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I actually can't tell whether you're serious...

The article mentions an `append` operation which is obviously not commutative; does that imply memcached needs a separate "appendable" string type? Of course not. Memcached only guarantees that the individual operations are atomic, it's the client's responsibility to avoid race conditions between multiple operations.

Yes, bytes from a *logical* stream need to be delivered in order. But in HTTP2 (3) multiple logical streams are multiplexed on top of one physical TCP (QUIC) connection. In the HTTP2 case this means that a dropped segment from logical stream A will block delivery of subsequent segments from an different logical stream B (which is bad for obvious reasons). QUIC doesn't have this problem, which is a large part of its value proposition.

The point is that in some cases the name of the project might itself be considered sensitive in some way

probably better to solve that problem by just giving projects easy-to-remember codenames. that's what intelligence agencies and militaries have been doing for years after all

it's irrelevant whether they're "cryptographically" random, all that matters is that account IDs are not controlled by the user and therefore have no logical relation to any access-control policies the user may wish to implement

These are where the news site makes their content available to scrapers and then paywalls humans. This is where the news site is trying take advantage of search engines to get you to clink on their SERP, and then make you pay. In a lot of cases you can read this content by proxying off a non-dynamic ip range and changing your user agent.

okay... so they're piracy links is what you're saying?

extremely weird conclusion

I agree, it's so weird that people who devote time, effort, and resources to the production of articles or books somehow think they're entitled to be compensated for the use of those products! What a bizarre belief! I mean, obviously they should just give them away for free. Not like they need money to survive or anything. They can just go on food stamps and live under a bridge or something.

but it seems more unreasonable to expect anything different from the oligarchy

oh my god when the demand for a scarce resource outstrips supply, prices go up. this is high school microecon, not some conspiracy by tHe oLiGaRcHy

Not to mention the absurd fact that accessing (IPv4) AWS APIs from a private subnet requires paying for either a NAT gateway or an interface endpoint (we got bitten by sending a ton of Kinesis traffic through a NAT gateway once)

They didn't, though, they made it available to be looked at alongside advertisements.

HN users just love twisting themselves in circles to justify their belief that they're somehow entitled to consume content from private websites without consuming the ads that support that content. (If you don't want to see ads, there's a really simple solution: don't look at websites that display them! No one's forcing you to!)

On Facebook if you want to reach your entire audience you need to pay them

Yeah, it's a private business, if you want to use them to reach people you need to pay. What exactly is wrong with that?

regular methods of discovery

What are these "regular methods of discovery"? Do you think that small businesses didn't advertise before Facebook/Google/etc came along?

doesn’t entitle them to my attention

if you're looking at someone's website then yes they are entitled to your attention. what gave you the idea that you're entitled to consume for free content that other people payed to produce and host?

ML systems do not guarantee valid output

no one said this has to be an LLM or whatever. you could have a compiler that just uses ML-based cost heuristics. iirc some research has already been done in this direction

Well you see, war rape is actually not a women's rights issue. After all, women aren't raped because they're women, they're raped because they're women from the opposing side. It's completely different!

(Before anyone takes it seriously: this is a parody of how stupid the parent sounds.)