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by porpoisemonkey 2y ago
> I have to assume they made similarly confused choices with their Consul and Nomad setups as well. I found their explanation about why they wrote Corrosion confusing since most Hashicorp services (including Consul) already support data
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by porpoisemonkey 4y ago
It doesn't sound like this would have helped in this particular case since they were unable to contact the customer.
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by porpoisemonkey 4y ago
To reiterate half of what you've said, but maybe in a slightly different way, the defense security clearance process is designed to determine how likely you are to be incentivized or coerced into revealing classified information. The p
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by porpoisemonkey 4y ago
Also not a biologist - just an enthusiastic layman. The Soleus muscle (Soleal pump) is partially responsible for helping to return blood from your legs back up to your heart while upright. [1] This is a fairly critical process so it would m
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by porpoisemonkey 4y ago
That’s an unfortunate situation, but I’m not surprised to hear this. I worked in a single-location pizza shop when I was in high school and there is a lot more customer-benefitting coordination going on between the inside and the drivers th
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by porpoisemonkey 4y ago
Not the OP, but in one of the smaller companies (~30 people/~12 engineers) you describe that's currently looking for a tool like this. I can't actually see the pricing because it's behind a nebulous "contact us&quot
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by porpoisemonkey 4y ago
> I hope AWS mitigated this metadata endpoint weakness by now. AWS offers a version 2 of the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) API that includes mitigations for many common SSRF attacks. IIRC both IMDSv1 and IMDSv2 are turned on by defaul
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by porpoisemonkey 5y ago
Is this universally true? In the US it appears that it just means there's more restrictions to what types of jobs you can/can't do and the hours you're allowed to work, but AFAIK it's not actually illegal to work as
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by porpoisemonkey 5y ago
> Also, iCloud photos are not encrypted[2]. According to the table on the second link iCloud Photos are encrypted on the server (at rest). Am I missing something?
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by porpoisemonkey 5y ago
> Indeed, up until reading these comments I had no idea that iCloud wasn’t encrypted. iCloud data is encrypted at rest (edit: except for Mail apparently). The type of encryption (service or end-to-end [E2E]) is specified here: https:&#
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by porpoisemonkey 5y ago
There's a better explanation of the differences here: https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-3-rethinking-reactivity Svelte is a component framework — like React or Vue — but with an important difference. Traditional
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
I'd like to see them make their customers whole by forcing them to refund the monthly payment for every month that a customer with an "unlimited" plan was capped or throttled.
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
I think that people perceive being on call and having to work with messy legacy infrastructure as a restriction on their personal freedom and an anti-perk. We also don't compensate well for oncall shifts so that might be part of the re
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
> I can't imagine that responsibility for MY code in production (and delivery of the said code to production) lies on a different team/department that are possibly not even on the same floor/building I'm at. I recent
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
I recently transferred as a developer to a development operations role at a medium-sized company. This article exactly describes my experience - the main focus of the ops team seems to be on build, deployment and monitoring technologies foc
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
I spent a few minutes of DuckDuckGo'ing but couldn't find anything... does anyone know if there's a way to see how/if these fines are actually being paid? UPDATE: Looks like most fines are paid to the US Treasury. [1][2]
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
If you get caught for speeding in Michigan, the Golden rule is to always appeal the ticket. Unless you've been excessively reckless they'll typically knock it down to "impeding traffic" which carries a slightly higher fi
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
It looks like most 5% cash back cards have a hard limit ($1500/quarter seems to be common limit) to the amount you can get back and offer an "unlimited" cash back at a rate at or lower than 2%. https://www.magnifym
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
Anyone here a lawyer? I'm wondering if you submit a request to opt-out of the settlement if you could re-litigate a new settlement in the future?
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
It's hard to gauge, but... * Before the accident the nerve was 100% (undamaged) * Immediately after it was 0% (could not feel anything - including the sensation of heat) * 1 year after ~20% (could feel the sensation of heat and firm pr
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
Might have been a neuragen tube. I had one of these placed in my hand after I severed the nerves in one of my fingers... It took about 1 year before I regained any feeling and 2 before I regained maximum nerve use. https://www.nc
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
More context: They use rack-and-pinion railways in Switzerland [0][1] to accommodate the steep grades. > The trains are fitted with one or more cog wheels or pinions that mesh with this rack rail. This allows the trains to operate on ste
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
I've recently contacted all of the major airlines that fly the 737 Max as well as my congressional representatives and the FAA to let them know I have serious reservations about a software fix to the aircraft. If this issue is concerni
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
There are already treatments like this. When I was in high school I started a minor computer repair business. One of my customers was a treatment service where they would place electrodes on the head of an individual to measure certain brai
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
> Similar to how that Tesla car decapitated it's driver a few years ago because it decided a truck trailer was empty sky. This isn't that different from bad biological sensory input that causes a person to think they are steppi
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
> I'm inclined to put at least half the blame on the people voting with their wallets here. I don't agree. The sheer volume of information that's available in the public space and the size and scope of large corporations m
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
It's along the same lines but DNA sequencing has very serious consequences in countries that have a history of strict filial piety such as China. In these countries a family is not just the basis for raising children - families can oft
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by porpoisemonkey 7y ago
Collection of evidence is also another likely place to make a mistake. The issue is that a non-pristine sample taken from a public place (like a crime scene) may have multiple DNA profiles represented in it. I'm not highly familiar wit
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand the reference since I don't comment on or look at much blockchain related articles here on HN. (Most of my research has been tangential to my former employment as a web security developer.) Is there a tec
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
One option would be to open up more infrastructure initiatives to direct democracy. Arguably the most heavily invested body to getting the subways improved is the people who actually live in New York and use them. Making this feasible would

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