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by eck 12y ago
I once found this bug, where a destructor was taking forever: hash_set<char*> hash; // <fill up/use hash> while(!hash.empty()) { free(*hash.begin()); hash.erase(hash.begin()); } ha
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by eck 12y ago
> the risk of an additional failure in say a RAID5 or RAID6 configuration is just too high. Well there's one issue that another whole drive will fail and you're screwed. The other issue is that modern disks have an unrecoverabl
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by eck 12y ago
> Don't model rockets routinely go much higher than the 400 feet the FAA has traditionally limited hobby aircraft to? Even if they do, they're mostly cardboard, whereas model airplanes have things like small engine blocks. I b
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by eck 12y ago
> I want to send you XX mbps and you want to receive it. You pay Comcast. Am I now entitled to a free connection? Yes, provided you deliver it to the designated IX for my location and pay whatever applicable meet-me-room fees. Realistic
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by eck 12y ago
My point is that they ban explicit prioritization yet ISPs can achieve the exact same result through network topology. It's a huge loophole. Put another way, if I pay Comcast for XX mbps, it should be possible for some company to send
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by eck 12y ago
> 30. But this Order does not apply the open Internet rules to interconnection. TLDR: Relax, Comcast. You can still intentionally let all your transit ports saturate every evening so Netflix will blow unless they pay you to peer. Which
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by eck 12y ago
> out of compliance with their peering rules I'm not a networking expert so someone please correct me if I'm wrong here, but those peering terms also specify shortest-exit routing, in which case the 1.8:1 traffic ratio is neces
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David Greenglass, Spy Who Helped Seal the Rosenbergs’ Doom, Dies at 92(nytimes.com)
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by eck 12y ago
Sounds more expensive than the ransom.
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by eck 12y ago
What I wondered about that data set is, if two people living/working at two locations, consistently take taxis to meet at various other locations at the same times, could that pattern be identified in the data? That is, are there locat
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by eck 12y ago
It needs a whitelist of giant corporations like Netflix that acquiesce to Comcast's fees. Images should only load slowly on poor websites.
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by eck 12y ago
I'm intrigued by the combination of last-mile ISP and neighborhood social networks. It seems that if you were organizing a Google Fiber "fiberhood", or municipal ISP, or some sort of cooperative ISP, these sorts of local soc
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by eck 12y ago
The bit about selling her soul seemed a bit contrived. They don't have to be the applicants' stories, but they don't have to be the ghostwriter's story either -- once it's no longer a true story for the applicant,
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by eck 12y ago
> not primarily focused on just delivering books or groceries but being put to the use for AID That is just their plan for getting regulatory approval: if you are against UAVs, you are against delivering life-saving medicine to disaster
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by eck 12y ago
As a customer of both Netflix and an ISP that participates in Open Connect, I'm slightly annoyed that Netflix didn't turn around and immediately pass this charge on to their users that connect from Comcast. Why should I have to
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by eck 12y ago
> Panels commonly run at 12V (or some low multiple thereof), That is absolutely not true. Generally speaking nontrivial sized photovoltaic systems are designed with panels in series such that the voltage stays just barely within the 600
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by eck 12y ago
Could Aereo pivot to selling a physical device that one would plug into a home router and do roughly the same thing?
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by eck 12y ago
> Why would Netflix pay more for single network peering than full transit? Because the interconnection between your transit provider and Comcast is frequently saturated and Comcast is not going to fix it since they would prefer to be pai
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by eck 12y ago
It is kind of amusing how similar this is to the network neutrality debate -- i.e. comcast's dispute with netflix affecting comcast/netflix customer content delivery -- yet with decidedly old-fashioned media.
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by eck 13y ago
Incompetence was perhaps too harsh. The outcome was unforeseeable. > Like when a burglar hits a small countryside town, and suddenly everyone has to start locking their doors. I think your analogy just proves my point. They caught th
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by eck 13y ago
The Swartz/MIT debacle reminds me of a chapter in Starship Troopers. A mobile infantry recruit punches his drill instructor. The recruit is publicly lashed and discharged. Later in private, the commander reprimands the drill instruct
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by eck 13y ago
The ADXL78 series [1] which is recommended for vehicle collision sensing draws 1.3 mA. If it were the only load, it would take on the order of ten years to discharge a car battery, which is well below the self-discharge limitations. I don
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by eck 13y ago
This concept is often referred to as "homes with tails". The idea is that if everyone controlled a line from their house to a central facility (kind of like a small meet-me room) then at those facilities there could be significan
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by eck 13y ago
> It's interesting that a program which the NSA's director claimed to congress didn't even exist, which was created by the executive branch requires the legislative branch to terminate it. IIRC, the Guantanamo terrorist pr
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by eck 13y ago
What are the rules for new tile placement? Is it deterministic, random, or adversarial?
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by eck 13y ago
I worry that the rules will forbid ISPs from having explicit whitelists/blacklists, but will do nothing to prevent them from having undersized and saturated transit links then demand payment for peering with content providers like Netf
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by eck 13y ago
> However, it's hard to imagine that we wouldn't be more secure hiring educated behaviorists to have a quick chat with passengers before they board a plane. "quick chat"? Would this would be a "quick chat" w
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by eck 13y ago
So, right now, if someone detonates a bomb with a cell phone, Verizon/AT&T is basically a co-conspirator? You'd think they'd want to be a common carrier, at least if it weren't for the US's general lack of en
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by eck 13y ago
He's talking about desktop/server CPUs where people care about performance. If you don't care so much about performance, you can increase the transistor sizes, reduce the clock speed, and achieve totally insane MTBF... as sp
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by eck 13y ago
No, you don't. In fact, you couldn't even tell an app that it doesn't have permission, because then the stupid flashlight app will do something like, "let me see your location, otherwise i can only be 50% bright!"

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