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by gwright 3y ago
I wish SRV records were more widely adopted, but they are still just a (string -> integer) mapping process above the 16-bit integer values on the wire. Different layers.
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by gwright 3y ago
The wire format for UDP and TCP specifies 16 bit integer values. As another poster mentioned, you can uses OS level services to map a string to well-known ports, but encoding ports as strings at the wire level would've introduced a lot
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by gwright 3y ago
I worked for Rich when he was writing UNP. Seeing comments like this 30+ years later reminds me how fortunate I was to spend time with him early in my career.
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by gwright 3y ago
I've found that campers/hikers anywhere are generally very approachable.
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by gwright 3y ago
Don't feel bad. Native-born Americans are having a hard time agreeing on what words like "equality" mean these days...
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by gwright 3y ago
OK, I'm not sure I would describe that phenomena as an "equality principle" though. That is just a misleading label for a misguided bureaucratic rule.
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by gwright 3y ago
> There is very little flexibility in this due to equality principles. I can imagine a lot of ways to interpret this but none really make sense in the context of your post. What "equality principle" leads to a conclusion that a
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by gwright 3y ago
> These are pretty classic union-busting techniques. It may be a union-busting technique, but I'm not sure about "classic". I mean how often has the economy had to recover from a multi-year work at home mandate due to a pa
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by gwright 3y ago
Yeah no. I don't think Tesla makes that claim and if they do they are wrong. Megapack does not provide long term grid-scale energy storage that is required to remove dispachable generation from the grid. If you can't remove dispac
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by gwright 3y ago
This is a completely predictable outcome of an energy policy that pretends that intermittent power generation is substitutable for dispatchable power generation. Also related to a distributed energy system (diesel/gasoline) vs a centra
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by gwright 3y ago
Any reason not to extend that to all cultures? There is a limitation to the bandwidth any one community (including the smallest community, yourself) has to the "outside". Mass media and the Internet has certainly reduced the laten
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by gwright 3y ago
> Using a common carrier for business is different from purchasing reserved quotas from them and then reselling the access. OK, I can see how the resale scenario is different from the consume/utilize scenario. Thanks for the clarifi
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by gwright 3y ago
I'm not sure if this transitive common carrier approach makes sense. Wouldn't that mean that every company that used telephony, railroads, airlines, or shipping would have to be behave like a common carrier? I'm not sure what
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by gwright 3y ago
There are many situations where law enforcement is authorized (by law) to do something that would normally be illegal. For example here is some language from 18 U.S. Code § 1030 - Fraud and related activity in connection with computers: &g
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by gwright 3y ago
> There are states where they were successful in getting laws passed preventing "wasteful government spending on broadband networks" The devil is in the details but arguing that municipalities shouldn't compete with privat
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by gwright 3y ago
Your two examples leave some questions. You seem to be saying that your cabin community was able to find a solution that would not be acceptable to a large telco. Why isn't that OK? Why should the large company be forced to do somethin
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by gwright 3y ago
OK, but room/board/tuition is not a loan. The college is determining a discount, not the ability to pay back a loan.
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by gwright 3y ago
My favorite example in this space is college tuition/room/board. This seems to be the only example of a service in which you have to share all your financial details with the vendor and then they will tell you how much it is going
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by gwright 3y ago
> Words change, they always have, they always will. Get over it. While this is true, I think it is helpful to communication to resist changes to language. This isn't the same thing as opposing change entirely, but language needs to
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by gwright 3y ago
> they get used to configure different environments for different customers That is not a feature flag, that is a customer configuration option. They are different things and should not be treated in the same way. Sure, it is possible fo
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by gwright 3y ago
> Part of the problem is that for any job you'll be inundated with completely inappropriate candidates (like, people who literally cannot use a computer for positions as Linux programmers) I once received an application for someone
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by gwright 3y ago
And of course it isn't a "game". That is a figure of speech to make a point about fairness.
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by gwright 3y ago
Just because it was accomplished via a "legislative process" doesn't automatically make it a good idea. Surprise laws are a bad idea in any economic system IMHO. It isn't even a "capitalist" issue.
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by gwright 3y ago
If you have surprise ad-hoc taxes (i.e. laws) they you no longer have the rule of law. In this case it is almost an ex-post facto law as the tax applies to earnings that occurred before the tax existed. Surprise laws should bother you on ge
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by gwright 3y ago
Irrespective of the the benefits and/or feasibility of competition to bring prices down, the larger problem with this ad-hoc windfall profit tax is that it is ad-hoc. This is changing the rules after the game has started. The article r
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by gwright 3y ago
> We are on track to change the climate so abruptly that the species we depend on will not adapt quickly enough. Jellyfish, for example, might thrive. Large mammals like ourselves will not. The notion that humans, as a species, will not
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by gwright 3y ago
> ATM was the worst network protocol ever devised Having 53 byte payloads is something only a committee could love.
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Incident Report for Linode DNS Outage (June 25)(status.linode.com)
3 points by gwright 3y ago|1 comments
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by gwright 3y ago
A cautionary tale regarding being dependent on a single service provider for all DNS resolvers.
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by gwright 3y ago
I don't think it is just a marketing problem. Lots of evidence to conclude that as a policy initiative it is flawed and detrimental to the communities that adopt that approach.

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