admiun
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Comment · 7 years ago
Regarding 2), you could just make healthcare insurance mandatory. We have that in The Netherlands.
Comment · 8 years ago
I think it's already part of proposal [1] to generate a healthy chunk of the power required for the six North Sea countries. The video [2] is pretty interesting.
Comment · 9 years ago
The XKCD method of generating passwords [1] does not imply 'best case' entropy of crackers going after each individual character. Instead it clearly states 44 bits of entropy which is the 'worst case' entropy when the attacking knows your exact method and dictionary used when generating the password.
I'd argue that when targeting the same number of bits of entropy the XKCD method is still easier to remember than a bunch of fully random characters.
Comment · 9 years ago
I think the rough IPv6 equivalent of a single IPv4 ban would be to ban a /64 subnet. This bans all users in that subnet which is the same as banning an IPv4 subnet hiding behind a single NAT address.
Comment · 10 years ago
I agree. Nuclear fission power seems to be associated with a negative learning curve [1][2]. This means that as the newly installed capacity goes up, price per unit actually increases. As solar is already becoming competitive and is experiencing a positive learning curve (costs going down rapidly as production expands) it would be pretty silly to invest in nuclear at this point.
[1] https://thinkprogress.org/does-nuclear-power-have-a-negative...
Comment · 10 years ago
Not really although you probably need to use quite a bit of traffic before it becomes a problem. Your example of personal use only seems fine.
There was a post here a while ago (that I cannot find anymore) about the devs of a package manager of sorts who were asked kindly by Github to do something about their excessive data usage. So it's probably not a good idea to build a company on it.
Comment · 10 years ago
They do, yes. Rounded up to the nearest 100ms, scaled for chosen RAM capacity: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/ Note that this doesn't measure actual RAM use, although they do display it after lambda runs.
Data traffic is already measured and priced accordingly in AWS so that's not something new for Lambda.
Comment · 10 years ago
I always wonder if there's easy way to know where current global internet interruptions are, anyone know? In this case it apparently was Telia [1] but how do you figure that out? Top Google results for 'global internet status' aren't really usable.
[1] http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/cloud/cloud-management/cloud...
Comment · 10 years ago
I thought that too but I successfully raised our limit after they made it a soft limit, so give it a shot!
Comment · 10 years ago
"APIs should be designed synchronously, and the callers should orchestrate concurrency if they choose"
Just to add to this, I found the blog post he mentions[1] towards the bottom that supports this conclusion a really good read.
[1] http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...
Comment · 10 years ago
This just shows we really do need a step towards an 'appstore-like' permissions model for desktop operating systems. There is just no reason for all these software packages to have full write access to everything in your user account.
Comment · 11 years ago
If you're interested in this, John Oliver did a piece on elected judges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poL7l-Uk3I8
Comment · 11 years ago
Like passwords, sharing API keys is usually a bad thing. For some sites it is overkill or simply not possible but for something like AWS there is no excuse not to make individual IAM users with their own passwords and keys.
Comment · 11 years ago
Interestingly IPv6 removed the checksum from its packet header [1], delegating this work to the higher protocols such as TCP and UDP.[2] So I guess that raises the chance of an invalid IP header getting through. Source and target address will probably result in dropped packets but I wonder what happens if one of the other fields is corrupted, say traffic class.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_packet#Fixed_header
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Simplified_processing_by_...