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by darkr 5y ago
Whilst there may be a few nuggets of truth buried somewhere in this cynical mine for male votes, this is pretty low even for Andrew Yang.
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by darkr 5y ago
Sir, I believe your shoes are on the wrong feet
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by darkr 5y ago
Not in and of itself.. However if part of that funding was used to cover formal (external) audits, investment in fuzzing/automated security testing etc.. then it might well have done
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by darkr 5y ago
Use your standard DB migration tooling, with code/change review as part of the process. I’m a big fan of sqitch[1] but many migration tools will handle data updates as well as DDL. 1: https://sqitch.org/
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by darkr 5y ago
Total ordering is rarely required, and even more rarely actually possible (without lamport or atomic clocks etc). For more common use cases it is possible to provide the minimum guarantees required to reliably reconstruct a domain object th
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by darkr 5y ago
Not sure if it passes the “don’t have to screw with” test (as configuration generally requires a decent level of networking knowledge), but I’m quite happy with Mikrotik Audience access points/routers.
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by darkr 5y ago
> CentOS and Debian as server side old stable and most importantly security patch Historically, CentOS has been very slow to release security patches, compared to upstream (RHEL). And for anything non-critical (but still often high) Debi
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by darkr 5y ago
I have an 11 year old and a 4 year old [HHKB]. Used/abused for 8+ hours/day, 5+ days/week. For the first 7 years of its life the first HHKB was transported to and from work every day, which can’t have helped it’s lifespan. Re
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by darkr 5y ago
Low tech/practicality cars on my personal “want” list: * Caterham 7 super sprint * TVR Griffith (or Chimaera) * Ariel Nomad
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by darkr 5y ago
Erlang is great for non-blocking concurrency, but for CPU-bound tasks it’s not the fastest language out there.
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by darkr 5y ago
+1. For pre-A series/pre-revenue/pre-1k paying customers and other early stage businesses you can do a lot worse than starting out on Heroku, especially if you don't have sysadmin/cloud/devops expertise (and even if
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by darkr 5y ago
Ideally you want some atomic deployment strategy, rather than having to deal with whatever crap might have been in the directory previously. Something like - extract your deployment artefact to a new, unique directory - and then read-only b
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by darkr 5y ago
Amethyst is also not terrible if you're on MacOS
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by darkr 5y ago
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/st...
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by darkr 5y ago
No, it's 1st Jan 1970
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by darkr 5y ago
These examples are all "impossible" due to regulatory or commercial constraints, rather than scientific - which is a category of obstacle somewhat more difficult to overcome.
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by darkr 5y ago
It's been a few years since I looked into the enterprise HashiCorp offerings, but I remember there was an X seat minimum (where X was 10 I think). Larger customers will obviously have many more than 10 seat license/support agreeme
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by darkr 5y ago
> Look for some proof that they've built, designed or sold something substantial, before you agree to do all the work for them I disagree. 4 months working for a semi-criminal part mad-man is an amazing opportunity to learn about l
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by darkr 5y ago
Can confirm the 2-sided lemon market exists in the UK. Sites like ratedpeople.com will efficiently connect you with absolute chancers who will make an excellent mess of any task. The only way to get any kind of basic quality assurance is ei
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by darkr 5y ago
In many languages (including Python & Scala), sets are not much more than syntactic sugar on a hashmap-like datatype.
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by darkr 5y ago
ctrl + ] sends an escape sequence. Remap caps-lock to ctrl and you never have to leave home row again!
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by darkr 5y ago
> 48-bit static IP addresses. 70 trillion should be enough. 128 bits was overkill The least significant 64 bits in IPv6 are used for link-layer addressing, which is how IPv6 supplants older L2 protocols (ARP etc) with NDP etc, thereby fi
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by darkr 5y ago
Sounds similar to Telnic https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-reid-dnsext-nkey... https://icannwiki.org/TelNic
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by darkr 5y ago
If you have absolutely vanilla CDN requirements, you can run multiple CDNs and fail-over or load balance between them using DNS. Quite a few Fastly customers have more than vanilla requirements though, and may have a lot of business logic p
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by darkr 5y ago
Might not be the case anymore, but a few years back, Hackernews was just running on a single server.
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by darkr 5y ago
The other points in this thread recommending modern, context-specific cryptography tools are very valid, however if you're set on PGP; Sequoia[1] is a new(ish) OpenPGP library written from the ground up in Rust. 1: https://s
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by darkr 5y ago
of course, old faithful will be around for a while yet.. Let's go for a beer soon!
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by darkr 5y ago
Bits and pieces of Akka in a few places, but not commonly
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by darkr 5y ago
Try signing up/signing in on web and you'll get a whole new experience. Anonymous browsing/guest checkout might be an avenue that we take another look at in the future; but yes - historically we have been focussed on our mobi
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by darkr 5y ago
This might be the CDN list price. When you get to higher levels of traffic, you can usually negotiate and commit to a certain level of spend over the next X years, and in exchange the per GB cost falls by at least an order of magnitude. The

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