donavanm

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by donavanm 6y ago
Its a statement, not an argument, as I read it. Theyre ignoring other confounding factors, the agency of both telecoms and policy makers, and basing the lose-lose-lose on a limited subset of auction markets. Additionally theres no other sug
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by donavanm 6y ago
Without disagreeing with the lose-lose-lose premise how do you draw the blame to the auction mechanism? The telecoms are in control of their bid values. The government policy makers are in control of minimum bids, related contingencies, an
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by donavanm 6y ago
A quick note, the iPhone 8 and later are all Qi compatible at 7W. I guess their new proprietary charger will be 15W. Supposition is that the watch and ipad dont support wireless charging due to space/heat. Still a pretty reasonable sto
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by donavanm 6y ago
Depends on where you live and what your energy costs and options are. Be prepared to pay $$$ as you start adding zones, especially at a “per room” level. In the PNW my todo wishlist is heat pump + zoned underfloor radiant + on demand gas bo
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by donavanm 6y ago
It starts with a distributed approach, from the bottom up. The primitives of Packages and Version Sets match how teams are organized and work. Package versions, VFIs, and package builds are the interfaces & immutable artifacts for teams
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by donavanm 6y ago
>Because you could also just pour molten metal into a mold and let it cool to get an initial "flat surface" but there are limits to that. I dont know what metal would work for that. There's still significant surface tensio
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by donavanm 6y ago
Re: getting better there were absolutely industrial and scientific advancements. But for the common man it was pretty grim for an entire generation. My recollection is the production & availability of food and basic goods (eg clothing,
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by donavanm 6y ago
My recollection is that OpenDNS(?) did the same thing on an ongoing basis. They mirrored prod network traffic in to a gamma environment to test/compare responses. I seem to recall it come up at a DNS OARC workshop a few years back if a
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by donavanm 6y ago
Im over here looking at states where I have family and your same dilemma. I suspect it's relative in these times, but Im thankful I ended up on this side of the pond.
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by donavanm 6y ago
The countries 3,000 total last I checked. Also you must be an AU citizen or PR to enter & must have health ministry approval. Similarly to leave citizens require ministry approval (which IIRC has been granted about 2,500 times so far).
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by donavanm 6y ago
Im in Sydney. During the peak in Q1-Q2 ~60% of infections were travelers arriving from overseas. We're currently at 3-10 infections per day, with about 50-75% of those continuing to be overseas travelers. As you noted both quarantine a
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by donavanm 6y ago
> The fact IAM policies still can't deny requests missing a tag, or deny requests by tag-value condition seems silly to me... Am I missing something here? I could have sworn that aws:RequestTag with a “Tag On Create” Actions would e
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by donavanm 6y ago
> in practice I think many businesses just apply a flat rate like 1–2% which will be higher than their costs for some transactions Have you ever seen an itemized transaction cost of 5¢ + 1-2% of total? Living in Sydney I never have. Li
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by donavanm 6y ago
I havent looked in a good 5 years, but “not much.” There were roots running off of 1gbs links back then. A quick loot at the sibling comment root stats and Im swagging a few hundred thousand tps at about 256 bytes per response. The problem
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by donavanm 6y ago
I believe youre seeing an artifact of how governance is divided. It looks like sweden (and many other parliamentary systems) puts the administration & execution of law under the direction of a minister, who’s primarily a legislator. In
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by donavanm 6y ago
The last point is a good one around absolute vs subjective experience. If you’re looking at 1M disks 99.999% availability is great. But if your entire company runs on 10 instances your day will be utterly ruined when any one of those root
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by donavanm 6y ago
You get a lot more visibility and control with iSCSI, ATA over eth, infiniband, etc. The downside is you need to use and understand that visibility and control. EBS is surfaced to you as a simple locally attached block dev. The network pe
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by donavanm 6y ago
I understand the parallels. I was trying to prod gp that it extends to dimensions beyond “internet” and they seem to be trending in the same direction. I do disagree that the old First/Second/Third characterizations are directly
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by donavanm 6y ago
> we'll have first internet countries (USA), second internet countries (China), and third internet countries (both) This does not seem to be limited to network connectivity. The same balkanization is occurring with trade, movement o
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by donavanm 6y ago
I dont know if Id characterize it exactly like that. But “market access” does seem to be is gained by a Jio tie up. The economist has been covering it regularly. Heres a July write up https://www.economist.com/business/
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by donavanm 6y ago
Its been a few years since I looked. But yeah.. basically all the consumer and general commercial monitoring is centralized to be handled by ADT. Hardware is all from honeywell or a few others. Companies like frontpoint etc handle customer
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by donavanm 6y ago
I work for a billions company. Nginx is still fine. Youll need to be prepared to pay for better operations, management, visibility, and protocol support. You can either pay them or build it in house, but you will want to pay.
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by donavanm 6y ago
There's a ton of organizational and management study around teh number of direct reports. Seven is certainly not an accident. As I recall most IT work has an effective range of 5-10, with optimal outcomes around 6-7. https:/&#x2F
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by donavanm 6y ago
> IAM is a concept built on top of lower level primitives that you do not control, but Amazon does. Of course there are lower level primitives. And if the public documentation and observed behavior is insufficient I encourage you to inqu
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by donavanm 6y ago
> I never understood the need for geoip unless you ship spyware. There are many many cases where it’s relevant. Others have mentioned prepopulating or ease of use aspects. But you’re making big assumptions that the client has an interac
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by donavanm 6y ago
I haven’t worked in the space in a while but I’d doubt it’s via anything like HTTP headers. From a total guess I’d look at packet inter frame gaps & jitter to imply client csmacd or l2 behavior. Maaaaybe MTU and TTLs to infer intermedia
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by donavanm 6y ago
> Ideally customer is notified each time it happens - that would be cool, but likely technically not possible You're underestimating the investments that AWS (and Amazon at large) make in to security, confidentiality, and auditing.
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by donavanm 6y ago
> It's obvious that with Symmetrical Encryption AWS obviously needs to know the other end of the key at some point so that it can decrypt the data. Its worth noting that even symmetric keys dont imply direct access to the secret its
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by donavanm 6y ago
I believe youre misunderstanding how KMS works and is exposed. You probably want to look at the concept of “kms grants.” Thoese regulate which principals, including service principals, can use CMK materials. The customer controls those gr
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by donavanm 6y ago
There was zero inside knowledge and they were an ex employee at all times relevant to the incident. The EC2 instance credentials via the metadata url is public documented functionality. Its how things like the SDK “just work.” The S3 bucket

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