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Re:Gitea Is Joining the Fediverse on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:00PM (#29834255)
Even today I'm still a heavy user of the fediverse created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
Interviewing is easy today because companies are extremely desperate to hire.
Re:We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @07:13PM (#29817232)
Cloudflare subsidizes the small guys in hopes they'll turn into big guys. Bandwidth isn't that expensive in the first place though, that's just a myth perpetuated by AWS/Azure/Google.
modern php and js/ts are both rather impressive how far they’ve come compared to the jumble of crap we had a decade ago.
Python is quickly taking the crown for low-barrier to entry, slow, buggy code supported primarily by stackoverflow copy pastes from a never-ending supply of “data scientists”
Re:Use spacer components instead of CSS margins (2020) on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @02:07AM (#29792201)
mmm, spacer elements. the new 1999 is looking pretty awesome.
Re:Databases in 2021: A Year in Review on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @09:51PM (#29732985)
All you need is Postgres (OLTP) and if you have large datasets where Postgres falls behind for analytical work, then you reach for Clickhouse (OLAP) for those features (while Postgres remains your primary operational database and source of truth).
Re:Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf] on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @12:34PM (#29727191)
> this is how you refute bitcoin

I don’t need to refute cryptocurrency for the same reason the onus isn’t on me to disprove the existence of god.

That’s a lot of people who haven’t had the opportunity to invest in bitcoin, defi, or nfts!
They elected a crypto-bro as president.
No SOL was lost, just a surprise wealth redistribution.
Re:Failed for the past 12 years as an tech entrepreneur on Monday December 20, 2021 @12:28PM (#29627358)
Stop building inferior versions of things which already exist. Build the things that don’t exist.
Re:Third High Severity CVE in Log4j Is Published on Saturday December 18, 2021 @01:45PM (#29607255)
I’m enjoying the Apache Software Exploit Advent Calendar
If you worked for a hedge fund and you know they purchase scraped data from quite a number of vendors then why are you asking if it’s a viable business model?

Of course it is.

I love that you didn’t consider yourself wealthy until you sold off the crypto, converted it to fiat, and paid taxes to a government.
Hulu + LiveTV is $65 and Sling is about $50 and Youtube TV $65.

These aren’t really comparable to standard Hulu or Netflix or Amazon Prime etc. It’s for people that want to pretend they’re cord-cutting while buying the exact same thing from a streaming company.

Re:Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019) on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:27PM (#29600538)
It’s such a low throughput requirement I think even bitcoin could support it.
Re:What's New in ClickHouse 21.12 on Thursday December 16, 2021 @01:04PM (#29581490)
Because ZK is garbage and complicates every clustered application that relies on it? Kafka is ditching ZK too.

Clickhouse cluster quite simply doesn’t support elastic rebalancing. Avoid CH if that is a hard requirement for your setup.

I would encourage you to look at how prosecutors have successfully utilized the CFAA as a blunt instrument before making analogies that may garner upvotes on HN but wouldn’t reduce a prison sentence.

Logic is not part of the CFAA.

Re:PDM: A Modern Python Package Manager on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:54AM (#29506860)
Python should update their logo to that snake eating itself
Re:DNS doesn't “propagate” on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:56PM (#29464741)
Am I? I don’t have a horse in this race.

I responded because I felt the “Did anyone really think” comment was arrogant and dismissive. I provided examples where a layperson could easily reach that conclusion.

Re:DNS doesn't “propagate” on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:44PM (#29464591)
I don't really see the point of your comment, besides to express some sort of overly pedantic characterization of push vs pull event propagation techniques.
Re:DNS doesn't “propagate” on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:36PM (#29464502)
> Did anyone really think that every time someone makes a DNS update it is broadcasted to every DNS resolver on the internet?

Absolutely. All of these, especially to an average person, imply the data takes a while to be pushed out "across the internet".

GoDaddy [1]: "but it can take up to 48 hours for everything to propagate across the Internet"

Namecheap [2]: "it is a period of time ISP (Internet service provider) nodes across the world take to update their caches with the new DNS information of your domain."

AWS [3]: "DNS propagation is the amount of time that it takes for DNS changes to be updated across the internet"

[1] https://www.godaddy.com/help/what-factors-affect-dns-propaga...

[2] https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...

[3] https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/route...

Proper opsec is you blackhole all traffic when the vpn isn’t active.
Re:Kubernetes at Home with K3s on Sunday December 05, 2021 @11:18AM (#29450352)
Kubernetes is like a Rube Goldberg machine. It’s complex to setup, very satisfying to watch in action, and gets the job done even if there’s a few extra moving parts.
Re:Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @10:20PM (#29412147)
So, next time a police officer draws a weapon on someone, and that someone lawfully exercises their right to self-defense while exercising their right to bear arms, we're all 100% on the same page that it's okay, yeah?
Re:AWS Redshift Serverless on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:54PM (#29396660)
I look forward to the next stage of cloud hype - dataless - so I don't have to worry about the nuances of data management and I can just run my analytics.
Re:AWS Redshift Serverless on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:49PM (#29396603)
> Just load your data

Load my data where? This is "serverless".

Re:Will Nix Overtake Docker? on Monday November 29, 2021 @10:25PM (#29388589)
What's the easiest way to deploy a docker container to a VM? Preferably without ten layers of cloud provider interconnected services or expensive and complex kubernetes layers? I just want to send a container and get back an IP address I can send some traffic to the exposed port(s).

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