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by heipei 7y ago
Part of the problem that I have with some of these accounts is that they so often focus on tiny and mundane problems that individuals have. I don't know if this is a conscious decision or just an unintended consequence of the fact that
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by heipei 7y ago
One server is still going to run out eventually. To give you a very concrete example: The dedicated boxes I use at Hetzner have 2x1TB NVMe SSD by default. I can order additional disks for sure, but even so you'll struggle to get above
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by heipei 7y ago
Yeah, I was super excited when FoundationDB was made Open Source, but since then I haven't really heard anything about it or anyone using it in production, even less so with the Document-DB layer (Mongo). Any experiences you'd lik
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by heipei 7y ago
It's not relational but key-value based, but I do need things like "update" operations, hence I can't use a simple blob store.
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by heipei 7y ago
The issue that I frequently run into is not that I'm looking for a fancy distributed/sharded database because of reasons of performance, but because I need to store large amounts of data in a way that allows me to grow this datast
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by heipei 7y ago
You're not that far off. If you took the Alexa Top 100k sites and display some kind of indication whenever a page isn't on that list you would be able to stop the most obvious phishing attempts. Google has a Safe Browsing Extensio
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by heipei 7y ago
Web-based phishing has become a game of speed. Domains are not expected to survive more than an hour (and few do), even with all kinds of countermeasures in place (browser / geo detection, destroy-after-first-use links, etc). Yet it&#x
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by heipei 7y ago
Yup, I have seen both extremes: Global brands which redirect all their country-specific domains to their one global .com domain (good!) as well as global banks where every small branch and sub-organisation like funds and charitable foundati
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by heipei 7y ago
I had the immense pleasure of seeing my childhood idol Cliff Stoll on stage at a conference organised by my company. They had invited Cliff as the keynote speaker. He brought honest-to-god slides and a projector, his talk ran over due to po
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by heipei 7y ago
Thank you so much, so it wasn't a comment but a full-fledged blog post. I've literally been searching for that for at least half an hour, so thanks again.
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by heipei 7y ago
I remember reading a comment on HN a while ago about the "basic" ways to create value (and make money) that really resonated with me. I can't for the life of me find it again. It was broken down into things people want like &
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by heipei 7y ago
They could have offered a managed ScyllaDB service and saved themselves and their customers a lot of money while staying CQL / Cassandra compatible. Or what am I missing here?
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by heipei 7y ago
Since really grasping compound interest I've noticed it apply across almost all aspects of life, which is what OP is saying. It shouldn't be reduced to the financial aspect which is probably the better-understood aspect of it. Thi
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How accurately can you hit them compared to the physical keys you had before?
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by heipei 7y ago
Am I the only one that is scared at the prospect of losing physical keys for changing volume and brightness? I do this all the time, changing volume up/down during conference calls, adjusting the brightness when working late at night.
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by heipei 7y ago
German here. I am mulling over the type of business because I want to grow a B2B company where there is potential for loss of service for a big corporate customer, and my fear is getting hit with a justified (or frivolous) lawsuit that will
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by heipei 7y ago
I would give Nomad a try. After reading pages on pages of Kubernetes setup and trying the many half-working setup tools de-jour, setting up Nomad was a breeze and keeping it running over many months took almost no effort at all. URL: https
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by heipei 7y ago
This is the concept behind "transfer learning", taking a fully-trained CNN (ResNet, Inception, MobileNet, etc) and removing the last or last two layers. What I don't understand yet is when to use which trained network, i.e. i
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by heipei 7y ago
Despite Segment using Kafka nowadays, I would encourage everyone to give NSQ a try and see if it might not already fit your use-case. For me it's been one of those do-one-thing-well pieces of software that's really well-engineered
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by heipei 7y ago
For taxes I use the online version of WiSo Steuer for example: https://www.steuer-web.de These services can pull your records on file from the tax office, so all you have to fill in is any additional items (deductible expenses o
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by heipei 7y ago
Employment by US company: Did that for five years working remotely from Germany for a US Incorporated. I'm German, had a German contract with all the standard provisions for Germany (mandatory vacation, termination protections etc, emp
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by heipei 7y ago
For the logging aspect it's funny because the Docker manual itself contains a good snippet with reasonable settings: https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/logging/configure/ For the port-binding
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by heipei 7y ago
I don't know, just check out a few Kaggle competitions and how pragmatic the winning teams are approaching their solution. It's most often a combination of tried-and-true techniques, used in an ensemble, with some smart feature se
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by heipei 7y ago
I've given up on expecting sane defaults from every piece of software. Some packages work perfectly fine out of the box, or simply work not at peak performance if not tuned slightly. Other software has so many dangerous default setting
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by heipei 7y ago
Yes! I mean, I understand that few websites have the expertise, personnel and incentive to come up with a working CSP and maybe even SRI tags. But then you see these incidents where CC data is exfiltrated from the payment pages of major air
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by heipei 7y ago
I share your concern. This is similar to many problems in the InfoSec community which can not simply be solved by a corporation by throwing money at them but instead require long-term cultivation of contacts, trust and expertise by a few &#
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by heipei 7y ago
Yeah, but parent mentioned "autonomy" as the driving force for people who'd want this track, and I'm very much in the same situation. Management or architecture won't give you the same level as autonomy as working i
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by heipei 7y ago
Thank you for saying that, this was exactly my conclusion when reviewing my own goals and notes on how other companies build products. If your company doesn't have this special-projects track in place, then your only option at some poi
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by heipei 8y ago
Came here to say this. Nomad is the perfect entry system for getting started with a small cluster for getting to know how container orchestration works and what things to keep in mind when migrating all legacy applications to fit into this
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by heipei 8y ago
That and the soundtrack ;)

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