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by michaelmcmillan 6y ago
DNS is actually pretty nice for ACL [1]. Just make sure you use it with DNSSEC. Want to check if Tom has access to /web/mike? Just do a lookup on the user in question with the reversed path you want to check. "Can Tom read &#
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by michaelmcmillan 6y ago
Terraform has released something very similar, but not stable yet: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/cdk-for-terraform-enabling-py...
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by michaelmcmillan 6y ago
Yup! I'm currently running a b2c solution for a client that's grossing ~$3 million/year using Python + sqlite3 behind nginx. I work for another shop that scolds me for even suggesting using something else than k8s. How can a
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by michaelmcmillan 6y ago
"As of now, October 4th, we have received four payments totaling $51,500" What a joke. That's an hourly rate of $20 (assuming 5 researchers working for 3 months). Just enough to buy a MacBook to do the research in the first p
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by michaelmcmillan 6y ago
yc was 0 to 1, not 1 to n. You can't be greedy when doing 0 to 1: you'll just fail. But those imitating yc are doing 1 to n, and it's easy to underestimate what made 0 to 1 work in the first place.
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by michaelmcmillan 6y ago
I'm a fanboy at this point
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by michaelmcmillan 6y ago
{ Start, Stop } - { Begin, End } = ∅
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Ask HN: Do you send emails to yourself?
20 points by michaelmcmillan 6y ago|35 comments
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by michaelmcmillan 6y ago
I thought we still used two connections with FTP?
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by michaelmcmillan 6y ago
Waking Up by Sam Harris and Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson. Lex Fridman and Eric Weinstein's podcasts are also pretty good most of the time.
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by michaelmcmillan 6y ago
> I wonder which company successfully runs a monorepo in git. Google. They're not using git, but their own scm: https://research.google/pubs/pub45424/
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
Which is consistent with what I wrote.
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
Stepping on the breaks perfectly align with what we know scientifically. People think of science as something very narrow – but it's also evidence and rationality. What China and South Korea have done works. What other alternatives do
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
You're putting words in my mouth, congrats. Every exponential in the "real world" eventually turns into a logistic curve. Can you tell me when the inflection point will occur? No? Okay, good luck to you and your family.
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
Exponential growth.
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
That sucks! But the real lesson should be that you do not expose your database on the internet (0.0.0.0 vs 127.0.0.1). That way it doesn’t matter if you leak your .env via your webserver. Never expose sensitive services.
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis on discovering the effects of washing your hands before operating on patients. Simple, yet highly effective.
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
Uhm, anyone else worried about the security here? What if someone were to draw a “parking lot” polygon that resulted in a path to water?
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
Sounds like premature optimization to me. An empty string will take constant time. Much more concerned with communicating intent, and .textContent is just confusing.
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
.innerHTML is great for wiping parts (or the entire) DOM. But yah, should definitely not be used with anything other than an empty string. Example: document.innerHTML = '';
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
Author here. Actually, we were in California when all of this went down. Total coincidence.
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
So I guess we should "transpile" static objects into strings that we call with JSON.parse? Not sure if I should end this comment with a /s or not.
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
Some friends and I hacked Blackboard last year. We exploited it by smuggling null bytes (0x00) via. their WebDAV protocol. This made it possible to hijack other accounts, including our professors'. So we hacked our own grades and then
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
If you find yourself fighting with mocks, ask yourself: is there a deeper design problem with my code? I often find that things I can't test easily have crappy design.
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
I can't help you if you don't see the connection.
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
Let's try to avoid using a hammer on anything that resembles a nail: https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
No, not really.
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
I never said I couldn't see how... Just pointing out that we need more data to know cause and effect.
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
Not sure if I agree. This is how I parsed it: humans have become less active → our intelligence has suffered as well
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
How do you know that the causality is flowing in that direction and not the other way? It could also be that we are getting physically worse because our IQ is declining.

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