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by old-gregg 3mo ago
Sam Harris often makes an argument that I both hate and kind of agree with. He says that exchanging arguments and having a debate only works when the two arguing parties share a foundation. The debate’s purpose is to reconcile a measurable
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by old-gregg 1y ago
> I don't get it. Wouldn't going from 1 second to 0 seconds add the same amount of money to the yearly profit as going from 2 seconds to 1 second did? Namely, $1M Of course the joke was silly. But perhaps I should have provided
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by old-gregg 1y ago
Unfortunately, there wasn't a single bottleneck. A bunch of us, not just me, worked our asses off improving performance by a little bit in several places. The compounded improvement IIRC was satisfactory to the customer.
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by old-gregg 1y ago
Fun story time! Early in my career as a software engineer, I developed a reputation for speeding things up. This was back in the day where algorithm knowledge was just as important as the ability to examine the output of a compiler, every n
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by old-gregg 1y ago
May I ask: why not use Synology's own photo stack? The web UI is pretty good, the iPhone app is great, it runs locally without depending on Synology servers, and does have face recognition and all other features.
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by old-gregg 1y ago
I feel the opposite. Especially the part about NOT breathing for 7 (!) seconds, which doesn't feel naturall at all. Something like 4-2-5 would have been much closer to my natural. To me the benefit of this thread is the comments recomm
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by old-gregg 1y ago
Your "life hack" is not a good advice. There's plenty of well-written explanations for why perimeter based security doesn't work. What is strange is that you've started in the right place: by being "constantly
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Teleport Secures MCP(goteleport.com)
1 points by old-gregg 1y ago|0 comments
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by old-gregg 1y ago
Languages do not matter as much as you think. Ecosystems are everything. Twice in my life I started companies (the first one took all my life savings) and in both cases the right call was what you called an "inferior language". I
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Bricks(thebricks.com)
2 points by old-gregg 2y ago|0 comments
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by old-gregg 2y ago
> half of the US thinks WE should have an authoritarian government. And each half thinks it's the other one who's voting for authoritarianism tomorrow.
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by old-gregg 2y ago
Hacker News delivers again. What an incredible example of quality feedback from a would-be customer. As one of Mailgun founders, I can also confirm/agree with all of the suggestions above. > Telling you now, someone will sign up wit
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by old-gregg 3y ago
> My take is that Elon is suing OpenAI because he left OpenAI before they opened a commercial venture, which means he doesn't benefit from the companies current valuation According to the Isaacson book, Sam offered Elon equity in th
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by old-gregg 3y ago
> Why not, for example, celebrate the virtuous instead? Because it's hard to celebrate the intangibles, that is why virtue signaling gets the spotlight instead. But action and achievement are tangible and can be celebrated (if they&
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by old-gregg 3y ago
I am not a pilot but I've been told by many that a large chunk of a new airplane price is the cost of certification which also provides a great incentive for manufacturers to design one product, get it certified, and sell it without ma
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Teleport Assist: Chat with your cloud server fleets(goteleport.com)
1 points by old-gregg 3y ago|0 comments
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by old-gregg 4y ago
Remember, you're comparing Linux and FreeBSD in 2022 but BSD lost to Linux much earlier, many years ago. Back when I was looking into them (long time ago, excuse me for not remembering the details), BSD felt more pleasant and coherent.
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How to Access Infrastructure Without Usernames and Passwords(goteleport.com)
1 points by old-gregg 4y ago|0 comments
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Teleport nabs $110M to provide identity-based infrastructure access(techcrunch.com)
10 points by old-gregg 4y ago|1 comments
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On Terminals and Sessions(goteleport.com)
7 points by old-gregg 4y ago|0 comments
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by old-gregg 4y ago
Could not agree more! Trust is easy to lose but it takes years to earn.
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by old-gregg 4y ago
> Installing a 3rd party agent that in some way permits shell access to a server and (I assume) needs to run constantly is definitely going to raise a few eyebrows especially when the benefit of using is actually fairly low. You're
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by old-gregg 4y ago
Part of me thinks that we have reached the tipping point where all cloud dev tooling needs to be thrown away and we need to start over. I had the same feeling when we reached the pinnacle of complexity of Windows programming with COM/
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Using Z3 theorem prover to analyze role-based access permissions(goteleport.com)
7 points by old-gregg 5y ago|0 comments
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SSH Bastion Host Best Practices(goteleport.com)
358 points by old-gregg 5y ago|84 comments
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by old-gregg 5y ago
The blog is hosted on https://goteleport.com/ - the open source SSH implementation which natively supports 2FA. Full disclosure: I work there, but I am not the author.
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Best Practices for Securing SSH(goteleport.com)
172 points by old-gregg 5y ago|141 comments
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SSH keys are passwords too(goteleport.com)
3 points by old-gregg 5y ago|1 comments
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by old-gregg 5y ago
> but things changed with the advent of microservices. Microservices is just a marketing buzzword invented by container orchestration start-ups. Partitioning of large applications across multiple inter-connected processes has been around
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by old-gregg 5y ago
> Maybe it's a result of wealth inequality and monopolization? Well, the author did compare the current rate of innovation to the dawn of the 20th century, when (according to him) we had plenty of new ideas. But wealth inequality in

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