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What incentive is there to say "I'm not confident"? If someone is particularly bad at comparing faces in pictures and they let multiple shoplifters through they're likely going to …

I use MySQL Aurora quite heavily and, for our purposes(very high usage, but simple query pattern) there's no obvious differences outside of one major annoyance. The engineers at Pl…

We've established that there are trust-fund kids who try and those who don't, what differentiates these groups? Why does one group try and the other not try? Are trust-fund kids wi…

I don't think that's true for most people, but for me the difference isn't large enough to matter. It probably takes most people 1 or 2 minutes to click the one click buy button on…

Once a co-worker accidentally pushed an AWS key pair to his public dotfiles repo. About 30 seconds later AWS disabled the key and notified the account admin about the possibility o…

Yep, I saw empty responses for sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com for a while. Seems okay now though.

You can re-characterize the contribution until tax deadline day of the following year, you can contact your investment firm do to that and they'll handle everything. With Vanguard …

He's not the cyber ninjas guy, but he is involved in the big lie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Hutton_Pulitzer#Election_aud...

I guess maybe I don't understand why one would go into journalism, but if your goal isn't to effect change why be a journalist? Were the journalists working on stories detailing th…

We use it for provisioning vsphere VMs with all of the provisioning done through cloud-init. Can't say I like cloud-init but our onprem stuff is pretty simple and almost all of the…

Plus, China gets to watch their political enemies tear each other apart over this issue, so there really isn't any incentive to be forthright.

I believe a judge recently signed an order allowing the FBI to access and patch hacked exchange servers. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/fbi-might-gone-ahead-f...

What I've done on a recent project is to vendor the dependencies before build(which are excluded from git, you could cache these if you're using a CICD system like circle), copy ev…

Looks like they outsource most of their company to Serbia, so I doubt many will see this.

"We cannot do quality control before sending products out. We make too much stuff." Ever buy strawberries? "We don't check all tickets for the venue. Too many people." Train conduc…

uBlock Origin helped me get a vaccine appointment despite the scheduling system's attempt to make it as hard as possible. Thanks!

It sounds like mining companies created a disaster aided by shoddy work from the state of Colorado who then asked the EPA to bail them out.

I usually choose debian for docker images if alpine isn't the right solution. Their slim images are pretty nice.

Not really, this signals -- or maybe reminds -- other companies that it's fine to be a monopoly as long as your politics align with the preferences of the GOP.

Because this is a political act rather than one based on principal.

I'm not sure how Amazon exposes everything, but from the esri side of things it's possible.