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vasusen | 2 months ago | on: ChatGPT Health

Under non-urgent cases this sometimes takes 3-4 months in the US every time I experience the need to "ask an MD"

vasusen | 5 months ago | on: California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing

They need to make it eligible for Class Action lawsuits to be filed if these are ignored. I wrote a script to routinely test opt out on websites and was stunned to see almost 50% had it implemented incorrectly. This includes high-flying tech companies that went public recently.

Under California’s CCPA / CPRA, most enforcement power lies with the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) and the California Attorney General, not private individuals. This limits the actual downside to a company vs. an unbounded downside of class-action lawsuit threat.

vasusen | 6 months ago | on: The madness of SaaS chargebacks

The reason isn't technical. This isn't implemented because the entire card-processing ecosystem is hooked on the chargeback fees (min $15 to $100). It starts becoming a lucrative revenue stream for Visa/Mastercard/Stripe/Adyen/WorldPay/Fiserv and the entire ecosystem.

Merchant's end up getting the short end of the stick in most cases.

vasusen | 6 months ago | on: Page Object (2013)

It is quite popular in testing circles to write e2e tests that are easier to maintain. However, in practice I have found it to be quite useless due to the time it takes to write good page objects. QA teams usually rely on a complete POM before writing tests on it. I used to joke that by the time my team was done shipping a page object model, our product team would have changed the entire product again.

vasusen | 6 months ago | on: Why our website looks like an operating system

I used to be in-charge of homepage getting over 1.5M views a day. I would really be curious how this converts. I am assuming Posthog has a lot of metrics.

If I were to bet, while this is fun, it will be a disaster for conversions once the launch hype goes away.

vasusen | 7 months ago | on: Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP

Yes an electron app helps tremendously, especially for managing lifecycle of tabs independently. We use that for creating our AI browser automations at Donobu (https://donobu.com). However, we do have the luxury of just focusing on a narrow AI QA use case vs. Browser-Use and others who need to support broad usecases in potentially adversarial environments.

vasusen | 7 months ago | on: Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP

2011 were definitely not the dark ages!! I used to use Selenium for everything back in the day. I was able to scrape all of Wikipedia in 2011 entirely on my laptop and pipe it to Stanford NLTK to create a very cool adjective recommender for nouns.

vasusen | 7 months ago | on: This website is for humans

I love this website.

It doesn't have to be all or nothing. Some AI tools can be genuinely helpful. I ran a browser automation QA bot that I am building on this website and it found the following link is broken:

"Every Layout - loads of excellent layout primitives, and not a breakpoint in sight."

In this case, the AI is taking action on my local browser at my instance. I don't think we have a great category for this type of user-agent

vasusen | 8 months ago | on: M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued

My wife decided to not travel to Japan due to an impending warning from a manga for July 2025. I have been making fun of her all month only to get this tsunami warning now!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2025_Japan_megaquake_prop....

> The 2021 reprint capitalizing off this revived popularity warned of a "real disaster" in July 2025, causing a minor case of mass hysteria in 2025 when summer trips to Japan from East Asia decreased markedly and several airlines even cancelled flights.

vasusen | 8 months ago | on: Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)

I grew up in India and now live in the US. My mom recently got some ground turmeric from our own farm when she visited us. I am was stunned by how much more duller, brownish-yellow it was compared to the turmeric I buy in Indian stores in the US. Those are usually really bright yellows.

Now, I am really scared that even stuff sold in California is probably lead paint tainted turmeric.

vasusen | 9 months ago | on: Tools: Code Is All You Need

I think the Playwright MCP is a really good example of the overall problem that the author brings up.

However, I couldn’t really understand if he’s saying that the Playwright MCP is good to use for your own app or whether he means for your own app just tell the LLM directly to export Playwright code.

vasusen | 9 months ago | on: Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients

I am not from the deaf community, but my son has severe hearing loss. I really look forward to a world where condition like his simply becomes fixable like bad teeth and he doesn't have to miss out on so many things.

vasusen | 9 months ago | on: Why agents are bad pair programmers

I do this too by pasting only the relevant context files into O3 or Claude 4. We have an internal tool that just lets us select folders/files and spit out one giant markdown.
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