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Re:GE freezes pension benefits for 20k employees
on Monday October 07, 2019 @11:16AM (#21181831)
Regarding 2), you could just make healthcare insurance mandatory. We have that in The Netherlands.
Re:Scotland’s floating wind farm is showing how powerful offshore wind...
on Monday March 05, 2018 @11:13AM (#16521967)
I think it's already part of proposal [1] to generate a healthy chunk of the power required for the six North Sea countries. The video [2] is pretty interesting.
Re:The man who wrote the book on password management regrets the error
on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:26AM (#14969197)
The XKCD method of generating passwords [1] does not imply 'best case' entropy of crackers going after each individual character. Instead it clearly states 44 bits of entropy which is the 'worst case' entropy when the attacking knows your exact method and dictionary used when generating the password.
I'd argue that when targeting the same number of bits of entropy the XKCD method is still easier to remember than a bunch of fully random characters.
Re:IPv6 Adoption
on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @07:05AM (#14855156)
I think the rough IPv6 equivalent of a single IPv4 ban would be to ban a /64 subnet. This bans all users in that subnet which is the same as banning an IPv4 subnet hiding behind a single NAT address.
Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed)
on Thursday December 22, 2016 @03:33AM (#13235842)
I agree. Nuclear fission power seems to be associated with a negative learning curve [1][2]. This means that as the newly installed capacity goes up, price per unit actually increases. As solar is already becoming competitive and is experiencing a positive learning curve (costs going down rapidly as production expands) it would be pretty silly to invest in nuclear at this point.
[1] https://thinkprogress.org/does-nuclear-power-have-a-negative...
Re:30K Page Views for $0.21: A Serverless Story
on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @07:05AM (#12303742)
Not really although you probably need to use quite a bit of traffic before it becomes a problem. Your example of personal use only seems fine.
There was a post here a while ago (that I cannot find anymore) about the devs of a package manager of sorts who were asked kindly by Github to do something about their excessive data usage. So it's probably not a good idea to build a company on it.
Re:30K Page Views for $0.21: A Serverless Story
on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @06:59AM (#12303709)
They do, yes. Rounded up to the nearest 100ms, scaled for chosen RAM capacity: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/ Note that this doesn't measure actual RAM use, although they do display it after lambda runs.
Data traffic is already measured and priced accordingly in AWS so that's not something new for Lambda.
Re:Network Performance Issues in Europe
on Monday June 20, 2016 @11:11AM (#11938514)
I always wonder if there's easy way to know where current global internet interruptions are, anyone know? In this case it apparently was Telia [1] but how do you figure that out? Top Google results for 'global internet status' aren't really usable.
[1] http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/cloud/cloud-management/cloud...
Re:AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory
on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @04:18PM (#11725523)
I thought that too but I successfully raised our limit after they made it a soft limit, so give it a shot!
Re:Go channels are bad
on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @12:58PM (#11211656)
"APIs should be designed synchronously, and the callers should orchestrate concurrency if they choose"
Just to add to this, I found the blog post he mentions[1] towards the bottom that supports this conclusion a really good read.
[1] http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...
Re:What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug
on Monday February 15, 2016 @09:51AM (#11103630)
This just shows we really do need a step towards an 'appstore-like' permissions model for desktop operating systems. There is just no reason for all these software packages to have full write access to everything in your user account.
Re:Mass incarceration: A new theory for why so many Americans are in p...
on Friday October 02, 2015 @01:54PM (#10320121)
If you're interested in this, John Oliver did a piece on elected judges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poL7l-Uk3I8
Re:SSH Keys on GitHub
on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @02:18PM (#10081065)
Like passwords, sharing API keys is usually a bad thing. For some sites it is overkill or simply not possible but for something like AWS there is no excuse not to make individual IAM users with their own passwords and keys.
