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fastest963

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About fastest963

Software Engineer @ Admiral (previously at Grooveshark)

https://twitter.com/jameshartig https://github.com/jameshartig

james at getadmiral dot com

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    Comment #48987780

    The user still needs to provide proof that they own the passkey in order to login. It's not like someone could hack the website, steal the "string" and use it to login.

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    Comment #48166069

    Rezoning land is extremely difficult and likely requires changes to the Master plan for the city/county. If a citizen is unhappy with a zone nearby do not move there. If an area is…

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    Comment #48166041

    > The project is expected to generate approximately $310 million in property taxes over 30 years, in addition to utility taxes. https://www.joliet.gov/Home/Components/News/News/566…

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    Comment #48165564

    This is what zoning is for. If you live near land zoned for industrial or commercial then you can't fight it when someone wants to develop the land. If you don't want to live near …

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    Comment #48165556

    Depends. Is the alternative a loud, obnoxious factory? Or a warehouse with a constant stream of trucks? If you live near land zoned for industrial buildings then something is going…

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    Comment #48165536

    Datacenters bring millions in tax revenue (I oppose giving them tax breaks, that's a politician issue not an issue inherent to DCs) and are much less of a nuance than factories or …

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    Comment #48074477

    Coinbase confirmed on X that the exchange only ran in one AZ for latency reasons: https://x.com/i/status/2052855725857329254

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    Comment #48070413

    Coinbase claimed multiple AZs were down but the AWS statement was that only a single AZ was affected. Does anyone have more details?

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    Comment #48064484

    For the last 3 months I've been trying to get support from Google/gRPC/GCS teams to fix an issue with gRPC which results in thousands of connections and constant connection churn. …

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    Comment #48030668

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    Comment #47944185

    Yeah, but this still gives any employee RCE on the GHES server right?

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    Comment #47303617

    RateRudder: https://raterudder.com I've been working on a solution to automate solar+battery use to arbitrage the market. I'm on a real-time utility plan but even if you're on TOU …

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    Comment #46942661

    On Mac binaries need to be signed and notarized and Apple could stop the spread of the malware once it's identified or even detect it before notarizing it.

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    Comment #46213705

    I wouldn't say it's without pay. It's in the job description when you're hired and the pay should compensate for that. SREs are typically paid very well.

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    Comment #46213686

    I'm not sure there's a realistic alternative. If you need to generate a key then it has to happen somehow on unsupported platforms. You can check Enabled() if you need to know and …

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    Comment #46072936

    It can be more complicated depending on your environment but I'd prefer instead to use a Pub/Sub pattern instead. You can have a generic topic if you want to model it like the gene…