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by specialp 6y ago
Facebook could not afford not to as they would lose a huge amount of users. Apple is just doing to them what FB does to people: Accept these terms, be tracked everywhere, or miss out on all the people providing us free content on our platfo
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by specialp 6y ago
HN also does not have a microphone sitting here for me constantly listening for me to say "OK HN, post response". It is running as a pull HTTP connection in a sandboxed browser. I do not need to imply any trust in them provided th
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by specialp 6y ago
I'm moving to Apple after being a long time iPhone hater. With how insidious Google is getting with Android they should be paying me to use my flagship phone, not me paying roughly the same amount of an iPhone. I do everything I can to
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by specialp 6y ago
You get the load balancing for free in K8s and rolling deploys. What you do is upgrade the deployment with a new docker image, and yes immutably it is replaced. In a case of an HTTP service, k8s will wait until a pod (container) responds he
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by specialp 6y ago
Generally developers. When running in a container most of the attack surface is the app itself, and if it is compromised the damage is supposed to be limited to the container. There have been container escape exploits in the past though. Bu
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Yes because whatever you used for app specific configuration like libraries and packages is now done in the Dockerfile and containerized. So the same thing run locally is run in the cloud. Then as far as the infrastructure for running code
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I like ORMs for doing the things for me like making objects and converting dates and other data to DB ready form and vice versa. I do not like them querying. The premise with ORMs is that you should be able to query pretty much anything eas
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by specialp 6y ago
It isn't lacking humanity. I grew up poor as well. And what the poster says does indeed happen a lot. This is not to say I don't think the poor should be helped. I was helped with school grants and loans to get me to where I am to
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by specialp 6y ago
In the case of RubyGems for some time now it has been throwing a warning if you do not use the `source` block to scope for gems coming from multiple gemservers.
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The police don't want to have to attend to calls with "emotionally disturbed persons" as they term them. I know a few officers in the NYPD and unfortunately they aren't given many tools in order to deal with these people
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Yes but there's a counter to this and limit that is not there on the long side: Remember stocks are ownership in a company. If a load of "predatory shorts" jumped on and drove the market value of a company way below of where
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CDN is by all means considered "serverless". Yes in anything that is "serverless" there's a server somewhere but you don't have to maintain it, you get charged by usage only so no running cost. Now their claim
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"Although the video is somewhat grainy, the fact that they burst outward, rather than inward, would seem to suggest that the inciting force wasn’t a pebble or other object striking the window from outside." That is actually not tr
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by specialp 6y ago
I do not know the case of every editor for all journals. Just sharing my direct knowledge as an employee of a large not for profit society. We did indeed pre pandemic have ~100 editors coming in the office not for free. THey now work remote
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by specialp 6y ago
I agree arXiv and Sci-Hub are useful. In the case of arXiv it does indeed cost money to run but not much as they are taking in PDFs and storing them without review, copy editing or curation. And that is fine. But arXiv has not replaced jour
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by specialp 6y ago
If that was true we would not have any physics journals and many math journals. We'd just have people peer reviewing arXiv. Peer review is a lot more complicated than people think to find the right reviewers, minimize conflicts of inte
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by specialp 6y ago
Journals do have a value, but not the value that Elsevier extracts out of them to the tune of billions of dollars a year in profits. Facilitating peer-review, being selective, indexing content, archiving and copyediting does indeed cost mon
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by specialp 6y ago
Yes and to that point you could use something like Hugo, generate a static HTML site. Then with that static site in HTML/CSS you are no worse off the solution the author proposes even if that generator became completely abandoned and u
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by specialp 6y ago
The problem is that using CD such as Codepipeline/Codedeploy it wants to use CloudFormation and SAM. I don't want to use either they are both terrible. So in the end I end up making a pipeline to build Lambda and deploy in CodeBui
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The thing about self hosting too is that you then own your identity. I have had my own domain and email for 20 years now while many "free" email services have gone away or merged. The problem as you say with difficulty is that due
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by specialp 6y ago
I think perhaps keeping animals in packed conditions should be reevaluated for human threat. We are essentially keeping animals in conditions that are not much unlike 14th century Paris where the plague ran rampant
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I helped a friend of mine with her OS X laptop. She had installed something bad and it installed MITM proxy and its own CA and other things to totally own and inspect all of her web browser traffic including SSL. So these features that we f
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by specialp 6y ago
Perhaps I want the status quo at my job. If I worked somewhere truly objectionable I would quit working there and rally against it in my own time. I get paid to produce services that we sell. I don't get paid to change the world as pow
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by specialp 6y ago
Or also you can be for the cause, but if you are not for every single thing done in the name of that cause, you are against them. Or worse, with "the other side" (as if all issues only have a binary choice) It really does remind m
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by specialp 6y ago
Just for some clarification: What percentage of Indians are "upper caste"? What exactly is the cut off for being lower caste vs upper? I know this article says 90% of Indian US tech workers are upper caste but what is their repres
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I started seeing this while running Terraform and immediately went to Twitter to see if it is down for everyone or just me. Same experience. From now on I will go to HN :)
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This is real at least in the NY area. NY law gives officers "discretion" in issuing violations (not crimes). That doesn't have a limit. So being friends with a fellow PO is technically not an illegal reason to not issue a vio
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by specialp 6y ago
I thought we are trying to stop hate for characteristics someone has no control over (sex, sexuality, race, gender, disability, nationality). I think any "punches" thrown at a group that was just born that way is not fair and the
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Well if the current state is zero due process in China, and no ability for US companies to participate in their social media market, then yes their companies should have equal treatment. I don't agree with this just on fiat from Trump,
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by specialp 6y ago
I think we have shifted to a new paradigm. People are now less likely to host their own sites and own their content. Facebook especially has made walled gardens of user generated content that cannot be discovered outside of Facebook. And no

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