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by aeyes 5y ago
> In Europe where I live, I know nobody who buys anything with a credit card Renting a car or making a hotel reservation without a credit card can be quite painful, even in Europe. With a credit card the deposit is held on your card but
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by aeyes 5y ago
At least you can do something about open S3 buckets with relative ease, I got slammed by people scanning zones on Route53. The way Route53 pricing works, you could get a 1000$ bill any day - for DNS... Having just a single domain on there i
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by aeyes 5y ago
> A RabbitMQ stream models an append-only log with non-destructive consuming semantics > Streams in RabbitMQ are persisted and replicated. This translates to data safety and availability (in case of the loss of a node) Let's talk
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by aeyes 5y ago
There were some comments in the early days that the Multi-AZ magic for classic RDS was just drbd on top of EBS. Aurora is a completely different approach where the RDBMS code is modified to directly interface with EBS instead of going throu
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by aeyes 5y ago
Wow, the title of this post is very calm compared to what is actually happening. CloudSQL Postgres is running with a misconfigured OS OOM killer, crashes Postmaster randomly even if memory use is below instance spec. GCP closes this bug rep
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by aeyes 5y ago
> overhauling how taxies work Why would taxi services invest if there is no competition which makes them provide a better service? Not everything is price. It would be interesting to see the outcome if ridesharing apps would exactly matc
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by aeyes 5y ago
For years we thought Google Translate was the best machine translation we would ever get. Then DeepL just popped up out of nowhere and today other services still didn't manage to catch up. Every now and then you get someone to think ab
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by aeyes 5y ago
Spamhaus successfully blocks connection attempts by their SaaS service for not identifying itself with a valid domain.
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by aeyes 5y ago
When I worked at a pre IPO startup they always used the valuation of the last investment round.
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by aeyes 5y ago
Tor has a couple of hundred exit nodes and they are all on public lists, the Tor network is easy to identify and block. If you are in a position were you need a rotating list of proxy servers in the cloud to scrape, Tor is probably way too
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by aeyes 5y ago
What university has taught me is to not give up and to keep looking for the solution, no matter how hard the problem is and how little I know. Sometimes there was no choice but to crunch hard math problems for endless hours. Most people giv
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by aeyes 5y ago
This doesn't work anymore, the platform is also used for discovering places. I have seen this both as a traveller and working in the industry for a little while. If you are not on Booking.com you might as well close, 95% of our reserva
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by aeyes 5y ago
If you have a multi-column index on (number_start, number_end) Postgres will use it even if you are only filtering on number_start. An additional single column index on number_start would be redundant.
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by aeyes 5y ago
Was a multicolumn index tested? I don't see why it shouldn't yield the same result.
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by aeyes 5y ago
And "Show this thread" takes me to the comments first, I have to scroll up to see other messages by the author and the order seems incorrect.
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by aeyes 5y ago
The opposite is true, its a WYSIWYG wiki which you can abuse for project management. The project management capabilities are similar to Github Project boards which means that it is very basic.
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by aeyes 5y ago
>95% of Uranium is imported as well https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/where-our-uraniu...
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by aeyes 5y ago
Just have a look at the (non China) data from a real world Sinovac vaccination campaign yourself: https://www.minsal.cl/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Effectivene... I see 67% effectiveness of preventing sym
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by aeyes 5y ago
I am amazed that Twitter employs kernel developers.
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by aeyes 5y ago
Do we have proof that they had performance problems? At least in Python you can write a C extension for a problematic code path which would probably take much less time. I think what they are looking for is to reduce the amount of machines
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by aeyes 6y ago
BioNTech as well: https://biontech.de/science/pipeline
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by aeyes 6y ago
El Chalten is in Argentina and its a completely different story over there. Chile has fiber all the way to the very south and is in the process of further expanding this network to all relevant cities in the south until the end of next year
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by aeyes 6y ago
The same as in other countries: Your biggest problem is going to be getting a work visa which is usually tied to higher education.
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by aeyes 6y ago
This article has a lot of information about the Pixel Qi patents in the last section: https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-rise-and... Money Quote: "The Pixel QI license was picked up by John
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by aeyes 6y ago
According to the blog post this site runs in AWS us-west-1. With Fauna you don't know the data center but according to their status page they have infrastructure in AWS us-west-2. Latency from us-west-1 to us-west-2 is 25ms so you can
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by aeyes 6y ago
Amazons ARM chips are performance competitive as well, for many workloads you can expect at least similar performance per core at the same clock speed.
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by aeyes 6y ago
> These are executed as aws lambdas These are executed. Lambda is just a brand name. We did this 15 years ago on hardware load balancers, proxy servers, cache servers etc
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by aeyes 6y ago
NL is a strange place to work in IT, I worked there for a little while doing consulting work. Projects were not meeting deadlines yet everybody dropped the pen at 5pm sharp, I was baffled and amazed at the same time.
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by aeyes 6y ago
> If a Cloudflare customer has configured their origin server to respond only to Cloudflare IPs, then they MUST also verify that the "Host" header on any request actually matches their domain name. The worker code sends the cor
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by aeyes 6y ago
I live in Chile so I know a thing or two about mining. 20% of fiscal income stems from copper exports and the majority of that from the state owned mining company Codelco. There are many mining operations of foreign companies which don&#x27

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