rrdharan

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by rrdharan 6y ago
> No. It doesn't "infect" the load balancer. There's zero ambiguity about this. This is not true. > A lot of companies have bad lawyers who try to eliminate rather than mitigate risk and who try to grab every scrap
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by rrdharan 6y ago
The blog is dense but pretty great reading too..
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Sigstore: Non-profit software signing and transparency(sigstore.dev)
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Missed opportunity: Bigtable -> Big Table
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by rrdharan 6y ago
There is a distinction between a yacht (generally > 35 feet, needs a full crew) and just a boat: https://www.tessllc.us/whats-the-difference-between-a-yacht-...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
I know it doesn’t matter much but just to ground these numbers a bit - anyone owning or trying to own a yacht with “only” $10M is indeed heading towards $1M very quick.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
You meant immortality, not morality, right?
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Is the name a nod to Gentoo's emerge? ( https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage#emerge ) Just curious.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
This always sounded pretty unequal to me.. has it stopped? https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
See also: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/09/11/postgresql-11-just...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Isn’t there still a lot of implied waste from the solar panels themselves though, as well as the storage batteries i.e. once they’ve reached their end of life? My understanding is that this cost and the manufacturing cost (rate earth metals
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> And all that work could vanish if there was a standard bundler. The same balance of forces that mandate all of that toilsome work are exactly what would prevent any standard bundler from succeeding. You can follow https://ut
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> If you are not invested in the well-being of the userbase, you will get called out. The person doing this might get called out, but will the negative consequences of that calling out outweigh the resume padding benefit they experience?
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by rrdharan 6y ago
If you change your address to one in California, they expose the cancel option, because they have to by law: https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-unsubscribe-easily-from-WSJ-o...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> Apple is really great at UX, they will find a way to make it hard for the general audience, so that my mother won’t install random malware because for it she would have to go through 3 pages in settings she knows nothing about, and I c
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by rrdharan 6y ago
It seems you're struggling with the distinction between what Oracle calls the JRE, and what large or at least significant-to-HN swaths of industry seem to be calling it. Are you familiar with Debian? What would you call this? https:&#
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by rrdharan 6y ago
There might not be an official Oracle JRE(TM) anymore but JREs in the sense of independently distributed runtimes clearly still exist (and the acronym seems like a reasonable one). I can completely understand why Oracle might want to shift
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by rrdharan 6y ago
I also don't understand this claim, given this text on oracle.com's Java page: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-downloads.ht... Conceptually I always understood the difference between the
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Spotify is no longer a startup.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
They forgot because it wasn’t sold that way. This whole thing reminds me of the whole KDE 3 to KDE 4 transition. “We never said 4.0 would be usable, but also it’s a big major public release, please use it, but also don’t complain about it
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Google has a whitepaper on exactly how this works and the security aspects of the verifiable build system: https://cloud.google.com/security/binary-authorization-for-b...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
I would not call this “improving”: https://twitter.com/mildmojo/status/1354514025414066178?s=20 https://twitter.com/szferi/status/1352208874657472512?s=20 https://www.reddit.c
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by rrdharan 6y ago
There are quotations people complain about and ones that no one recognizes.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Would be hilarious if eventually we just had a slow stable oscillation where Digg and Reddit continue repeatedly raising money and relaunching as “old” whatever, stealing back each others users like some slow motion pendulum or sands in a s
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by rrdharan 6y ago
That’s what I did - I have `@daily brew update` in my crontab.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
I wonder if the problem is just size? I split time between two places - one in Brooklyn and the other in a small coastal New Jersey town of 4000 (Atlantic Highlands). I never bothered using Nextdoor in Brooklyn or Manhattan but I’ve found i
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> Amazon and Apple defined cloud computing and smartphones Absolutely. You’ll note that the OP’s word choice was invented - defined would indeed be appropriate and not at all absurd.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> I don't think there's any AI at IBM. A dozen misinformed CTOs who signed large Watson checks just felt a great disturbance...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Cloud Computing is uniquely an Amazon invention the way smartphones are uniquely an Apple invention. Which is to say there’s a sense in which you’re right and a sense in which this is an absurd statement..
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Yes, and you should wear a helmet while walking or driving. https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/scandinavian-walking-helm...

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