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dreyfan··on Gitea Is Joining the Fediverse
Even today I'm still a heavy user of the fediverse created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
dreyfan··on Ask HN: Would you pass an interview for your current position?
Interviewing is easy today because companies are extremely desperate to hire.
dreyfan··on We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
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.
dreyfan··on Problems once solved by a metaclass can be solved by __init_subclass__
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.
dreyfan··on Problems once solved by a metaclass can be solved by __init_subclass__
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”
dreyfan··on Use spacer components instead of CSS margins (2020)
mmm, spacer elements. the new 1999 is looking pretty awesome.
dreyfan··on Databases in 2021: A Year in Review
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 truth).
dreyfan··on Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf]
> 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.

dreyfan··on 37% of the world’s population have still never used the internet
That’s a lot of people who haven’t had the opportunity to invest in bitcoin, defi, or nfts!
dreyfan··on 100s of El Salvadorans Report Bitcoins Disappearing from Their Chivo Wallets
They elected a crypto-bro as president.
dreyfan··on How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs
Only two? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454589

dreyfan··on Over 7k SOL ($1.2M) got lost on Solana NFT mint due to a hack
No SOL was lost, just a surprise wealth redistribution.
dreyfan··on Failed for the past 12 years as an tech entrepreneur
Stop building inferior versions of things which already exist. Build the things that don’t exist.
dreyfan··on Third High Severity CVE in Log4j Is Published
I’m enjoying the Apache Software Exploit Advent Calendar
dreyfan··on Ask HN: Can web scraping be the basis of a viable business model?
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.

dreyfan··on Ask HN: 27, accidentally became wealthy, lost drive. What should I do?
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.
dreyfan··on YouTube TV loses ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels in fee dispute
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 a streaming company.

dreyfan··on Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)
It’s such a low throughput requirement I think even bitcoin could support it.
dreyfan··on What's New in ClickHouse 21.12
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.

dreyfan··on Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after strikers sacked
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.

dreyfan··on PDM: A Modern Python Package Manager
Python should update their logo to that snake eating itself
dreyfan··on DNS doesn't “propagate”
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.

dreyfan··on DNS doesn't “propagate”
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.
dreyfan··on DNS doesn't “propagate”
> 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 "across the internet".

GoDaddy [1]: "but it can take up to 48 hours for everything to propagate across the Internet"

Namecheap [2]: "it is a period of time ISP (Internet service provider) nodes across the world take to update their caches with the new DNS information of your domain."

AWS [3]: "DNS propagation is the amount of time that it takes for DNS changes to be updated across the internet"

[1] https://www.godaddy.com/help/what-factors-affect-dns-propaga...

[2] https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...

[3] https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/route...

dreyfan··on Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”
Proper opsec is you blackhole all traffic when the vpn isn’t active.
dreyfan··on Kubernetes at Home with K3s
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.
dreyfan··on Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy
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?
dreyfan··on AWS Redshift Serverless
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.
dreyfan··on AWS Redshift Serverless
> Just load your data

Load my data where? This is "serverless".

dreyfan··on Will Nix Overtake Docker?
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 I can send some traffic to the exposed port(s).
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