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by richbell 14d ago
https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by richbell 1mo ago
It's baffling that this hasn't been done after the 6th(?) time in the past year.
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by richbell 2mo ago
Likewise. I saw it vanish from the "Plan usage limits" page in real time.
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by richbell 3mo ago
I've only heard it used as Retr0id's definition.
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by richbell 3mo ago
What I'm reading is that you agree Trump represents the republican party. Great, the gp's comment has been settled.
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by richbell 5mo ago
I moderated a large Reddit community (circa 2014). She threatened to have articles written about how we were racist/misogynistic, unless we removed comments she didn't like. Her being nasty elsewhere doesn't surprise me...
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by richbell 6mo ago
I suspect that he at least uses AI for scripts. He tends to repeat the same thing worded slightly differently a few times.
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by richbell 6mo ago
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_...
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by richbell 6mo ago
Is the implication that someone can't dislike both?
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by richbell 6mo ago
If you find an exposed token in the wild, for a service supported by GitHub Secret Scanning, uploading it to a Gist will either immediately revoke it or notify the owner.
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by richbell 6mo ago
How is reminding people that they can safely revoke exposed API keys not informative? Why are you being so combative?
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by richbell 6mo ago
AWS sends me an invoice for $0.01 every month.
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by richbell 6mo ago
Kotlin Coroutine's structured concurrency. Cancelling a parent automatically cancels child jobs, unless explicitly handled not to. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coroutines-basics.html
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by richbell 7mo ago
Parallel and Series makes sense to me; it's also the terminology used for electrical circuits.
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by richbell 9mo ago
The purpose of command and control servers is to send and receive data to victims devices. A secondary goal is to do so while evading detection. This is why many threat actors piggy-back off of legitimate services, it disguises the malware
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by richbell 10mo ago
The main use case, in my opinion, is for tests/CI. SQLite has traditionally been used to quickly run tests, however, if your actual infra uses PostgreSQL then the value is limited.
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by richbell 10mo ago
That is what "end-to-end encryption" has come to mean in marketing. In the same way that every single product is "natural."
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by richbell 10mo ago
One highly publicized incident was https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/13s7mv3/why_...
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by richbell 10mo ago
Uber's business model is to be a loss leader to hamper competition, then jack up rider rates and lower drive rates. This is technically a 'working' business model, but hardly one that benefits the people.
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by richbell 10mo ago
> Hang on a minute. How do you square your claim that it's as it should be that train drivers can be paid as much as airline pilots, with your claim that everyone else is underpaid, including, presumably, airline pilots What is inco
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by richbell 10mo ago
> He said that his team had hoped for it to become a prescription medicine dosed at 500 mcg, because anything higher gave paradoxical effects and actually made sleep worse. Tangentially, I'm reminded of this interview around ~31m. T
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by richbell 11mo ago
There are a number of products and open source tools that do this. Look up "secret scanning".
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Security Update: Red Hat Consulting GitLab Incident(redhat.com)
2 points by richbell 1y ago|1 comments
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by richbell 1y ago
> in light of the DOGE findings regarding 150+ year olds collecting social security... The claims made by DOGE were highly misleading (i.e., lack of death date does not mean a 150 year old is receiving money). Moreover, it wasn't a
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by richbell 1y ago
The modern Internet is a privacy nightmare in large part due to advertisers. Having every aspect of your life surveiled, packaged, and sold is not a trivial issue.
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by richbell 2y ago
And will they ever support an easily-configured catch-all domain, like Namecheap?
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by richbell 2y ago
I believe foreign key constraint validations are also disables by default.
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by richbell 2y ago
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
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by richbell 2y ago
> I'm amazed that this has reached the almost-top of HN. The article is objectively bad; the subject is clearly something a lot of people think about, myself included.
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by richbell 2y ago
> But definitely not within database functions and procedures. I generally find Hungarian notation silly, however, there's a compelling argument to have them in functions and procedures — perhaps more than for views. The type of the

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