_nickwhite

13 ms·

91.
by _nickwhite 6y ago
I read somewhere that Slack's yearly uptime SLA is 99.99%, which has already been exceeded on January 4th. Sending big hugs to their ops team.
92.
by _nickwhite 6y ago
I was surprised by the seemingly low price of this car: "Estimate $175,000 - $300,000" Jay Leno owns a replica of the Back to the Future DeLorean valued at $750,000. I think anyone would agree the DeLorean is way sexier than the
93.
by _nickwhite 6y ago
Since this article is written from a COVID-19 perspective on vaccines, and since I had a pretty nasty case of Coronavirus this past summer, I thought I would give my opinion. 1) Most (all?) humans on planet Earth are going to produce antibo
94.
by _nickwhite 6y ago
Unless I were at Brown on a fully paid scholarship, I'd transfer out. Plenty other fine schools that won't be a nanny.
95.
by _nickwhite 6y ago
Years ago I bought a huge box of old IBM Model-M keyboards- not model F's like here, but pretty close. I planned on refurbishing and reselling on eBay, but quickly discovered the cost of shipping ate any profit I hoped to make on them.
96.
by _nickwhite 6y ago
Anyone who has ever dealt with the Better Business Bureau from a business perspective knows that this is also their business model. If you want your company to have a positive rating, you'd better pay them. Sad to see Glassdoor move to
97.
by _nickwhite 6y ago
While this may be pre-IPO fluff to lift mindshare for Airbnb, the subtitle for the article: Focus on the core business, keep expenses low and listen to customers is true for ALL businesses, not just hot new Silicon Valley "startups&q
98.
by _nickwhite 6y ago
I had a pretty bad case of Coronavirus, had a high fever for nearly 2 weeks, but I actually never lost my sense of taste or smell! Those around me who contracted a mild case, actually lost smell and taste. Pretty odd stuff.
99.
by _nickwhite 6y ago
The OWASP has been around for a long time and they regularly publish a "Top 10" Web Application Security Risk list. It's amazing (or maybe not) how long some of these have been on the list: 1) Injection 2) Broken Authentica
100.
by _nickwhite 6y ago
I learned this _years_ ago that Godaddy will steal your name for fun and profit. As the HN comments confirm, there are several shady outfits that do the same thing. For years, I've gone to ICANN directly to check domain name availabili
101.
by _nickwhite 6y ago
Sendgrid have a HUGE problem with spammers using their service. I've probably reported 20 SPAM campaigns using their official channels, but I think they route such e-mails to /dev/null. Never gotten a response- just more SP
102.
by _nickwhite 6y ago
This reminds me of the time I bought a high-end GTX video card at Best Buy... only to find a bottle of shampoo inside. These types of return scams happen all the time.
103.
by _nickwhite 6y ago
In 1993 I was 12 years old and spent many, many hours drawing a pixel-perfect replica of the Mortal Kombat dragon logo in MS Paintbrush (the name of MS Paint at the time). I believe it was a 640x480 BMP. I so wish I had saved a copy of this
104.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
From the article: "We evaluated a number of CAPTCHA vendors as well as building a system ourselves." and "We worked with hCAPTCHA in two ways. First, we are in the process of leveraging our Workers platform to bear much of th
105.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
From the article: "Security is Clearview's top priority," he said in a statement provided to The Daily Beast. "Unfortunately, data breaches are part of life in the 21st century. Our servers were never accessed. We patche
106.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
This seems like a good idea... until your self-hosted DNS server starts getting DoS attacked. I've had seemingly innocent servers practically taken off the Internet with UDP/53 floods- very easy for any 12-year-old to execute.
107.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
I have a new Surface Go with a Verizon LTE SIM card. Being online all the time is great, and the portability of it is also great. But the keyboard is really painful as the keys are all about 30% smaller and scrunched together. I've eve
108.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
To the 70: Thank you for contributing to such incredible software for all these years. Your contribution to my life is not insignificant. Good luck on your next chapter. To Mozilla: Let's figure out this monetization thing. Heck, I&#x2
109.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
I actually gave Edge Dev an honest try for a few months using it as my only browser. At some point it just stopped syncing bookmarks between my various computers (all Windows), and that was the breaking point for me. I went back to Firefox.
110.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
Small sample size of my household, be we bought nearly everything we were going to buy at Costco elsewhere due to them being basically offline all of Thursday AND into Friday. Seems like they host all of their web infrastructure in-house an
111.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
Better performance [2] with less cores, much better pricing, and the kicker for me is PCI Express 4.0 [1]. Intel doesn't even support the newest generation of NVMe storage. So yeah, AMD is dominating for a good reason- for now anyways.
112.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
System Image Backup (SIB) Solution We recommend that users use full-disk backup solutions from other vendors. This is the only major bummer for me. I'm one of the (likely few) people who use this, and I also use it across the network t
113.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
” We recommend that over the next year, you identify an alternative solution and execute a migration strategy.” Another Google product killed, another migration strategy to execute. What's next?
114.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
When I was in college around Y2K, I took a "Foundations of Music" class offered online- an elective that taught, well, foundations of music, specifically how to read music. Students had to install this janky, low-quality, Windows
115.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
Google is what, a 3/4 TRILLION dollar company, based on market cap! It's absolutely unfathomable that they have such a prolific reputation of non-customer service and inability to contact them. Any other company would suffer massi
116.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
If Google are _really_ reviewing the apps, creating a 3-day backlog to get approved, then I say "Bravo! The world could absolutely use less crapware on the Google Play store." But, the cynic in me tells me this is just a ploy by t
117.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
Years ago (in the late 90's or early aughts) when ordering vanity plates online became a thing, I got approved for the plate "127.0.0.1". This was a California or NC plate- can't remember as I lived in both states. I che
118.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
"With /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max defaulting to 32768 we actually ran out of PIDs. We increased that limit vastly, probably way beyond what we currently need, to 500000. Actuall limit on 64bit systems is 222" Time
119.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
The NSA doesn't need a root certificate installed on your computer if they already have the private keys to the root and/or intermediate CA providers.
120.
by _nickwhite 7y ago
Seems the site went down, here is Google's cached text-only version: *edit - wayback link below is a much better cached copy. thanks manchoz.

More ›