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by illumin8 9y ago
Why did CERT modify their vulnerability disclosure to remove the text: > Fully removing the vulnerability requires replacing vulnerable CPU hardware. Proof: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rzc6iQ...
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by illumin8 9y ago
> A trade this large is likely to crater the currency before it can be filled in the absence of trade volume so large its practically impossible for one stakeholder to act in the manner you describe. They don't have to actually sell
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by illumin8 9y ago
Who cares if they can SSH to their app? That's like saying "no matter how nice my natural gas furnace is, I still want to shovel coal." The market will speak - people don't like SSHing into servers any more than they l
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by illumin8 9y ago
I'm talking about all the lower levels below your code. Of course, you need to do something to upgrade your code, but when was the last time you ever had to SSH to your Lambda function and install an OpenSSL patch due to a security vu
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by illumin8 9y ago
One other thing to mention - truck maintenance still requires human technicians - we haven't automated it yet so that robots could do it, but system administration most definitely can be automated at Amazon scale.
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by illumin8 9y ago
I agree that you need to make the right decision depending on what scale you are at. The reality is that most companies are at the scale of a small shop, and it would be better (total cost of ownership) to use Amazon's highly automate
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by illumin8 9y ago
> In general, serverless computing tasks cost 100-1000× more per cpu cycle than a counterpart running on a cloud server. Citation needed. With Serverless you have to do zero system administration, patching, maintenance, security hardenin
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by illumin8 9y ago
How about this: https://read.acloud.guru/serverless-superheroes-eric-hammond... From the article: > The most surprising thing I learned from building TimerCheck.io was: If designed well, it is possible for some products
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by illumin8 9y ago
Another shady thing they are doing: > The founder also promised that in addition to the common practice of crediting BTC holders with equivalent balances of the new coin (B2X), they would also receive “a proportional number of Satoshi Na
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by illumin8 9y ago
Anyone know how to read the article behind the paywall?
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by illumin8 9y ago
I agree, if you are the type of person that refuses to use a smartphone on anti-surveillance principals, however, the same people that say they would never buy a digital assistant have one on their phones already.
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by illumin8 9y ago
No, he didn't. How do you justify carrying a smartphone with an always listening microphone into shared public spaces (many listen for wake words now), but get hung up on having a microphone in your private residence? Google has a hor
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by illumin8 9y ago
Night and day difference. With Google glass, you're bringing a stealthy, concealed video camera into public spaces like restrooms, where the guy using the urinal next to you has no idea if you're recording him or not. With smart
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by illumin8 9y ago
Couldn't you just make a single transaction with all of your BTC you currently hold (provided you've held it in the same wallet for recent history, when all these forks have occurred), then cash out all of your forks/airdrops
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by illumin8 9y ago
Yes, take a look at AWS Greengrass: https://aws.amazon.com/greengrass/ This lets you run the same Lambda execution environment on any device you own. Typically, we see this being used by customers that need to do comp
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by illumin8 9y ago
What exactly are your issues with cold start? This typically only affects functions that are called a few times a day, and can be solved for those functions by running a CloudWatch event that triggers your function every few minutes or so.
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by illumin8 9y ago
You can now even do canary deployments where you switch a small amount of traffic to a new version of your Lambda. The FaaS (function as a service) ecosystem is rapidly reaching parity with traditional software. Disclaimer: I work for AWS
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by illumin8 9y ago
You can do the same thing (just run a horizontally scalable container for me with per-second billing) on AWS Fargate: https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/ It will also support Kubernetes pods next year. Disclaimer: I work f
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by illumin8 9y ago
No, they've always self-hosted on bare metal.
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by illumin8 9y ago
It wasn't Verizon, it was Comcast: https://technical.ly/philly/2014/05/09/graph-shows-netflix-s...
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by illumin8 9y ago
I know exactly what it was like. Look at the graph in this article, and tell me you weren't fucked by lack of NN several years ago, if you were a Comcast customer: https://technical.ly/philly/2014/05/09&
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by illumin8 9y ago
> My network carrier already does some anti net neutral things that I like. Like what? You do realize that we're all paying $1 more a month for Netflix because Comcast decided to go "rent seeking" and throttled their traf
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by illumin8 9y ago
That's just not true. The FCC are appointed by our elected representatives. Why do you think they even have to pretend they are accepting public comments on things like this? If the FCC does something bad, like this, we have the abi
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by illumin8 9y ago
Actually, I have to call this out as false - you can't handle millions of HTTP connections on a single machine, because there are only 65,535 available TCP ports. I think you meant that you can handle millions of HTTP connections on a
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by illumin8 9y ago
Why not just sell a lockbox that you can put on your front porch? Seems like an easier solution.
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by illumin8 9y ago
But seriously, what value does the infrastructure administration provide? If my SaaS app is built with JavaScript, why should I waste any time at all managing PostgreSQL WAL replication when I could be adding a new feature that $BigCo will
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by illumin8 9y ago
This sounds pretty good, but what if the $5 wrench attacker knows your real wallet needs 25 words, and not just 24... Wouldn't they just hit you with the wrench a few times until you added the 25th word?
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by illumin8 9y ago
I love nerding out over this personally, but if you're a startup, given the plethora of well managed offerings, you're frankly foolish to invest resources on this. Even if you eventually reach the point where it makes financial s
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by illumin8 9y ago
The purpose of bitcoin mining is not to "find coins," although the mining reward might make it seem like that. The purpose is to provide enough hashing power to the network to cryptographically verify transactions using a consens
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by illumin8 9y ago
They did? I watched it and never saw a pickup truck.

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