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To mitigate the threat from an attacker who controls the network between the cert issuer and the DNS server, CAs will check the DNS records from multiple vantage points. Let's Encr…

1 is the lowest score. 10 is highest

- “G4” the TV network, not to be confused with the series of Mac computers

https://www.infracost.io/ might do what you're imagining

I had a similar experience in the same era. In addition to the deviant stuff I also used it to tinker with graphics programming using inline assembly for the “performance critical”…

This sounds like how we use a CVSS score to gauge the severity of software vulnerabilities. Maybe the world needs a standardized place to catalog and rank all the data breaches tha…

I feel the same way. What about Akamai, Fastly, or Okta? Maybe Cloudflare gets more attention because their low end plans are accessible to anyone.

It boggles my mind that Google Fiber has been available in Austin, TX for 10 years but is still not available in the communities next door to Google HQ.

I'm going to guess dboreham is Canadian?

I think you're assuming that the panic happens when a request is received, but it actually happens when a conflicting route is registered. To me, that's reasonable behavior and is …

Definitely. I have a couple use cases for it at . Thanks for sharing that link. https://www.url2png.com/ is another I know about.

https://www.pagesnap.app/ Webpage screenshots as a service. I was scratching a personal itch with this one but maybe some day I will make it something others can use at scale. Back…

Also Go's HTTP/2 packages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37863419

Can your example be solved by having the k8s cluster resource reference the network resource’s “name” attribute? Doing that allows Terraform to create both resources in one plan/ap…

I use New Retirement and one of my biggest complaints about that app is that it expects you to provide the optimistic/pessimistic rate of return for each of your investment account…

I love to see more tools like this for do-it-yourselfers like me. I've only just now tried using ProjectionLab for about 20 minutes, so take this with a grain of salt, but I've wat…

This is great. It reminds me that I tried to recreate this effect with Turbo Pascal back in the 90’s when I first got into programming. Sneakers, Wargames, and BBS culture were pre…

Oh, right. I meant to say 14” MBP in my parent post.

Does it support more than one external display? The lack of that feature was the primary thing that drove me to choose a 13" MacBook Pro instead.

I wonder if you've read Turn the Ship Around [1]? It's one of my favorite leadership books and tells the true story of the Navy captain who was put in the awkward position of runni…

This study claims that there was a decrease in weather prediction accuracy caused by the reduction in commercial flights due to Covid. Maybe there are still some lingering effects …

as Bogleheads is for investors

It's interesting that there are so many cables running through the Suez Canal. I wonder if it's because of geopolitical reasons for avoiding going over land through the Middle East…