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by darkr 3y ago
> Now I need to write a dockerfile, loads of manifests, know about ingresses, use whatever custom tooling and abstractions they've built on top of the cloud provider. Doesn’t sound like there’s a whole lot of platform engineering he
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by darkr 3y ago
UK contempt of court laws prohibit "publications" from influencing any future trial (publications taken to mean any communication addressed to the public - including twitter etc).
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by darkr 3y ago
From my understanding they paid CapGemini €24M for this project in order to net €10M in taxes.
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by darkr 3y ago
Computers definitely were. Cars not so much. Jaguar E-Type (1968): £2,250 (~£32,000 today) Mustang (1968): $2,602 (~$23k today) Mini (1959): $1,340 (~$14k today)
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by darkr 3y ago
Performance per watt is the new Moore's law - though most users don't need more power, they do appreciate longer battery lives
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by darkr 3y ago
OAuth isn’t an authentication protocol, it’s authorisation protocol (which attempts to solve nebulous authorisation delegation scenarios in an often overly generic and overly complicated way).
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by darkr 4y ago
OpenSSH supports centralised CAs (non x509 based) natively, but it's not commonly used outside of large orgs.
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by darkr 4y ago
I would presume because unless you control the GitHub account and the SSH key generation process (making sure to generate on smartcard), any developer can upload any old public key, and then do something like... commit it to a public git re
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by darkr 4y ago
Looks like an extended global outage covering all regions apart from GovCloud: https://status.datadoghq.eu/ https://status.us3.datadoghq.com/ https://status.ddog-gov.com/
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Magic Bitboards(chessprogramming.org)
1 points by darkr 4y ago|0 comments
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by darkr 4y ago
Pretty sure you could fit it in a 64 bit int/bitmap. Potentially some SIMD optimisations could be done in this direction
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by darkr 4y ago
It uses Postgres wire protocol sure, and may even contain some Postgres code; otherwise this is like saying “a tank is just a heavily customised car”
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by darkr 4y ago
It varies; for direct peering/connections where a link goes down (and fast failover protocol is used), usually 5 seconds or so. Global propagation takes in the order of 5 minutes or less: https://labs.ripe.net/author&#
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by darkr 4y ago
No idea if there was a virus doing this, but it was definitely possible to permanently damage at least some CRTs by setting refresh rate too high
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by darkr 4y ago
You're still liable for corporation & dividend tax. Though the rates are favourable towards the independent contractor, there isn't a huge amount of difference between a perm. employee these days; when you factor in the additi
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by darkr 4y ago
Yep - reviews of consumer electronics in general are awash with useless content-farm generated crap. IMO the best audio review site currently is https://www.audioholics.com/
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by darkr 4y ago
I think this is mainly in reference to John De Goes, founder of the ZIO framework: https://typelevel.org/blog/2019/09/05/jdg.html https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2020/07/25&#x2
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by darkr 4y ago
The sovereign grant currently running around £90M/year: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Grant_Act_2011
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by darkr 4y ago
If you’re all in on AWS, this is the easiest and possibly best solution, solves a bunch of security, operational and usability problems if implemented in tandem with SSO, CloudTrail and well defined IAM roles.
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by darkr 4y ago
Using the Spotify kids app is a solution to this problem.
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by darkr 4y ago
No. Assuming a well configured continuous deployment type environment; you just need to have peer review on code before it can hit production, and you need to have controls in place over the who, what and when of elevated access to producti
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by darkr 4y ago
> Customers who have invested millions of dollars > … > an hour of outage would lose us $1M+ in business Given (excluding us-east-1) you’re looking at maybe an hour a year on average of regional outage, sounds like best case break
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by darkr 4y ago
Google has >= 100k employees. With a “healthy” staff turnover rate of 10%, they’re not growing.
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by darkr 4y ago
Surely anything that supports bluetooth is by consequence "a computer"?
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by darkr 4y ago
I’d recommend using line wrapping at some reasonable line length (e.g 80-120 chars)
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by darkr 5y ago
> all your engineers are paid in stock for example, and now they're underpaid versus the industry. I was under the impression that Netflix generally doesn't offer stock to engineers, but instead pays above market salaries.
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by darkr 5y ago
Rocket development has stalled for a while now due to the project owner stepping back as he has some real world stuff to deal with.
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by darkr 5y ago
> Replication works across version differences, making upgrades without any downtime at all easier. Postgres has logical replication these days, which can be used to achieve this
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by darkr 5y ago
> if none of those apply to you, CockroachDB is a better default. Though it scales horizontally, you will need to throw at least 10x or more hardware at it to achieve the same throughput
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by darkr 5y ago
While this could potentially lead to “fairer” outcomes, it would likely be difficult and/or expensive to implement. Also, Affirmative Action as an official policy would likely be illegal; what is being described here is the more modern

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