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jen20

6,380 karmajoined 11 years ago

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Slowjson – attack on HTTP servers accepting JSON with chunked transfer encoding

github.com
3 points·by jen20·14 days ago·0 comments

How to Build an Agent

ampcode.com
2 points·by jen20·5 months ago·0 comments

Swift SDK for Temporal by Apple

github.com
3 points·by jen20·9 months ago·1 comments

comments

jen20
·5 minutes ago·discuss
Voice and video calls are both outlawed in the US by the DOT.
jen20
·10 hours ago·discuss
Anything that uses virtual machines (perhaps you're running FreeBSD inside them, for example), or where you need complex network topology.
jen20
·2 days ago·discuss
That (unpleasant) saying predates Kubernetes by at least half a decade.
jen20
·2 days ago·discuss
US citizen and permanent resident are equivalent for the purposes of this...
jen20
·2 days ago·discuss
To understand your error, consider that in the month leading up to the 2016 US presidential election, the widely-accepted probabilities were between 70% (Five-Thirty-Eight) and 90% (Reuters) in favour of Clinton.
jen20
·7 days ago·discuss
Quite a bit, it seems: https://tailscale.com/blog/database-for-2022
jen20
·8 days ago·discuss
A previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191763
jen20
·9 days ago·discuss
Slop is less of a problem than the incentive such companies have to “accidentally” hoover up whatever data is accessible.
jen20
·12 days ago·discuss
In the UK, “Wright” is the 14th most common surname. It appears in Chaucer, and appears to cover approximately 900,000 people globally.

“Negus” is indeed less common - most prevalent in Ethiopia (where it means “king”) - seems to be 6-7000 people globally currently. However, that _isn’t actually the name_ of the CEO in this case, which is “Negus-Fancey” - an English double-barreled name with different etymology: akin to the relationship between Java and JavaScript.

I understand the desire to make someone who has allegedly done something bad look worse by ties to other people in the service of conspiracy theory. I can’t tell if your surname is “Flesch” or not (it seems no less reasonable than your own assumptions about names) - but if it is, other bearers of that name have committed _far_ worse crimes than financial fraud.
jen20
·13 days ago·discuss
Lack of knowledge and the desire to have it run containers for things.
jen20
·15 days ago·discuss
Unless they're rebuilt the post office (they haven't, unless they went with "70s retro" as the design aesthetic!), every counter is normally manned.
jen20
·15 days ago·discuss
I don’t know which country you’re in (and don’t disagree with you) but even if the estimate of 30 minutes to shipping labels were accurate, that would still be a net win where I am in Texas - the line at the post office is regularly longer than that.
jen20
·19 days ago·discuss
All of these appear to be proposals only.
jen20
·19 days ago·discuss
If you think the Reddit communities of tenants are bad, you should try reading the Reddit communities of landlords (at least the UK ones).
jen20
·19 days ago·discuss
> FCC is requiring IDs for phones.

Sources?
jen20
·21 days ago·discuss
> Compared to ICEs, where advancement has stalled for the last 20 years,

It hasn't really stalled: VVT, VCR, Cylinder deactivation that works properly, and start-stop becoming commonplace are all meaningful improvements (though smaller than the ones seen in EVs over the same time frame, which makes sense given the relative maturity).
jen20
·22 days ago·discuss
Google seems most likely to capitalize. GSuite is standard practice even among many large companies provided they were founded in the past ~15 years and aren't on the Microsoft teat. Their search is also _so much_ better than Outlook that it's even more useful as a forever-store.
jen20
·22 days ago·discuss
Windows 8 was released a whole year before iOS 7, so the blame here is misplaced (though I won't argue that Ive's approach to UI design was worse than what came before).
jen20
·22 days ago·discuss
You shouldn't need to cache a calculator app to make it load quickly - it opened instantly on a machine running Windows 3.0 with 2MB RAM.
jen20
·22 days ago·discuss
The push is that web developers are easy to find, and native software developers barely event exist anymore (and if they do can get paid to work on things like trading software, though web is even picking up there!).

Microsoft don't even _have_ a reasonable desktop UI stack, having been through at least 4-5 which gained minimal traction before being abandoned. The last successful one was Windows Forms, which is what I'd pick up today if I ever had to touch Windows again.