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by halbritt 7y ago
The maps are long gone. My phone is important enough to my vocation that if it malfunctioned, I'd replace it immediately. I also use an ipad mini as a navigation tool. One makes a great backup for the other.
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by halbritt 7y ago
Backing this. I've read stories of folks successfully getting their kids to manage their own screen time.
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by halbritt 7y ago
What's missing in this behavior is the setting of expectations. Nobody likes surprises, least of all kids. My kid has limited screen time that is strictly enforced, roughly 30 minutes a day. They're well aware of this fact and w
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by halbritt 7y ago
I remember driving around with a giant pile of maps in my glove box. These days, it feels pretty liberating that I could pack a few changes of clothes, jump in a lyft, head to the airport booking a flight along the way to a city I've n
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by halbritt 7y ago
Unfortunately, with the demand for "EVOO" it's difficult to get pure olive oil consistently. When it is available, it's generally no cheaper than extra virgin.
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by halbritt 7y ago
Should this be considered controversial? I’m not sure what service they offer but if a client asks for someone to join the their slack why would anyone accept unless they were paying someone to monitor it on a full time basis? Would you do
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by halbritt 7y ago
I'm specifically talking about slack. I rarely need something done with any degree of urgency. That generally implies a lack of planning on my part. If my team is functioning correctly, everyone knows why they should be focused on, w
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by halbritt 7y ago
I'm pretty explicit with the people that I manage that I do not expect them to respond to me with any kind of timeliness.
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by halbritt 7y ago
It's way better than an email in the sense that most of the discourse on slack is human authored whereas most of the email that lands in my box isn't. I care about human interaction and slack facilitates that nicely.
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by halbritt 7y ago
Good book, that.
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by halbritt 7y ago
Kinda depends. Layer 3 forwarding is all the same. Whitebox stuff generally comes with simple routing protocol implementations. Cisco, Juniper, et al. have routing protocol implementations generally guaranteed to work with their other netw
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by halbritt 7y ago
I was actually joking. I wouldn't be surprised that the expression is used in many places that experience inclement weather.
163.
by halbritt 7y ago
A German guy told me that was a German expression. Which one of you is right?
164.
by halbritt 7y ago
"whitebox solutions" are merchant silicon designs, typically Broadcom. Cisco's entire Nexus line of switches was there entry into the market with merchant silicon. Their costs were much lower, but their pricing per port stay
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by halbritt 7y ago
Any of this ring a bell? https://null.53bits.co.uk/index.php?page=7600-forwarding-asi... Got a little PTSD just looking at that page.
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by halbritt 7y ago
It brings to focus exactly how anti-customer they are.
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by halbritt 7y ago
I learned MX and JunOS mid-career. Routing protocols are solid and I much preferred the configuration over Cisco IOS especially for things like BGP, ISIS, routing policy, prefix lists, etc.
168.
by halbritt 7y ago
Backing this. I use Unifi extensively and like it. There are some quirks, but I've had better experiences with it than Meraki.
169.
by halbritt 7y ago
Do you recall which ASICs? I was way more familiar with the guts of the 6500 than an end user should ever be.
170.
by halbritt 7y ago
Depends on the type of network element required. If I were doing data center switching, I'd buy something Broadcom based on which I could run something like Cumulus Linux. For wifi, I like Unifi. For routers, Juniper is fine. Arista
171.
by halbritt 7y ago
I interacted with a company in Germany recently that still had 3548s in service. Not the XL model which was GigE, this was 10/100 only. The last order date for the OG 3548 was July 2002.
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by halbritt 7y ago
One pulls the key off the network element, plugs that into a website which produces an authorization key which can then be cut and pasted into the network element.
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by halbritt 7y ago
Cisco has been fighting second hand sales of their hardware for well over two decades now. There was a flood of surplus gear after the first dotcom crash. Lots of folks, myself included took advantage of those circumstances. Eventually re
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by halbritt 7y ago
Facebook has taken MySQL scaling to extremes well beyond what Vitess offers. Not sure if that's a good thing.
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by halbritt 7y ago
Thanks for posting this. "Laughy-ette" ...pretty much. Man I miss good boudin. So, he said, "This is most closely associated with the Atchafalaya basin..." Said in that way, you don't notice the "uh" sound
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by halbritt 7y ago
Mostly I grew up along the Ouachita, but I lived in Church Point for a time, and I don't remember the soft "uh" sound. Not sayin' I'm right, just that I never pronounced it that way and don't remember it common
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by halbritt 7y ago
There's no "uh" sound at the beginning.
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by halbritt 7y ago
Oh, man. Uh... I'll try and dig it up tomorrow.
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by halbritt 7y ago
I read a study a while back that suggested that there is a maximum of approximately 6% of any given population will use cycling as a means of transportation without cycling infrastructure isolated from automobile traffic similar to Copenhag
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by halbritt 7y ago
This, pretty much. Motorists can be extraordinarily vocal without realizing how extraordinarily entitled they are to be able to operate their motor vehicles in urban environments where accommodating those motorists has an extraordinarily d

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