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It is a long-standing policy at Netflix for employees to pay for their own subscriptions. It ensures that employees "live the member experience".

Linux is written in C, my friend.

Which is useless if the domain had HSTS enabled, which they should.

"modicum of research" Jesus christ. The reason why that comment gets brought up is because it stereotypes the HN community. He wasn't disrespectful. Calm down.

Exactly.

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Please, please, please use Terraform workspaces: One workspace per environment. For environment specific things use conditionals: nodes = terraform.workspace == "prod" ? 2 : 1

My bad. You’re right.

Same here. Use n8n. Self hosted and open source.

Good example of why it’s a good idea to browse the web using a VM.

That's not nearly enough.

Real estate: Buy, repair, rent, refinance, repeat.

Exactly, this is ridiculous...

This section was interesting! Somehow I've never realized that row oriented storage is orthogonal to how disks work... Jd is a columnar (column oriented) RDBMS. Most RDBMS systems …

Cool! Do you login with one account bouncing off 60 IP addresses?

No. Incrementing an integer might be unique for the local database, but not unique for the universe.

Knowing how to do something doesn’t live outside the brain. You can erase entire categories of knowledge by damaging the brain in particular areas. There is no reason to believe th…

A rotated user agent does not hide anything from Google.

Finally a PR worthy of Hacktoberfest.

You would risk ending up with a maze that can be solved by walking in a straight line directly to from start to exit.

The onus is on you to explain why. Why not: Smaller payloads per packet and missing out on all the TCP algorithms already implemented in hardware en route.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

And reimplement TCP on top? Would not recommend.

Most sites redirect all http traffic to https to make sure the traffic is encrypted. Here's an example with HN (notice the protocol in the req/res): $ curl -v http://news.ycombinat…

On MacOS you can also drag-and-drop a file from Finder onto your terminal and it will type out the full path for you.