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by scott_w 10mo ago
While you’re correct, corporate security teams demand suppliers “comply with OWASP,” despite this being a nonsensical statement to anyone who’d read the website. Unfortunately, the customer purchasing your product doesn’t know this and (nat
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I feel like “bad design” is too reductive. The article is an attempt to explain why it’s bad. What are the practical problems it introduces? I think it could go a little further in explaining what I think the root cause of the issue is: t
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I’m aware, I just picked one example but there are others like instead of a mail server you’re using console, or you have a CDN.
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Er… what? Even in today’s world with Docker, you have differences between dev and prod. For a start, one is accessed via the internet and requires TLS configs to work correctly. The other is accessed via localhost.
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by scott_w 10mo ago
A Django+Celery app behind Nginx back in the day. Most maintenance would be discovering a new failure mode: - certificates not being renewed in time - Celery eating up all RAM and having to be recycled - RabbitMQ getting blocked requiring a
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by scott_w 10mo ago
It depends entirely on your use case. If all you need is a DB and Python/PHP/Node server behind Nginx then you can get away with that for a long time. Once you throw in a task runner, emails, queue systems, blob storage, user-uplo
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Of course AWS are trying to sell you everything. It’s still on you and your team to understand your product and infrastructure and decide what makes sense for you.
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100% certain because I started by self hosting before moving to AWS services for specific components and improved the uptime and reduced the time I spent keeping those services alive.
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From experience (because I used to do this), it’s a lot less time than a self-hosted solution, once you’re factoring in the multiple services that need to be maintained.
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> Every company out there is using the cloud and yet still employs infrastructure engineers to deal with its complexity. The "cloud" reducing staff costs is and was always a lie. This doesn’t make sense as an argument. The reas
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I think OP is closer to the latter. How I typically have been using Copilot is as a faster autocomplete that I read and tweak before moving on. Too many years of struggling to describe a task to Siri left me deciding “I’ll just show it what
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by scott_w 10mo ago
I’d like to introduce you to Oracle and many software companies pre-SaaS that were charging per core. If I recall correctly, Atlassian’s CI product also charged you for parallel jobs back in the day. And businesses were paying it because th
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by scott_w 10mo ago
Whatever your issues with the price, this comment is truly wild. When you’re using commercial PyCharm, you’re paying JetBrains to “run their software on your hardware.”
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by scott_w 10mo ago
As the article points out, it depends on what you want. Do you want customers to reach out? For some, the answer really is "yes," for whatever reason that may be. The author isn't generically ranting against contact pages t
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by scott_w 10mo ago
> This has always frustrated me. You wouldn't go to a doctor, hear that you need an appendix removed, and feel "belittled and undermined"! Many people absolutely do. Hell, look at the number of people who refused to take a
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by scott_w 10mo ago
> Trads also sometimes means people who want to go back to feudal or ancient ways, old school Catholics, and various other things. This is simply incorrect. Any historian versed in this area will point to the fact that the version of &qu
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It’s very time and place dependent. Burglaries are less common these days because the valuable stuff is iPhones now, rather than televisions.
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I said shorter supply than today, not totally unavailable. Pre-agrarian societies, by definition, were not growing and harvesting antiseptics in bulk. They’d not do much against an infection from a stab wound (yes, non-agrarian societies en
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by scott_w 10mo ago
What you say is only half true. I’m also thinking of injuries caused by animals and other people. Antiseptic isn’t going to fix the nasty kind of infections deep bite or knife wounds cause. A hunter gatherer society is definitely at greater
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by scott_w 10mo ago
Trads: reference to “tradwife.” Follow an idealised 1950s lifestyle that they saw on Mad Men where the wife submits to the man. But they don’t want a conservative woman, they want to force liberal women into it instead. Neo-monarchist: want
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by scott_w 10mo ago
> Maybe, but really consumerism wasn’t a thing for most of history because almost no one had the money to decorate intentionally in the way we do today. This reminds me of being a kid excitedly repeating the trope I’d just learned: “Back
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Parent specifically called out antibiotics, which are for bacterial infections, not diseases. Coupled with the increased number of things to step on or get cut by means you really need them.
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> I never thought Gladiator was a historically accurate movie. Plenty of people do, though. I recall a friend many years ago who genuinely believed “the people ruled Rome” because he heard it in Gladiator. He was an otherwise intelligent
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100% This. I remember joining a billing team that assumed calls to Braintree succeed or fail, so everything was just calling the API as though it was a local function call. It was great fun debugging the twice annual incidents where the API
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I mean... yeah, that's exactly what happened and that's how filmmaking works?
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> Even in movies where everything is explained e.g. in Blade where they will have a scene where someone explains how a weapon works, I've noticed in a recent viewing of the movie that people forgot the explanations of the gadgets he
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by scott_w 11mo ago
Even if it's not, it's still total garbage. It reads like the Critical Drinker screaming "if only these people put their emotions and flaws to one side and behaved like completely rational beings with perfect information!&quo
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I work in this area and even I don’t know what AuthC is!
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Well yes, that was my point ;-)
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In theory but not in practice. Apple has massive margins but they're not being disrupted by a slightly cheaper iPhone. In fact, plenty of big tech companies sit in this bucket (thus the reason they've sat on massive cash piles for

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