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by lbriner 1y ago
In my experience, the Puffin crossings are setup correctly precisely 0% of the time. If you are going to pay presumably a lot more money for all of the extra detectors and electronics then they need to deliver 2 things as mentioned by OP: 1
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by lbriner 1y ago
A lot of misunderstanding here about "why would you invest in someone who has failed?" An investor is a gambler. Not just on past success, although I'm sure Marissa has had some successes even if people don't know them.
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by lbriner 1y ago
I find a lot of these articles conflate two issues, which I have seen mentioned in some of the other comments. 1) There are objectively bad decisions that you can make regardless of "taste" or principles. If you search a list in O
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by lbriner 1y ago
I think you are misusing the phrase "tech debt" like many people do. Not everything that is not perfect is Tech Debt, some of it is just pragmatism. If you end up with two methods doing the same thing, who cares? As long as they a
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by lbriner 1y ago
I feel like this is one of those articles that claims some clever idea on paper but without experience of how this would actually work IRL but IDK if the OP has more experience than me so I will assume the best. Others have already pointed
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by lbriner 2y ago
Someone might have already pointed it out but for me, the sentence of RA is not the main issue, the issue is allowing a single person to stamp through an entire legal system and undermine all of the time and money that is invested in it, ev
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by lbriner 2y ago
It would be interesting to know why the Kenyan Government proactively levied a tax on EV imports. Usually this would be to protect local production but if the local production cannot supply, it is self-defeating. I guess the real problem is
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by lbriner 2y ago
If only BeyondTrust was called LeastTrust, it might not have used a global key to gain access to a load of very high-value targets. To be fair though, most of what we use in these companies is a stack of containers of stuff that we just ass
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by lbriner 2y ago
Like others, I think this is a solution describing an idealised problem but it very quickly breaks down. Firstly, if we could accurately know the dependencies that potentially affected a top-level test, we are not like to have a problem in
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by lbriner 2y ago
A real database should not be slow. Even with our tests running against a hosted SQL Server on a separate server, the database is never the slow part. For other tests, we run with the same database in a local Docker container with Docker Co
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by lbriner 2y ago
Deciding where to spend it is most certainly hard but accounting for it is very easy. Even if the money was $100K to Jimmy to get the stuff into Algeria, there would be some tracking and accountability. It's weird that with the sort of
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by lbriner 2y ago
I think lots of people who lack the experience have no idea quite how large and difficult cybersecurity is for a massive organisation whose systems span 20-30+ years or possibly even longer. There is no standardised tooling and very little
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by lbriner 2y ago
The point of a monorepo is that all the dependencies for a suite of related products are all in a single repo, not that everything your company produces is in a single repo.
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by lbriner 2y ago
Funny though, we all implicitly buy into "QUIC is the new http/2" or whatever because fast = good without really understanding the details. It's like buying the new 5G cell phone because it is X times faster than 4G even
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by lbriner 2y ago
I have a few personal thoughts on this but I think it ultimately comes down to the variation between people being more complex and harder to measure than it seems. In a startup, there is some natural way to choose the 1 right person for the
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by lbriner 2y ago
You could also say that since the maintainers are doing this for free, it is OK that some of them work for businesses that provide (optional) technical support. However you mileage might vary. We found someone listed as a postgres consultan
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by lbriner 2y ago
> How do I check replica lagging? I use the prometheus exporter for postgres > How would I monitor the replica? Same. You can also use something like HA proxy calling a postgres CLI command to connect to the instance > How do I fai
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by lbriner 2y ago
We are seriously considering moving downwards from a dedicated server to some kind of BYOD/co-location. 1) Our server is at least 5 years old but you are still paying a high monthly charge. We have probably paid back 5 times its cost a
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by lbriner 2y ago
I think you need to be careful thinking that the books will be the most valuable input you can get as a Startup. The most basic skill of any business is to "Sell what people want to buy", as Paul Graham puts it. If you just sit an
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by lbriner 2y ago
Don't get me started on the automatic conversion of strings that it thinks are in scientific notation into numbers - which you can't switch off! We have large data exports from systems that include things like unique location code
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by lbriner 2y ago
"Prices from $1,000" but shows the picture of the presedential suite to lure people in. "Oh yeah, $1,000 is a room next to the engine room with no window and a single bed" at which point people feel a bit embarrassed and
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by lbriner 2y ago
"My theory is if you can’t make a proper login system you’re skills probably aren’t good enough to deliver on what you’re promising." Using that logic, I wouldn't trust most websites I visit. Even FAANG companies with their b
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by lbriner 2y ago
I think this is closer to hinting at the truth. GMail and Cloudflare (and many other "high security orgs) have very long auth sessions. Why? Because the chance of somebody getting onto the PC of someone who uses these systems and hasn&
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by lbriner 3y ago
The management and tracking of the documents presumably. You can sign a doc yourself but how do you manage keys? Where do you store the doc for auditing etc.
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by lbriner 3y ago
My experience is that a lot of people could learn what they need from a few pages of crib sheets. Symmetrical, hashing, asymmetrical, key lengths etc. As soon as you need to know more about the nuts and bolts of different systems, you are a
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by lbriner 3y ago
And so the can of worms opens again! No. Not everyone wants or needs a private office with a door. It doesn't always make us more productive. It is not always better to work from home. Open plan offices are not always bad. Most of my d
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by lbriner 3y ago
I think it might be more subtle an issue. I don't know if having phones makes you dumber as much as it gives you an excuse to not try as hard. How many people in the old days said that maths was defunct now that we had calculators. No
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by lbriner 3y ago
Anyone who uses the phrase "we take security seriously" after doing something so basically wrong should go to prison. These aren't new or advanced or zero-day, they are well-documented types of vulnerabilities that have exist
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Ask HN: Anyone fancy working on an RFC for email replies?
1 points by lbriner 3y ago|1 comments
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by lbriner 3y ago
I can totally understand the pain involved in setup. I have done the same with postfix+dovecot for our outgoing email servers and we now have 8 outgoing and 1 + 2 backups incoming allowing us to reboot for updates without losing too much ca

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