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Sounds interesting, care to elaborate a bit? How do you deal with, eg: CDNs? Whitelist *.cloudfront.net, I suppose? How often do you revisit your whitelist?

Probably offtopic, but would you mind expanding a bit on the mentor requirement a bit? Being in a similar position, I'm a little embarrassed that's not something I've considered so far and that made me a little bit anxious.

Don't sweat it, it comes and goes.

At this point I don't feel guilty anymore when I'm not feeling motivated, because I know it'll be back some time soon. At the beginning I'd get worried I'd never be motivated again, now I just treat it as a "part-time vacation". Read history books, play tennis, cycle and enjoy my family. :)

That's really cool! I used PokerStrategy's equity calculator for a long time and must have thought "hey, I should build one of those to learn how Monte Carlo works" around 100 times.

True. The problem is that websites like Walgreen, which simply break with no JS, are only getting more common. I'd like to make a point of simply closing the tab in such cases, but it's not always possible.

Right, I expressed myself poorly. Maybe I meant just an ID? My gripe was just that I expected that to index a knowledgebase of error messages, but the one I mentioned, for instance, isn't even documented.

I've always found it fascinating that Windows/Microsoft error messages seem to have some kind of UUID (Error #c101a053 is one I found on my search history from 5 years ago), but you _can't look them up by UUID_ on the MS help pages or even online (and sometimes they don't seem to even be unique). I've always wanted to know what they do with these numbers.

"Powering these advances is machine learning and a combination of threat yadda yadda"

Looks like they do little more than just check for a Google cookie [1].

[1]. https://www.blackhat.com/docs/asia-16/materials/asia-16-Siva...

edit: still, it's far better than the previous state of captchas. I'm glad they did this. But it's like for anything to be considered "advanced" or "good" in tech lately, it has to have been powered by "machine learning".

Thanks! The linked repo [1] is also great:

[1] https://github.com/vhf/v8-bailout-reasons

>Looking at it naively, it seems to follow the rules for the arguments object in Crankshaft

I've never managed to find a good source on the V8 internals and how to target these optimizations (the "rules for the arguments object" the author alludes to).

Any recommendations?