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New comment by patch_cable in "Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings"

patch_cable — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:25:22 +0000

In the exact same configuration? Yes.

New comment by patch_cable in "Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk"

patch_cable — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:38:06 +0000

The date of the notice is October 28th. The separation dates given in the letter are 90 days out from the date of the notice (for some technical reasons, some employees had a separation dates a bit further out.)

New comment by patch_cable in "Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One"

patch_cable — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:16:03 +0000

The books are also physically really pleasant to hold and look at.

I’ve read each book they’ve published and enjoyed them all.

New comment by patch_cable in "Landlords Demand Tenants' Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs"

patch_cable — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:53:45 +0000

I think they’re saying anyone could order “secure” checks with your account number on them.

New comment by patch_cable in "AWS announces EC2 instance attestation"

patch_cable — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:55:21 +0000

Excited to say I worked on this feature! (Standard disclaimer: thoughts and opinions are my own and may or may not be shared by my employer.)

To give an idea of the kinds of things you can do now:

  - Keys or other secrets can only be decrypted (via KMS) by an EC2 instance if it is running an approved AMI. 
  - You could build a certificate authority (CA) which only issues a certificate to an instance running an approved AMI.

This is similar to the functionality that was available in Nitro Enclaves. However, enclaves came with restrictions (such as only being able to communicate through a vsock) that made them not a great fit for all use cases.

AWS announces EC2 instance attestation

patch_cable — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:05:42 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/09/aws-announces-ec2-instance-attestation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45364655

Points: 22

# Comments: 9

New comment by patch_cable in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

patch_cable — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:14:50 +0000

I’m more familiar with the 737 (as a hobby, not as a pilot), but for that aircraft the “loss of thrust on both engines” checklist has the start levers as the second item on the list.

Note that in the checklist I am looking at the goal is to restart the engines rather than diagnose the failure and that involves these levers. I suspect you’d notice pretty quickly if they were not in the expected location.

New comment by patch_cable in "‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut"

patch_cable — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:51:52 +0000

Sorry, I didn’t get the reference. I’m a moron. My bad.

New comment by patch_cable in "‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut"

patch_cable — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:24:32 +0000

Ah I missed that. Fair enough then.

New comment by patch_cable in "‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut"

patch_cable — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:24:18 +0000

Ah fair enough.

New comment by patch_cable in "‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut"

patch_cable — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:23:57 +0000

It’s not. And the fact that you think they sing songs makes me think you’ve never watched it.

New comment by patch_cable in "Elderly patients can deteriorate in the ER. This team works to get them out"

patch_cable — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 19:47:06 +0000

I have an elderly parent who has required multiple trips to the ER in the last year. The issue here (Seattle) is that the beds in the other departments are full, so there is no where else for them to go. The ER usually determine within a few hours she needs to be admitted, and then it takes a day for them to actually find the capacity.

New comment by patch_cable in "Azure's Weakest Link? How API Connections Spill Secrets"

patch_cable — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:19:43 +0000

It isn't quite as formal as that, but there is a group of engineers who review new APIs for following AWS-wide standards.

New comment by patch_cable in "Kids Love Landline Phones"

patch_cable — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:16:34 +0000

I haven’t explored that. My intended use case was outbound calls, so I just bought a phone that allows you to switch the ringer off.

Rather than specific hours, I would probably just create an allowlist of friend and family numbers and trust them not to abuse it.

New comment by patch_cable in "Kids Love Landline Phones"

patch_cable — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:20 +0000

I recently just set this up for my 5 year old.

I bought a Grandstream HandyTone 801 as a bridge. I use voip.ms as a service provider. Both are geared toward more technical users, but the service is very reasonable for the price. Instructions for configuring it are clunky but not too bad: https://wiki.voip.ms/article/Grandstream_HandyTone_802_-_HT8....

I had previously tried Ooma, but I didn't like that it wanted to sit between my router and modem.

New comment by patch_cable in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

patch_cable — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:56:04 +0000

I would also be interested to know how true this is for individual productivity versus group productivity.

New comment by patch_cable in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

patch_cable — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:49:35 +0000

Nor was it before the pandemic.

New comment by patch_cable in "There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)"

patch_cable — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 21:22:45 +0000

I'll throw in that the hardcover book is absolutely gorgeous and a pleasure to hold and read from.

New comment by patch_cable in "macOS Sequoia Preview"

patch_cable — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 06:06:19 +0000

My solution has been to use iCloud to sync photos to my desktop, but then I just backup the iPhoto directory on my desktop which has all the raw photos in case iCloud goes poof.

New comment by patch_cable in "Ask HN: How do I stop being obsessed with software architecture?"

patch_cable — Thu, 30 May 2024 18:33:44 +0000

I found it useful to set deadlines that force me to prioritize features that add value/functionality. Since for me these are just personal projects, I try to add accountability by telling friends "hey, Monday I want to show you this really cool thing I did". This helps sharpen my focus.