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Why? What purpose does it serve? Who benefits from it?

I think this is a false equivalence. Cloudflare doesn't espouse the position that ethnic cleaning is good, and afaik nothing it does in China enables that. Further, DHH isn't calli…

People claiming Andrew Kelley's remarks in this thread can't possibly be personal attacks surprise and sadden me. If someone insults your ability to do your job, paints you as an o…

Helping a mega-corporation make an extra buck is not "service to society". If you meant doing a service job at a small business, where you can have real ownership over how it treat…

One benefit is that this can run in serverless / sandboxed containers where OS primitives are not exposed or heavily limited. I immediately thought of Cloudflare Workers, which run…

How does one measure unique users here in a way different from classic p99? I usually associate p99 with an SLO of some kind, and each request as a "unique user" for the service, s…

I'm from India too. It's disingenuous to say things like "Bangladeshi Muslims are not desired" and not mention the massive backlash the Citizenship Amendment Act received. It's alm…

The effort here is laudable, and this is cool! But your real competition isn't regexes, but parser combinator libraries. For cases where readability and matching matter, parser com…

I asked Kenton Varda (the creator) this one after discovering all its cool capabilities, and it seems like promoting it just hasn't been a focus. It is heavily used at Cloudflare, …

First off, my heart goes out to you. Thinking that you chose to be a bystander must have cut really core to your sense of identity. It's been difficult to reconcile being a good pe…

You're thinking of probabilistic systems at run time . People are talking about probabilistic systems at compile time . Whatever gets generated, if it passes tests and is observabl…

Before the outage, Cloudflare had Cloudbleed: https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-c... The move to Rust was partly motivated because it prevented that entire…

I find the contrast between two narratives around technology use so fascinating: 1. We advocate automation because people like Brenda are error-prone and machines are perfect. 2. W…

Piece of UX feedback for the product team behind Updog: company logos are not searchable. It should be easy to Ctrl-F and find a relevant cloud on that detector, instead of scrolli…

The Hindustan Times is widely known in India, and is considered reliable as a source of information. I wasn't sure which thumbnails you were referring to on a quick perusal of thei…

Having met Casey Handmer personally, I'm confident the last thing he could be accused of is being anti-science. The man knows quite a bit about his domain of expertise!

I'll also point out that it's actually harder for entry-level foreign workers (read: international students) to get jobs in general. F1 visa students are limited to one year of OPT…

That's not an apples to apples comparison. You don't know if the foreign workers were senior-level employees, for example, or whether there were specialized requirements they might…

(Not Peter, not a lawyer) It is hard not to be moderately worried, since the administration has already made concrete attacks on citizenship pathways, immigrants and legal resident…

> Need an example? Good. Coding. > You must be paying your software engineers around $100,000 yearly. > Now that vibecoding is out there, when was the last time you committed to pa…

Joe will be fine. Cloudflare is pretty good at differentiating humans from bot traffic - see how we do it here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/ The idea behind the hea…

The blog post covers this. The announcement also drops relying on spoofable user agents for crawler identification and requires crawlers to voluntarily identify themselves via RFC …

This blog post plays too loose and fast with its terms to be useful as a model of anything: - It's tautological. A tribe is defined as a connected graph of members with a shared me…

I don't think this is the right conclusion. It's more: people with no expertise and hidden agendas should be forced to behave in line with the best available evidence unless there …