RainyDayTmrw

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There's some anecdotal accounts that, through the mismanagement of its acquirer, Heroku is slowly dying after the acquisition. If Render so much as provides the Heroku experience at its peak, that would already be valuable, and many of
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Depending on your exact requirements, Raspberry Pi 5 + case + battery is a configuration that already exists.
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In trading, spoofing[1] is placing insincere orders to generate a signal, and presumably influence other participants' behavior, without an intention of actually having those orders filled. Bad actors spoof trades because it works. Spo
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This pervasive corporate fiction tires me out so much. Everyone says they hire the best candidate, they are leaders in their area, etc. It feels very much like dystopian literature, where everyone knows the thing to be false, but is compell
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Poe's Law being what it is, I had to double check, and Salesforce indeed has official marketing/landing pages for these.
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For the equivalent in operating systems land, look at the respective manual pages for Linux capabilities[1] or OpenBSD pledge[2] and unveil[3]. The general idea is that there are some operations that might be dangerous, and maybe we don&#x2
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An important piece of context, which might not be immediately apparent from this discussion, is that a vast majority of people in and around New York City dislike and distrust the MTA (NYC's public transit organization) to an extreme e
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More than anything else, this just strikes me as tone-deaf. Doubly so given where we are with the economy and everything.
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As someone who uses the default terminal app, I'm curious to learn about other people's use-cases where the choice of terminal app makes a difference and how.
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See also: Google's GVisor [1], which was used in Google App Engine. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVisor
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I think I understand your point, and this is not directed at you personally, but: I think "shift left" is another one of those phrases that's lost all meaning, like "synergy" or "agile" before it.
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I hear this debate repeated often, and I think there's another important factor. It took me some time to figure out how to explain it, and the best I came up with was this: It is extremely difficult to bootstrap from zero to baseline c
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And in case anyone needs it, the 10,000 number is referencing this: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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I wonder about an alternative history where the default feature set is much smaller and much safer, and everything else is opt-in behind a flag, and the flags are prefixed with "unsafe_" or something. That would hopefully encourag
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Why has CI for open-source projects become so difficult to secure? Where did we, collectively, go wrong? I suppose, it's probably some combination of: CI is configured in-band in the repo, PRs are potentially untrusted, CI uses the lat
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* Doesn't scale. In many places. In particular, GitLab CI is required to use GitLab's Gitaly for Git replication. Gitaly has architectural limitations on throughput, which are surprisingly easy to hit with even a medium sized team
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I'm pessimistic about GitLab, given the state and trajectory of GitLab CI, which should be a core product for them. It's not in a good place, and it's not receiving the attention it needs, for being a core part of their platf
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It frustrates me that domain names were designed to be a rival good, and that this has attracted so much attention from speculators, and the negative externalities that come out of that. I'm not sure what would be a good solution here.
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While watching some non-technical people use a web browser, I noticed that they tended to type the name of their intended destination - not the domain name - into the navigation bar. In effect, they had delegated the resolution of names to
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Something important that didn't get mentioned, neither in the post nor in the comments, is whether this is safe in the face of compression oracle attacks[1] like BREACH[2]. Given how much effort it seems Discord put into the compressio