I own a host of Unifi hardware, but some of it is ridiculously vulnerable to power outages. UDM SE got bricked when I was moving and absentmindedly unplugged it without shutting it down first. Ubiquiti replaced it but cmon...
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What does the last two years of that graph indicate?
That Biden/Harris lost because they let inflation get out of control for a fairly short amount of time?
alex-korr commented on Oracle engineers caused five days software outage at U.S. hospitals cnbc.com/2025/04/28/oracl... · Posted by u/jnord
OracleDB forbids benchmarking it in the license, so I just presume it's inefficient and too slow to compete.
Every large database vendor forbids public disclosure of benchmark results these days - ie Snowflake, you name it. Privately it's a different story obviously.
alex-korr commented on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com/news/live/c625ex2... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri
Russia didn't lose to Afghanistan, rather Russia, Ukraine and Belarus dismantled the Soviet era occupation force. In fact the pro-Soviet government of Afghanistan lasted 3 more years on its own - unlike the US installed government which collapsed before US troops left.
That's not true. The last Soviet soldier has left Afghanistan way before the USSR disintegrated.
I just gave away a very expensive Garmin to my son. Its feature set is to dream of. Its user interface is hot garbage. When I'm out on a hike or in the pool trying to just measure my fsking laps I need a single click option or something. Their paradigm of "button 1, button 3, button 5, long press button 4, button 1 again to confirm. Now you can push off the wall in 3... 2... 1" is beyond fucking stupid.
Does anyone at Garmin actually practice sports? For a company with such great hardware they really need someone competent on the UX team. Throwing everything into more and more menus and submenus is not working.
The specific watch I'm criticizing is Garmin Instinct 2x solar. The name is very ironic because there is nothing intuitive about using that watch. Like, at all.
What are you even talking about? Garmin has an auto start/stop feature for lap swimming. All you need to do is single press top right button once to start the session and press the same button to stop and then another button to save it. It will literally do everything else for you automatically.
I have often wondered what would happen if social product orgs required all dev and product team members to temporarily rotate through moderation a couple times a year.
I can tell you that back when I worked as a dev for the department building order fulfillment software at a dotcom, my perspective on my own product has drastically changed after I had spent a month at a warehouse that was shipping orders coming out of the software we wrote. Eating my own dog food was not pretty.
alex-korr commented on Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus
No wonder that the birthrates are in the dumpster. How are you supposed to get laid in the absence of social lubricants?
alex-korr commented on The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning wired.com/story/snowflake... · Posted by u/belter
Previous HN comments indicated this could just be demo snowflake accounts, which were all compromised from a single individuals account at snowflake. But the announcements don’t seem consistent with this. Do we think propective customers really shared 100s of millions of real customer records for demo accounts? Or more likely the sales person was granted access to production systems by the prospective clients, so their credential without MFA could be used to access many customers real data? I struggle to see how snowflake can blame the customer here; secure by default is something a customer should reasonably expect for their money.
My guess is that it went down like this.
Ticketmaster gave access to their production tenant to sales engineer that was probably attached to their account rep. He got an account with a set password, was not onboarded into their Okta/Azure AD/etc and didn't have MFA enabled for his account or was restricted to a range of IPs for access.
He got p0wned and the hackers got in using his creds. Of course he likely had accountadmin or something highly privileged since he was likely routinely asked to look at random things at Ticketmaster... that too didn't help.
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Fun fact: that's actually a Yiddish word: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frajer
English translation: dope, sucker. As in there's a sucker born every minute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_...
The word is widely used in Russian as well.
Volume trumps everything for cycling/running - these are low skill so to speak sports. 60 mpw for 18 weeks will get most people into a Boston qualifying time. Zone 1/2 also has the advantage of lowering the risk of injury, which is critical for volume.