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by bcrl 4y ago
IPv6 is such a pain in the ass to deploy that people developed IPv6 NAT. For more than a decade the protocols to delegate an IPv6 subnet to a customer at the edge were missing. With PPPoE the situation was basically that you'd get a
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by bcrl 4y ago
This strikes me as an idea as bad as the Xerox document scanner that implemented a compression algorithm that changed digits. It'll be really fun debugging when something completely unexpected gets spit out of the neural network.
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by bcrl 4y ago
The only thing SLAs do is tell you how much you will be compensated for downtime. If a fibre cut happens, you can end up with a 16 hour outage regardless of what the SLA guarantees. It all depends on the nature, location and extent of the
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by bcrl 4y ago
If your queues are empty, you're wasting money paying your cloud / hosting provider too much. What matters is utilization. Once utilization hits ~80%, your queue will grow rapidy. Keep utilization below 80% and you've got
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by bcrl 4y ago
My worry is that AIs reduce the cost for bad actors to engage in harmful behaviour. The companies building these AIs need to take ethics into account. Making it easier to create fake images, video and audio of real people causes harm and
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by bcrl 4y ago
PON cuts the number of feeder fibres by orders of magnitude. GPON is typically deployed with 1x32 PLC splitters. With XG/XGS-PON deployments with 1x64 and 1x128 splitters are feasible. If you have infinite financing, sure, more fibr
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by bcrl 4y ago
80% loading of a link is where queuing theory says latency goes up fast. With 10Gbps links (be they 10Gbps ethernet links or XGSPON), you don't really want to go up above 80% load. 10Gbps PON is becoming mainstream now, while 25Gbps
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by bcrl 4y ago
There's no way to distinguish between the fake news Fox broadcasts and the non-fake news. It's not like Fox puts a disclaimer up on the screen saying which stories are for entertainment purposes only.
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by bcrl 4y ago
But 64 bit x86 wasn't created by Intel, it was created by AMD. It should really be referred to as AMD-64.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Maps is not fine. There are random gaps in Streetview data all over the place for places that previously had coverage or where the data was obviously collected. I've tried reporting the bugs through multiple routes, but it never gets
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by bcrl 4y ago
The world we need is one where AI driven weapons can continue to seek out and kill people long after their masters are dead.
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by bcrl 4y ago
It doesn't matter what the data says if it's telling you to go in a direction that is unethical.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Depends on what the application is. Web technologies do not make sense for an application like a file editor. Surely the Asker has a reason for asking about GUI toolkits.
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by bcrl 4y ago
When colocating, contracts tend to pay for power at a fixed price based on provisioning (which has to be more than the max power that will be used). Power savings are generally irrelevant for the customer paying for colocation despite bein
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by bcrl 4y ago
Be aware that the Gnome teams throws out the entire toolkit every few years. If you want a more stable API supported over a longer timeframe, use Qt instead.
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by bcrl 4y ago
You can build an edge triggered flip flop from just NAND gates. Real world gates have delay, which means that you can generate the enable signal by using a NAND gate to invert the clock and generate a pulse on the edge of the clock by ANDi
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by bcrl 4y ago
Laser tag helped me with my social anxiety. Translating adrenaline spikes into good vs bad really helped.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Isn't the goal ultimately to be able to continuously generate content automatically to placate the masses? Think Wall-e but in a more distopian kind of way where the humans don't even bother interacting with each other.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Just login to your own Google account on their device. =-) That'll result in some pretty dramatic changes in the content they see (and probably you too as things get blended over time).
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by bcrl 4y ago
I agree on that point. I believe that micro-targeting of ads is how harmful content (outright scams as well as conspiracy theories and other misinformation) is able to get promoted in ways that allow it to proliferate which was not possibl
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by bcrl 4y ago
No, I checked for that multiple times as I was around when that happened. It was an ad served up directly by Google that lead to a phishing website and phone numbers on it. His filter bubble is very different from mine, and it's clea
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by bcrl 4y ago
More complex from a theory view, but not hard. You need a symbol table regardless, and symbols tables are most decidedly not "hard" to implement. Sure, it's a layering violation, but that's how we were forced to write
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by bcrl 4y ago
The way I handled it fell out as a result of how tokens were parsed. The token would be hashed, and that hash would be used to check if the token was a keyword in one hash table, then the same hash used to check in a symbol table. That ma
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by bcrl 4y ago
It's sad that Google finds it more important to take profits from ads linking to malware downloads than to protect users from harms. I guess the only way that's going to happen is if governments step up and make Google liable for
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by bcrl 4y ago
Have you actually written a C parser? I will grant that C++ is incredibly hard, but C is relatively straightforward. Types are not at all difficult to parse in C, and the pre-processor isn't all that complex either when you have the
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by bcrl 4y ago
Hard to parse? Not in my experience. I wrote a simple C compiler while in high school using a handwritten recursive descent parser. Parsing was relatively easy, and recursive descent made generating sensible parse errors possible (vs yac
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by bcrl 4y ago
That would just reinforce the stock price death spiral that is being artificially propped up by the high dividend. What I'm really wondering about is how Intel can afford to build all the factories that government subsidies are being g
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by bcrl 4y ago
Or if your local power company is Hydro One that has known Suspect Insulators on the transmission lines strung above the distribution lines, you'll end up having 44kV pumped into lines that normally carry 7.2kV with the end result that
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by bcrl 4y ago
By that reasoning we shouldn't be using higher level languages like Python and Java that use more memory, and consume more power for the same workload as code written in assembly. 6502 assembly FTW!
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by bcrl 4y ago
Maybe if it was 10-15% of senior managers being cut.

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