remus

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by remus 4y ago
I think the article is misleading. The spot price is about supply and demand over an extremely short time period and has dipped below zero because at the moment gas storage in europe is very full, so if you've got a load of natural gas
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by remus 4y ago
...and continue to get free storage on anything uploaded before the transition date.
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by remus 4y ago
User migrates photos off of Google Photos == user spends $60 on external hard drive + x hours of their time moving everything across. Seems a shit setup compared to forking over a pretty small amount of money to google for a very convenient
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by remus 4y ago
> Either these things stop or software licensing is meaningless. Pick one. I think this is overly simplistic. People routinely write code that bears a lot of similarity to existing code (there's only so many ways you can write &quot
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by remus 4y ago
> They're all different things. Different but related, I would say. For example abuse of a service and undesirable behaviour on a service could be thought of as different points on a spectrum.
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by remus 4y ago
> The comments cannot be considered garbage, since they ask the most pertinent question: why is this announcement worth talking about? I disagree. Google's habit of killing projects off is interesting/annoying/frustrating
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by remus 4y ago
> Yep. Just another example of why we should never trust google. The other alternative is that you have some support person on the end of the phone who can grant access to accounts. Historically this has been a ripe for social engineerin
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by remus 4y ago
You could flip it round and say that's why the US is lagging behind the EU in environmental protection and consumer rights. I suspect the correct answer is somewhere between the two approaches.
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by remus 4y ago
Just because similar tools already exist that doesn't mean we shouldn't discuss the ethics of these tools (including the developers themselves).
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by remus 4y ago
Right you are, my mistake.
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by remus 4y ago
ed: got this wrong, ignore! > Russia wants the taps capable of being turned ON at their discretion, not permanently broken. This hurts their bargaining position in a big way because they've just lost their biggest source of leverage
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by remus 4y ago
I remember a story of a guy who had his license plate on a hinge with a little cable attached to the cigarette lighter in the car. When he wanted to speed in an area with cameras he'd pull out the cigarette lighter to fold the plate up
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by remus 4y ago
In the context of it being a 20 person company I don't think what they've listed is excessive. Each person is likely going to be using a subset of those tools in their day to day work. Just spit balling, but say they had 2 designe
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by remus 4y ago
> If people who write books for financial gain decide to quit, I'm not sure it's a big loss. Plenty of people write software for free. Why don't we just use all software however we like? If people who write software for fi
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by remus 4y ago
I had a very similar situation. For some reason using the python requests library didn't trigger the company filtering, so one afternoon I built a little proxy. Handy when something something random was blocked.
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by remus 4y ago
> The offerings between the two cloud vendors are also not the same, which might relate to their differing response times. GCP allows you to attach a GPU to an arbitrary VM as a hardware accelerator - you can separately configure quantit
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by remus 4y ago
Say you're running an account take over script that spams login forms with a list of known username and password combos. If a website owner sees thousands of login attempts coming from a single IP address they're likely to block y
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by remus 4y ago
Frankly that's a ridiculous clause. If you make a change (like switching from testing to live in the stripe dashboard) it needs to be tested, as OP's comment nicely demonstrates.
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by remus 4y ago
> Are you saying you should empty your account constantly. When I was involved with taking payments through paypal that's what we did. For us there was no value in keeping payments in there but there was plenty of risk. We stopped u
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by remus 4y ago
I'd love to use materialised views more often but my experience is that they're full of annoying limitations, typically around functions that feel like they should be immutable but aren't.
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by remus 4y ago
> This isn't a problem with those programmers, it's a problem with Go modules. That seems like a bit of a jump! Maybe there's a better way of building dependency management tooling that doesn't use lock files, it seem
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by remus 4y ago
I wonder if there's something about changing uses cases. If you design for x and y use cases then you end up with a nice, simple design for x and y. People then start doing a lot of z so you adapt to support z, but it adds some complex
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by remus 4y ago
> It feels very unusual for a CEO to comment on the circumstances of an exec's departure like this. It's unusual circumstances. Im sure if there wasn't a huge newspiece in CNN Parag/twitter would have said exactly not
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by remus 4y ago
> Absolutely zero reason to say "who was terminated for ineffective leadership and poor performance". That context is not at all relevant to this matter and comes off as an attempt to distract from the subject in matter. While
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by remus 4y ago
> Why should a business relationship with Google (or any other cloud service) be any different? Depends on the size of the account surely? Maybe there's some support person to talk to, but there's plenty of services I subscribe
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by remus 4y ago
> These professional data center providers serve 911 and financial clients, while gcp/aws serve selfies and cat pictures. The later considers their consumers cattle for the slaughter, while these professional colo providers don’t ha
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by remus 4y ago
> I'm pretty sure I encountered that one with both Disney and Royal Caribbean reservation workflows just flat out breaking. My favourite is services that let you sign up with a + in the address but then break when you try and login
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by remus 4y ago
> It's actually incredible to me how many businesses that do have poor leadership that continually survive. Once you've built a brand, a reputation, a network of clients and a somewhat steady book of business, it's surpris
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by remus 4y ago
> I wouldn't use a ring bend - the double fisherman's is superior for tying rope or cord ends together to create a sling. Broadly agree, but a ring bend is handy for tying lengths of tape in to slings. Pretty niche these days t
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by remus 4y ago
That's not the same as on call though, that's working extra hours. With the pay structure described above I assume this is applied outside your normal working hours, where you're not doing anything other than being on call.

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