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RobinUS2··on SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing
Sounds a bit farfetched, not like they wouldn't hear it later?
RobinUS2··on Spotta – Find Bed Bugs Before Your Guests Do
how does this work?
RobinUS2··on Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’
How are we going to provide that evidence? And make sure that evidence is actually true, instead of AI generated? Send them a link to a wiki page that has been mutated by an AI bot updating it? ;-)
RobinUS2··on Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
Reading a bit it seems to be potentially that the recommendations after the last big quake haven't been followed up properly. So basically stronger building requirements, with government validation was the plan; in reality not done (properly) and "checked" by paid companies.
RobinUS2··on Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
In the case of protests etc I'd understand the goal behind it from certain actors involved, but why in this case?
RobinUS2··on Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
RobinUS2··on Cloudflare had a partial outage
I understand your point, but CloudFlare generally is very transparent, including root cause analysis and their CTO reaching out directly. It could also be a mistake or not so well thought about instead of assuming bad intentions.
RobinUS2··on Cloudflare had a partial outage
is it just DNS?
RobinUS2··on What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-faltstrom-base45/
RobinUS2··on Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups
Where should the primary responsibility for product market fit lie within a startup? E.g. product owner, CTO, CEO, .. ?
RobinUS2··on Google Cloud Global Loadbalancer Outage
generally lookup the IPs (dig <hostname>) and then attempt a host/whois on that IP. For PushBullet it's hidden by CloudFlare so hard to see easily, you should try and find an exposed endpoint (which they haven't if they've done well).
RobinUS2··on Google Cloud Global Loadbalancer Outage
this one appears to be just global LBs, so a load balancer in AWS/Azure that hits the actual backends over a VPN or something would have worked, but that's just this case
RobinUS2··on Some .io nameservers are returning wrong results again
Having same issues
RobinUS2··on No Cheating Allowed
Wouldn't it be an option to basically chain the "events" in the local storage queue with crytographic hashes (kind a like a block chain). You can then fairly easily verify modifications somewhere in the list of events.

It wouldn't make it entirely impossible, but much more complicated.

RobinUS2··on BankAPI
Are there any banks actually using this? Or is it more like a suggested spec draft?
RobinUS2··on Passwords are obsolete
Totally agree, except for the fact that email is a secure medium. Phone would be much better.
RobinUS2··on Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and cancellation
Likewise, it simply makes sense if you have a proper understanding of channels and go-routines.
RobinUS2··on A plausible explanation for MH370
Then there's also the North-Korean airspace, which is maybe even more aggressive. Could also match the flight path (give or take).
RobinUS2··on A plausible explanation for MH370
An autopilot can perform an instrument landing, however this does require some preparation of the flight crew (e.g. setting the right frequencies for ILS, reducing airspeed, deploy landing-gear, flaps, apply brakes + thrust reversers).

So simply guiding it to the nearest (suitable) airport would not make a big difference.

RobinUS2··on Ask HN: How many vacations do you take a year?
Located in The Netherlands, but mainly doing business with US/UK. I go on one holiday for an extend period (~ 14 days) and a couple (~ 2) of short 3-5 day trips.
RobinUS2··on Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?
Yes definitely. I personally see this as a key ingredient in order to make a project really work. Of course this doesn't work for things like an X-Ray machine, but for a SaaS company like CloudPelican it does.

We currently use it to investigate root-causes of disruptions, track down bugs in the development and staging environment, and most important: monitor our entire infrastructure. This is also in line with our company vision that should allow users to have a single overview on their entire stack of servers, websites and applications. This will reduce time spent on digging through log files, switching between lots of fragmented SaaS tools, et cetera.

RobinUS2··on Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage message
CloudFlare also takes of the load of your dead server if the server is dead. It still has a "Try the original server"-button, but that is more manual.
RobinUS2··on Ask HN: What are valid reasons for limiting password length?
Highly unlikely. Probably it will hit some kind of max post size in the webserver. However 128 characters is nowhere near 1GB. I think the gap is quite significant.
RobinUS2··on Why We Chose API First Development at Our Startup
Great initiative, I personally prefer to refer to this as "Eat your own sh*t".
RobinUS2··on Ask HN: GET /public/data/AppConfigurations/175/logos.png?
My best guess would be that your domain has been used before? I also get lots of requests on my domains to files that are long gone (couple of years).