Hacker News: CobsterLock

AWS IAM: Increased API Error Rates

CobsterLock — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:18:52 +0000

Article URL: https://health.aws.amazon.com/phd/status?eventID=arn%3Aaws%3Ahealth%3Aglobal%3A%3Aevent%2FIAM%2FAWS_IAM_OPERATIONAL_ISSUE%2FAWS_IAM_OPERATIONAL_ISSUE_17420_186FEFE5CFE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39462351

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by CobsterLock in "Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer"

CobsterLock — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 00:03:26 +0000

Is this the same beeline from 10 years ago? I sort of remember installing it back in middle school and really loving it and helping my ability to read walls of text. I never knew it got popular within the ADHD community or that it was still around.

Another reader helper I liked was the one that flashed words in place but that seemed more like a speed read hack rather than actually comprehending what you read, never used it seriously like BeeLine

New comment by CobsterLock in "We built the fastest CI and it failed"

CobsterLock — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:29:05 +0000

I don't have a ton of experience in Bazel, but from what I have experienced with Bazel I think it would be more accurate to say that you configure the dependency graph yourself in Bazel. Then Bazel can determine what to build from scratch and what to take from cache

New comment by CobsterLock in "IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release"

CobsterLock — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 22:10:34 +0000

As far as I know, movie theaters do not compress video. Its seems like they have a digital surrogate for movie reals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package

New comment by CobsterLock in "Last Call to Migrate Mojang Accounts"

CobsterLock — Mon, 08 May 2023 22:21:28 +0000

The is a reason that Santa only comes when the kids are quite and in bed in my house, and it also explains why my dad was always tired in the morning growing up

New comment by CobsterLock in "Ask HN: How do I Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck?"

CobsterLock — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:55:14 +0000

a max balance is a cool idea, i gotta try that out!

New comment by CobsterLock in "Ask HN: How do I Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck?"

CobsterLock — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 14:00:07 +0000

and i also have the mental block that if i have less than 1k in my checking i should be wary. and also tons of credit card alerts for large transactions going in and out

New comment by CobsterLock in "Ask HN: How do I Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck?"

CobsterLock — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:58:43 +0000

there's a ton of information missing here, but my simple way is to not really stop living paycheck to paycheck, but instead hide the money from myself before i can spend it. To me this means high contributions to retirement accounts, auto transfers in to brokerage account, and auto transfers into a separate "large spending" account. That way I'm free to spend guilt free anything left in my checking account.

The automation is really the key for me, move the money before I can spend it. But NYC is also an expensive place to live, and I could easily see 110k not being enough to live there. but maybe someone else has more relevant experience

New comment by CobsterLock in "New – EC2 Instances (G5) with Nvidia A10G Tensor Core GPUs"

CobsterLock — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 06:00:59 +0000

I really like that analogy

New comment by CobsterLock in "Packages dumped in wrong lobby, resident tried harder to correct it than Amazon"

CobsterLock — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 05:58:57 +0000

ive heard a few stories of people getting high value (>$1k) shipped and nobody wanting it returned,. I dont get why there is not an exception policy for high value items. Im assuming these kind of "dont ship it back" policies are due to them not wanting to have to support a return infastructure. but if there is a steady supply of high value item returns/mis-shipments I would think it would be worth it. I think i remember reading that its US law that if something is delivered to you, its yours. maybe they dont wanna mess with that?

I guess I would would love to know why they dont want it back

New comment by CobsterLock in "Enhanced Support for Citations on GitHub"

CobsterLock — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 02:49:44 +0000

It seems to be a HashiCorp Configuration Language, HashiCorp being the creators/sponsors of terraform (I don't know much about terraform or hashicorp)

New comment by CobsterLock in "Ask a bartender a question"

CobsterLock — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:02:06 +0000

That small forum feel was what I appreciated. I thought they all disappeared by now, so it surprised me that the this post was added recently.

New comment by CobsterLock in "Ask a bartender a question"

CobsterLock — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 06:06:53 +0000

What kind of forum is this? Super cool perspective

New comment by CobsterLock in "Support for team members who are mistreated in their country"

CobsterLock — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 03:28:02 +0000

The lack of official spec is really holding back markdown, I always find it grating when someone mentions that their site renders "Github Flavored Markdown". It should just be markdown. It would be great if Github didnt have this vendor lock in on markdown

New comment by CobsterLock in "Two Portland delivery companies revolt against Amazon, shut down"

CobsterLock — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 14:01:22 +0000

Are these the same drivers that wear Amazon vests, drive Amazon cars and can only deliver for Amazon? Seems like Amazon is doing some legal loophole with "3rd party" companies to get around actually employing these drivers and giving them the full time benefits they are entitled to by law

I'm so tired of this dumb gig economy that isn't long term sustainable.

New comment by CobsterLock in "Bflat: C# as you know it but with Go-like tooling"

CobsterLock — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 05:52:00 +0000

the new slim SDK style csproj and the dotnet command replacement (maybe wrapper) for msbuild are great addition to come with .NET Core a while back. I think MSBuild and nuget are great compared to my experiences with linux rpm libwhatever or npm. I have worked on some moderately sized code bases (10s not 100s of projects in a solutions) and compile times stayed fairly reasonable.

I think the big downside is that the industry still thinks of .NET as stuck in .NET 2.0 or something, from my casual browsing that .NET is a skill not C#. Regardless, I'm getting kind of excited for .NET 6 on official release, and doing the migration of all our apps off framework to the latest and getting some getting the new lang version.

New comment by CobsterLock in "Let web applications be file handlers"

CobsterLock — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 14:33:54 +0000

I think mankyd knew that. I'm thinking the exploit would be installing a bad app that enforces redirects for mybank.com, youbank.com, usabank.com, ukbank.com, allbanks.com to their malicious app. Then the app just knows how to pretend to be the login screen for all these apps and bam you get a whole ton of passwords. The key thing would be for the app not to show the url of their malicious site.

New comment by CobsterLock in "We’re all paying for someone else’s 4-hour work week, not ours"

CobsterLock — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 14:55:29 +0000

I have always sat on the fence on this issue. If someone wants to work outside of the 9-5, it seems only right to reward them for their extra time commitment. But when their extra work makes me seem like a slacker then that becomes an issue. So I guess my opinion is that as long as they are seen as doing extra and anyone doing 9-5 is doing the expected, all is well. Maybe it comes down to having a good manager?

New comment by CobsterLock in "Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September"

CobsterLock — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 13:27:01 +0000

I feel like this borders on the kind of insensitive comment that people get when they live paycheck to paycheck. Why don't you just save your money for a month? Why don't you just buy nicer shoes so you don't have to replace them every other month?

I feel like the trade off isn't that complex. Walking to work is a luxury of having a well paying job in the city.

New comment by CobsterLock in "2022 Ford F-150 Lightning"

CobsterLock — Fri, 21 May 2021 14:51:11 +0000

Maybe I am asking for too much but I want physical knobs for: Volume Control, HVAC Fan Speed, HVAC Temp.

A tangential question: Does anyone know why there is an AC button on older cars? I can turn the temp all the way down but that just does outside air temp. If i want real AC I need to hit a button to turn it on. In my ideal car turning the knob to the lowest temp would get me cold air no matter what.