this is under the same roof and the same sign hangs on the building outside for both languages.

If Ford made a car and powered it with a Chevy engine, wouldn't you be curious what was going on also?

andy81 · a year ago
F# isn't in the running for third either.

Maybe top ten behind MSSQL, Powershell, Excel Formulae, DAX etc.

andy81 commented on 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure   azsh.it... · Posted by u/SlyHive
smackeyacky · a year ago
Windows 2000 server was peak windows. All the subsequent versions just got harder to maintain as they gradually ruined the user interface. Nobody cares about the UI on consumer windows but if you’re spending a lot of time in RDP the vista based server products are terrible.

I don’t hate windows 2019 but Linux is better, easier, faster and a relief after any futile attempts to use IIS or sql server in 2025.

andy81 · a year ago
Powershell was 2006, so I suppose the real "peak windows server UX" was 2016 when PS was relatively mature and came out-of-the-box with the latest version.
andy81 commented on How about trailing commas in SQL?   peter.eisentraut.org/blog... · Posted by u/ingve
_blk · a year ago
When do we get an object shell (powershell, there I said it) instead of old school strings? Been using bash for over 20y, but MS had to make it popular.. I wouldn't mind at least a proof of concept for SQL
andy81 · a year ago
What would it offer that you can't already get from DBATools, LINQ, and ORMs more generally?
andy81 commented on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k   brutecat.com/articles/lea... · Posted by u/brutecat
doctorhandshake · a year ago
Is it me or are all the dates in this timeline in the future? Isn’t it Feb 2025 now? Do you smell toast?

EDIT: oh I see .. DD/MM/YY is a new one to me

andy81 · a year ago
Exactly the reason that you should always use yyyy-mm-dd.

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