Re:The Limitations of the Ethernet CRC and TCP/IP Checksums for Error ...
on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @06:23AM (#9967592)
Interestingly IPv6 removed the checksum from its packet header [1], delegating this work to the higher protocols such as TCP and UDP.[2] So I guess that raises the chance of an invalid IP header getting through. Source and target address will probably result in dropped packets but I wonder what happens if one of the other fields is corrupted, say traffic class.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_packet#Fixed_header
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Simplified_processing_by_...
Re:Three Dead Protocols
on Thursday July 16, 2015 @06:52AM (#9896414)
As someone who just set up IPv6 tunnels to both home and the office, I had no issues with 6in4 (proto-41) traffic with both ISPs I used. This is in The Netherlands.
Re:Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
on Thursday July 09, 2015 @12:46PM (#9859046)
This removes infrastructure from the equation entirely. You already had AWS Lambda which could run small pieces of Java or Javascript code when certain events were fired from other services (all without running a server yourself). The missing piece was something that catches HTTP requests and passes them to a Lambda function. This service seems to fill that gap.
It means you do not need to think about x instances that serve your API anymore. You just upload your Lambda function, wire some API path to it and pay per request. For smaller APIs this will be probably be negligible. Could be a gamechanger!
Re:David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish
on Thursday April 30, 2015 @10:10AM (#9465131)
Good point, I found that quite interesting too. He mentions Martin O'Malley as the person responsible in some degree and then follows with this quote:
"And, hey, if he's the Democratic nominee, I’m going to end up voting for him."
So while in the primaries he might vote for someone else, in the general he will vote for the person responsible for a lot of the issues described in the article. which is quite saddening but understandable.
Re:Chrome 42 Launches with Push Notifications
on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @08:16AM (#9380402)
Chrome on Windows automatically leaves a process running even when you close the last window. I remember because I had to manually disable it some time ago.
Re:AWS Data Transfer Price Reduction
on Friday December 05, 2014 @08:14AM (#8704316)
This is an unfair comparison. Like others have mentioned in this thread they have subtle items in their terms and conditions that prevent you from actually using all that bandwidth 100% month by month. They can offer these prices by overselling their bandwidth.
You can move a lot of bandwidth for sure but as soon as you start using droplets or linodes for the sole intent of using its' included bandwidth (to self-build a CDN on it for example) you'll be shut down in no time.
Re:PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB in New Round of Tests
on Saturday September 27, 2014 @06:25PM (#8378383)
You don't need big data for (3), we use mongo sharding primarily for spreading database write load. Not saying that it's the best way to do that but it's what we use it for and I doubt we're the only ones.
Re:Why C++ for Unreal 4
on Monday April 14, 2014 @07:19AM (#7585506)
There's actually an interesting demo of the blueprints feature in the toolset:
Re:Human settlement of Mars in 2023
on Monday June 04, 2012 @08:07AM (#4063603)
The people in the space station have the odd problem of being a couple of centimeters taller and outgrowing their chairs when they go home after a few months. Described by Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers here:
http://blogs.esa.int/andre-kuipers/2012/05/15/ik-pas-nog-in-...
The MySQL “swap insanity” problem and the effects of the NUMA architecture
Re:New Medium Instance, 64-bit bit Ubiquity, SSH Client
on Thursday March 08, 2012 @06:07AM (#3679332)
It's also handy in case you want to switch instance types. When instances are stopped you can change their type if they are the same architecture. This means you can now switch an instance around to all instance types they offer.
Re:Netherlands makes net neutrality a law
on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @05:41AM (#3532679)
Net neutrality in this context means an ISP must offer unfiltered internet. Unfiltered as in they cannot decide on their own to block certain sites or services. A judge passing a ruling to take some site down that he/she believes is breaking the law is something else entirely.
Re:DNA sequenced of woman who lived to 115
on Saturday October 15, 2011 @07:47PM (#3116136)
Just read this on a Dutch newspapers' site. Not sure why the BBC site says her identity is secret, she is mentioned by name and it even has a picture of her:
(dutch article) http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2672/Wetenschap-Gezondheid/ar...