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by slownews45 5y ago
Sure. Cloudflare can give away free services as a marketing effort. AWS gives away 1TB/month of cloudfront bandwidth, 1 million lambda calls per month, 1 million SNS notification per month, 25GB of DynamoDB capacity, 1 million Simple Q
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by slownews45 5y ago
Yeah, it'll be interesting especially positioned against facebook's META / Oculus products. On HN folks trash apple (closed systems, supposedly phones don't hold value etc). Reality for most folks outside of HN, Apple is
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by slownews45 5y ago
Umm, this is what is such a gimmick about these "free" services. I run a video website on AWS, no one cares what I am doing, they charge me and done. I distribute software updates, no one complains, they charge me and done. I run
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by slownews45 5y ago
The reason people need / use high egress (ie, far above the 1TB etc AWS gives per month) is for things like video sites, software updates / distribution etc. I've been burned (too many times) by these "free" claims.
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by slownews45 5y ago
Digital Ocean is really serving a different market. The folks recommending them tend to be running smaller workloads (so DO can have relative lower perf per vCPU etc). The best I've found - run the workload you actually plan on running
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by slownews45 5y ago
Most of these third parties are using official API's to get pricing data, if there is something with a hidden price do ask and someone can probably help you figure it out. One reason AWS got popular is that it actually was historically
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by slownews45 5y ago
"mostly to make it easy for developers to waste the company's budget." Is this the case? I can't even find cloudflare's egress pricing online AT ALL. With AWS I can find pricing for anything I want. Is there a speci
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by slownews45 5y ago
FTC has been a bit schizo. Some of their tech industry cases and gas cases seem comically bad. The administration works flat out to stop domestic fossil fuel production (fair enough). Gas prices rise (good for environment as it may depress
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by slownews45 5y ago
Exactly - and they are talking / working with at least some boring accountants in all of this who don't care if things are curated by Jay-Z in their point of sale and merchant clearing systems.
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by slownews45 5y ago
What I'm not understanding is that by most commercial radio standards, these guard bands are huge. 400Mhz? 20Mhz? Can they not just do a test with 50 planes and get some hard data?
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by slownews45 5y ago
DDG is a gimmick. They claim to be running their own search engine, never checked out for me. More covered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4817576 Anyone seeing them crawling your site? Is bing the best alternati
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by slownews45 5y ago
Good lord. Pity the poor person out there trying to understand what is going on / what is block.xyz. At least we are told nothing will change with TBD54566975 (?). https://twitter.com/tbd54566975?lang=en The bitcoin w
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by slownews45 5y ago
Google search is going downhill in my experience. My question: What is the alternative?
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by slownews45 5y ago
Concurrency issues / bad program flow feel a bit different don't they? I mean, I can store the action to take on a record in a string in any language, then if I'm not paying attention on concurrency someone else can switch to
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by slownews45 5y ago
The trick is not that the language support a safe approach (C++ has smart pointers / "safe" code in various libraries) in my view but simply that you CAN'T cause a problem even being an idiot. This is where the GC langua
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by slownews45 5y ago
That's what I'm trying to understand. Let's ignore idiomatic code, people do crazy stuff all the time. What's the go example that gets you from for example an overflow to exploit? That's what I'm trying to foll
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by slownews45 5y ago
Go has an unsafe package. Is there an example of even "bad" go code that gets you from a overflow to an exploit? I'm curious, folks (usually rust folks) do keep making this claim, is there a quick example?
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by slownews45 5y ago
I thought it was pretty clear the pilot had some pretty major issues. - Flight simulator data from his home computer matched pretty closely the doomed plane took when it went off course (covered up by ATSB of course). https://nym
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by slownews45 5y ago
What's the exploit path assuming no use of unsafe? I can see situations where I could probably get go to crash, but not sure how I get go to act badly. Note: Not a go / Haskell / C# expert so understanding is light here.
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by slownews45 5y ago
What's somewhat interesting is memory safety is not a totally new concept. I wonder if memory safety had mattered more, whether other languages might have caught on a bit more, developed more etc. Rust is the new kid, but memory safety
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by slownews45 5y ago
Wow. We continue to be reminded that it's hard to write fully memory secure code in a language that is not memory secure? And by hard, I mean, very hard even for folks with lots of money and time and care (which is rare). My impression
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by slownews45 5y ago
False. T-Mobile for example had a major device theft issue with their mailed in device place for the upgrade program they used to run. No surprise, the process was to unlock phone, turn of find my iphone and send in the phone WITHOUT TRACKI
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by slownews45 5y ago
The initial pitch pre Ajit's decision was a private auction by the CBA. Ie, the corps behind these sats would themselves auction and keep the $81B. Supposedly this would be "better" for the taxpayer, but I always thought that
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by slownews45 5y ago
I'm interested in this as well. c6gd.16xlarge instance for example. Even going through the order flow - nothing actually shows up for pricing which is a bit unusual for an AWS service. Must be somewhat manual on the backend still?
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by slownews45 5y ago
Not exactly the same, but the anywhere stuff (ECS etc) - I've found it pretty enjoyable to use. You basically can throw some beefy local servers into the pools and away you go with your standard jobs. When you need to maintain things l
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by slownews45 5y ago
OK, that makes sense. That exit was not huge, would be interesting to compare price they wanted from AWS vs market price they got. AWS may have missed out if they were willing to go with AWS for less than they got. I'm not THAT blown a
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by slownews45 5y ago
A bit of background. Biden moved Robb (former GC) out, is going for the more explicit pro-union approach in NLRB. Obama did same thing in being explicitly pro-union. Basically the GC's then took pretty aggressive positions " Solom
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by slownews45 5y ago
Interesting, didn't Soracom end up going to KDDI in 2017? Is KDDI even getting rid of them / are they even for sale now or was this an old deal? $187M for an exit is not that large. Were they offering a price in that range to AWS?
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by slownews45 5y ago
Fascinating. You'd think you'd have to be in some kind of security type role to be able to do this if they had access / control over an extension on google employee computers. Kind of funny seeing maybe some google naivete an
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by slownews45 5y ago
https://www.royalcaribbeanpresscenter.com/video/1027/cruisin...

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