rgrmrts

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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Word, thanks for all the details! Yeah, I don't have any actual business use-cases outside of a personal interest in making my dedicated server reasonably protected.
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Thanks for your response! So using specific examples here for smtp, I get a 1gbps guaranteed network from Hetzner so in theory I’d need to distribute over 50 servers to withstand this attack? It’s not clear to me why fail2ban wouldn’t at le
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
I’d assume they’re not actually paying for these attacks and have access to a large botnet, which would imply no cost (outside of hours spent constructing the attack) to the adversary, right?
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Is the attack on its webmail/website or on their smtp servers? I’ve been wondering about this, but how does one protect smtp servers from distributed attacks? Let’s assume smaller attackers, do you just need good firewalls in front of
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
I noticed better performance using native-comp in magit (and the rest of emacs for what it’s worth) on macOS. Might be worth a shot!
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Thanks for the links, I’ll check those out.
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
I haven’t used nim outside of some hello world toying a few years back. Is compiling actually that fast? I thought the nim compiler compiled to C and then called gcc (or whatever system compiler), isn’t that slow in practice? Any large nim
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Switching is worth-while if your employer doesn’t have a clear path to promotions and you go a year or more without any pay raise or promotion and hear things like “we’ll reevaluate next cycle” often, without concrete steps to get there. As
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
I think it’s really only the executives or hedge fund managers making the real money
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Assuming $500k in a big coastal city: $285k after taxes $50k in rent (generous) $10k in worst-case healthcare costs 30 minute commute Over $200k per year in take home pay after most expenses. Rough numbers, my monthly salary is ~$10k/m
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Some big tech company salaries are higher than equivalent hedge funds salaries. Also, work life balance is better. I know some folks more senior than me at top hedgefunds making less than I am.
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
I was actually looking into this as well. I recently switched my server to NixOS and the declarative configuration has been really nice to work with and fits easily into my workflow/tools (emacs with tramp). I’d be really interested in
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
If you get a DIY version you don’t pay the windows tax. You can also install your own cheaper ram and toss in 64gigs. Assembly took me about 5 minutes.
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
What ISP do you use if you don’t mind me asking? I’m on Verizon FIOS and I’m convinced they throttle certain traffic. I pay for 940mbps and generally get around 800 wired or 5-600 on wireless, but have noticed my speeds (on VPN) drop to 2-3
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
I’ve been a Mullvad user for a while now and it’s a really great service. Good speeds, good apps for mobile and desktop, and the flexibility to use wireguard yourself if needed. I stopped using privateinternetaccess when their ownership stu
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
How does the C ffi in Chez (or guile if anyone is familiar) compare with Chicken? I’ve heard good things about all three but have only used guile a bit, but never the C ffi. I’ve heard Chicken proponents speak highly of the ffi but have not
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Agreed! I herniated my disc (L5-S1) last year and it’s been a long road to recovery. Unfortunately I’m still in pain but I installed a pull up bar in the door to my home office and hang on it every time I walk through. It’s definitely helpf
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
I wondered about reporting biases, which makes sense - I suppose levels.fyi is more popular in the US. Thanks for sharing that data!
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
I ordered one, currently on a 2019 16” MacBook Pro. I just got an email saying they’ll start shipping my batch soon so I’m very excited. My plan is to use it as my daily-non-work development computer. I just started playing around with NixO
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Based on reported data from levels.fyi, senior SWE salaries in the US go up to $600k whereas in Switzerland they max out at around $400k. If looking at averages, there’s about a $50k difference.
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Source: https://github.com/lumen/lumen
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
15-150 (during my time), but it wasn’t the intro to programming - the course is titled “introduction to functional programming”. The intro to programming is Python (unless it changed). The trajectory for students is Python to C to SML (15-1
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
I use emacs to interact with other machines or remote boxes. All of my customizations and preferences are magically applied to remote files. For example, I wanted to edit a file in the Hetzner rescue image and I just opened it using tramp a
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Interesting reading about RuneScape in your post. I got into programming because of RuneScape and writing bots! Great memories. I enjoyed reading this post. Cheers!
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Plaid Parliament of Pwnage was a ton of fun too. I wished I had joined earlier and participated in more CTFs with those folks. I only actively participated in one, but it was such an awesome environment.
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Woohoo, congrats Bob! I’ll be picking up a copy (is there a difference in your cut for Amazon vs Barnes & Noble?) and am excited to work through it. I’ve been referencing the web version here and there but waited on working through it e
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Do you have any tips on warming up your IP? I’ve been going down the self-hosting rabbithole again after years and just set up a server. I’m about to set up a mail server in the coming weeks and checked that my IP is not on any blocklists,
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
I took, struggled with, and loved 213 at CMU when I took it. This is incredibly well done, thanks for sharing!
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
There’s a lisp-like language without a GC called Carp [1]. I believe the goal was enabling real time applications and specifically games. I’ve only toyed with it a tiny bit, but it has an ownership memory model inspired by Rust. Pretty neat
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by rgrmrts 5y ago
Fair enough! I haven’t gone through it entirely. What do you recommend as primary texts? I have a few in mind (Practical Common Lisp, for example) but haven’t actually touched them yet.

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