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nickcox··on Ask HN: One of our Azure accounts was hacked – how to negotiate the bill?
That was exactly my experience with an Azure overspend at a previous startup. The real cost was forgiven but the credits weren't.
nickcox··on Amazon Ring cameras used in nationwide ‘swatting’ spree, US Justice Dept. says
Which you'd think they'd verify be confirmed reports or actually, like, hearing gunshots.
nickcox··on Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)
The second goal should also never have stood. Clear foul on Glenn Hoddle.
nickcox··on Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)
That's not really how the internet works.
nickcox··on VSCode remote code execution advisory
> depends on the definition of non-standard I guess.

Depends on the definition of 'software' also. Strictly speaking, every npm package is someone else's code running on your machine. Often with quite wide ranging permissions.

If you need approval from IT to add a package or increment a version then your development process is going to be slow for sure.

nickcox··on Lightweight Alpine VMs on macOS
To be fair, you'll run into issues with Docker Desktop too though. I've found Rancher Desktop to be as reliable or better than Docker for my needs.
nickcox··on RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs
Microsoft Windows also does this.
nickcox··on Scala isn't fun anymore
I might be misremembering but wasn't there a pro slavery angle as well?
nickcox··on Microformats Wiki
That ship has already sailed if you're using Tailwind though.
nickcox··on Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k
How would one make money out of doxing racists?
nickcox··on Reimagining front-end web development with htmx and hyperscript
> I think the important aspect of React/Vue was to inspire Web Components to exist

Web Components predate React as an idea, don't they? Admittedly it too hella long to get them properly standardised.

nickcox··on Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
> They’re saying that in their experience this isn’t nearly as common as it is typically portrayed.

How would you know if the poor commercial performance was due to tech debt or not though? It's the intangibility of tech debt that makes it so insidious.

nickcox··on I'm all-in on server-side SQLite
> multiple app instances in that region can connect to that Postgres leader, so it's easy to do a typical rolling deploy

This is mentioned as a drawback at towards the end of the blogpost, isn't it? It does seem it would make deployments rather awkward.

nickcox··on Ask HN: Is DBA still a good job?
The web has been pretty successful too.
nickcox··on Open Source SQL Parsers
> The order of operations are out of whack and makes pipeline ing a little hard

It makes it really hard to offer good autocompletions too.

nickcox··on The absurd complexity of server-side rendering
> Back in the day, every page of an online store was rendered server-side. One day, someone needed certain elements to call database views and rewrite the dom inside a little area when a user clicked a button. So smart people tried to create frameworks like React

I think you skipped a few years there! AJAX, Mootools, prototype, JQuery, etc.

nickcox··on Updated Okta Statement on Lapsus$
> A support engineer being able to set a password on any account is unthinkable, there is zero chance this is actually the case

I have no idea what an Okta support engineer can or can't do but I know that a regular account administrator can set an arbitrary password for a given user via the Okta UI.

nickcox··on Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program nationwide
> I'd already have it if I had ordered from Amazon.

Because Amazon force their staff to keep working?

nickcox··on GitHub Actions by Example
> Another major pain is that we still haven’t private actions. It was due end of 2021 (maybe it is out now but I checked a couple of days ago).

I'm looking forward to this landing too. In the meantime, though, checking out the repository that contains the Actions and referencing a local path works fine so this hasn't really been a blocker for us.

Edit: per sibling comment, it seems that this feature became available in the last few days. Nice!

nickcox··on Minimal Viable Programs – Joe Armstrong – Erlang and Other Stuff
I've always heard this as, 'If you want something done, ask a busy person'.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/30/busy/

nickcox··on Switching from macOS to Pop_OS
It's been a while since I used a Mac but my recollection is that the same Emacs style key bindings were available for all text fields pretty much without exception.

https://jblevins.org/log/kbd

nickcox··on Simple.css – A classless CSS framework
Haven't seen bamboo mentioned here yet: https://rilwis.github.io/bamboo/demo/
nickcox··on Things I learned writing my first technical book
I think this should be https://blog.klipse.tech/book/2021/12/19/100-things-I-learne...

100% agree with 37 & 38:

> 37. AsciiDoc rocks!

> 38. PlantUML rocks!

nickcox··on The Big DevOps Misunderstanding
> only it's not what the idea behind it was

It's like the article says:

> At some point in time, this idea has been so widely misunderstood that the wrong definition of DevOps became the right one.

See also: 'agile'.

nickcox··on New Zealand to ban smoking completely under radical plan
> I don't think you can do heroin responsibly.

Why not, out of interest?

nickcox··on Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance
> I was shocked by the level of acceptance of surveillance and even the police rights to search

It's not even just the police - the goons on the doors of JB Hi-Fi will demand to root through your bags on your way out of the shop. Nobody even seems to question it.

nickcox··on Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance
> I don't know if the usual election lies will cut it this time.

People say that every time though and they always do.

nickcox··on Soupault is a tool that helps you create and manage static websites
F#
nickcox··on Ask HN: How are salaries for senior devs in Berlin at the moment?
Not to offer a bonus or equity?
nickcox··on My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal collapse”
And not just the hanging chads, right? I don't think it's controversial, in hindsight, to say that Jeb Bush conspired with GW to steal the election. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jun/06/uselections200...

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