yeah I found it out a while back and since then I've been using randomly generated names during checkout every time - no issues ever

no one is saying Apple is the saint. It's just better in comparison to other big techs who want your privacy as much and don't even pretend to care

I think that pretending to care is much much worse than not caring.

It depends on your lens, some may think it's a way to show them the doors after failed corp politics.

Sanjay has been Google's most tenured IC since forever and is basically as immune to politics as you can be in a megacorp.

He is also rich beyond dreams of avarice and can do basically whatever he wants, but apparently he decided to go hack some more with his buddy Jeff. There's a famous New Yorker story about them: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...

Reading this article, now I can understand why there is jokes about Jeff Dean's binary readability...

Is it surprising? Let's face it - distillation is common practice and every lab does it either intentionally or unintentionally (your training corpus always includes AI generated content in the post ChatGPT era).

There are zero-retention 3rd party providers (EU/US companies), but it's your choice whether to trust their claims or not.

Made in Shanghai Gigafactory. Some may even argue Tesla would have died without the manufacture capacity in China

Fintech/finance is a very big industry and there are a lot of sub-domains. A HFT system programmer thinks about how to colocate their prod machines in NYSE and use zero alloc techniques to ingest marketdata as fast as possible, while a crypto wallet app developer spend more time designing cool UI to attract users and working out all the L1/L2 quirks. And I'm sure they have very different answers to whether to use integers and how many digits to preserve

I'm a programmer and I understand Git internals decently well, but unless something went wrong, I pay zero attention to the verbose output of `git push`. BTW, isn't "avoid unnecessary output" one of the Unix philosophies?

oh man, "we have nothing to lose but our jobs" really cracked me up in a sad way

yeah this is indeed a good insight. Back in the days, who would expect so many bots to "review" code and leave overly verbose comments under every PR in a popular repo?