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Re:My last six months at Evernote on Saturday September 12, 2026 @10:50AM (#49672891)
why do you need autoscaling for an (essentially) static website?
Re:Reverse engineering Claude Code (April 2025) on Sunday June 08, 2025 @07:30AM (#44216291)
ridiculously low?
Thank you for clear explanation, very interesting
Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:26PM (#35807317)
Can it be uses on both Android and iOS? What about desktop machines with no fingerprint sensor or faceID?

What happens if user loses the only device on which passkey was enrolled?

Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:24PM (#35807280)
I suspect that one screen comic or a 20 second video could explain it. Instead they give us a wall of text that even technical people can't understand.
Re:ChatGPT can in fact ask you questions on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:54PM (#35221665)
where can I learn more about what 'inner monologue' means in ChatGPT?
I'm so confused. Why would banking app be against Flappy Bird?
What's wrong with providing a credit card?! What's wrong with asking your high school friends to help you recover the account?

You had multiple reasonable options to recover, declined them and now complain that "Nothing in my control ever went wrong". This annoys me so much

I confirm this, had this multiple times
yes, in my experience, AWS keeps running everything as is when there is a problem with the payment method or a disagreement about bill
Re:Privacy Sandbox on Android on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @12:13PM (#30362592)
I'm so confused after reading this. What exactly are they doing?
there is a 'show on a map' button at booking.com search results page
How is it greener? You drive to a store and back alone; delivery driver has multiple deliveries next to each other on the route.
FAANGMULA – what ULA stand for?
Re:Rijksmuseum to Stage the Largest Vermeer Exhibition in 2023 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @10:45AM (#29552818)
Can you elaborate?
Annoyingly, AWS won't allow you to lower the quotas aka service limits. They can only go up. Even after you completed the project and don't need them anymore, they remain forever and create an increased risk.
Re:Avoid Surprise Bills from AWS on Monday November 08, 2021 @04:46PM (#29154677)
That's a lot of worries about 3$ per year.
Re:Update about the October 4th outage on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:25AM (#28756090)
How would you explain that AWS, GCE, Cloudflare, GitLab publish very detailed post-mortems?
How do you know if a person you hire was banned before?
Re:Tesla Safety Score Beta on Saturday September 25, 2021 @01:47PM (#28654869)
Can you please explain in more details why do you think this is bad?

Right now, both careful drivers and aggressive drivers pay the same amount for insurance, which means that careful subsidize aggressive ones. Tesla scoring separates those groups and promotes more safer on the roads.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...

By default, SSM Agent is preinstalled on instances created from the following Amazon Machine Images (AMIs):

Amazon Linux

Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 ECS-Optimized Base AMIs

macOS 10.14.x (Mojave) and 10.15.x (Catalina)

Ubuntu Server 16.04, 18.04, and 20.04

Windows Server 2008-2012 R2 AMIs published in November 2016 or later

Windows Server 2016 and 2019

Re:Mushroom Cultivation Automation [video] on Friday September 03, 2021 @02:25PM (#28407609)
Nitpick: a healthy young person has ballpark 1 in 10 thousand chance of dying per year. So it's enough to be 99.9999% sure because extra nines don't really make your life safer.
Re:Hire-to-fire at Amazon India? on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:13AM (#27570803)
What is LSE?
there are adblocker apps for both iOS and Android. Highly recommended
If spammers will use this feature too, won't this lead to websites displaying non-stop Captchas for every user coming via private relay, similar to VPN/Tor?
Won't spammers using private relay lead to websites displaying captcha to all users coming from it, similar to how they do for VPN/Tor users currently?
Re:The acquisition of handwriting in the UK (1994) on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:05AM (#25726472)
Haha, I just learned doctor's handwriting is universal. For unknown reason I always assumed it's my country's thing
Re:Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems on Friday December 18, 2020 @03:49PM (#25471780)
but who do you retaliate against? Cyber-attack is harder to attribute than a missile launch
What is 'hanukkah dose'?
Re:When tipping was considered un-American (2015) on Sunday November 22, 2020 @03:17PM (#25180667)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXXPYxyn5mA brilliant dialogue about tipping from Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. Steve Buscemi's character doesn't tip and a group of others try to convince him to do it

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