Hacker News: tlunter

New comment by tlunter in "[dead]"

tlunter — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 23:25:32 +0000

I am an American and also don’t have anyone I know, nor far off acquaintance killed, therefore I conclude the US is actually fine with it comes to traffic.

Why are you using an anecdote to define your data here?

New comment by tlunter in "Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture"

tlunter — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:43:58 +0000

I think that Hack might’ve been on that list earlier than you think. Slack started as a PHP application.

New comment by tlunter in "East Coast Internet Outage"

tlunter — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:39:50 +0000

Experiencing it from Verizon ISP. Any others that are also experiencing this not on Verizon?

New comment by tlunter in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

tlunter — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:21:43 +0000

Add the `127.0.0.1 ocsp.apple.com` line to your /etc/hosts file.

New comment by tlunter in "Dynamo vs. Cassandra: Systems Design of NoSQL Databases (2018)"

tlunter — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 15:13:57 +0000

I didn't see if there was a re:invent talk about it, but is it actuallly Cassandra under the hood? It seemed like it might just be the Cassandra API akin to Aurora being MySQL.

New comment by tlunter in "[dead]"

tlunter — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:02:42 +0000

seems like it is just email address harvesting. counter measures linked in the article are just ways to more anonymize data, but I'm not sure why we want that. they even suggest not using a username to identify a user...

seems like this should be flagged for being clickbait/trying to induce fear

New comment by tlunter in "GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories"

tlunter — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:21:32 +0000

Recommend taking a look at this blog post: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat the author has updated a couple times. The changes are subtle and are amazing for your benefit. Not seeing the change is them getting better at easing you into the new functionality, not them stagnating.

New comment by tlunter in "Client side caching in Redis 6"

tlunter — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 00:02:21 +0000

Funny enough, at my company we did just this. Having local state is a requirement for our uptime and reliability goals, and we have a dumb service that pushes this back to the services via DynamoDB streams, and also dumps the data into S3 in case that service is down.

New comment by tlunter in "RAMCloud Project"

tlunter — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:52:24 +0000

> The RAMCloud project is based in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University.

It's not by Atlassian...

New comment by tlunter in "February 28th DDoS Incident Report"

tlunter — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:45:12 +0000

I don't think it was GitHub's memcached instances. It was other public instances that with spoofed network requests ended up sending traffic back towards GitHub's network.

New comment by tlunter in "How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay"

tlunter — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:21:14 +0000

I don't work there, but it seems naive to think that YouTube hasn't worked with law enforcement or these industries directly to remove these copyrighted works. If your rip is simple or obvious enough, YouTube blocks it immediately before it's published. That seems very different from hosting a site specifically for pirating copyrighted works.

New comment by tlunter in "Lung Collapses Are a Surprisingly Common Esports Injury"

tlunter — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 23:02:45 +0000

Oddly, as the article noted in a single line, they're common among tall, skinny men. I've had three lung collapses so far, but all do to Birt-Hogg-Dube [1]. When I was being checked out in the hospital each time, the nurses/hospital staff all said, "ah, yea, tall and skinny".

In reality, you can live through a lung collapse and do nothing. The doctor will take an x-ray, make sure the pocket of air outside the lung is shrinking and send you home. If it's fully collapsed, you'll get some surgery to repair it and a tube to make sure nothing gets back in. It never seemed as life-threatening as the article suggests. It wasn't fun, but I also never felt like I was near death or anything.

It feels like the author just found spontaneous pneumothoraxes to be interesting, and built an article around it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birt%E2%80%93Hogg%E2%80%93Dub%...

New comment by tlunter in "Use "App folder" access type instead of "Full Dropbox""

tlunter — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 14:53:11 +0000

But how does the user log into dropbox when they go to the website? They probably store those generated credentials within the 1password vault.

New comment by tlunter in "Dyn Analysis Summary of Friday October 21 Attack"

tlunter — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:49:05 +0000

mit·i·gate ˈmidəˌɡāt/ verb make less severe, serious, or painful

Don't think they said they solved the problem. They just made it less bad. Some DNS queries got through, but not all.

New comment by tlunter in "The Heart of Deterrence (2012)"

tlunter — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:00:35 +0000

So far, since the top of the comments, you're the only one that acknowledged the volunteer has thoughts too. I think everyone is just looking at the moral part of this and not how the interaction between the volunteer and president would be when he's hesitant but the volunteer still believes it's the right decision. It does call into question what kind of volunteer this is. Someone who's ready to die for the country from the get go wouldn't work out very well.

New comment by tlunter in "Schools Are Slow to Learn That Sleep Deprivation Hits Teenagers Hardest"

tlunter — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 12:29:37 +0000

I think some resentful high school students that had a hard time often reflect American schooling poorly. I didn't have a supremely negative time (with the teaching at least) and I went to a standard 8:00-2:30 school in Massachusetts that had hour long blocks. I think we need to start taking more negative responses on the Internet as the extreme and not necessarily the norm.

New comment by tlunter in "Schools Are Slow to Learn That Sleep Deprivation Hits Teenagers Hardest"

tlunter — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 12:25:28 +0000

While I wouldn't say I learned all of this, we did cover quite a similar set of topics during my schooling. It's not everywhere that schooling is bad in the US. Not every school just lumps all of the kids no matter their aptitude into the same classes. A lot of schools have many levels of placement that are to help understand the baselines a student can be held to. For most math and science classes I took the top classes and felt it was a great pace (most of the time) and learned quite a bit. For history and English/grammar classes where I'm not as strong, I took a middle level class and still learned much of the same material but at a slower pace.

For cases like your sister, there was options for classes to be taken. She can take many different art classes over the course of a couple years to help build a portfolio for submitting to colleges. I on the other hand had 2 maths, 2 sciences, and an English class my final semester. It was great since it so closely aligned with my college studies and helped me get ahead (AP). I never felt difficulty in college having taken these APs either.

Just setting the record straight, it's not the complete Wild West over here. Just some schools are stronger than others. My school is pretty standard as far as schools in south east Massachusetts go.

New comment by tlunter in "Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers"

tlunter — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 14:05:56 +0000

Future reference, github SSH can be used over 443: https://help.github.com/articles/using-ssh-over-the-https-po...

Helpful when 22 is blocked (train stations and such)

New comment by tlunter in "Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS"

tlunter — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:55:11 +0000

People are actually genuinely interested in what comes out of re:invent. Because you don't use Amazon's services or don't like the company doesn't mean they paid for placement. They paid a lot of money to developers to develop great things. Why do you have to take that away from them?

New comment by tlunter in "Cuba: a nation gets connected"

tlunter — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 02:41:46 +0000

I'd say the reason to mention NK was because I'm sure if you asked most people in the US and most of Europe, they'd say that NK likely doesn't have the internet. But it does. Just not available to the masses. Availability to the masses is the point of the headline here.