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wkdneidbwf
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wkdneidbwf
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it wouldn’t have been fine—they didn’t realize the configuration mistake until their database had been dropped. there are plenty of scenarios that could have led to the exact same outcome. i’d argue it would have been a matter of time. the
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4y ago
what. docker isn’t the problem here. dbs on public subnets, and the lack of monitoring for accidental db exposure are the actual issues here.
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4y ago
exactly. ideally, accidentally exposing your db to the internet should be all but impossible
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4y ago
db on public subnets are gross. if it’s unavoidable, then monitoring your db isn’t reachable from the public internet is important.
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4y ago
except this is $20 a month with the expectation that it’s saving you time. it’s fundamentally different from say, netflix, where you pay for it and have to give it your time
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4y ago
i’ve been working remotely for a decade and i’ve never been happier. i also suspect that the population being happier is no doubt bad for corporate profits.
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4y ago
i think what gets missed is that it depends. there are languages and domains where it is possible to write sufficiently succinctly and clearly that you don’t need comments. there are also places where you might want to explain the “why” eve
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4y ago
i mean, this is actually perfectly clear—in the sense it’s clearly and obviously a mistake either with the comment and function name or it’s implementation. the example isn’t great because it’s devoid of context that might indicate what spe
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4y ago
this is so amazingly stupid i’m stunned. i’m just glad my kids don’t go to school in florida.
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4y ago
i'd have to see it to have much of an opinion. have a GitHub link by chance?
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been using chezmoi for the past 3 months across 4 machines. i like the template support, but i constantly feel like there's complexity hiding. im finding myself needing to relearn various bits of how it works after not touching it for
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4y ago
the read has “words of warning” almost immediately at the top about being familiar with nix first. it’s the gateway drug to nix? bad docs and difficult to grok error messages seem to be a consistent theme that comes up learning nix.
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i saw someone on reddit write up getting it working repackaging the steam version it with wineskin or something like that. it was enough work that i though, “meh, i’ll wait”. i’m not going to bother with parallels or some other emulation so
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4y ago
patiently waiting the macos version. i want to play the new version so bad!
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4y ago
a hot wallet on a $55 dedicated server from some rando colo? he would have been more secure having it at coinbase…
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4y ago
> This "secret key" is not stored on 1Password's servers, instead it should be printed on a piece of paper and stored safely. While this is a good starting point, it significantly reduces usability, since you need this pie
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4y ago
security theater
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4y ago
reading books on something without an e-ink display is goofy in the first place.
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these are the key points that get overlooked. i keep seeing that folks expect these brokerages to work like banks work.
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4y ago
thank you
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4y ago
we don’t need a new model for social media, we just don’t need social media.
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4y ago
no way. it’s because they can’t scale to unknown demand.
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4y ago
let’s not give apple ideas!
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i am also a technical person and work on small teams generally. my take on team weeks/retreats is that they’re unique opportunities to get to know the people you work with more closely and what motivates them. doing the same work you d
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we take a clean-room approach to computation.
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i do the same, but with Task
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no, no man. hell no, man.
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i’m not sure exactly when it happened, but i slowly lost confidence shipping on amazon. too much crap and too many fake reviews. at some point it began to make sense to just go to a store again—as it turns out also means i make a decision a
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hamstringing feature or performance of cars you buy is such a stupid trend.
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i don’t know that you can do exactly all these things, but is this the use case for custom routines in the amazon ecosystem. you great the prompt and add one or more actions to take.
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