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Sure. Cloudflare can give away free services as a marketing effort. AWS gives away 1TB/month of cloudfront bandwidth, 1 million lambda calls per month, 1 million SNS notification p…

Yeah, it'll be interesting especially positioned against facebook's META / Oculus products. On HN folks trash apple (closed systems, supposedly phones don't hold value etc). Realit…

Umm, this is what is such a gimmick about these "free" services. I run a video website on AWS, no one cares what I am doing, they charge me and done. I distribute software updates,…

The reason people need / use high egress (ie, far above the 1TB etc AWS gives per month) is for things like video sites, software updates / distribution etc. I've been burned (too …

Digital Ocean is really serving a different market. The folks recommending them tend to be running smaller workloads (so DO can have relative lower perf per vCPU etc). The best I'v…

Most of these third parties are using official API's to get pricing data, if there is something with a hidden price do ask and someone can probably help you figure it out. One reas…

"mostly to make it easy for developers to waste the company's budget." Is this the case? I can't even find cloudflare's egress pricing online AT ALL. With AWS I can find pricing fo…

FTC has been a bit schizo. Some of their tech industry cases and gas cases seem comically bad. The administration works flat out to stop domestic fossil fuel production (fair enoug…

Exactly - and they are talking / working with at least some boring accountants in all of this who don't care if things are curated by Jay-Z in their point of sale and merchant clea…

What I'm not understanding is that by most commercial radio standards, these guard bands are huge. 400Mhz? 20Mhz? Can they not just do a test with 50 planes and get some hard data?…

DDG is a gimmick. They claim to be running their own search engine, never checked out for me. More covered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4817576 Anyone seeing them cra…

Good lord. Pity the poor person out there trying to understand what is going on / what is block.xyz. At least we are told nothing will change with TBD54566975 (?). https://twitter.…

Google search is going downhill in my experience. My question: What is the alternative?

Concurrency issues / bad program flow feel a bit different don't they? I mean, I can store the action to take on a record in a string in any language, then if I'm not paying attent…

The trick is not that the language support a safe approach (C++ has smart pointers / "safe" code in various libraries) in my view but simply that you CAN'T cause a problem even bei…

That's what I'm trying to understand. Let's ignore idiomatic code, people do crazy stuff all the time. What's the go example that gets you from for example an overflow to exploit? …

Go has an unsafe package. Is there an example of even "bad" go code that gets you from a overflow to an exploit? I'm curious, folks (usually rust folks) do keep making this claim, …

I thought it was pretty clear the pilot had some pretty major issues. - Flight simulator data from his home computer matched pretty closely the doomed plane took when it went off c…

What's the exploit path assuming no use of unsafe? I can see situations where I could probably get go to crash, but not sure how I get go to act badly. Note: Not a go / Haskell / C…

What's somewhat interesting is memory safety is not a totally new concept. I wonder if memory safety had mattered more, whether other languages might have caught on a bit more, dev…

Wow. We continue to be reminded that it's hard to write fully memory secure code in a language that is not memory secure? And by hard, I mean, very hard even for folks with lots of…

False. T-Mobile for example had a major device theft issue with their mailed in device place for the upgrade program they used to run. No surprise, the process was to unlock phone,…

The initial pitch pre Ajit's decision was a private auction by the CBA. Ie, the corps behind these sats would themselves auction and keep the $81B. Supposedly this would be "better…