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paws

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About paws

I build stuff.

Interests: ECMAScript, Rust, security, data, networking, cognitive bias

Microsoft alum.

Email is best way to reach me. Mention HN.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/paws; my proof: https://keybase.io/paws/sigs/yN1KZs8UWccCKsnw4B6Olcx0KYTLhZOu7ZSWnixzIxs ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45663997

    For me this answer was helpful and succinct, thank you.

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    Comment #45428670

    Neat trick, any other params folks might want to know about?

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    Comment #41660248

    I'm looking forward to trying out incremental backups as well as JSON_TABLE. Thank you contributors!

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    Comment #39488370

    It's possible to opt out of the TheWorkNumber [0] by postal mail. You might consider it. [1] [0] https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze [1] https://krebsonsecurit…

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    According to Matt Stoller [0] we have Alan Kaplinsky [1] to thank. > Kaplinksy’s claim to fame is that he’s the lawyer who figured out you could get rid of the ability of a consume…

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    Comment #38085018

    As a generally healthy person it's very disappointing that catastrophic plans are only available for under 30s. [0] For me it makes the most financial sense to pay out of pocket fo…

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    Comment #38009657

    > the heart is designed for max availability over consistency, so when in doubt, it triggers a beat. This is a great line, thanks! Going to share this with my distributed database …

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    Comment #38009651

    I believe this is only available to paying members with a blue check. EDIT: "this" meaning posting

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    Comment #37772332

    Yeah, the current situation is pretty terrible. Deprecating the old credential-based auth flow, before adopting login.gov was a massive misstep. Five months ago I noticed the alert…

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    Comment #37760048

    A few weeks ago I had excellent results using this to install Ventura on a 2017 MacBookPro13,3. While obviously not as fast as a newer machine, everything I tried so far works grea…

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    Comment #37759906

    I'm not taking a position on OCLP being trustworthy or not, but at least the project appears to be 100% open source [0], which is more than we can say about Apple. [0] https://gith…

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    Comment #37685417

    Thank you for pointing this out. The macOS appocalypse was a really shocking moment -- it was so disappointing to learn that despite the privacy marketing shtick, macOS engineers c…

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    Comment #37603526

    Yikes. The only other time I heard about the Splunk sales team in the news, it sounded pretty bad also. https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/12/splunk_sales_discrimi...

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    Comment #37601971

    Could you please explain more about who these counterparties are exactly? Do they include brokerages? I'm trying to understand why a counterparty would enter into an arrangement wh…

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    Comment #37503277

    Not sure I'm understanding you correctly - by captive portals do you mean the "challenge" that renders in a browser/webview context, commonly when joining a new network? I'm not su…

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    Comment #37500101

    The more macOS seems to break user control of networking, the more I wonder what kind of "separate box" solutions are out there that can intermediate _outgoing_ traffic. e.g. Somet…

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    Comment #37411718

    A few months ago I paired gcsfuse with Seafowl [0][1]. Was a lot of fun balancing tradeoffs that are usually not possible with classical databases e.g. Postgres. Thank you gcsfuse …

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    Comment #36410594

    Lovely, thank you!

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    Comment #36409107

    > MultipathTCP Can you please share more about this? I've been curious to build a router with redundant internet providers ever since I noticed certain PCEngines boards supported L…

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    Comment #36360336

    Slightly OT: I noticed Colorado, Connecticut, New Mexico, and New York City either ended or limited qualified immunity in recent years. (In other states similar efforts faltered, a…

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    Comment #36228666

    Glad to hear you've had good results! Yes, @mildbyte did a great job making Seafowl comply with HTTP cache semantics (i.e. Etags/Cache-Control), and it should give good results for…

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