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by xchaotic 5y ago
so much this - you can make a service 100% secure - by shutting it down. But if you want to stay online and be secure at the same time, there's always some resource tradeoff between the two
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by xchaotic 5y ago
Medium has a lot of dark patterns by now - like seriously they expect me to pay perpetually to read somebody’s random rants? Needing to login or register just read something etc I’ve moved my blog off Medium a long time ago to ensure the co
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by xchaotic 5y ago
"I worked with a network engineer who misconfigured a router that was connecting a bank to it's DR site. The engineer had to drive across town to manually patch into the router to fix it. DR downtime was about an hour, but the ban
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by xchaotic 5y ago
just a small nitpick in the overall correct train of thought - is that it this reduction in output still does drive up the inflation - as fewer cars are made, their price increases (and it has knock on effects of increasing prices to anythi
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by xchaotic 5y ago
How about Element Matrix Services (EMS) ? Their Gold and Platinum plans have SLAs
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by xchaotic 5y ago
"CO2 is catalyzed into Methane using an 'inorganic catalyst', there is this paper[1] which uses a ruthenium catalyst at 400 degrees C" that either alchemy or more energy consuming than agriculture. "Silver-gray ruth
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by xchaotic 5y ago
I nominated you for IgNobel 2022
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by xchaotic 5y ago
there's not much co2 on Mars
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by xchaotic 5y ago
it's working fine for the bottom line and stock price so why should they care more?
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by xchaotic 5y ago
it's funny because when it comes to any real disputes, AirBnb sides with landlords as much as possible (and as much as PR will allow), because that's who are they getting the money from. The guests are just the 'meat' in
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by xchaotic 5y ago
same here - I went for 600km MTB marathon and Garmin devices lasted the whole trip. I had to bring a charger for my iPhone though :(
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by xchaotic 5y ago
But overall such a kid disrupts the whole class so we have worse outcomes for the whole group, kid included if the teaching can’t continue
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by xchaotic 5y ago
Everyone keps saying this works out to $0.88 so I tried to figure out what is pinterest for: https://about.pinterest.com/en The page is free from any content? Why do people bother setting up accounts there?
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by xchaotic 5y ago
or you could pay $1m to someone like Corey to revisit the architecture a little and shave $100-200m off that bill by not doing silly things? https://www.lastweekinaws.com/about/
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by xchaotic 5y ago
the more they make the robot make 'cute' things like aerobatics, the more scared I am. Uncanny valley.
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by xchaotic 5y ago
but they're 'smashing' the likes of Ant Financial who were doing predatory, unsecured lending on an unprecedented scale. So IMO the thesis of smashing 'Internet' companies is incorrect - they're just making sur
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by xchaotic 5y ago
well, Bubble can simply add more features to become the equivalent of Photoshop for web design...
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by xchaotic 5y ago
Just like a bank, without the security. Have a look like modern banks are done say in the UK - Monzo etc.
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by xchaotic 5y ago
Solving some societal or civilisational challenge with supersonic flight seems very narrow minded now. Yes I would like to fly to my work HQ faster but due to pandemic I have not visited in 3 years now and it’s been fine, so a better solut
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by xchaotic 5y ago
This story looks borne from the helicopter parenting theme. Some kids learn some things slower and it eventually cleared up. But with helicopter parenting he was sent to pre school and all this reverse psychoanalysis was done. It’s not w
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by xchaotic 5y ago
Ok, if it’s not a fang who do you recommend? At least some examples would be nice if you think it’s a good alternative
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by xchaotic 5y ago
Ben Evans once described Stripe as tax on Internet SaaS. For a moment I’d thought it was Stripe admitting the same.
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by xchaotic 5y ago
It’s a symbolic step but hopefully goes a long way to convince various decision makers about long term viability of hashicorp products. I remember when a colleague didn’t want to use TF from an unknown company in his saas. His company is n
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by xchaotic 5y ago
“ The best thing is, the screen turned on immediately, delivering missed Tinder notifications, without any damage.” I hope the guy finally gets some action - I mean he’s got iPhone 12 Pro with a magnet. Must work on the chickas too, right?
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by xchaotic 5y ago
„ Without our apps, the iPhone has little value to most of its customers today.” I call bs on that. I can’t be the only person who uses stock apple email and very few 3rd party apps. Yes it’s even better with those apps, but even on its own
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by xchaotic 5y ago
It is also why crypto is having a run. Basically a Ponzi scheme that rewards early adopters
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by xchaotic 5y ago
The article just says the radiation is too low, but it matters to know. Some 30 years ago, it was possible to bring a glowing glass sphere as a souvenir from various Uranium mines in then Czechoslovakia. There were numerous reports of acut
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by xchaotic 5y ago
For cameras or prescription glasses??? If it’s the latter- it’s literally too close for comfort.
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by xchaotic 5y ago
I’m such a nerd. I thought it’s the firewall. And sure enough it was a network rule blocking the traffic.
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Nice try FBI

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