Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — M_bara

M_bara

HN member
Joined
Mon, Apr 01, 2019, 7:57 AM UTC
HN karma
149
Public activity
76 items

About M_bara

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #48308721

    No, we don't want them.. Seriously, there's a connecting flight to DRC though.

  2. comment
    Comment #48308708

    It is. What's crazy is that Kenya has never handled ebola before and it currently has a severe corruption crisis. Infections will probably break out of the 'biosafety' hospitals an…

  3. comment
    Comment #48305040

    Trump admin instead suggests that they be moved to Kenya - a country that has never handled Ebola before

  4. story
  5. comment
    Comment #48018393

    > (like reading env vars and sending them to an external server) it'd not be able to send credentials or fetch a malware remotely at all due to the DNS queries being intercepted by…

  6. comment
    Comment #47914233

    That is why i insist on 1. Streaming replication whether from RDS or my own DB 2. Db dumps shipped to s3 using write only creds or something like rsync. Streaming gets you PIT reco…

  7. comment
    Comment #47912707

    And that is why I’d rather work with a smallish and responsible registrar like porkbun - this is after I lost a domain from a “cheap name” registrar. Personal experience, no relati…

  8. comment
    Comment #47693494

    Honestly, it’s a good counter to get both sides of the coin. At the moment you’ll find BBC, CNN, NYT et al on one end and Al Jazeera on the other. I also look at DW for a more bala…

  9. comment
    Comment #47373686

    It’s all about the resources - the gold, the minerals and the farmland. Different groups want to control it from East African proxies for the Middle East. It’s really sad and has t…

  10. comment
    Comment #46338627

    Or perhaps take a look at cadquery? It’s also pretty neat - http://cadquery.readthedocs.io/

  11. comment
    Comment #46292648

    Sashay…

  12. story
  13. comment
    Comment #44015751

    I’d pay more for bbc content than i do for Netflix or prime. It’s typically very good content that is strongly geo locked behind iplayer and you have to play whack a mole to get it…

  14. comment
    Comment #43342720

    If you think this is bad, then the chemicals used in rocketry - read the book ignition [1] - will have you whimpering in a corner. As with any system, risks can be identified and c…

  15. comment
    Comment #43342685

    I thought it smells like piss. Rotten eggs - hydrogen sulphide.

  16. comment
    Comment #42411981

    Precisely,Safaricom also alleged that they would allow for illegal connections… perhaps they meant connections that we can’t easily wiretap on behalf of the government. Interesting…

  17. comment
    Comment #42411945

    Yep, blame my phone’s auto correct…

  18. comment
    Comment #42410612

    Same thing in Kenya. A 150km radius around Nairobi is maxed out. I have a fishy kit that can’t join due to capacity issues. In fact, the advent of Starlink - which had acquired 0.5…

  19. comment
    Comment #42227819

    Stephen Baxter’s Flux has something in that vein

  20. comment
    Comment #42159288

    Should work the other way too. Physics and symmetry:)

  21. comment
    Comment #42099152

    Take a vacation to somewhere in Africa, see the Mara and get the vaccine there. It does cost about $40 per dose…

  22. comment
    Comment #41987647

    Missed a chance to reword that epic as a failure to an epic failure

  23. comment
    Comment #41890704

    I think the hdmi standard allows for Ethernet over hdmi. That’s a sneaky way in for your tv

  24. comment
    Comment #41258803

    There goes the god Apollo…

  25. comment
    Comment #40876588

    We had something similar about 10 years ago where I worked. Customer instances were backed via loopback devices to local disks. We didn’t think of this - face palm - on the loop ba…