remus

17 ms·

241.
by remus 2y ago
Not that I disagree with your overall point, but I don't think this > I was doing some contract work for a small place that had a GCP Bigtable that was costing $11k+ per month for some reports that were based on data from a 375MB !!
242.
by remus 2y ago
> Your argument is that we should not make any improvements unless we can achieve utopia. Not at all. As I said originally: > I think it is a little more nuanced. While I think banks should shoulder more of the responsibility account
243.
by remus 2y ago
> Until you report those items as stolen, after which they should be not useful at all. But if it's all on the bank (and to generalise, the other party trying to authenticate the request) why would you report the items stolen? You&#
244.
by remus 2y ago
> People, including myself, feel this should legally be the bank's problem. Someone pretended to be the account owner and the bank gave them money. That seems pretty clearly the bank at fault I think it is a little more nuanced. Whi
245.
by remus 2y ago
> Besides compliance costs, operational complexity, impact on small businesses, inconsistent implementation across EU Member States, and extraterritorial reach and global compliance challenges... In my experience the compliance cost real
246.
by remus 2y ago
It seems a net positive overall to me: the system has gone from collecting and storing personal info for no reason, with all the risk that entails (e.g. a data breach that exposes that info) to no longer storing that info (and hopefully no
247.
by remus 2y ago
> To conform with a privacy law I’m building a sophisticated filter for finding personal data I don’t even want. ...and then presumably deleting it, as required by the law if there is no business or technical reason for having the person
248.
by remus 2y ago
> ...but the benefits are nowhere to be found. I disagree pretty strongly: - Loads of companies now have tools for getting copies of all the personal data they hold on you e.g. google takeout, which is a direct consequence of GDPR. - Com
249.
by remus 2y ago
The size of the payout was linked to stock growth targets, so when the pay deal was agreed it would have been clear it would be worth a massive amount if the stock growth targets were hit.
250.
by remus 2y ago
Exactly. They can do this (i.e. keep producing power when the spot price is negative) because a plant that can respond rapidly to increased demand can charge a large premium in times of need.
251.
by remus 2y ago
Plants will typically have a normal operating range (where the minimum is >0). A gas plant can respond fairly quickly within that range, but a cold start requires more time.
252.
by remus 2y ago
> Are the trade-offs measurable? Yes, but you need the context about what is the correct tradeoff for your use case. If you've got a service that depends on fast writes then adding latency via extra indices for improved read speed m
253.
by remus 3y ago
> but I'm regularly forced into what's apparently called "Google Cloud's operations suite" to grovel through logs Is this google cloud logging? If so, personally I quite like it, especially for looking through lo
254.
by remus 3y ago
I've never had the opportunity to write code for a compiler but it's something that's always been pretty interesting to me so I decided to write a little toy calculator: calc("1 + 3 / 5") It was a pretty fun pr
255.
by remus 3y ago
> The major sources of spam today are places like gmail and outlook servers. By volume perhaps, but is that true as a proportion of all mail that was sent via these services? I'd be surprised, though I'd be very interested if t
256.
by remus 3y ago
> If email was fully decentralized (everyone runs their own server) this centralized power could not exist and there wouldn't be any problem. You would have different problems though. Spam would still be hard, or arguably even harde
257.
by remus 3y ago
> But in practice, it is. Indeed. There's also 'learning' and learning: really knowing all the nooks and crannies of a language, learning the standard library and learning popular third party libraries all takes time and m
258.
by remus 3y ago
> The trial and error is the worst part. I don't know about anyone else, but I do this kinda naturally when writing SQL queries. Usually start with a base table, query the first 100 rows to see what the data looks like, start joinin
259.
by remus 3y ago
Im pretty sure they encrypt anything remotely sensitive at rest. A quick google found sources for this for cloud [1] and drive [2]. [1] https://cloud.google.com/docs/security/encryption/default-en... [2] htt
260.
by remus 3y ago
I think it depends on how you look at it. If your treated it as a job where you're trying to make a living from bounties then I think it is hard to do that, but if you do it as a side project or you happen to stumble on an issue then 5
261.
by remus 3y ago
> Makes you wonder how it is that power from the grid is so ludicrously above its actual capitol cost of production, the systems getting that power to places must be crazy expensive. It's an apples to oranges comparison. Solar panel
262.
by remus 3y ago
> It is sobering to realize that in twenty years, Github will probably be gone, and no one will be using Git anymore. It'll be interesting to see if this plays out, or if git (and github) have reached some sort of local maximum in V
263.
by remus 3y ago
Presumably the permissions language is broadly defined and has something like filter = property, operand, value with few constraints on which operands can be used in which situations, to keep parsing the language simple (parsers be
264.
by remus 3y ago
Ah yes, that is a big practical advantage, thanks for explaining.
265.
by remus 3y ago
If the data can conveniently be split in to lines, I wonder if there is an advantage to this format over a single json list e.g. [ {"name":"Bob"}, {"name":"Alice"}, {"name
266.
by remus 3y ago
> Does that mean Google can take them away at any time? It's open source software, so no. The product is basically google vetting the software, building it in a reproducible way and then packaging it up so you can have some more con
267.
by remus 3y ago
You're right, fair point.
268.
by remus 3y ago
In general it's a defense-in-depth thing. You definitely shouldn't be relying on it, but as an attacker it just makes your life a bit harder if it's not straightforward to work out object IDs. For example, imagine you're
269.
by remus 3y ago
Most of them I imagine. To be honest the list is shorter than I expected for something as big and old as youtube!
270.
by remus 3y ago
> Frankly, OpenAI seems to be losing its luster, and fast. I don't think it's hugely surprising given the massive hype. No doubt OpenAI are doing impressive things, but it's normal for the market to over value it initially

More ›