philderbeast's comments

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: How to Store an SSH Key on a Yubikey

AWS not offering multiple 2FA keys is one of my biggest annoyances, its a service that I feel much have 2FA due to its ability to run up extreme bills, but I also cant setup a backup key in case of loss or failure.

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: A year with the Elgato Stream Deck

that poor stream deck looks well loved, hopefully it doesn't die on you from getting dirt/water/god knows what else on it in the hands of children :)

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)

"an intruder with a statistical 30-40% chance of being armed"

add gun control into the mix and this chance goes WAY down.

"If you startle them they could open fire sending a stray bullet into your kids room"

As could you by opening fire in an attempt to stop the attacker. Noting the majority of gun owners never use them, they are far more likely to cause harm them prevent it.

The "protection" argument is best served by reducing the number of weapons in circulation, not by arguing your ability to use one to protect yourself.

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)

Except most mass shootings are not done by criminals, they are done by people that walked down to the shops and bought them selves an assault rifle to commit these acts with.

Not to mention making these kind of things makes the criminals that are doing this stand out, and that is something they generally want to avoid.

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: Wazero: The zero dependency WebAssembly runtime for Go developers

only under very very very specific circumstances, that require you to take action rather then them being able to revoke it at will.

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says

"then there is less incentive for investor/landlord to build housing, which makes housing scarcer and drives prices up."

This doesn't ring true, it just moves the incentive to people to build housing to live in them selves, and with less competition in the market it would drive prices down.

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: The SymPy/HackerRank DMCA Incident

github (and other providers) have no obligation to host your content though, so the "restore the challanged material" part has no effect in a lot of cases and the material stays down regardless of sending a counter notice.

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: The SymPy/HackerRank DMCA Incident

if its not US based the DMCA doesn't apply (since its US law) so even if they did, providers in other countries so not need to honour it.

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22

Or you could use a sane, unambiguous date format regardless of where you are in the world like 22 Feb 2022.

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22

which only makes it confusing for the rest of the world

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

it's fairly simple, at some point you have to evaluate somone technical skills to make sure they are suitble for the job, and well designed tests do that.

There is an abundance of bad tests out there, but blanket statements that you won't use a tool that is used for assessing candiates is just as rediculas as saying you won't give apply to jobs that ask for your cv to apply.

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2022/04/2022-04-1...

and still more DMCA notices going in since this post has been up, Looks like they still haven't learnt there lesson despite what they have said in this thread

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

also the #1 way to weed out self important idiots.

bad hacker rank tests are bad, but not all hacker rank tests are bad.

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

Most, if not all, of the problem statements won't even qualify for copywrite, they are generic problems that people have been stating for decades or more and as such are extreamly unlikly to be unique or original to hackerrank.

I am sure however you have already assesed this and applied for the appropriate registration for these works that you are claiming to own the copywrite to? right?

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

As far as (2) is concerned there is only one solution

1) register the copywrite of the tools you have written inhouse for hacker rank and 2) ONLY issue DMCA claims based on your registered copywrites.

The questions and peoples answers to them are not something you should EVER have even considered issuing takedown notices for.

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

No, no you dont need to do take downs, ever.

literaly everything your assessing is programming 101. its not something that you can or should be asserting any copywrite on.

infact I would challange you to register the copywrites on your questions/answers and see exactly how far you get with that process before you even consider sending a single DMCA notice.

philderbeast | 3 years ago | on: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

intersting, im not seeing anything that looks like it would be copywritable at "questions and answers" on that archive page.

I feel like hacker rank might be facing an uphill battle for this one.

philderbeast | 4 years ago | on: Rustenstein 3D: Game programming like it's 1992

its a shame they included the original shareware resource files in there without any mention that they are NOT covered by the MIT licence that the repository is under.

philderbeast | 4 years ago | on: James Webb is fully deployed

even if its looking at the business side of the telescpe the sun sheild means there is no light there for it to be able to see anything.

its a case of your can't see it because there is no light, not because you dont have an angle of it (although that is also a chalange to overcome.

philderbeast | 4 years ago | on: Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend

I didnt't even get a quater of the way down the page before I stopped reading.

As soon as the author started listing things like k8s as needed for microservices it shows they havent stopped to think out side the box. there is no reason you can't run your set of microservices as 3-4 docker containers on the same host, no load balancers, no k8s, no log aggrigation, etc etc etc.

If your application makes sence as microservices you don't need to start with all of that, so including it all in the cost of startup makes no sense at all, as your application starts to scale out and need them, add them at that time, your going to need most of it for a monolith application as well, and some of them you may NEVER need (k8s for example, there is no reason you can't run your application on just plain old compute infrastructure, you don't even need to look at the "cloud" that old box in the corner of your office might be all you need for the project)

if you stop and remember that "microservices" just means small single function services, not things like k8s you will probably find that you can actully do a lot less work if you go down that road by letting other exsisting projects so a whole bunch of the work for you and save you re-inventing the wheel to get your project finished and out the door.