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by butlerm 3y ago
The smaller the service, the more likely that the overhead of having a separate service exceeds the benefit of doing so. It isn't at all normal for a service to have its own database unless it provides a substantial piece of functional
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by butlerm 3y ago
It is possible to sequence messages across multiple channels although of course you have to design the transport protocol to support that. Alternatively you can just have typed, ordered messages within the same channel, which is a much more
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by butlerm 3y ago
Is there a network protocol that goes along with that? Something suitable for a text terminal? Not just a proprietary and more than likely underdocumented API?
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by butlerm 3y ago
Errant logging and transfer for technical support apparently nearly lead to a security compromise at Cloudflare recently.
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by butlerm 3y ago
Someone really ought to design a new text terminal protocol with a strict binary separation between data and control information and eliminate the regrettable scourge of escape sequences forever. Then using a command like "cat" t
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by butlerm 3y ago
Any system where there is a strict separation between data and control information is not considered a form of in-band signalling but rather out-of-band signalling based on an analogy of separation of a carrier into independent communicatio
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by butlerm 3y ago
Somehow expecting someone to see a doctor and supply documentation of the result to be allowed to take off a day for a present illness seems somewhere between draconian and impractical. How about something simple, like providing a fixed num
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by butlerm 3y ago
In most SQL databases, once you have a connection handle, you can allocate an arbitrary number of statement handles, and each SQL "statement" can be executed independently, has an associated query, parameters, a result set, and so
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by butlerm 3y ago
The president and the entire executive branch have an obligation to faithfully execute the law. For all officers of the United States, that is a sworn obligation.
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by butlerm 3y ago
It is quite difficult for Republicans to reverse any act of Congress without another act of Congress. The assent of the House, the Senate, and (usually) the President is required.
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by butlerm 3y ago
The Federal Reserve started as a government sponsored banking cartel to solve a specific problem. It was not intended to be a regulatory agency until not that many years ago, and is not appropriate for the job. Bank and consumer finance r
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by butlerm 3y ago
There are a number of relevant issues here, including the general problem that DNS is not trustable and is not reliable or not reliable enough to use for configuring routers and firewalls. It is not even necessarily accessible or usable for
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by butlerm 3y ago
There are certainly advantages as you point out, but just because you have 128 bit addresses does not mean it is convenient for 64 bits of that to be filled with semi-random data.
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by butlerm 3y ago
The problem is that adding so many bits to IPv6 addresses, by way of intended integration of the EUI / MAC address in particular is not actually necessary and is a bit of a mistake. As a rule, no one even wants their MAC address propa
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by butlerm 3y ago
That document is not a proposal, it is a problem statement. It goes without saying that IPv4 only clients - every single one of them - would need to be upgraded in some fashion to support a larger address space. The issue is how to do th
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by butlerm 3y ago
It is not true that all counterproposals are impossible to deploy, they just have a number of downsides that were either politically or technically impalatable in 1996. For example, the network could have been made administratively compati
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by butlerm 3y ago
Software specifications are usually adopted by convention and implemented to minimize surprise and make things interoperable. They are not authorities and cannot make anyone do anything. One of the most common software failure modes is to i
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by butlerm 3y ago
Commuting when it isn't necessary is economically inefficient. Employees are required to pay the entirety of the cost. The only way this is likely to equalize out in favor of increased time on site is if employers start paying employe
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by butlerm 3y ago
Databases like Oracle Parallel Server were doing disaggregated storage more than a decade before that.
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by butlerm 3y ago
I imagine in most black start scenarios the coal plant would already be warm. If black start takes a day and the coal plant cannot operate without external power then maybe not so much. I don't think you need spare power plants so muc
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by butlerm 3y ago
No one buys any product that costs more than it is worth to them. If value is lower than cost sales tend to go to zero. The continued market for a product even in the midst of shortage indicates that someone somewhere values the product mo
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by butlerm 3y ago
Incentives are fine. Misleading and deceiving people about them is not.
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by butlerm 3y ago
With the benefit of hindsight, if the standard was done over again either a lot of unnecessary difficulties mentioned in this article should be avoided or the standard split in two. It is arguably too ambitious, too inefficient, and too un
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by butlerm 3y ago
LLCs cannot be used to avoid income taxes. The income from an LLC passes through directly to the tax returns of the owners, where taxes on it are due and payable. Same with trusts and trust beneficiaries. Capital gains on investments are ta
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by butlerm 3y ago
A generic link to the FedNow website doesn't even begin to substantiate your claim. To start with, where is there any evidence that FedNow intends to share any information about individual payments with the Treasury department? That i
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by butlerm 3y ago
That sounds like the experience a lot of people had with BTRFS (unfortunately).
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by butlerm 3y ago
Probably not much, unless you depend on commercial Linux applications that have adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a standard platform and do not support Debian the same way.
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by butlerm 3y ago
Under current law FDIC member banks pay assessments on their total liabilities, which include uninsured deposits. Account holders do not directly pay anything for deposit insurance, and what they do pay is largely in the form of lower inte
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by butlerm 3y ago
> Quite literally a bank is not required to make you a business account. Banks actually want deposits, so unless you are involved in a shady enterprise, are penniless or insolvent, or are the type of business that presents an outsize ris
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by butlerm 3y ago
> It was paid out of unrelated bank-funded insurance. Every insurance system on the planet works like that, or is intended to, and FDIC insurance is no exception. Insurable risks covered by a large customer base. Institutions that presen

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