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  • What I liked was how casually they were progressive. Like no biggie, this is just a thing, it’s the future so why would it be a big deal. When they wanted to speak to a modern day issue with more gravity, either some time travel to create a human context where it could be controversial, or some alien metaphor that was super obvious but still technically not humans being backwards.

    Discovery had a habit of being a bit too over the top about it and self congratulatory in media.

    A good modern example of all things I think was the Orville. Humans again are casually progressive, so they had the all male species be the focus of gender issues.


  • I will second the suggestion at something like “expanded support for more image formats”. One of my responsibilities is rolling the development log into customer release notes and I agree with the “changes that highlight a previous shortcoming can look bad”, and make accommodations for that all the time. I also try to make sure every developer that contributed can recognize their work in the release notes.

    “Expanded image format support” seems like something that if a customer hasn’t noticed, they would assume “oh they must have some customer with a weird proprietary format that they added but have to be vague about”. If it were related to customer requests, I would email the specific customers highlighting their need for webp is addressed after pushing the release notes




  • I could believe it for advertising versus content (to an extent), but I think it would not be useful in ‘slop’ versus content, for the same reason it’s output is slop. If an AI approach can detect slop, then a related AI approach can generate better slop that it could no longer detect.

    But it could also make advertising more baked into a content that is hard to extricate.


  • Realistically speaking, MFA most importantly is to get away from the “something you know” factor since that is generally more vulnerable. Even if it is a single factor, it’s a better factor.

    Also enables people to meaningfully have multiple factors if they choose. The password managers generally require a master passphrase and/or unlocking through something like “Windows Hello”




  • There’s not particularly good reason to stop doing it in that scenario either.

    You have an offline technology stack in that elevator that has been doing the job correctly for 20 years. Why take on the expense and risk of changing things that aren’t currently broken?

    It would be crazy if you are building new to resort to that stack, but for an established elevator, why bother?

    Same for some old oscilloscopes at work. I’m not crazy about the choice but I can hardly suggest it would be practical to change it while the oscilloscopes still do their function.

    I would say it’s a problem if the stack is online, but if it is self contained, the age of the software doesn’t make it a problem in and out itself.


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