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I really needed this 20 years ago.


I worked in the Pennzoil building (mentioned). It was a horrible waste of space, for what? A couple of nondescript black triangles? They could have had so much more leasable space and the floors wouldn't have been these odd shaped low ceiling caverns to make up for the loss of useable space. Just think, each of those triangular towers needs its own core with plumbing and elevator shafts. Good grief.


I had never seen this building. The dark glass is an odd choice for an oil company, all it makes me think of is how they are polluting the world with smoke and soot. It looks like a building Sauron would have enjoyed.


I really like the part where the article was phone friendly.

Seriously how does anyone make money with a website where the actual content is so obscured by ads that users don’t bother coming back?


You had me until "Please support HTTP basic auth for client authentication".

OAuth 2.1 draft spec emphasizes that basic auth is no longer preferred. I read that to mean: MAY, or perhaps even SHOULD NOT.


What is the problem with that? You know that the client credentials flow will normally just send the exact same information, principal and secret, in the form, right? How is sending a header with the information bad, specially when it was being done for ages already in this use case?


> How is sending a header with the information bad, specially when it was being done for ages already in this use case?

leeches

(To actually answer your question, there are a number of tricks you can use to prevent abuse that aren't effective when using http basic)


"Coincidentally, Lynch's co-defendant, Stephen Chamberlain, who was also acquitted, died the day of the storm after being hit by a car on Saturday morning in Stretham, England."

Coincidentally indeed.

"Other missing individuals have been identified by The Independent as: Christopher Morvillo, a lawyer who had represented Lynch and wife Neda Morvillo; Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of investment bank Morgan Stanley International and wife Judy Bloomer."

Oh.


The maker says the sailing boat was nearly unsinkable (why won't they?)

There are 15 survivors including the Captain, so I doubt foul play. Given that Waterspouts, even the seemingly innocuous ones, are très powerful, it remains the most likely cause of Bayesian's tragedy.

https://news.sky.com/story/sailing-yachts-like-mike-lynchs-a... / https://archive.md/JKNJ7


>There are 15 survivors including the Captain, so I doubt foul play.

doesn't that make it even more suspicious? the boat goes down, most of the people on it survive, but the guy who ripped off HP and his banker and his lawyer all died.

if you wanted to believe that the ship was sailed into a storm and the sinking was used as cover for a murder, it seems more plausible this way than if everybody on the ship had died. (to be clear, i don't really believe this is what happened. just trying to figure out why the captain surviving makes it less likely to be foul play)


HP aren’t the mafia. Proved by jury trial that it wasn’t his fault if HP overvalued his company. Caveat emptor.


Maybe they saw the storm coming towards them and they panicked and committed suicide.


I mean, I really have to fight my brain from jumping into conspiracy theories at times. This is ABSOLUTELY one of them.

Lot of other nasties running around without repercussions, but Karma/Simulation said nay to these cats. It is crazy hard to just shake off the coincidence at times.


Do you think that the conspirators staged the boat trip by actively planning for a waterspout? What is the probability of a conspiracy like that succeeding?


Did you not read the statement of his wife? So explains in detail the storm.


Except the boat's keel was found to be raised, which is a suspicious red flag here.


According to this article, it was partially raised, and that would be normal when going into a port:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/21/within...


> Except the boat's keel was found to be raised

Can you explain what that means? Like...I vaguely know what a keel is, but what does it mean for it to be raised? Who raises it, and how, or what could have caused it to be raised? What keel configuration would not have been a red flag?


Some (usually larger) boats can have movable keels - lifting or swing. It's usually controlled by hydraulics. If it's in rough weather you'd expect it to be fully extended to lower the centre of gravity.

They're lifted when going into shallower areas.


The keel is a blade on the bottom of the boat for stability. The built in ones tend to slow down performance, so newer boats have adjustable keels that raise and lower. If the keel had been extended, it would’ve lowered the boat’s center of gravity and given more stability. In a water spout however, not sure anything could’ve been helped. They needed to spend the night on land.


It sounds a bit less like a conspiracy theory if you consider that the yacht trip was meant to celebrate winning the legal case. Which explains why key people involved in the legal case are missing... they were on the yacht. The only real coincidence is the land and sea accidents happening around the same time.


> Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of investment bank Morgan Stanley International and wife Judy Bloomer.

I am curious, was Morgan Stanley International on that HP deal with Mr Lynch in some capacity?


Bloomer was head of audit committee at Autonomy, the company in question…


Who were you expecting to be on the yacht?


Nothing will compare to standing in a book store as a teen reading Mother Earth Mother Board, published in wired, while my Coke got warm.

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/


Has anyone else read the story of the astronaut onboard ISS who lost it (if I recall it was over a romantic interest) and destroyed the toilet and drilled a hole in the space station?




No, have you? If so, where?


Hacker News is not the audience for “haters gonna hate”.

The list of similarly cynical responses to great innovations and great businesses is a long one here.


I’ve spent a fair number of years doing corporate cucumber training.

At every client I emphatically insist that if they are not using Gherkin as a “Rosetta stone” for the business folks then they’re wasting their time with cucumber. Don’t go to the trouble of writing gherkin if you’re not using it as living documentation. Save yourself loads of trouble and just use an ordinary test framework.


Is this IaSQL reborn or a completely new product?


Completely separate projects, with different goals. IaSQL is focused on infrastructure as code (like Terraform) in SQL. Steampipe is an "ops as code" platform to query, visualize and report on all your DevOps data (infra, SaaS, IaC, logs, etc). Steampipe's first version was released in Jan 2021.


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