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by db48x 6mo ago
Stop calling it a free market! These stupid rules keep it from being free.
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by db48x 6mo ago
Plus, the fiber trunk that runs near your house is not necessarily relevant. What matters are the _endpoints_ of that trunk line. They’re not just going to dig it up and splice your house into the middle of that fiber bundle. (This is a cri
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by db48x 6mo ago
True; to err is human. But it is weird that they didn’t just fire up a standard RDS instance of one or more sizes and test those. After all, it’s already automated; two clicks on the website gets you a standard configuration and a couple mo
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by db48x 6mo ago
Certainly could be worse!
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by db48x 6mo ago
Actually, Ziply Fiber offers 50Gbps symmetrical service in the Northwest of the US: < https://ziplyfiber.com/internet/multigig >. The free market is not a lie, it’s just that a lot of our politicians have lost thei
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by db48x 6mo ago
That should be obvious to anyone who read the initial message. The regression was caused by a configuration change that changed the default from PREEMPT_NONE to PREEMT_LAZY. If you don’t know what those options do, use the source. (< htt
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by db48x 6mo ago
The number of people at Amazon is pretty much irrelevant; the org is going to ensure that someone is keeping an eye on kernel performance, but also that the work isn’t duplicative. Surely they would be testing the configuration(s) that they
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by db48x 6mo ago
Yes, I had a good laugh at that. It might technically be a regression, but not one that most people will see in practice. Pretty weird that someone at Amazon is bothering to run those tests without hugepages.
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by db48x 6mo ago
Heh. Did they at least add useful features to balance out that cost?
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by db48x 6mo ago
Could be either of those, or something else entirely. Or even measurement error.
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by db48x 6mo ago
Lol, no. It is true that writing to the board will get you noticed, and that you might not like the consequences. If you value having the job then don’t write to the board. Even if you are right, being noticed like that isn’t going to endea
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by db48x 7mo ago
But most ISPs aren’t giving out static IPv6 prefixes either. Instead they are collecting logs of what addresses they’ve handed out to which customer and holding on to them for years and years in case a court requests them. Tracking visitors
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by db48x 7mo ago
That’s a clever start, but it has a problem. What happens when the list of age groups changes? This list is not fixed; it changes over both time and space. How do I tell the difference between a system that doesn’t support age attestation v
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by db48x 7mo ago
It is an optional field, and so far there is no software that asks for this information, let alone insists on it.
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by db48x 7mo ago
You have to sue them. If you don’t sue them, they’ll keep doing it.
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by db48x 7mo ago
Obscurity indeed. This morning shortly after I woke up I read your message and could only think that you were referring to Awk somehow. That didn’t make much sense to me. Now, hours later and after finally eating something, it does make sen
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by db48x 7mo ago
It was in the video, actually.
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by db48x 7mo ago
That’s actually a really common implementation failure across all platforms. It crops up again and again, in virtually every new thing that people implement. It’s very common to see this problem when you activate a submenu of a menu, and wa
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by db48x 7mo ago
> outstripped older materials in performance As measured in mass needed for a given amount of insulation. They expected the modern materials to achieve the same protection from cold while being lighter. That’s not what they found. > I
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by db48x 7mo ago
Obviously that older gear wasn’t useless, since real people used it to climb the exact same mountains that people climb today. It’s pretty clear from the text that they have debunked the idea that modern synthetic materials have outstripped
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by db48x 7mo ago
> … libertine … Seriously? At least look up what words mean before you thesaurus them into your ideas.
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by db48x 7mo ago
Starlink is equally great no matter where you live :) But you’re right, in urban areas it should be possible to do better. If you can get 1Gbps symmetric fiber then get the fiber. Sadly in the US it is not always possible to do better than
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by db48x 7mo ago
I’m not even sure that anti–trust laws come into it; they just want as many launch customers as possible. Better to earn some money off of a competing constellation rather than earn nothing, right?
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by db48x 7mo ago
SpaceX will happily launch satellites for competitors. OneWeb has bought launches from them, for example.
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by db48x 7mo ago
Most roads in the US used to be split between neighboring properties like that. in the 1800s the US was surveyed into 1×1 mile sections, with no gaps between them. Homesteaders could improve the land and claim ownership. As they moved in th
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by db48x 7mo ago
Do the way LLVM does it.
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by db48x 7mo ago
Ah, of course. They probably want you to pay extra for that. :) An HE.net tunnel has advantages, but they’re also quite bandwidth–constrained. If you need anything more than ~1MB/s then you should build something yourself instead.
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by db48x 7mo ago
You don’t need your ISP to assign a static prefix just to have static addresses on your home network. Instead choose your own prefix inside the fd00::/8 block. There is a procedure using hashing that you can follow to help guarantee th
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by db48x 7mo ago
If your country’s law says that the owner of the car commits a crime if the driver runs a red light, then ticketing the owner makes perfect sense. But in Florida the law says that the _driver_ has committed the crime. Therefore the _driver_
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by db48x 7mo ago
Right. I am completely aware that it works that way in many parts of the world, but in the United States of America it is unconstitutional _unless_ the state law makes it a completely civil infraction that is settled using a fine only. No p

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