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by maltalex 9y ago
For comparison, here are the prices for managed Redis instances in Azure (Central US) [0]: Basic Tier (single instance, no SLA) 1GB - $40.15/month 2.5GB - $65.70/month 6GB - $131.40/month Standard Tier (Primary/secon
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by maltalex 9y ago
Something similar happened once in 2014 [0] > That BGP hijack allowed the hacker to redirect the miners’ computers to a malicious server controlled by the hijacker. Also, the entire blockchain ecosystem is very susceptible to BGP hijacks
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by maltalex 9y ago
None of these steps would help against a BGP hijack since the IP address space itself is being stolen, not just the domain name. Heck, with a good hijack, the attacker could even get himself a valid automated certificate from let's enc
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by maltalex 9y ago
While I see the author’s point, I fail to understand what any if this has to do with SQL. The problem ML solves isn’t querying databases, it’s making decisions. If a human came up with the idea “let’s lookup people X and send them email Y”
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by maltalex 9y ago
> if the company wasn’t able to successfully find a similar partner to handle Vaunt, it’s not exactly a surprise that it chose not to try to bring them to market directly. That's too bad. It seemed like a solid idea, responses on HN
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Intel is giving up on its smart glasses(theverge.com)
3 points by maltalex 9y ago|2 comments
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“New” is a bad way to refer to something. It loses meaning once the new thing isn’t so new or has been replaced by something newer. Say a document talks about “the new windows UI” and there were like 5 different versions of “new ui” during
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by maltalex 9y ago
I find this explanation hard to swallow. It sounds too simple. These are 40-55 year olds we’re talking about, most of which are experienced, savvy and have a solid network of friends and colleagues in the industry. In most other industries,
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by maltalex 9y ago
> there isn't enough information to know whether that was unfair How do you get from "we don't know if the reviews were fair" to "everyone who's worked for IBM for 30 years has to be a deadweight"?
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> how can anyone who has stayed at IBM for 30 years be anything other than a deadweight who is just there to collect a paycheck? This is blatantly absurd. What makes you think that? According to the story, in general, older employees rec
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EarthNow promises real-time views of the whole planet(techcrunch.com)
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Can someone please explain this? > Are you working on a Java application? Do you want a faster runtime? Enhance your code with JavaScript! First, the JVM already has the Nashorn JS engine. Second, if I'm "working on a Java app&
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by maltalex 9y ago
Aruba Cloud have a 1 eur/month VMware-based VM with one core and a gig of ram in Italy an CZ. It’s quite nice for tiny projects you don’t want to spend on.
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> There's no doubt blockchain is the next big thing in the tech world
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> Fossil stores content using an enduring file format in an SQLite database so that transactions are atomic even if interrupted by a power loss or system crash. Looks like the love is mutual
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by maltalex 9y ago
> What your asking is for Apple to support third party knock off chips in their firmware They're already doing that for some other things. For instance, some (mostly cheap) Wifi access points are known to have buggy implementations
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by maltalex 9y ago
> It was not done intentionally. What evidence is there make this claim? It all seems to boil down to this question. Do you trust that Apple had the user's interests in mind? > They simply don't QA their releases on repair
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by maltalex 9y ago
What if the manufacturer didn’t do this to make everyone’s ECU better, but specifically to discourage users from buying third party parts? I’m asking hypothetically of course...
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by maltalex 9y ago
So does ReactOS. Only both projects are pretty pointless to sue since they aren't making any money.
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> I’m more concerned with the copyright status of Java APIs Building something using OpenJDK using Java APIs shouldn't get you in any trouble. What got Google in trouble with Oracle was that they copied and re-implemented all of Jav
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by maltalex 9y ago
> Genuine question: how many startups are using Java now? is this dealing with older sites that are stuck with Java on the server, or are there genuinely many new deployments of Java-based systems out there? Quite a few. It's a sol
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by maltalex 9y ago
Needs (2012) in the title
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WhatsApp Users in Israel Now Connected via Facebook Servers(gadgets.ndtv.com)
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> Additionally, users can now see if the power management feature that dynamically manages maximum performance to prevent unexpected shutdowns, first introduced in iOS 10.2.1, is on and can choose to turn it off. This feature can be foun
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by maltalex 9y ago
> they had 6 months. You say that like 6 months is automatically a lot of time. "She had 6 months to give birth". Yeah, only it takes 9, so 6 is short. Consider the scope and depth of the issue and the fact that they probably c
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by maltalex 9y ago
> How can you test against an unknown bug? The point of testing is to make the unknown bugs, known.
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by maltalex 9y ago
> None of the libraries I looked at actually implemented it. Can you elaborate on that? AFAIK gRPC comes with bidirectional streams out of the box. I played around with gRPC on Java and it seemed to work.
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by maltalex 9y ago
> Besides that, protobuf and its ilk aren't even good or modern. What would you consider "good" or "modern"? JSON?
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by maltalex 9y ago
I have a related anecdote. After being on Android since version 1.5 I’ve recently switched over to an iPhone (8) due to privacy and security concerns. Thats when I begun using the voice assistance for the first time. For me, it was a trust
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by maltalex 9y ago
That’s one way of looking at it. Another is to consider this as Amazon giving the users a standard, simple way of fixing the documentation issues they inevitably run into.

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