It's the old IBM thing. If your website goes down along with everyone else's because of Cloudflare, you shrug and say "nothing we could do, we were following the industry standard". If your website goes down because of on-prem then it's very much your problem and maybe you get to look forward to an exciting debrief with your manager's manager.
That's lazy engineering and I don't think we as technical, rational people should make that our way of working. I know the saying, but I disagree with it. My fuckups, my problem, but at least I can avoid fuckups actively if I am in charge.
I don't, since my stuff is reachable only within the company network/VPN. If I needed to though, I would consult the BSI list of official DDOS mitigation services [0] and evaluate each one before deciding. I would not auto-pick Cloudflare.
Yeah, but people aren't using Cloudflare just for DDOS Mitigation. Some are running pretty much everything over it, from DNS to edge caching to load balancing and even hosting. That's what I oppose mainly.
Unless you are really big, onprem stuff would be 90% internal anyway. For everything public you'd host your hardware in a datacenter with better high speed connectivity. And pretty much every single datacenter I interacted with in the last 5 years does have a DDOS protection solution that you can order for your network.
That's fair, yeah, and I agree it's not always feasible - but if you have any influence over technical direction at your org, I encourage what I wrote above. Otherwise yeah, let the pea counters in the C-Levels dig their own grave.
The terminal remains an extremely compelling computing environment in spite of its limitations and fifty years of technical debt. As anachronistic as arcane escape codes and box drawing characters seem in $CURRENT_YEAR, the fact remains that nothing has arisen to fill its niche.
Yes, that's the point they're making. Arguably US citizens are more complicit in the crimes of Israel than Iranians are in the crimes of Russia since Americans have more capacity to choice their leadership.
Iran has a longer history, obviously, but it’s worth mentioning the US is no longer a democratic country. The congress has effectively delegated its powers to the president. You can’t really come back from that any time soon.
I wasn't being sarcastic? I heard they're making a new Koenigsegg and I'm genuinely concerned that without corporate sponsorship it might be out of his price range.
Given that this is Hacker News, I think it is worth pointing out that Durham's strong suit traditionally is the humanities. In my opinion a CS degree from Oxford, Cambridge, or ICL is considerably more impressive than one from Durham.
Incredibly good writing throughout... only Armando Ianucci gets close, IMO. Of course he leans a bit more heavily into straight up farce, which may not be to one's taste, but still...
Not saying the theory is bunk but I think that basically everything about this on Wikipedia is written and illustrated by the researcher who devised the theory. So it's that guy.
That's the proposer of visual map-based theory, a different explanation for the same things axial twist theory tries to explain. Axial twist is much more recent.
