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jmp call pop. securing bits. I'd rather be diving.
Be careful about from where you source your phones and pagers was literally a plot point in The Wire.

@LukaszOlejnik This paper seems to be fundamentally flawed — their simulator failed to properly use an RNG, so it simulated giving people the same topics on every site. See https://github.com/yohhaan/topics_api_analysis/issues/1

This points out how great it is for published papers to post their code and data set on GitHub! It means that we can actually point to the bug in their simulator, offer the one-line fix, and immediately re-run the corrected analysis using the author's own fixed code.

Simulator is not actually random, leading to extremely inaccurate results · Issue #1 · yohhaan/topics_api_analysis

Hi. I’m an engineer on the Topics API for Chrome. I took a brief look at your code after seeing rather surprising results in the related paper and it’s important to point out an issue that I came a...

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Some years ago, I was walking from the kitchen back to my office at Google, carrying a piece of cake on a plate flat on my hand. There was a path between the desks, and walking towards me was Henry Kissinger followed by Eric Schmidt.

Eric saw what I had in my hand, and locked eyes with me. I was as tempted as I have ever been, but in the interests of world peace and keeping my job I kept my hand where it was, where it then passed just a few inches from Kissinger's face.

Turns out that he was
#henrykissinger
Somewhere deep within the rotting corpse of the company formerly known as Twitter, some poor functionary heaves a sigh and resets the "Days Since Last Rake-Stepping" counter back to 0.
@aleph_one Not gonna lie, had to look that up, but it is an extremely apt comparison.

How a billion years since Evernote’s web clipper’s birth, Apple Notes can’t clip a web page?

They have all the ingredients to make it happen. Safari’s Reader View simplifies web pages, and you can copy and paste that content on a note.

Understanding Apple’s choices can often feel like practicing haruspicy.

Sigh. If you have 2FA enabled in E*Trade you must enter your password and the TOPT code. But if you forget your password you can choose a new one with just a TOPT code and immediately login without a going through an email confirmation flow. 🙄
Tip for parents: Chrome can integrate with Screen Time. Turn the feature on in chrome://flags as Screen Time. Handy if you need to use Chrome for compatibility reasons.