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by benterix 1y ago
Very interesting but risky (easy to discover and renders the whole operation ineffective). So I believe what they did was heavy-handed but the most reasonable.
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by benterix 1y ago
> Modern IT practices don’t really contemplate disaster recovery. Even organisations with strict backup procedures seldom test recovery (most never at all). I think this is an outdated view. In modern enterprises DR is often one of the m
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by benterix 1y ago
Yeah but what's the point of running k8s if your app isn't even containerized, why not use a simple VM for that, it's cheap and easy to manage. On the other hand if you are running thousands of containers it's hard to be
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by benterix 1y ago
You can treat Pod as a container (or set of containers in some cases) and Service as its IP address (whether visible from inside the cluster, outside etc. - that's why you have different service types). Starting with simple analogies i
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by benterix 1y ago
There are a couple of points I'd disagree here. 1. I don't believe tenfold difference in pricing PostgreSQL vs Redis at fly.io is due to complexity, Postgres is much more complex. If I had to guess at why they priced it that way,
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by benterix 1y ago
Sounds like an interesting exit strategy.
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by benterix 1y ago
> Forget Kubernetes, Redis While I agree with you, these two are the boring tech of 2025 for me. They work extremely reliably, they have well-defined use cases where they work perfectly and we know very well where they shouldn't be
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by benterix 1y ago
60 requests per minute, 1000 requests per day out of the box.
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by benterix 1y ago
I believe the world ha changed and there is no way this would work in our culture anymore. Personally I treat not being divorced as a kind of achievement, but I realized many if not most people don't share my sentiment.
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by benterix 1y ago
> I'm not saying an unwanted kiss is a good thing There are literally hundreds of romantic comedies with such a scene. It's something very deep in our culture. At some point one part tries to kiss, and there is a certain unknow
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by benterix 1y ago
I'm not really sure how your comment helps.
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by benterix 1y ago
I went a step further and set on permanent do not disturb mode with the only exceptions for the contacts defined in "close family" group and my alarm clock. Everything else is blocked by default and has to wait for the time slot I
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by benterix 1y ago
> I don't buy this nonsense about Putin having ambitions beyond Right-Bank Ukraine. It would be wonderful if it was true. Unfortunately the facts are different: he started a full-scale invasion planning to capture Kiev first and tak
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by benterix 1y ago
If everybody followed your line of reasoning, not only Ukraine but half of Europe would be Russian already. Remember Putin's initial demand before the invasion was a full reset to the 90s. It was only because of Ukraine's dramatic
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by benterix 1y ago
I bet we will all need a new type of therapy for that at some point in the future.
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by benterix 1y ago
It is very sad that such talented people have to face dangers to their life because one old man had a fantasy of expanding his empire.
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by benterix 1y ago
I bet someone can write an API Gateway for this...
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by benterix 1y ago
Just a single anecdata: I bought a second-hand Xbox360 once[0] with two pads but use donly one for some months. One day I tried to use the other one but smelled the odor of burned plastic - for some reason the batteries caused a piece of th
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by benterix 1y ago
> A company i worked for, had their MySql server unprotected on the internet for no reason at all. They still used MD5 too. Another company saved credit card information in their DB with a simple generic key in code accessable by everyon
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by benterix 1y ago
If history can teach us something it is that they will.
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by benterix 1y ago
> Oh wow. My respect for Anthropic just dropped to zero; I had no idea they were entertaining ideas this stupid. It's not stupid at all. Their valuation depends on the hype, and the way sama choose was to convince investors that AGI
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by benterix 1y ago
> The pro-nuclear cult is certainly irritating. Still stuck on a technology which can't help us much in the current climate predicament (too slow to build, too expensive) and which we repeatedly failed to manage. An important point
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by benterix 1y ago
> IMHO the next actual OS design innovation isnt stylistic, its AI integration and everyone knows it. I'd be careful with "everyone" in this context. So far, almost every review I read/watched sees Apple Intelligence
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by benterix 1y ago
And yet we still have communication problems, misunderstandings, people consciously abusing other people, people subconsciously abusing other people, people falling for all possible traps, educated people falling for populist propaganda and
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by benterix 1y ago
Your argument is too broad. You could say that we know today that social media are net negative (because of impact on mental health and many other reasons). Yet, how are you going to measure that? Same could be said about any technology, th
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by benterix 1y ago
Yes, in the meantime I figured out it's basically assigning it the Reader IAM role in GCP.
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by benterix 1y ago
I believe the point of the whole article is that the public transportation is broken if a train in a theme park has more users than regular trains in many states.
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by benterix 1y ago
> only allowing read only commands Out of curiosity, how do you do that? I have no experience with this tool, not I would ever thought to use it for infra, but you made me curious.
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by benterix 1y ago
> When we only half-understand something, we close the loop from observation to belief by relying on the judgement of our peers and authority figures, but these groups in tech are currently almost certain to be wrong or substantially bia
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by benterix 1y ago
> It’s next to impossible for individuals to assess the benefit or harm of chatbots and agents through self-experimentation. These tools trigger a number of biases and effects that cloud our judgement. Generative models also have a volat

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