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Aha. I was surprised to see that ~30% of web pages loaded by Firefox were still not https. A 6-year-old graph would explain why!
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They've bumped this support info to a blog post that's linked from their home page: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/statement-on-falcon-content...

It includes PDFs of some relevant support pages that someone printed with their browser 5 hours ago. That's probably the right thing to do in such a situation to get this kind of info publicly available ASAP, but still, oof. Looks like lots of people in the Reddit thread had trouble accessing the support info behind the login screen.

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> Supposedly these happened because Snowflake made it impossible to mandate MFA

What's crazy is that Snowflake made MFA enforcement available only 5 days ago.

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+1 for how great the Snowflake t-shirt is (ranked #3). I wore it a lot during the COVID era, and the poly blend is still soft and has withstood a lot of washing and drying.

When we signed onto Snowflake in 2019, a week later a surprise HUGE box of swag arrived, with a dozen shirts and lots of other things. Our team and corner of the office became The Place To Be for a while.

Comment · 3 years ago
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

Comment · 3 years ago
I don't want to be the "did you even read the article?" guy, but I do recommend you all read the article or get more context about this first before posting what could be considered a economic/political "hot take". It's really a mix of optimism (like some relief from recession fears, for now) and concern (like lower personal savings rates).

Don't extrapolate too much based on a single quarter metric (albeit an important one). That's the HN way.

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Time (yes, Time Magazine!) actually had good coverage of this: https://time.com/10228/obamas-trauma-team/

Here's one good excerpt:

Dickerson quickly established the rules, which he posted on a wall just outside the control center.

Rule 1: “The war room and the meetings are for solving problems. There are plenty of other venues where people devote their creative energies to shifting blame.”

Rule 2: “The ones who should be doing the talking are the people who know the most about an issue, not the ones with the highest rank. If anyone finds themselves sitting passively while managers and executives talk over them with less accurate information, we have gone off the rails, and I would like to know about it.” (Explained Dickerson later: “If you can get the managers out of the way, the engineers will want to solve things.”)

Rule 3: “We need to stay focused on the most urgent issues, like things that will hurt us in the next 24–48 hours.”

Comment · 3 years ago
Ironically, this reminds me of a story (folk tale?) about Von Neumann himself.

A colleague told him about the Two Trains Problem (https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TwoTrainsPuzzle.html), and Von Neumann replied with the correct answer. When his colleague said, "Ah! You figured out he trick!", Von Neumann replied, "What trick? I just summed up the distances in my head!"

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