dmw_ng

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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Most insightful comment here IMHO. Vaguely reminiscent of the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars, I'd rather not buy from anyone involved
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Generally a fan of your posts, but this one was very heavy on marketing buzzology ("cloud scale"). I can't tell if there was a genuine use case for designing a proprietary SSD, or if it were some pet project. Is "75% low
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
The PyPy team demoed a networked multiplayer browser-compiled Python game at EuroPython in 2006. Anyone remember the details? Seems it has dropped off the face of google.
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
ECS can do EBS volumes via the Rex-Ray Docker plugin. Depending on how fast you need new instances to come up, installation can be a 5-liner in userdata
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Did You Hear We Got Osama? (2012)(web.archive.org)
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
No definitive answer, but educated guess: I'm not sure how things are in Ruby, but in Python frame object lifetime does not correspond to the C stack implementing the interpreter. If your code throws an exception, frames are returned a
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Global accelerator $0.025/hr = $18.27/month. 3x t3a.small @ $13.72/month. = $41.16/month. A 3 region single node web app could be done for under $60, dropping to around $43 with instance reservations. With a config this
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Retrofitting seccomp or a custom Apparmor policy are both much lower hanging fruit. The problem is folk tend to link these things directly into their web servers
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
> The "least bad" option right now just seems to be to spread yourself around Sounds about right. For e-mail I'm using SES for outbound on my domain, and.. of all things.. Yandex Mail for inbound. SES doesn't seem to
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Tech savvy people often discard browser cookies at every opportunity. Adding a 2FA step to every interaction with Google is a change in routine, and forced routine changes are a great time to break any harmful habit
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Probably a little easier for me, I stopped adopting anything new from Google for personal use after the Reader episode. I still have access to some business accounts mostly for GCloud.
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Seems like a great opportunity for folk to reevaluate whether they need a Google account at all. I finally escaped in September, after first trying all the way back in 2011. Dragged my feet for so long until eventually just saying "fu
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
I use Edge on Linux to run Teams 5-7 days per week, and use it for anything that won't render in Firefox. Have never experienced this.
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
I'd much rather the opposite: an honest public DNS service that offers all data collected to the public, with some premium paid for high frequency data, and free from any conflict of interest. I would happily use a service like this si
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
That is almost 2 years old, and does not seem to cover aggregate processing applied before the logs are deleted. FWIW stripping the last octet is the same as happens in EDNS, it is far from anonymous.
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
All providers are in on this "free" public DNS scam for the same reason, and it makes me wonder why anyone would voluntarily donate their entire home's click analytics to a super-aggregator free of charge. Did I miss the link
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
The complaint was about IndexedDB access, not local memory. Folk mentioning this are usually referring to the disastrous implementation in Chrome: see https://dev.to/skhmt/why-are-indexeddb-operations-significan... and
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/27546 Perhaps I'm wrong, but my interpretation of this ticket is that Google's AMP validator currently does not validate self-hosted JS, which means no s
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
AMP requires you load all JS assets from cdnproject.org, which is owned by Google. It is as centralized as it comes
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Every client everywhere donates Referrer: logs to ampproject.org, which Google run. It's another centralized web log in disguise
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
More war stories: found Timescale easier to setup (maybe just because more familiar), but raw query perf is not something you just magically get for free. Timescale requires a lot of investment in planning. In one project we had simple time
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
The right to directly vote for a search engine with actual money is huge, as is the right to withdraw that vote. If Google went this route a few decades ago, their search product (and the Internet as a whole) would likely be in a much, much
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Lambda@Edge helps with latency, definitely not with cold start times. You also can't buy provisioned Lambda@Edge, so for low traffic scenarios it's even worse than typical Lambda (where you can easily provision capacity, or keep o
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
This is absolutely tragic, and software is not yet so commoditized that most folk should need to put up with this kind of experience. I can imagine why locally Amazon might seem like a good employer, but after a recruitment experience like
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
I think many can remember the sheer magic of their first cdrecord run (and the terror of producing a coaster). Instantly recognizable name, really sad news.
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
This is a welcome step, but I'd expect the non-uniformity of accounting and taxation policies around the globe to still leave a huge amount of latitude for suitably sized companies.
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
I can't be alone in finding it convenient that the department publishing the study receives its funding from a toy company
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Just curious, were you optimising for storage or serving costs, and were the expected savings realized? I've been itching to try live serving out of B2, but its latency jumps around quite a lot, and the hot cache layer does not stream
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Where are all the Backblaze marketing folk? :) B2 has an offer at present where they will eat the cost of a one-time S3 egress in exchange for a 1 year storage commitment. This offer is much more transparent, although I do still admire C
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Plain SNI did not predicate the existence of megaproviders, in that respect it is better in every way. I don't want to agonize specifics, just to note that when you have the sponsors of a standard being the same folk who stand to benef

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