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Comment · 1 year ago
How does detecting the emails were fake address the DMCA claim on his YouTube channel? It’s my understanding that YouTube won’t intervene in DMCA claims even if the claims were false.
Comment · 1 year ago
Careful, sharing that link is illegal in some jurisdictions
Comment · 1 year ago
> (and as far as I can tell, they aren't really that cheaper than the competitors)

Can you say more? Their Cloud instances, for example, are less than half the cost of OVH's, and less than a fifth of the cost of a comparable AWS EC2 instance.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think they meant to say the maintainers for redis-py, lettuce, and jedis have already relinquished control to Redis Inc. The libraries are still online, but their repositories have been moved to the official Redis organization and are "controlled" and "owned by Redis" according to an email quoted in the linked Github Issue.
Comment · 1 year ago
> he received Saturday detention and a grade of 65 out of 100 on the assignment

The student still received a passing grade for the assignment despite some of the assignment being AI hallucinated text. From my experience, plagiarism is an automatic zero for the entire assignment or course, but there are tons of counterexamples when the teacher/professor doesn't want to deal with the academic integrity process.

Comment · 2 years ago
> Also, she had to learn what it meant to ride “goofy footed.” It’s when you ride a board with your right foot forward instead of your left. “Oh,” Shaunda says. “Well, I am left-handed.”

I am right handed but would ride a skateboard the same way. I never even tried with my left foot forward. Even visualizing it feels wrong. I wonder why this is the apparently uncommon stance? Some people I think prefer to use their dominant foot to push, but it’s easier to keep my balance when my dominant foot is on the board.

Comment · 2 years ago
If you’re using TLS what is the concern? I’d be more worried about Internet data transfer costs than that. Latency might be a concern but it’s going to be very dependent on use case.
Comment · 2 years ago
I have never used a cable provider that required a visit to connect or disconnect service - it has always been done remotely.
Comment · 2 years ago
The patent for semaglutide doesn't expire until 2030 (in the US), so a generic is not currently available. I say this as someone who is looking into purchasing the drug: I don't think many people buying the compounded formula know it is not a "generic" and is not FDA approved. The companies selling it often do not even say where it comes from.

It shouldn't be surprising that Novo Nordisk is fighting these compounding pharmacies that are purely interested in undercutting them. Not to say they need our sympathy, since I'm sure a significant cost of Ozempic is due to the injection pen with a million patents.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
GM Denis Kadric (currently rated 309th worldwide) was just banned by Chess.com for allegedly cheating, and has no ability to appeal or see evidence used in the decision.

https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1fz4snq/gm_denis_kad...

Not only is the website the de facto platform for online play, some tournaments also use it for in-person games. The site has essentially become a chess authority organization of its own right. Its staff operate as judge, jury, and executioner behind closed doors. While I’m sure the majority of banned accounts were blatantly cheating, their team has apparently taken input from ChatGPT to run “simulations” to determine cheating probabilities.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1873ocq/chesscom_c...

Comment · 2 years ago
By my estimation, about 45% of the article is about DHH's revenue which is irrelevant to the discussion about Matt's behavior. Links on HN about Matt and WordPress keep getting downranked, and that'll continue to happen as long as Matt is not interested in seriously discussing it.

Not that my opinion matters, but my preference would be that Matt stops with the pithy comments like "this is a respectful debate" or "I'll try to do better" and is instead just honest that he doesn't care what others think.

Comment · 2 years ago
How would ChatGPT know?
Comment · 2 years ago
I think the audience for this is someone who is already using AWS Secrets Manager, but wants to reduce their API usage (perhaps due to cost).

Chamber uses SSM Parameter Store, which for many cases is similar, but some people might have a preference for Secrets Manager. For example, a team might like the automatic RDS password rotation for Secrets Manager and decide to put everything there for consistency.

For Doppler, well maybe someone doesn't want to pay for it, or they'd rather control access to their secrets via IAM instead of through a separate tool.

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