dreyfan

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by dreyfan 5y ago
Even today I'm still a heavy user of the fediverse created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Interviewing is easy today because companies are extremely desperate to hire.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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.
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by dreyfan 5y 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”
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by dreyfan 5y ago
mmm, spacer elements. the new 1999 is looking pretty awesome.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> 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.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
That’s a lot of people who haven’t had the opportunity to invest in bitcoin, defi, or nfts!
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by dreyfan 5y ago
They elected a crypto-bro as president.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Only two? [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454589
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by dreyfan 5y ago
No SOL was lost, just a surprise wealth redistribution.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Stop building inferior versions of things which already exist. Build the things that don’t exist.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
I’m enjoying the Apache Software Exploit Advent Calendar
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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
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by dreyfan 5y ago
It’s such a low throughput requirement I think even bitcoin could support it.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Python should update their logo to that snake eating itself
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> 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 "
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Proper opsec is you blackhole all traffic when the vpn isn’t active.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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?
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> Just load your data Load my data where? This is "serverless".
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by dreyfan 5y ago
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

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