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by hhw 9y ago
Although this may very well be the mentality of many rank and file network engineers that you may come across, that wouldn't at all be an accurate representation of those in charge of the architecture and design of larger networks. How
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by hhw 9y ago
This was during the Heian period of Japan / Tang dynasty of China though, and the spoken language in Xi'an would have been closest to modern day Min Nan. I'm not sure what other dialects pronounce tea as "cha", but
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by hhw 9y ago
My father is a baby boomer born in Xiamen, Fujian and then left for Taiwan as a child with his family in 1949, although did most his schooling in Hong Kong and then came to Canada for University. He pronounces it somewhere between "te&
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by hhw 9y ago
That was my question also. How could they guarantee that nobody else using a VM on the same physical machine isn't using binaries compiled elsewhere?
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by hhw 9y ago
Have you actually been to Shanghai? On a bad day, buildings right across the street can be hazy.
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by hhw 9y ago
I would have interpreted his question as whether they were East Indians with US citizenship or not. Also, I believe First Nations tends to be the preferred term over indigenous, aboriginal, or native american.
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by hhw 9y ago
With Australia, submarine transport costs to Singapore (nearest 'major' Internet hub) or all the way to North America or Europe for the largest hubs is an order of magnitude more expensive than continental terrestrial transport wi
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by hhw 9y ago
You may not be able to grow an existing vdev, but you can add another vdev to an existing zpool. And although having all vdevs be identical gives more consistent performance, it’s also possible to mix different vdevs in the same zpool. Mult
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by hhw 9y ago
11.x may supported until 2021, but 11.1 itself will only be supported up until 11.2 is released + 3 months. So if 11.2 is released before the end of July 2018, then 10.4 which has an EOL of October 31st, 2017 would actually be supported for
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by hhw 9y ago
China has a long and proud tradition as being at the forefront of civilization, and they see the last 100+ years or so just as a temporary setback. The current ruling class may not see the need to share with the outside world. This may sadl
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by hhw 9y ago
It's fair if it's the strategy as envisioned by the company's leadership. Employees of that company not sharing that vision does not change that. If anything, the employees should bear some culpability for working in support
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by hhw 9y ago
I've been against systemd since day 1, because implementation issues aside, the entire concept is flawed and totally against UNIX philosophy: do one thing and do it well. UNIX, and by extension Linux, succeeded because of this philosop
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by hhw 9y ago
Did you mean South Asia? China has gotten to the point where they are able to lift the one child per family policy, after seeing that it made very little difference when they previously relaxed the policy in cases where both parents were on
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by hhw 9y ago
There haven't been any orcas at the Vancouver Aquarium since 2001. Whatever experience you're basing your opinion on is hopelessly out of date. The Vancouver Aquarium is a non-profit organization, and has much different goals and
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by hhw 9y ago
That is already being done. The Department of Fisheries determines which animals go back to the wild, not VanAqua. The main detriment of this new ban is that now if there is a rescue that cannot realistically be later be returned to the wil
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by hhw 9y ago
The determination on which animals in Canada to rescue, and which can be returned to the wild is done by the Department of Fisheries, so there is neutral oversight provided by a government entity. Those claims are easy to prove.
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by hhw 9y ago
It would be naively optimistic to think the FCC is going to just remove the spam from their counts willingly. At best they may remove from their counts any cases where someone's name was confirmed to have been used fraudulently. But ho
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by hhw 9y ago
Blackberry OS 10 has an integrated hub for all communications as well. I've never tried Windows Phone, but I can't see anything me much slicker than that. Didn't do them any favours either, and they started off with a larger
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by hhw 10y ago
As far as I can tell, none of the ape comments were made by Milo? Which specific comment of his did he do so, or incite harassment? I researched Milo for a while, after seeing his initial interview with David Rubin, where he explained some
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by hhw 10y ago
I think there may be a disconnect between the "a lot of people" I'm referring to, and who you may have in mind. I'm referring to people at large who are aware enough of technology to follow who Uber is, and observed thei
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by hhw 10y ago
I think a lot of people have always had a negative view of Travis Kalanick and Uber's business practices, but they enjoyed the convenience of the service just enough to look the other way. Between the soaring valuation and recent event
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by hhw 10y ago
SONET was replaced with DWDM a decade ago. With 100GHz ITU Grid C, you would get 40 channels of up to 10Gbps each. More recently, most long haul providers have been upgrading to coherent using 50GHz spacing with 80 channels of 200Gbps, furt
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by hhw 10y ago
My father is a urologist trained at McGill in its heyday back in the 60's, and they often worked much longer shifts than 24 hours. It was part of the training to be working while sleep deprived. In real life, a doctor often has to take
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by hhw 10y ago
Two points of contention I have with your point that wireless has less latency than optical glass: 1) You don't operate wireless in a vacuum. There's all kinds of potential obstructions to the signal, including any physical object
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by hhw 10y ago
Not to detract from this, but just curious how many retail jobs have disappeared in that same amount of time? My google-fu is unable to turn up any stats for 2016 yet. I would think with the improved efficiencies, fewer people would be need
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by hhw 10y ago
SFP+ 10Gbase-T 3rd party optics started hitting the market this year, but none of the major switch vendors offer them yet, so the coding effectively lies about what cable type it is. Just an option to keep in your back pocket, as onboard 10
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by hhw 10y ago
There are two different schools of thought to a secure operating system. One is to add features / layers to enhance security, such as with GRSecurity. The other is to ensure correctness, so that there are no bugs to exploit. OpenBSD ta
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by hhw 10y ago
Aside from his face? He's had way too much work done on it. Also not sure how much credit Ellison deserves for being unrepentantly unethical. I guess that's slightly better than being duplicitous about it, but still far from being
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by hhw 10y ago
This is Canada. The fundamental tenet of our constitution (Charter of Right and Freedoms) is to balance the rights of the individual with the interests of society as a whole. These rights that you personally feel are inalienable are not so
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by hhw 10y ago
We have decent transit, and bike lanes everywhere. Unlike the US, many people are happy not to own cars and there are at least 4 major car shares and as of the last few months, a new bike share with convenient availability (albeit we'r

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