EvanKnowles

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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
I'd say to say "Yeah, this was a long time ago"... but this could probably still happen.
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
They shouldn't have, a lot went wrong here.
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
We had a prod case where a server was being flooded with requests, and a downstream server kept falling over. We figured it was an attack of some sort and investigated, eventually traced it back to a computer inside our own network (we&#x27
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
Following a comment I saw on HN, we now have several code snippets that we ask them to read through (biggest is like 12 lines) and tell us, at a high level, what it's trying to do. Great results, we've found people who learnt all
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
Yeah, my team of experienced devs were all surprised by this. To the source they went, and found it was true. Not that we'd generally end up hashing a URL, but still.
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
Whew, hopefully Europe has banned all travel to North America.
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
Accounting for imposter syndrome, I Am Maybe Not A Mathematician
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
And South Africa is still masked, sanitized, curfewed, and travel banned. Weird.
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
Israel just detected some cases, I assume travel from there will be banned too?
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
This is entirely it - we have plenty of vaccines, there's no queue at vaccination centres, people just aren't getting vaccinated.
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
I think we all want the Metaverse, we just don't want it controlled by anyone.
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
Anyone who likes this will probably like: https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
Looks like it has CORS issue.
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by EvanKnowles 5y ago
Pretty awesome, select not working on my side (which is obviously a core component of MSPaint muckery, when you hold down shift and paint your selection like a brush)
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by EvanKnowles 6y ago
Well, I mean the system clearly works? Not sure it's a CI/staging thing, some date just expired in prod.
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by EvanKnowles 6y ago
Ah - that explains a lot, I was expecting to understand a lot less of it ;)
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by EvanKnowles 6y ago
My PHP is poor, but it looks like it was being changed to check for a string coming in via a "typo'd" HTTP_USER_AGENTT header, that started with zerodium, and then eval the string without the zerodium prefix on the server. Re
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by EvanKnowles 6y ago
Don't believe in magic - learn how things work.
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by EvanKnowles 6y ago
Yeah, mute button not working in Chrome either.
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by EvanKnowles 6y ago
Apart from the awfulness of it all, anyone else get EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus vibes from the photos?
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by EvanKnowles 6y ago
Indeed, if you already know everything you don't need to learn anything.
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by EvanKnowles 6y ago
Anyone know of something similar that ships to more countries? I've been looking for something like this, but I'm in South Africa.
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by EvanKnowles 7y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by EvanKnowles 7y ago
They'll probably be grumpier about the bad bots thing.
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by EvanKnowles 8y ago
Xcode - watch it freak out over clicking 'Upload to app store'
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by EvanKnowles 8y ago
Illusions, by Richard Bach.
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by EvanKnowles 8y ago
Wow, Facebook has changed a lot - only thing that tipped me off that this was an older (but still relevant) article.
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by EvanKnowles 8y ago
Just write it in Markdown and render it out?
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by EvanKnowles 9y ago
What a massively blanketing title. I've never had this issue, that apparently affects an entire continent.
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by EvanKnowles 9y ago
I just clicked continue about 10 000 times and I still have no idea what this is.

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