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by bpicolo 9y ago
Their search backend is, in my experience, significantly faster than you'd expect of latencies through a typical app backend - request-to-render in 10s of millis or less. They run their search indices directly inside an nginx module, i
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by bpicolo 9y ago
30% is an order of magnitude higher than the typical industry fraud-attempt rate. If 30% of orders were charged back you probably had other issues? That's pretty nuts
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by bpicolo 9y ago
If the question is whether you'll have any - of course you will! You will no matter what method you go with. At scale it's a pretty easy curve to optimize revenue on top of though, and you have to be willing to accept that bit. Yo
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by bpicolo 9y ago
If you're convinced you can outperform Stripe in a couple days, you should probably be launching your own fraud-fighting saas, because you'll make a killing. It's a literal many-billion-dollar opportunity.
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by bpicolo 9y ago
They're not generic, though. Those providers build custom ML models specifically from your data (and they pull in a ton of signals for this), and then have the data of many other merchants to work with. At a previous employer we found
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by bpicolo 9y ago
Those graphs are entirely survey-based subjective, there's no metrics at all, and it's also an advertisement for Braintree's fraud service
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by bpicolo 9y ago
This context was important on the study: > large doses of MSG given without food
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by bpicolo 9y ago
Yeah, but that's something you have to accept for the positive benefits. In a lot of online businesses, credit card fraud is just insanely rampant. You lose a lot more money by not doing checks with the occasional false positive than y
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by bpicolo 9y ago
I think the point is that it's very hard to do as good a job as providers like Stripe and SiftScience will do (assuming machine learning against fraud is not your core competency) - they take into account a lot of the signals you might
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by bpicolo 9y ago
Here's a study for contextualizing: https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(00)44233-8/ful... I've yet to see one that showed actual adverse effects of eating MSG via food, regardless of claimed se
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by bpicolo 9y ago
I'll have to give that a shot sometime. :) Haven't used peewee before, as sqlalchemy has mostly been tremendous. That said, if I'm starting a new project where I'm pretty sure I need async io, I'm not sure Python is
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by bpicolo 9y ago
The unfortunate bit is you lose out on so much of the ecosystem going hard on asyncio right now though (like sqlalchemy orm).
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by bpicolo 9y ago
The premium model gaming-market chairs (AKRacing/DXRacer) are actually great as general office chairs, I'm super happy with mine. They also have office-styled versions (e.g. https://www.akracing.com/product/ob
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by bpicolo 9y ago
Ah I see, i3 isn’t in the RDS pool yet. I imagine it will be eventually?
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by bpicolo 9y ago
AWS and GCP both have nvme SSDs for instance types intended for big-ol DBs https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ssd-inst...
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by bpicolo 9y ago
The kombucha byproduct looks like a vastly different material. The only real difference is that they're both kinda-sorta lather facsimiles? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds8ZFzOwGeI
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by bpicolo 9y ago
As someone not in biotech at all, biotech is so cool to me in general. Definitely a the sexiest field as an outsider for me.
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by bpicolo 9y ago
But it's derogatory in English https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/munt
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by bpicolo 9y ago
Use a reddit mobile app / site alternative which serves your use case better? The official site/app is far from the only option.
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by bpicolo 9y ago
It's also just a way longer story than fits in a movie yeah?
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by bpicolo 9y ago
> Why would any company Almost every company uses external services for this sort of thing right now. Google Drive, Confluence, whatever. Notion allows you to export to PDF/Markdown as well. https://www.notion.so/Exp
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by bpicolo 9y ago
Where do you see 4? I see package.json only. Arguably the build script. And that number doesn't increase at all with more code. The number of files is exactly the same as if you weren't using webassembly, other than the one rust&#
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by bpicolo 9y ago
hstore querying is quite slow (and GIN indexes on hstores are pretty massive). I'd always go jsonb over hstores these days, but jsonb has the same indexing problem. JSON has a well-optimized/spec compliant serializer/deserial
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by bpicolo 9y ago
If what you actually want is data arranged like such, Datomic is probably a prime candidate https://www.datomic.com/
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by bpicolo 9y ago
You could argue that there are cases for it. Datomic[0] is basically EAV on steroids. https://www.datomic.com/
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by bpicolo 9y ago
> It's a bug with their system Confident about that? It's certainly not the only service I get break in attempts on, fwiw
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by bpicolo 9y ago
> Brute force attack on an account with known email address Yup. These days I get a ton of break-in attempts for random accounts. My Epic Games account is disabled weekly due to failed login attempts from random actors. Use a password ma
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by bpicolo 9y ago
They intentionally removed green threading from Rust long ago, so I would guess they intend to leave it outside core? https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/0806be4f282144cfcd55b...
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by bpicolo 9y ago
mitm seems like the most important bit. They'll know what sites you visit regardless when you actually fire off a request to the site, yeah?
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by bpicolo 9y ago
This games are via archive.org, it's not unlicensed in that regard I should think? https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

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