Who asked for this? I thought Amazon was all about customer obsession, and I'm having a hard time imagining readers saying "You know? This book would SEND ME if it had a chat assistant."
Readit Newsnunez commented on New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books reactormag.com/new-kindle... · Posted by u/mindracer
You hit this real quick when trying to build container images from the scratch. Theoretically you can drop a Go binary into a blank rootfs and it will run. This works most of the time, but anything that depends on Go's Postgres client requires libpq which requires libc. Queue EFILE runtime errors after running the container.
Indeed, Home Depot's software is generally so bad. I remember around 2017/2018 time frame when they started showing up to big tech conferences (especially K8s and React.js conferences) really trying to modernize. I spent a few minutes talking to the people manning the booth (which were surprisingly high ranking in the company, at least by title), and came away thinking "I'm glad you're making an effort, but y'all really have no idea what you're doing." The left hand and the right hand had completely different ideas/priorities about how to accomplish their goals. I didn't want to make any judgments on a simple conversation at a conference, but at this point I think time has shown that it was pretty representative of how they were approaching it internally, and unsurprisingly it did not work out super well.
Now that said, I don't want to minimize the difficulty in modernizing software at a corp like HD. It's wildly more difficult than most people can appreciate. I've consulted for companies trying to do it, and there are lots of challenges with legacy systems, migrations, and plenty of non-technical challenges as well.
Shout out to Wal-mart for genuinely kicking ass at this though. I'm quickly becoming an Onn fanboy. Genearlly speaking, great products at great prices, from their USB cables up to their smart speakers and more. You can really tell from the product design and implementation that they are letting the nerds geek out and have fun! That in turn enables me to do the same :-)
I think they made some splashy hires at the time, and they contributed to the Google SRE workbook. Same as Walmart. They definitely tried. Corporate inertia is a killer.
If you go to the home depot page for torque wrenches and click the filter for drive size, you get this list:
1/2 in
1/4 in
1 in
3/8 in
3/4 in
Specialty
0.5
0.25
1
0.375
0.75
This is sorted mostly alphabetically with an allowance for people being bad with fractions. That's my guess.
I’m surprised that GitHub, OpenAI etc. doesn’t have automation to scan the usual surfaces for hashes of their access tokens.
It seems like a cheap and simple thing to offer your customers a little extra safety.
Anybody interested in starting a platform agnostic service to do this?
GitHub does! They tell you when you pushed something dangerous almost right away.
GitHub Advanced Security blocks the push, I believe.
I will say that it is wild, if not somewhat problematic that two users have such disparate views of seemingly the same product. I say that, but then I remember my own experience just from few days ago. I don't pay for gemini, but I have paid chatgpt sub. I tested both for the same product with seemingly same prompt and subbed chatgpt subjectively beat gemini in terms of scope, options and links with current decent deals.
It seems ( only seems, because I have not gotten around to test it in any systematic way ) that some variables like context and what the model knows about you may actually influence quality ( or lack thereof ) of the response.
Tesla FSD has been more or less the same experience. Some people drive 100s of miles without disengaging while others pull the plug within half a mile from their house. A lot of it depends on what the customer is willing to tolerate.
nunez commented on Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID? jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/thomasjb
Can the watch authenticate it is who you really are? Asking because I do not know anything about the watches.
No. The Watch will gladly unlock your other stuff if it's unlocked regardless of the wrist it's on.
nunez commented on Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID? jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/thomasjb
I tried living with just the Apple Watch instead of the Touch ID for a few months to see how reliable it was...
Sometimes it would take a few minutes in the morning before my Mac would even recognize 'hey, there's a watch' (typing in my full password was usually much quicker than waiting for the watch unlock).
Sometimes whatever notification happens that triggers the watch to vibrate and allow the double-squeeze-to-accept action would just... not.
Other times the above notification would pop up about 8-15 seconds after the prompt on the screen.
It was inconsistent enough I got _really_ good at typing my password, since it was normally quicker than waiting on the Apple Watch.
Contrast that with the Touch ID, that's always ready to go.
It's quite buggy, I agree. I'm with you, though; I'd love a Touch ID button.
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I went to Bentonville, Arkansas a few years ago. You'll see every major consumer packaged good company represented in the skyscrapers there, because Walmart is hq'd there. They want to have people close to Walmart, since Walmart is always a big part of their sales
Indeed. You'll see this everywhere now, though at different scales.
I've been building accounting tools for years. AI can generate a function to parse a bank statement CSV pretty well. But can it handle the Barclays CSV that has a random blank row on line 47? Or the HSBC format that changed last month? Or the edge case where someone exports from their mobile app vs desktop?
That's not even touching the hard stuff - OAuth token refresh failures at 3am, database migrations when you change your mind about a schema, figuring out why Xero's API returns different JSON on Tuesdays.
The real paradox: AI makes starting easier but finishing harder. You get to 80% fast, then spend longer on the last 20% than you would have building from scratch - because now you're debugging code you don't fully understand.