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901.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
A lot of things are "fraud" when an individual or small business does it but perfectly normal and considered merely good business acumen when done by a big corporation. Even more so now that the US government is openly for sale
902.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
It's easy yes, but better than nothing. The verification requirements are a balance between desired conversion rate, probability of loss (how many bad guys want to exploit your system without paying) and the actual costs of said loss (
903.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
There are light-years between what a company thinks their ToS “allow” and what a court would actually determine is allowed. Plenty of ToS clauses in major contracts are unenforceable by law. In this situation if it were to actually go to
904.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
> your ISP may have a problem with your set up (giving it's on the front page of HN and will be experiencing some traffic) Does your ISP have a problem when your computer/phone/etc does a cloud backup? Or when you torrent?
905.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
The actual technical problem was interesting, but the AI-generated writing is terrible. It's like listening to a sales pitch that just won't end.
906.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
I've never seen the benefit of rootless. Either the machine is a single security domain, in which case running as root is no issue, or it's not and you need actual isolation in which case run VMs with Firecracker/Kata conta
907.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Out of curiosity, why would a company help out their future competitor?
908.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Despite the crypto hype massively dying down there's still a ton of idiots and grifters believing in it in big corps (including banks). Stripe could be targeting that and believes they'd be able to extract more money out of those
909.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Ghost (my preference, to avoid security concerns around WordPress), or WordPress, if you can deal with the occasional security issue or use managed hosting. Basically forget the “headless” bit and use a bog-standard CMS.
910.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Firmware updates could account for this font being used on much earlier hardware though? The monitors (or DUs for “display unit”) could remain old but the underlying computers could’ve been upgraded.
911.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
I wonder if it’s a mitigation for common visual conditions or for better viewing in high-vibration environments?
912.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Not a machinist at all, but how can a lathe replicate parts which don’t have an axis of rotation?
913.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
This is the answer. Programming was never the bottleneck in delivering software, whether free-range, organic, grass-fed human-generated code or AI-assisted. AI is just a convenient excuse to lay off many rounds of over-hiring while also k
914.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
I disagree that layoffs are because of AI-mediated productivity improvements. The layoffs are primarily due to over-hiring during the pandemic and even earlier during the zero-interest-rate period. AI is used as a convenient excuse to execu
915.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
A lot of those early "videogames over broadcast medium" worked by having all the games being broadcasted all the time in a loop and the decoder (typically a fat "cartridge" with a modem embedded) waiting until the chosen
916.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
I’m not saying use the feed/social media part of it. I’m saying use the messenger part. Hiring managers actually don’t mind people reaching out at all because they too are aware of the issue and (at least for now) someone reaching out
917.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
I think you must’ve gotten lucky. I’ve been on the hiring side recently and the amount of suspected trash we got through the front door is insane, but there’s no way to tell trash from treasure in a scalable way. It put me off from applying
918.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
I find that the bigger problem is that hiring is broken. There are tons of fraud on the applicant side, so companies (for the lack of a better option) adjusted and now ratchet up their requirements to keep up with the fraud. (There’s also o
919.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Biggest difference is that SSH keys allow you to store and submit the public key without the private key being present. With passkeys, the private key must be present and usable (at least with current implementations) at the time of enrol
920.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Fraud is only called fraud if you get caught and defraud the wrong people. Corporation-on-consumer fraud is generally OK and a lot of businesses we consider "legitimate" do it as standard practice. Fraud against investors and &q
921.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Practically speaking I think everyone involved would've had a good incentive to brush it off behind closed doors and not rock the boat. Crypto is entirely based on vibes (there are very few - if any - legitimate applications) and rocki
922.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
How many of them are real ? Some of them have been posting the same position every month. Out of those that are real, how many of them are completely out of touch with what they're asking for? Whether low salary, unrealistic expectati
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
In its early days, Firefox achieved significant marketshare because it was better and offered useful features that the incumbent browsers didn't. Nowadays Firefox is just a poor Chrome knockoff with no distinguishing features. As a cas
924.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
> while most rental options we found were much more CPU focused Out of curiosity have you benchmarked it? I find that AWS "vCPUs" are significantly slower than a core (or even hyperthread) of a real CPU, and this constrains m
925.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
> we need to stop promoting prematurely making everything a network request as a good idea But how are all these "distributed systems engineers" going to get their resume points and jobs?
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
It makes the whole thing is configured in a docker-compose file (or your raw Docker CLI invocation) + the data volume. So as long as you have those two things you can replicate it and move it to other hosts regardless of their distro. Compa
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
FYI he's talking about dedicated servers (or "root servers" as they call them).
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
It's less about the modernity of SSDs and more about a fundamental difference: all persistent storage on AWS is actually networked - it's exposed to you as NVME but it's actually on a SAN and all IO requests go over the netwo
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> Just do not buy enterprise hardware But then you need to buy newer, more expensive hardware, which pushes your initial price up (divide by the amount of time you'll need to host the server to get the monthly equivalent, then add p
930.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
You have many ISPs to choose from. There are not many "Googles" nor "Apples" to choose from.

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