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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
But the firewall wouldn't have saved them if they're running a public web service or need to interact with external services. I guess you can have the appserver fully firewalled and have another bastion host acting as an HTTP prox
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Not that I’m disproving it but do you have a source? Companies say all kinds of things for hype and to attract investors, but it doesn’t necessarily make it true.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
The rules are fine and do prohibit this, it's their enforcement that's (intentionally) flawed. Social media moderation has to balance "engagement" with the potential for bad PR or liability for the company. It turns out
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
It's performative when you talk whatever the market wants to hear rather than sticking to an opinion (no matter how flawed it is). This behavior reminds me of the cryptobros that were hailing NFTs/web3 as the next best thing since
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
It's backpedaling but I don't think it's planning ahead to prevent a developer shortage - rather it's pandering to the market's increasing skepticism around AI and that ultimately the promised moonshot of AI obsolet
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
This is an easy theory to prove; if AI was anywhere close to a senior engineer, we'd see the costs of software development drop by a corresponding amount or quality would be going up. Not to mention delivery would become faster. With L
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
This is performative bullshit pandering to the increased skepticism around AI. He wouldn't be saying that if AI investment was still in full swing. I do agree with him about AI being a boon to juniors and pragmatic usage of AI is an im
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
The main cartridge (with the cable modem) was presumably heavily subsidized by the expected recurring revenue, which relies on the ephemeralness of the games. Offering RAM carts (even at cost) would threaten that revenue as people can stock
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
A lot of them got fooled by the caching; pages for signed-out users are cached heavily and those kept returning successful responses even if the actual backend server was down.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Because then you protect against a compromised/misbehaving developer workstation. No matter what the individual developer does, the server will prevent a PR being merged if it doesn’t pass the server-enforced checks. Running builds on
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Even purely from an altruist perspective I’d argue scenario 2 makes more sense as the resulting money can be used to fund a lot more open-source contributions.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Self-hosting on a host whose data actually persists is an even better experience, as it removes a lot of the tedium and workarounds such as extracting/down-/up-loading caches and so on. Get another host for redundancy and call it
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
There's value in enforcing checks on the server side to avoid people accidentally/maliciously merging code that doesn't pass said checks. Checks can be linters, security scanners, etc.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Takes like these do not account for the value you gained by using the software in the meantime. Here are 2 scenarios: 1) company uses exclusively free software, spends more time dealing with the shortcomings of said software than developing
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Agreed. It was easier for me to rebuild parts of it for my own use than to self-host it. At my scale, a single DB works well as a datastore instead of Clickhouse/etc. But then again I think this only prevents small players from "c
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> Why not just release the software You may want to allow certain uses (self-hosting, etc) even before it transitions to a fully open-source license. Having access to the source code can also help SaaS users debug certain situations.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
The US is trying to one-up Russia on that by using another plane as the missile.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> I hope the authorities bring this person to justice and arrest them for fraud. They haven’t scammed nor inconvenienced a rich, well-connected person, so unlikely anything will happen. Remember that online fraud is effectively legal (10
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Special law enforcement operation.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
You are still paying for the Ferrari treatment by hiring older workers in terms of better working conditions: those workers are wiser to the usual corporate bullshit, are unlikely to be doing unpaid overtime because they "believe"
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
There is no danger of bricking the device by messing up a Tuya module firmware update; the module is always separate from the main device and communicates with it via a UART; even if you were to brick it the device would still work as a non
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
That sounds like the system working as intended - the newsletter is there to promote your blog, your product, whatever - the point is it's not 1-to-1 human-to-human email, so flagging it as promotion is appropriate. (it's likely u
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
You don't, but business executives aren't the kind to easily admit they got conned - and if they're getting close to that stage, a nice dinner or golfing session paid by the vendor's representative generally alleviates t
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Is that why most of them go down every time a single provider or even region goes down? Actual active-active HA of your datastores is really hard to do (CAP theorem and all that). The majority of companies don't do it.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Depends on your definition of "scale", but yes. I ran an app serving ~1k requests/second from a Django monolith around 2017, distributed across ~20 Heroku "dynos". Nowadays a couple bare-metal servers will handle th
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> one machine is the bottleneck to end users You can run your monolith on multiple machines and round-robin end-user requests between them. Your state is in the DB anyway.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Microservices were a fad during a period where complexity and solving self-inflicted problems were rewarded more than building an actual sustainable business. It was purely a career- & resume-polishing move for everyone involved. Puttin
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Problem with Lithium ones is that they tend to be quite flammable. Lead acid is mostly inert I believe?
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
"It isn't <this>, it's <that>" and variations thereof are the biggest tell.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Yes if you get the hypervisor to provide the secrets this in theory means the secrets will be safe at rest... but if the VM gets breached (which is the scenario we're assuming here, as his VM is the one handling untrusted traffic from

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