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by csmpltn 4y ago
The core product is a 280-character buffer. The hypothesis is that sampling those buffers at scale should be enough to detect significant bot activity on the platform, without needing any additional metadata. That may very well be the case,
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> "Where's the future? A likely candidate may come out of the "Media over QUIC" work in the IETF" The "future" is going to be a goddamned UDP socket sending compressed media streams across the web. We&#
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by csmpltn 4y ago
> "Based on the opening of TFA, my assumption is that they could, but just haven't yet? Is this something we can hope to be added by more mainstream projects? Or are there technical or cultural blockers I can't see?"
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by csmpltn 4y ago
The TLDR summary here is that the compiler allows you to hook into ("instrument") function calls and run custom logic of your choosing on function enter/leave. From that point on, you could use that mechanism to log how your
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by csmpltn 4y ago
> " In the above example, you may have noticed that a number &407eef was printed in place of a symbol. This is one of the tradeoffs that needed to be made by Cosmopolitan Libc's kprintf() function, which is too mission crit
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by csmpltn 4y ago
An unrelated, yet honest question. There have been many posts hitting the HN frontpage regarding fly.io recently. Is it healthy to have so much content about a single PAAS platform showing up here so often now?
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by csmpltn 4y ago
> "I can't see the future but I don't think it's going to be a bloodbath like the .com crash." The world has gone ever more dependent on tech since then. Tech is used everywhere now, pervasively. They're not
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by csmpltn 4y ago
> "Well, not seeing too many here in Africa either." Microsoft has recently opened a development center in Kenya.
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by csmpltn 4y ago
> "Wow, their pricing looks almost too good to be true?" Yes, and that's exactly how Heroku started too. You bait as many people as possible as early as possible, often by giving subsidies, free stuff and extreme price cut
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Rendering some stats you have about your users in a "video" (could just as-well be a PowerPoint presentation turned into a GIF) is a pretty weak form of "personalisation". This perfectly demonstrates the point of this ar
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by csmpltn 5y ago
> "You say that, but UK export law imposes a bunch of conditions, including that you're not knowingly facilitating resale to embargoed countries. And the legality of exports to Saudi Arabia has been litigated - it's legal,
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by csmpltn 5y ago
Could you please point out where exactly in this 69 minute podcast do they talk about NSO knowing who exactly is being targeted at any given moment, and what proof is there to back these claims? Could you perhaps quote the transcript? This
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by csmpltn 5y ago
I'm not challenging your assertion, I'm genuinely looking for backing evidence here. Do you have evidence that NSO knows who is being targeted by the tools they sell?
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by csmpltn 5y ago
> "Like, yeah, blame the UAE mostly for this but let's also have a discussion about why this was sold to anyone who would pay with no oversight at all. Western countries need to do better." The UK itself is one of the larg
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by csmpltn 5y ago
There's a difference between hiring your 2-3 buddies that'll work with you on your toy startup (many of which ended up shutting down fairly quickly, reading OP's blog) - and actually staffing a diverse team that works on a co
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by csmpltn 5y ago
> "My evidence isn't that great I admit. I've only helped build 3 unicorns (helped found one of them) and started 3 $1M+ companies as a solo founder." Again with the awkward appeal to authority. Cut straight to it. Yo
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by csmpltn 5y ago
I agree with you, this cannot be regarded as a healthy approach to hiring and comes off as delusional.
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by csmpltn 5y ago
You do you. I can't see how your approach can scale to hire tens or maybe hundreds of engineers. Sounds like something that may somewhat work for you when you're the only one doing the hiring for your small team of buddies at a st
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by csmpltn 5y ago
> "Genuinely, would you be happy with just container isolation between you and other customers of your cloud provider? Most people absolutely would not." But that's exactly how VPS hosting works today - you don't get
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by csmpltn 5y ago
The only meaningful difference between breaking out of a process-isolated "container" and a full-blown VM is what's waiting for you outside once you've broken out. Whether it's kernel/OS or a bare metal hyperv
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by csmpltn 5y ago
A lot more secure? In what ways?
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by csmpltn 5y ago
> "Exactly. containers are not secure sandboxes by default and if one is breached all those K8s networking ACLs are worthless." Your suggestion being? Putting a sandbox inside a sandbox? How many layers deep should this be, bef
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by csmpltn 5y ago
Something about these articles reads so self congratulatory and aggrandizing... A lot of talk about how the author lives on the cross section of business, management, technical leadership and architecture - but literally zero mention of any
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by csmpltn 5y ago
Could you add a way for people to test the product without paying you anything or providing you with any details? A section in your website where I can paste some API declaration I have laying around, and can see the docs you'll genera
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by csmpltn 5y ago
> "I was talking about the Ukrainian people and you're talking about Ukraine the country. Different things." I think this is where this conversation is going to have to end, because I don't think this is a reasonable,
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> "Because neighbor in this context literally means next to or very near another country. Open any map and you’ll se that Syria’s neighbors are Iraq and Turkey, not Sweden and Germany." Sweden and Germany aren't next to, o
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by csmpltn 5y ago
You're making a lot of broad, unfounded claims. According to [1], Ukraine has a "A long path towards integration" (into the European Union): > "Of course, it is not only Ukraine’s population but its level of economic
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by csmpltn 5y ago
> "Being on the same continent is a very basic minimum requirement which Syria doesn’t pass." Why is being on the same continent a "very basic minimum requirement"?
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> "I feel like ucranians are fellow europeans." > "If you look for a well-defined and rational response, I don't think there's one." The lack of a well-defined and rational response, beyond vague feelings
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by csmpltn 5y ago
> "People go up and above for Ukraine because they're that neighbour" Where do you draw the line on "neighbor"? Why Ukraine but not Syria?

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