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pixl97 commented on A failure of security systems at PayPal is causing concern for German banks   nordbayern.de/news-in-eng... · Posted by u/tietjens
arn3n · 6 hours ago
I believe you’re referencing Patrick McKenzie’s takes on fraud, which I agree with — but when he (and others) talk about the optimal amount of fraud they’re usually referring to fraud from “losing money from the company to customers”. This is not PayPal’s case; because PayPal isn’t the victim of fraud on its platform but makes money off its use, their optimal amount of fraud is “as much as they can permit without losing customers or regulators getting up their ass”.
pixl97 · 6 hours ago
>usually referring to fraud from “losing money from the company to customers”.

Conversely this can affect customers by the vendor or payment platform blocking transactions that are not fraud.

pixl97 commented on Starship's Tenth Flight Test   spacex.com/... · Posted by u/metalman
14 · a day ago
I can't help but think of one cray thing...This is absolutely amazing to watch. The fact that there are cameras at every stage showing exactly what is happening. Being able to see the curvature of earth all in hi-def. But the entire time I watch this I just keep thinking even with all this proof you still will not convince some people that the moon landings are real and that the earth is not flat. They will say these are just AI videos used to trick people from the truth.

It just amazes me that technologies have come so far that at one end we can really show that the earth is truthfully a sphere but also at the same time technology has come so far one can claim this is just another video created by AI and is not actually true.

pixl97 · a day ago
Yea, I'm older and remember the shuttle days. It's the video all the way to the ground that amazes me every time (well at least when the orbiter is aligned properly and not turning into a meteor shower).
pixl97 commented on Starship's Tenth Flight Test   spacex.com/... · Posted by u/metalman
JKCalhoun · a day ago
Some kind of failure in the lower engine area.

Figure it's going to burn up on entry?

EDIT: made it. I suppose it was meant to blow up on landing in the ocean? It would have been nice to examine the burned components — but perhaps they had not intended to retrieve it that far away anyway.

pixl97 · a day ago
It made it, but there was some toastyness on the bottom of the lower flaps. This said, it is less bad than we've seen on the other 2 landings.
pixl97 commented on Starship's Tenth Flight Test   spacex.com/... · Posted by u/metalman
loeg · a day ago
Which is in about 4 minutes.
pixl97 · a day ago
And it splashed down successfully too.
pixl97 commented on The Relativity of Wrong (1988)   hermiene.net/essays-trans... · Posted by u/speckx
sophacles · 2 days ago
We don't even know if the gods are real... in fact it is literally unknowable.

An yet... you're claiming to know what the gods like and don't like. Strange.

pixl97 · a day ago
A better way I like to say it is.

Everything prove able by religion is not unique to religion.

Everything unique to religion is not proveable.

pixl97 commented on The Relativity of Wrong (1988)   hermiene.net/essays-trans... · Posted by u/speckx
MangoToupe · 2 days ago
We don't even know if the laws of physics are constant. In fact, it is literally unknowable.

> a compelling argument can at least be made

Absolutely! But it takes a good deal of hubris to call this knowledge.

pixl97 · a day ago
At minimum the are quasi-stable over long enough periods of time for life to firm. In some ways we know they are not 'constant', as in before the big bang there is a firewall that looks like entropy was zero.

Now if you think that's going to matter in the next few billion years is very probable you're mistaken.

pixl97 commented on SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious   chrislockard.net/posts/ss... · Posted by u/unl0ckd
romaniv · 2 days ago
The web today is a rotting carcass with various middlemen maggots crawling all over it and gorging themselves on the decay. The only real discussion to be had is what to replace it with and how to design the new protocols to avoid the same issues.
pixl97 · 2 days ago
Thats the neat thing, you cant really avoid the same issues. Security is not a destination, it's a process. Everything you find a way to make something more secure someone seems to find a new way to attack it, and so the ecosystem evolves.
pixl97 commented on Everything I know about good API design   seangoedecke.com/good-api... · Posted by u/ahamez
echelon · 3 days ago
I have only twice seen a service ever make a /v2.

It's typically to declare bankruptcy on the entirety of /v1 and force eventual migration of everyone onto /v2 (if that's even possible).

pixl97 · 3 days ago
I work for a company that has an older api so it's defined in the header, but we're up to v6 at this point. Very useful for changes that have happened over the years.
pixl97 commented on Everything I know about good API design   seangoedecke.com/good-api... · Posted by u/ahamez
claw-el · 3 days ago
If there is a breaking change forced upon in the future, can’t we use a different name for the function?
pixl97 · 3 days ago
Discoverability.

/v1/downloadFile

/v2/downloadFile

Is much easier to check for a v3 then

/api/downloadFile

/api/downloadFileOver2gb

/api/downloadSignedFile

Etc. Etc.

pixl97 commented on Everything I know about good API design   seangoedecke.com/good-api... · Posted by u/ahamez
choult · 3 days ago
It's a problem downstream. Integrators weren't forced to include a version number for v1, so the rework overhead to use v2 will be higher than if it was present in your scheme to begin.
pixl97 · 3 days ago
This here, it's way easier to grep a file for /v1/ and show all the api endpoints then ensure you haven't missed something.

u/pixl97

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