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by alexforster 8y ago
Not even close, and new housing starts have been keeping pace with population growth for years (unlike most other tech boom cities).
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by alexforster 8y ago
Good example of something that got traction on HN: https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github
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by alexforster 8y ago
This is really bad advice to give someone with diagnosed depression. Do take medication if it is recommended, and be less hard on yourself - not more.
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by alexforster 8y ago
Not mentioned in the article: its range is apparently from UHF to 1.7GHz+
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A curated list of articles complaining that Go isn't good enough(github.com)
1 points by alexforster 9y ago|0 comments
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by alexforster 9y ago
The latency doesn't sound that bad. It's 200ns to access memory on another local NUMA node, and 500ns to access memory on another machine using NUMAlink. Fascinating tech. I had no idea this could be done with Xeons.
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by alexforster 9y ago
Link to (translated) blog post about how this was done: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
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by alexforster 9y ago
...by the much-harder-to-exploit timing attack that is easily mitigated by cropping timer resolution.
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by alexforster 9y ago
There's a one-click page to permanently delete your Facebook account here: https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
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by alexforster 9y ago
DPDK (userspace networking) and SPDK (userspace storage) seem like a perfect fit for this. Both even support FreeBSD!
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by alexforster 9y ago
We have to acknowledge that the underlying issues here won't ever be understood by the broader public. These kinds of "here's what happens when..." stories are among the most important ways that we can get your message a
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CVE-2017-1000082 assigned to systemd, despite Pottering's objection(seclists.org)
17 points by alexforster 9y ago|3 comments
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by alexforster 9y ago
The keyword "auto" means int?
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by alexforster 9y ago
There's type inference everywhere!
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by alexforster 9y ago
I believe this is because LuaJIT is 5.1-only.
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by alexforster 9y ago
I think WebDAV would be a much more natural fit for this problem. When people think WebDAV they usually think Microsoft, but it's actually a very mature, open HTTP extension standard. RDF has a high barrier to entry, and it's goin
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by alexforster 10y ago
> Our datacenter is fed by redundant fiber feeds from Hurricane Electric, Cogent Communications, and the Kansas City Internet Exchange (KCIX). Ouch.
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by alexforster 10y ago
> 20-year-old [ProTraf] President Paras Jha, from Fanwood, NJ
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by alexforster 10y ago
Yeah, and Go doesn't expose a monotonic clocksource in its stdlib[1]. I'd bet that's what this boils down to. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12914
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by alexforster 10y ago
We're usually around at nanog!
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by alexforster 10y ago
Welp, there's a lot that needs addressing in this comment, but I'll stick to the heavy-hitters. > they've had near daily network interruptions due to DDoS attacks since Christmas of last year, with some outages lasting up
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by alexforster 10y ago
> Linode is moving 200-300 Gbps globally. That is about 37.5 Gbps per location. We're actually moving to 5-10x that figure per location. We aren't playing around!
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by alexforster 10y ago
The main justification for getting more space is to show projected usage based on past usage. So if I get a /19 and use it in one month instead of three, I'll get an /18 next time, because that's about how much I'll
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by alexforster 10y ago
I appreciate the kind words in many of the comments here, and I'm sure my colleagues do too. For reference, our third party monitoring measured approximately 23 minutes of downtime– 1m 46s @ 2016-09-08 01:37:53 EDT 1m 10s @ 2016-
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by alexforster 10y ago
C#
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by alexforster 10y ago
Thank you. I'm surprised where this discussion has headed. Of course the kids didn't rebuild the ABS census system in 50-some hours, and I don't think the sensationalism in this article is meant to be taken so literally. The
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by alexforster 10y ago
Acting inspector general Christopher Sharpley uploaded the report to the office's internal computer network and then destroyed the hard disk, apparently following standard protocol, the news outlet reported. Then, someone else in the
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by alexforster 11y ago
Average was $0.63/mbit in 2015, and I personally haven't seen lower than $0.40/mbit. http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-H...
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by alexforster 11y ago
Give us more standard datastructures, instead. The answer to everything in C++ involves a boost library right now; focus on fixing that. This looks like an awesome library , but completely unnecessary as a core part of the language. Also C
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The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s Holiday DDoS Attacks(blog.linode.com)
234 points by alexforster 11y ago|145 comments

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