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by fivea 5y ago
> How about letting me just push php files via ftp to some outdated Debian machine. Cool, let's go with that. Which file are you going to push to which server? I mean, you need to run integration tests to ensure everything works, bu
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Appeals to "curious discussion" sound an awful lot like a request to omit any reference to any of the many downsides and known problems and failures of crypto in general, and instead just focus on convenient cheerful angles that p
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> The bulk of your time building serverless applications will not be spent writing the application logic or focusing on the parts of your code that are in fact the differentiated thing that you’re being paid to work on. It just flat out
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> Funny enough, for me it was the inexpensive (~ USD 25) no name "blue" switches keyboard that I like best. They are very clickity clackity. However, I work from home now so it works out. That sounds exactly like my personal ex
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> I'm pretty sure adding $300,000 in salary to manage a $300/mo hosting bill isn't the best idea... $300/month would be one bill from the total cost of operating a service. Just because that bill is relatively low, th
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> You're mentioning a lot of unrelated problems. I agree, but I would say that the OP is not even point out multiple problems, or any problem at all. The OP just points to in-game microtransactions, and hopes that if it's possi
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> Many in the world don't have access to a financial system. If they have internet, now they do (assuming they can find some way to onboard). If anyone has access to the internet, they have access to banking services. I mean, there
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> That's exactly what I meant when I wrote that over time he has moved his position. Isn't your source citing the WHO's advisory from early 2020 on how face masks were counterproductive as they convey a false sense of secu
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> Yes, there is some nuance there now, (...) That does not seem to be true. Wikipedia's article on Jaap van Dissel[1] links to a Reuters news article from September 2020[2] where van Dissel is referred to have made the following cla
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> When Western governments lied to get around supply issues (...) I don't know what you interpreted as a lie. What I saw was two updates that sparked advisories to curtail surgical mask runs: * the initial WHO position from between
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> Rates are relative, looser money absolutely translates to lower rates, even for poor people. Claiming otherwise is (social) science denial. This hypothesis presumes that loans are priced exclusively based on cost. However, all products
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> The problem is that the lack of macros in C# makes a lot of people use reflection and other stuff which is even harder to debug. Arguably, the problems that require reflection to be solved are also problems that are not solved with mac
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> It is very unfortunate that C taught multiple generations of programmers that macros are a deadly trap waiting to blow up at runtime if you don’t bend yourself to insane coding idiosyncrasies. I don't think that's a fair or r
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> If you've got 250 engineers then the AWS is going to be fairly predictable and well monitored. This is the very first time I hear anyone describe AWS services as "fairly predictable and well monitored", because there is
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> I don’t think this is true at all. AWS has a lot more in an org than “the bill is smaller.” The bill is not only astronomically high but it's also unpredictable and uncontrollable. Which added valued do you believe justifies thi
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> If you have less than 250 engineers, this guide is not for you? Strange. I'd guess that if your org is big enough to have 250 engineers in its payroll, AWS services are a waste of cash given you can deploy better and cheaper. Fo
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Cool link, although I think that in case your deployment package is <100MB then it's preferable to use AWS Lambdas by simply deploying the zip file archive instead of pushing a container image.