dreyfan

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.

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”

mmm, spacer elements. the new 1999 is looking pretty awesome.

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).

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.

Only two? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454589

No SOL was lost, just a surprise wealth redistribution.

Stop building inferior versions of things which already exist. Build the things that don’t exist.

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.

It’s such a low throughput requirement I think even bitcoin could support it.

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.

Python should update their logo to that snake eating itself

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Just load your data

Load my data where? This is "serverless".

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).