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milesdyson_phdon The database servers powering Let's Encrypt (2021)

If you are an enterprise (or just big enough) the prices on Dell’s site are meaningless, they are just conversation starters if that.

milesdyson_phdon Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS

the newer (8+) iDRAC's are nice now that you can point them at downloads.dell.com and it will figure out the updates for you

milesdyson_phdon Sam Bankman-Fried accused of possible witness tampering [pdf]

> don't play semantic games like this.

That's pretty much what a lot of laws are

milesdyson_phdon My plane is not trackable without using non-public data

TjYyOFRT b64 for any enterprising individuals that want to see how good their detection is

milesdyson_phdon US Mortgage Lenders Are Starting to Go Broke

Depends on the lender, that is how a lot operate. Some provide servicing as well, and will cherry pick their safest loans to service while tranching and selling the rest.

milesdyson_phdon TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)

Genuine question: how did it "damage" you?

milesdyson_phdon Murder-Suicides by Pilots Are Vexing Airlines as Deaths Mount

For the majority of charter/private/business flights this wouldn't be feasible as the vast majority of flights tend to be single pilot ops.

milesdyson_phdon Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

Yeah, even just adding the domain to the end of the title would clarify

milesdyson_phdon Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

When the economy and job market began storming back, we were inundated with inbound requests for our services. Our perseverance seemed to be paying off. Except now we were hit with a new gut punch: “The Great Resignation.” Now our workers were reticent to come back to work. And if they did accept a job, they’d often leave after only a few days.

As in the workers you placed, employees of 70MR? Why would they leave after a few days? Can you expand on this?

It became obvious that we lacked the resources to weather this new storm while hoping and praying the world would normalize soon. (It still hasn’t.)

What does normalize mean to you (or 70MR)?

milesdyson_phdon Ask HN: Is Heroku Being Sunset?

+1 for Dokku, super simple to port a client's simple Heroku workload over!

milesdyson_phdon I no longer grade my students’ work, and I wish I had stopped sooner

This was standard in the Chemistry department at my university. It also saved my ass twice.

milesdyson_phdon What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, experts stumped

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply they were unscathed.

milesdyson_phdon What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, experts stumped

One thing I don't understand is Russia's opening missile salvos, they barely even struck at the heart of the Ukrainian Air Force. I guess you could theorize they didn't want to destroy that infrastructure in the event that the Ukrainian government rolled over, but that seems to have been a risky bet that is currently playing out.

milesdyson_phdon Ask HN: If your SaaS was used to commit a financial crime, what should you do?

Seek counsel prior to anything else

milesdyson_phdon Howard University’s removal of classics is a spiritual catastrophe

I went to a state school as well, we had a department of Romance and Classical studies. So it got lumped in with the romance languages.

milesdyson_phdon Ask HN: Ever lost your love for coding? How did you get it back?

I was planning to go get my MBA, then I transferred teams and suddenly I like programming again. To be fair I don't think it was so much the coding that I didn't like, as everything that came with it (at least on my previous team) which in turn made me not want to code anymore.

milesdyson_phdon IBM Logo Manual (1983)

So i'm not the only one..

milesdyson_phdon Even Epik says the Texas abortion “whistleblower” site violates its rules

Fundamental right to web hosting?

milesdyson_phdon Repairs of leaning San Francisco skyscraper on hold

For the right price I am sure they would be bought, especially if someone (probably an investment group) is trying to profit long term assuming the building is "fixable" whatever that may mean.

milesdyson_phdon Carvana’s success rides on used-car loans

I had the same experience. Granted, the market is completely different today than it was even a year ago.

milesdyson_phdon Cuba jamming ham radio frequencies [video]

I imagine in a revolution you don't care about regulations...

milesdyson_phdon Stripe rescinded my signed offer due to changing company priorities

Yes, it's a two-way street. Businesses do tend to benefit the most though

milesdyson_phdon FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

I had a biochem professor in college who talked extremely slowly, like we are talking 2x speed just to approach normal talking (and her lectures were all online). I usually listen to stuff at 2x or greater depending on the content.

milesdyson_phdon The reason Okta spent $6.5B on Auth0

We were/are (Fortune 500) in the process of migrating from Ping to Auth0... Glad I’m not on the group that’s been working on that for the past 1-2 years

milesdyson_phdon We Expect 300k Fewer Births Than Usual This Year in the US

During the height of severe covid cases in my area a lot of hospitals were not even allowing spouses in during delivery, so yes it was still relatively safe but definitely not the same.

milesdyson_phdon Robinhood CEO, Reddit Co-Founder and Others Testify on GameStop Stock

Every single Robinhood user could have had $5M in cash in their accounts and they still would have had to suspend purchasing shares. Brokerages cannot use client funds for depository requirements. Every purchase transaction required Robinhood to cover 100% with their own cash until settlement.

milesdyson_phdon Czech gunmaker CZG buys Colt in cash and stock deal

I think FN has a lot of the US military contracts now, so it that might help explain why

milesdyson_phdon Robinhood Raises Another $2.4B from shareholders

I wonder how/if age demographics play into that, especially with regards to millenials/gen z.

milesdyson_phdon The Careful Work of Breathing Life into the Corpse Flower

I was lucky enough to attend a university that had one in their botanical gardens. I was also lucky that it bloomed when I was there.

milesdyson_phdon Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down

Is that even possible at any sort of scale?