api

222 ms·

13651.
by api 11y ago
User space networking overlays impose a penalty just like and for much the same reason as dynamic language, garbage collection, etc. -- it's a trade-off between versatility and performance. The best networking performance is achieved b
13652.
by api 11y ago
Network effects are intensely powerful. People use the big SV data silos because people use them.
13653.
by api 11y ago
The two are not mutually exclusive. That could well be the official above-board reason. I was simply pointing out the absolutely immense opportunity for unchecked corruption that's inherent in programs like this. They're classifie
13654.
by api 11y ago
I'm very happy to see independent fusion efforts raising money, given that government R&D has decided to put nearly all its eggs in the tokamak basket.
13655.
by api 11y ago
I've thought for a long time that the most likely corruption we'd see around the surveillance issue is industrial espionage. It'd be a great way for the NSA to give an unfair advantage to state-linked American corporations, o
13656.
by api 11y ago
https://mailinabox.email
13657.
by api 11y ago
The end justifies the means?
13658.
by api 11y ago
I don't think the issues are that closely related. You don't have to be married to have sex, and practicing pedophilia is already illegal. Pedophilia is categorically different from homosexuality. Children don't generally see
13659.
by api 11y ago
I strongly suspect that the real historic reason for taboos against homosexuality boiled down to two concerns in roughly this order: (1) Keeping birth rates up in order to raise armies and work forces. Agrarian civilizations derived power l
13660.
by api 11y ago
The religious arguments made by opponents to this are disingenuous. The Bible and many other traditional religious texts have lots of bad things to say about, say, usury (the charging of interest, or at least excess interest), yet you see n
13661.
by api 11y ago
Interesting how hard you got down voted. I don't disagree with marriage equality at all, but I also believe that the whole "culture war" has been horribly destructive to our ability to address more pressing issues. It'
13662.
by api 11y ago
Neither of these are actually usable in the real world.
13663.
by api 11y ago
I agree with them in a sense -- it's not democratic. Neither was desegregation. As the saying goes: democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
13664.
by api 11y ago
Few of the big cloud providers -- EC2, Azure, etc. -- support IPv6. That's the big bottleneck. Fundamentally I think IPv6 itself is fine, but the transition was utterly botched. They should have unshelved 240.0.0.0/4 and mapped IP
13665.
by api 11y ago
I'm sure they went with Condi for her expertise in government, and thus in landing government contracts. That's how the revolving door contracting system works, and when you're in the competitive enterprise market you can&#x2
13666.
by api 11y ago
On Windows?
13667.
by api 11y ago
I mostly agree, but I do have to point out that inflation has occurred. It's just been confined to a limited number of areas. Housing is completely insane in many areas when compared with median income, and that's largely a side e
13668.
by api 11y ago
Maybe we should start thinking of security in terms of 'how can we build things that are actually secure by design' instead of 'how can we use stupid IP-level hacks to block things because our stuff is swiss cheese'?
13669.
by api 11y ago
Probably doesn't matter much here, but 240.0.0.0/4 is hard coded to be unusable on Windows systems. It's in the Windows IP stack somewhere. Packets to/from that network will simply be dropped.
13670.
by api 11y ago
Electricity was crazy in SoCal last night, almost brownout. I wonder if some long distance lines were shut down preemptively to avoid an incident like the Northeast.
13671.
by api 11y ago
What we're seeing emerge here is a new universal binary format. I've thought of Docker containers for a long time as gigantic statically linked binaries. This isn't necessarily a bad thing (though it does present issues). In
13672.
by api 11y ago
The utility of recycling depends a whole lot on the material. (1) Is the material common? (2) Is recycling it less energy intensive than mining/refining it? (3) Is it nasty in a landfill? Does it leak, pollute groundwater, etc.? Alumin
13673.
by api 11y ago
I applaud the courageous comment. Everyone should take a moment out of their day from time to time to take a whack at the idea that natural equals good.
13674.
by api 11y ago
Is anyone saying they don't?
13675.
by api 11y ago
Common sense is optimization of decision making with heuristics and data compression. It comes at a cost-- cognitive biases, illusions, etc.-- but imagine trying to function in the world if you had to reason through and empirically test eac
13676.
by api 11y ago
Both this and the previous tongue-in-cheek rant are correct. It depends on who you are. The fact is that not everyone is going to need to scale to Google-like sizes, and not every app is going to need to scale in the same way . For many de
13677.
by api 11y ago
I might put one together, but I shouldn't need to. Yubico should have a docs for common use cases like this. Great product but terrible web site and terrible "enterprise" UIs.
13678.
by api 11y ago
"and pay off the mortgage" In most large metro areas this is impossible for ordinary mortals without a liquidity event or a very high income. We are still very much in a housing bubble being driven by insanely cheap money -- near-
13679.
by api 11y ago
GitHub has a paid business model, so I think they're less likely to be tempted by the dark side. SourceForge is another cautionary tale about how "free is a lie" -- how free leads directly to scummy business models.
13680.
by api 11y ago
Because it is.

More ›