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fulafel
2y ago
Going on Oracle sales rep sponsored ski trips.
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2y ago
PostGIS seems leaps better to me (like the PG DX in other aspects). Eg in Oracle you don't have 2d points. Adding a geo index can fail in the middle and leave the table in a unusable state that requires DBA magic to untangle. Etc. This
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2y ago
Yep. And then when the DBs are already on the same servers, when there's a need to connect previously unrelated apps to some master data, a shortcut presents itself. The DBA thinks: After all, why not? Why shouldn't I take it?
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2y ago
It's possible it has redeeming features but seems more common to be just legacy. Multiple apps accessing the same DB leading to a gridlock from migration POV. (Plus career oracle DBAs etc in the org). As Oracle is so expensive it skews
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2y ago
This is something like it, though no finished standard exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAR_%28file_format%29 (An abandoned spec is at https://w3c.github.io/web-performance/specs/HAR/
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2y ago
Attaching a separate firewall rules to every process would be a bit heavyweight. What we do have is network namespaces that let you have networking rules (incl firewall) per a group of processes.
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2y ago
The C standard is accomodating as always: https://feross.org/gcc-ownage/
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2y ago
In the field usually nothing takes off on the first attempt, so this is just a reason to ask "what's different this time" on the following attempts.
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2y ago
Yep, and those printers are proprietary and mutually incompatible, and there are buggy mutually incompatible serial drivers on all the platforms which results in unique code paths and debugging & workarounds for app breaking bugs for e
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2y ago
Directly facing the network is just one way that a program may come process untrusted inputs.
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2y ago
No absolute tokens/s figures in the slides, is this testing something that is fast enough for interactive use?
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2y ago
In many jurisdictions it's just sharing that is illegal, not obtaining.
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2y ago
Alternative programming languages are all about DX. PL/pgsql is turing complete after all.
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2y ago
How interesting a question is OpenAI's corporate fate in the context of future of AI now that it's just another for-profit?
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2y ago
Few people seem to be using these. At a guess the dev experience is not great.
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2y ago
For anyone trying to connect the above to this vuln research, this seems unrelated ("GitHub doesn’t currently use ruby-saml for authentication, but began evaluating the use of the library with the intention of using an open source libr
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2y ago
You're right, I had misparsed the comment.
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2y ago
So that's about 467 eur per month per server assuming a 5 year term. Anyone know what it would be on AWS with Aurora? I had a quick go with https://calculator.aws/ and ended up with a 5-figure sum per month.
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2y ago
The relevant comparison is to an equivalent energy battery, not the tank enclosure vs fuel.
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2y ago
Today's ConEd seems to lag environmentally on the generation side: still runs on fossil fuels, and only half of the steam is by cogeneration of heat and power. (Going by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_
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2y ago
> xlskubectl integrates Google Spreadsheet with Kubernetes Great trolling in the name as well
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2y ago
The context was Signal
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2y ago
The obvious question: There's F-droid, why use this instead?
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2y ago
See also: https://www.science.org/content/article/after-honesty-resear... https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24107889/francesca-gino-l... "In response, Gino — who has maintained her
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2y ago
Most people hate SOAP and WSDL. You can argue most web APIs are reinventing them in the sense that you could reimplement them with WSDL, to get worse versions of them.
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2y ago
Before they started a war they were mainstream-acceptable in the USA. Henry Ford, Charles Couglin, Friends of New Germany etc. It can be argued the mainstream culture / value system doesn't reject Nazism because it's evil, bu
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2y ago
SST: https://github.com/sst/sst - vaguely similar to CDK but can also manage some non-AWS resources and seems TypeScript-only
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2y ago
In practice it's not so far fetched: A zone transfer is just another dns query at the protocol level, i suppose you can conceptually view it as sending a file if you consider the dns response a file. Something like "host -t axfr m
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2y ago
If this was the case, reading your comment (when delivered over TLS in a relevant jurisdiction) would be one such crime.
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2y ago
Are you talking about legalities? AFAIK Hardware jailbreaking/homebrew tools are fine even in jurisdictions blighted with with DMCA unless they're specifically for circumventing DRM. If more about morals, generally publishing vuln
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