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by 3dbrows 2y ago
I’m currently evaluating Auth0 and other similar services with a view to migrating from Cognito. May I ask what you don’t like about it?
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
I imagine it means one with a higher coefficient of greybeard admins.
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
Yep. Rotten luck with the malaria and blockades, eh.
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
I’m not sure it was mainly rich folks who suffered. Many small scale investors also lost money. So severe were the losses that something like 25% of private wealth in Scotland was destroyed. Some argue we are still feeling the effects of th
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
Does Resend use AWS SES under the hood?
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
It seems to be true that they are either doing very well or very badly. St Andrews? Elie? Lovely. Methil? Granton? Pass. Are there examples of “it’s alright” seaside towns above some threshold size?
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
I’m sure you managed to get the MIDI background music working easily though.
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
I hate how accurate this is. Imagine you are a UK resident, born and raised, who went to the UK’s top school for CS (4-year degree). You made American friends at university who later moved back home. 15 YOE down the road and you are making
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
Could this claim the title of “oldest host on the public internet serving traffic”? At first I thought “~100 days, so what?” - but that was before I knew this was an 8088 managing to hold up to even just the background noise of the modern n
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
I wrote about something along these lines a couple of years ago [0] and thought the idea was dead due to rate limiting. But does LE now regard each subdomain as having its own limit, rather than taking that of the parent domain? [0] https:
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
Yes. Also, one could quite trivially turn the driver’s seat and steering column 180 degrees in the UK model, yielding the benefits you mention, as well as that of facing the direction of travel in reverse gear.
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
Like I said, views are changing in light of events, but let’s not pretend this was the settled majority view since 1945 or 1990. That’s the point: there has been a presumption by America that their view is the only view over the long term,
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
I would agree that the worldview of Europe is changing, given the sharp reality of its defences being tested. Europe is of course (to state the extremely obvious) no stranger to its own imperial adventures. We might do well to stop that if
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
Quite, and the reality of the Russian invasion of Ukraine certainly trumps armchair rhetoric on this topic. I would only add that (until recently) many Europeans would have questioned whether their aggression exists in a vacuum (“are we pro
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
> Another point I’d like to make is that modern European lifestyles exist partly due to American military hegemony, which has allowed European nations to redirect their defense spending to social programs. I see Americans make this comme
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
I’m no expert, but I wonder what the long-term socioeconomic effects are of Sweden not having been involved in major wars or colonial empires for hundreds of years.
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by 3dbrows 3y ago
Sitting atop the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, accumulated over decades of judicious management of national oil wealth, perhaps insulates Norway from realities that apply elsewhere.
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by 3dbrows 4y ago
We also have a lot of infuriatingly tautological explanations, for example: “We apologise that this train has only 2 carriages today. This is because the additional carriages failed to enter service.” Well, yes.
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by 3dbrows 4y ago
Thanks for your comments - my goal with the writeup was to attempt to sound out why the idea of ".nonpublic" would or would not work, and I think it's clear that it's not really viable. That's a pity, as the current
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by 3dbrows 4y ago
Right, so it would be necessary to force the NS records to point to registrar-owned nameservers which would be the point of enforcement. This is of course bad for a variety of reasons, not least how convention-violating it is.
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Startup idea: .nonpublic trusted TLS(3dbrows.dev)
4 points by 3dbrows 4y ago|4 comments
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by 3dbrows 5y ago
Don’t let your degree get in the way of your education. The ability to socialise with others and form connections with people is of maximal importance when it comes to convincing someone to employ you. There is no textbook for this. Interac
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by 3dbrows 5y ago
As someone who worked on timetabling databases and pricing services at Skyscanner, I appreciate just what a phenomenal achievement ITA is. Very well done sir. There is still so, so much innovation that the flights travel industry is ripe fo
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by 3dbrows 5y ago
In the Royal Navy, written letters to the captain [1] have to be signed off with "I am honoured to be, Sir, your obedient servant". I remember (in 2010) people thought this was stupid and instead used something like "Yours si
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by 3dbrows 5y ago
Astonishing. Not only the modern conservatism in this regard, but also that lesbianism was legal in the UK even in early C20, so the SG position was even more strict. A morbid but interesting area of study perhaps is the long tail of repres
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by 3dbrows 5y ago
The laws of many former British colonies are, unsurprisingly, copypasta of British law from the ~19-20th centuries. The homosexuality law is a case in point. The UK itself has moved on in some areas.
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by 3dbrows 5y ago
Delighted someone remembers it! Thanks.
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by 3dbrows 5y ago
When I was about 12 or 13 I ran a website called freelin.org. This was around 2001. Its goal was to provide Linux on CD to anyone who asked, globally, without cost. My hope was that donations would cover costs. They didn’t. I tried my best
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by 3dbrows 5y ago
Strongly agree. Local newspapers contain “common myths” that underpin society: a local shared understanding of the world, where the technical veracity of that understanding is secondary to its promulgation. That is being lost by hyperperson
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by 3dbrows 5y ago
Let’s hope the peak just gone is the last big spike. In the final analysis I imagine the British public’s _willingness_ to get the jab will be seen as an enormous success factor, on top of the vaccine itself’s efficacy. This willingness mer

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