peterwwillis

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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I've seen many applications re-created feature for feature just to do it in a different language. If it doesn't improve the wheel or solve a new problem, that's reinventing the wheel.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I really hope this takes off. MySpace was the Geocities for the next generation. Express yourself, join a community, find new cool stuff. Facebook was the death of creativity until it eventually revived on Tumblr (and to a certain extent Yo
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
If you had enough rack space, mod_perl+Apache2 could scale to anything you needed. Hundreds of Gbps, hundreds of thousands of RPS. Inefficient, sure, but seriously flexible+performant and really easy to deploy. I miss the old stacks, as Ngi
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Oh noooo! I was so excited, then they lost me at Go. Dream bigger: why is Kubernetes so complex? Re-inventing what we already have. Why is it so complex? Lack of standards, lack of flexibility, too much focus on features. A Linux system has
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Did nobody think to maybe find alternatives? A rubber band, some plastic wrap, and a hair dryer can probably make an air-tight seal over an existing jar. And plastic "jars" that are safe for 212F can probably work too.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I don't give a shit about your company, because it's your company. I don't actually have a say in what's going on. I can't refuse to do what I'm told because I disagree with the direction of the company'
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
As far as I can tell, most cultures in the world have a tradition of feeding guests and whomever needs a meal. Japan, Greece, Ethiopia, Italy, Britain, Hawaii, etc. I think this is because in many parts of the world, it used to be common fo
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Requiring DANE to issue certs is like requiring a speedometer, running lights, turn signals, and a breathalyzer in order to ride a bicycle. All you actually need is a stripped-down REST API (or some wireline protocol with 4 fields) and a TL
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Brings up an interesting question: Why do we need a Let's Encrypt to issue a TLS certificate? At what point can we stop using them? PKI in a nutshell: the CA signs your CSR which was created with your private key; the CA gives you a ce
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I'm afraid I don't have a list of good ones, only bad ones. The easiest way to vet them is to call them and ask them what their policies are, then test them (for legal reasons, against your own test domains would be best...). See
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
> Why are they pissed in the first place? They're pissed because they think something is wrong and they want it fixed. But they don't know what is wrong, and they don't know how to fix it. So I think they are pissed becaus
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I have gotten registrars to change domain records for domains over the phone without having to prove who I am. Definitely vet your registrars and registers very carefully, they do not all operate by the same rules.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I don't think the people who distrust science or politics are coming to that conclusion in a necessarily rational way. Their lack of faith is more of a general malaise. When most of your people think the elected body that makes laws is
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
All of these points are true. If you're building a tech org, take note. But there's a couple big problems that these points raise: 1. Why don't engineers design for production, and how do you get them to? I find most devs jus
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Why in the world would they build on S3 rather than EBS?
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Your life will be a lot less painful if you abandon docker-in-docker. The Jenkins solution is to simply execute containers using the host's Docker daemon, or via a container orchestration system which you call out to. The latter is the
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I was more pointing out that the choice of how to move forward isn't simple, and that the premise is probably flawed due to bad design, but that we probably won't fix the design because it works.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Meanwhile, you mention ethical philosophy in the context of a mail security extension and get downvoted to hell. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25119305 Philosophy is doing a bad job of explaining its importance to th
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
> I might have been sucked even deeper into the unmoderated chaos of social platforms, where there's an unspoken expectation to act performatively instead of as our authentic selves. Says a guy talking about being part of a music su
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Right... Let me know how Python 2.7 code runs ina few years.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Why do people use DoH? - they want DNS over TLS [multiple reasons why]. - they want to work around "problems" in the architecture of DNS. - they want to force new functionality [read: protocol changes] on users without oth
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Why do people buy coffee from Starbucks? Is it because Starbucks has the most efficient cost outlay for long term investment in a user's needs? Or is it because people just want some damn coffee and there's one on every corner? Or
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Perl is slower, but has a ton of shortcuts (inspired by awk) to make common text processing tasks even easier. If you already know awk it may not be of much benefit. But CPAN makes it easy to scale up to a more robust program when needed. I
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
For the international version, I recommend including non-upper-middle-class-white-westerner clothes. Kilt, caftan,dhoti-kurta, pheran, kimono, etc. Also missing: hats! Where are all the hats? And belts?? You can't wear a random belt wi
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
A long time ago I suggested a new uri prefix - "secure://" - that would be a synonym for "HTTPS-only". If you visit a secure:// link, every single page load in the session would require strong encrypt
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
And now we're talking ethics. On one hand we have the Utilitarianist view of security. If increased security results in "more good" than evil, it is inherently ethical and thus acceptable. In this view, the idea that a good p
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
> Their recent security issues with that hack were devops management and governance problems If those are the hard business/technology management problems (and they are), then try solving those while also securing them. Security b
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
It's not so much a 'Karen comment' as actually respecting human life. But sure, let's all spread the disease whenever we feel like it just because other people spread it worse. It's amazing how little morals people
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
It's not defensible, because you still have to social distance even when outside.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Nice to see they aren't bothering with social distancing. I mean, sure, they might be spreading a deadly virus, but how else are they gonna talk about how bad-ass that wingsuit flight was? Totally worth killing immunocompromised people

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