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by victorhooi 5y ago
When you say strip the screw - do you mean strip the screw head, by drilling out the head? That's evil... (Or do you know some way to strip the thread itself).
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by victorhooi 6y ago
> because essentially (not basically) it is acid' Haha, I see what you did there...lol. Touche, good sir.
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by victorhooi 6y ago
I think you're projecting the HN crowd a bit here. The majority of normal people probably don't care as much about "privacy" as some of the vocal folks here do. I'm not making a value judgement on that, it's si
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by victorhooi 6y ago
You say you don't want your life to depend on a soulless multinational corporation.... but I suspect you might not be aware of how much it does. Do you see a doctor, or use any healthcare services? Or use any pharmaceutical products or
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by victorhooi 6y ago
For the routing/firewall side, I would encourage looking at either pfSense (as others here have suggested), or possibly VyOS. I used to have several Ubiquit USG devices as well as their EdgeRouter. I moved to pfSense as it's open-
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by victorhooi 6y ago
One limitation of their approach seems to be that it must be published in a public Github repo - it can't be a private repo. This means it might not be so suitable for internal, or local apps - only public facing websites. I wonder how
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by victorhooi 6y ago
I'm not from the US, but from the excerpted letter, it appears to be related to COVID-19. In Australia, we did the same thing - a lot of universities went remote-only, so that we could eradicate the virus. It seems to have succeeded -
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by victorhooi 6y ago
Sorry, I might have missed some context here - but which Justin are you referring to?
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by victorhooi 6y ago
Second this! CloudFlare Access allows this, using the cloudflared daemon, which acts as a reverse proxy. It essentially means the endpoint can be closed off to incoming connections from the internet, and you don't need to maintain vari
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by victorhooi 6y ago
Whilst I agree the wording could have been better, I think the parent has a point. I did a double-degree in Commerce (Finance and Economics), and Computer Engineering at Sydney Uni. English is my first language, and I've always liked e
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by victorhooi 6y ago
Also - I should mention - it's the job of governments to guide their people through these sorts of pandemics, natural disasters etc. This is why government are engaging in stimulus spending, or increasing their social support programs.
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by victorhooi 6y ago
I hear these sorts of sentiments from the USA a lot - where apparently people are actively rioting and protesting against the health lockdown. I'm from Australia - where while we've had some grumblings about the health measures, o
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by victorhooi 6y ago
So wait - you're saying it's ok to engage in risky behaviour - as long as it doesn't result in maiming/killing somebody? Surely you can see that's a recipe for disaster? People are very bad at judging risks - and ev
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by victorhooi 6y ago
You're correct that historically, there have been other illnesses hundreds of years ago that killed more people. And in many developing countries, there are tragically many deaths caused by poor sanitation or healthcare. However, this
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by victorhooi 6y ago
Driving whilst intoxicated (or under the influence of drugs) is straight-up illegal in basically every single civilised country I'm aware of. This is because alcohol impairs your judgement and reflexes - and when you're driving a
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by victorhooi 6y ago
Well, in general - would you use your personal email account for work? So for example - say I have a personal Gmail account (e.g. cute-boy-88@gmail.com) But if I was working for a company that had spun up GCP infrastructure - my work would
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by victorhooi 6y ago
Well, it seems to have worked out well for some of the Asian countries (and countries like Australia/NZ) which have gotten COVID-19 under control. The US still ha a major problem with deaths in the tens of thousands, as do many of the
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by victorhooi 6y ago
GCP most certainly does have support engineers available! https://cloud.google.com/support There's a variety of different tiers to suit your required level of support, and some products (e.g. G Suite) come with free in
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by victorhooi 6y ago
If you're referring to the recent controversy around Pushbullet - I thought that was revealed to be them asking for all access to any HTTP/HTTPS websites you viewed...which is a major security breach. They removed that permissio
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by victorhooi 6y ago
This is amazing. This is why I come to read HN =) - interesting content like this, or esoteric/cool facts, or awesomely deep tech discussions. Out of curiosity - do you have a background in this kind of thing (linguistics), or its just
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by victorhooi 6y ago
What you described is a Ponzi scheme. In Australia, we call it the population (or migration) Ponzi. Another way to look at it is - you're essentially borrowing from your future generations, in order to fund your current lifestyle. Thos
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by victorhooi 6y ago
I'm going to guess that you: 1. Don't have kids 2. Are a male (I'm male as well) Having kids is a big decision. (I'm lucky enough to have two so far). We (wife and I) have had to make a lot of sacrifices, both financiall
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by victorhooi 6y ago
If you follow your logic through to completion, you will see it leads to multiple issues. I'm not saying that immigration is bad. However, having a country advocate zero childbirths - and trying to keep population up entirely foreign m
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by victorhooi 6y ago
I think your arguments are a little disingenuous, to put it mildly. 1. You compare an adult person selling nude photos of themselves to somebody attending a white supremacist rally.... Surely you can see the difference here? One is perhaps
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by victorhooi 7y ago
Has anybody tried getting this to work under Proxmox (specifically) or KVM? I previously used to use this guide for Proxmox - which uses Clover: https://www.nicksherlock.com/2019/10/installing-macos-catali... Howe
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by victorhooi 7y ago
It proobably depends on the company, and the type of role. Also, the fact that you describe it as a restriction probably reveals a bit about your age =). (I don't meant that in a bad way). I think a lot of it comes down to life stage.
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by victorhooi 8y ago
I used to work in fintech, and yes, the pay was substantially better there (I'm at Google now - I took a pay cut to go across). Likewise, I had an offer from Amazon around the same time as Google's offer - which was actually quite
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by victorhooi 8y ago
This looks similar to Graylog ( https://www.graylog.org/ )? From Loki's readme, It still stores the full log (but compressed), and indexes values in each logline.
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by victorhooi 8y ago
Would love to know this as well =).
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by victorhooi 8y ago
You're saying the CO2 risk is OK, because they have oxygen masks. That's like saying, increasing the risk of crashing a car is OK, because we'll have airbags. What I'm saying is (unless you're PETA), the welfare and

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