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by kijin 3y ago
Why even bother going through a crazy licensing deal? They could just write a shrink-wrapped license attached to an online payment form like everyone else does. Only require talking to a sales rep if the quantity is above a certain threshol
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by kijin 3y ago
Ever had your droplet suspended for using a vulnerable WordPress plugin? Your droplet suddenly tries to log into somebody else's server 10 times a second. The target of the attack complains to DigitalOcean, "hey, one of your custo
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In that scenario, it's on the ISP to clean their network of abuse, the same thing they would need to do if Gmail had blacklisted their IPs for spamming. After all, an ISP that can't connect to YouTube isn't going to stay in b
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by kijin 3y ago
A spamhaus-like blacklist for botnet IPs is an interesting idea. What if Google and Cloudflare collectively reverse-DoSed all the infected IPs, not by sending them any traffic, but simply by refusing to accept any connections from them to a
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by kijin 3y ago
The majority of TrueCrypt users were on Windows and needed a GUI. Backdoors or not, BitLocker was the only comparable alternative. Recommending BitLocker might have been a signal to hackers in the aftermath of the Snowden revelations, but I
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by kijin 3y ago
100 years sounds short-sighted for something that's supposed to be "universally" unique. We're already having problems with the 32-bit Unix timestamp not being large enough. If you're willing to use 160-bit (or long
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by kijin 3y ago
If UUIDv4 was all that ever existed, there would be no need to validate anything apart of the fact that it's supposed to contain 32 hexadecimal characters. All other versions, including the new v7, attach meaning to certain bits of the
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If your database simply shards keys sequentially, it's going to get hotspots in a lot of use cases, like plain old integer keys and timestamps, not just UUIDv7. In that case it would be fair to say that your database is doing it wrong.
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by kijin 3y ago
That was 9 years ago, not "now". BitLocker was the only alternative that they could recommend back then. It's possible that whatever vulnerability the TrueCrypt developers were alluding to still lurks in the VeraCrypt codebas
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The hosting companies have full access to any forwarding configuration set up by their customers, too. It all goes through their control panel anyway.
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by kijin 3y ago
> MailChannels main customers are web hosting providers who don’t own the domains they send emails from! That's the lamest excuse I've heard in a while. Web hosting providers generally don't "own" the domains t
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by kijin 3y ago
Sure, you can download an SQLite database from S3 and use it in your Lambda if your dataset is small enough and, more importantly, you either don't do any writes or have access to a highly reliable solution that synchronizes writes acr
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by kijin 3y ago
What separate DB server? I was talking about installing the RDBMS on localhost, right inside the server where your application runs. No other EC2 instance, no extra charges. Preferably connect to it over a Unix domain socket instead of TCP.
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by kijin 3y ago
> When you put your data right next to your application, you can see per-query latency drop to 10-20 microseconds. That’s micro, with a μ. A 50-100x improvement over an intra-region Postgres query. Why compare the latency of a remote P
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by kijin 3y ago
Actually, iron rusts away so quickly that it's hard to recover them from the ground after only a millennium or two. Bronze tends to fare much better in that regard. Wood can last quite a while if it's buried in an environment that
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by kijin 3y ago
A lot of men are extremely efficient shoppers. They know what they want and where it is. They don't browse around at all. They have the cash or card ready. Walk in, pick up the ice cream, pay, walk out. Could be done in 30 seconds if t
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by kijin 3y ago
That's because most of those cities were built up before cars existed, and even horse-drawn carriages were a luxury for the few. Many American cities on the other hand have grown up with the car, with wide streets dividing neighborhood
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This thing will probably run in a bunch of VMs/containers behind a load balancer, so it's actually better that it doesn't try to obtain any certificates by default. Even a small number of apps trying to get their own certific
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by kijin 3y ago
Even better, you don't even need to worry about those backward compatibility breaks if you wrote relatively clean, warning-free code in the first place. Only the very worst parts of PHP's legacy have been thrown out, and only afte
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Which it should be, since WordPress is such a huge part of the PHP ecosystem. Laravel is a distant second. To talk about PHP without mentioning WordPress, whether in a good light or not, would be like discussing Ruby without mentioning Rail
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The requirement can be easily bypassed by going bankrupt before the required time is up. You will soon hear advice like "if you want to get in to the IoT space, create a new C Corp for each iteration of your product..." Whatever y
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by kijin 3y ago
There's also the problem that electronic devices last a long time -- often much longer than any manufacturer wants to admit. Vehicles, PCs, printers, and routers can easily last 10 years. Refrigerators and HVAC units can last 20 years
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by kijin 3y ago
It probably doesn't know, and just got stuck in the brain by chance. It's not even clear that the brain is actually the optimal location for it to survive and/or reproduce, since the sample size is so small.
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by kijin 3y ago
Is there a reason why tuna is specifically called out as an exception? I would imagine that tuna, being near the top of the food chain, would accumulate an awful lot of things in their bodies, not just mercury as commonly feared.
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I've had eczema for 40 years. It's gotten much more manageable with age, but I'm still allergic to a few things, such as dogs. I'd much rather be alive and dogless, than dead in the first year as was common before modern
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by kijin 3y ago
A 15km chunk of solid iron, now that's the kind of bunker buster you throw around in an interplanetary war. Would it do more damage to the surface than a rocky asteriod of comparable mass, though? If it burrows deeper, it means it tran
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by kijin 3y ago
Nero Burning ROM still seems to be available from its original developer, Nero AG: https://www.nero.com/eng/products/nero-burning-rom/ The modern packaging doesn't show the iconic "coliseum on fire&
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Doesn't matter if you have multiple large customers and "other customers" are rounding error at best. Case in point: Palantir.
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That depends on what kind of large customers you're doing business with. If a customer is large enough, and their pockets deep enough, you can absolutely justify building what is good only for that customer, and shipping it only to tha
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There should be a middle ground somewhere between an unwieldy chemical formula and a catchy product-like name. For example 3,4-MDMA is a useful shorthand for people who want to be precise as to which isomer they're talking about, but d

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