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by hylaride 11mo ago
Years ago (circa ~2005) I was working for a company with a mix of OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Windows, and Linux. I was more of a fan of OpenBSD and I received a lot of grief when the OpenBSD team suddenly ripped out support for one of the Dell hard
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by hylaride 11mo ago
> Circuit switching is not harder to do, it's simply less efficient I did specify more expensive. Even with ASICs it’s more expensive to scale up. > ATM took this to an extreme with nearly 10% protocol overhead (48 bytes of payl
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by hylaride 11mo ago
Western "democracies" are most certainly fraying, but the rise of the global south is nowhere near a certainty. Their institutions are nowhere near strong enough, especially rule of law. People are also not migrating en-mass to
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by hylaride 11mo ago
Using UDP means QUIC support is as "easy" as adding it to the browser and server software. To add it as a separate protocol would have involved all OS's needing to add support for it into their networking stacks and that wou
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by hylaride 11mo ago
We're about half-way to exhausted, but a huge chunk of the ones assigned are long deprecated and/or proprietary technologies and could conceivably be reassigned. Assignment now is obviously a lot more conservative than it was in
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by hylaride 11mo ago
Also, circuit switching is harder (well, more expensive) to do at scale, especially with different providers (probably a reason the traditional telecoms pushed it so hard - to protect their traditional positions). Even modern circuit techn
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by hylaride 11mo ago
They probably did for a hot minute when they acquired Sun.
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by hylaride 11mo ago
TL;DR NVIDIA didn't want to have customers be overly concentrated in the 3 already established cloud providers (GCP/Azure/AWS), so reserved kit for others. Oracle won out for essentially being a distant fourth (if even that?
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by hylaride 11mo ago
The core problem, I think, is that K8s is overly complicated for 95% of deployments out there, but it's become the default standard. People then start creating tooling to mask some of the complexity, but then said tooling grows to supp
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by hylaride 11mo ago
> Does any country have any success stories? Yes, but it depends on how/why things are done. You don't hear about the successes because it's not a story worth telling. Charter schools are a good example. They have mixed
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by hylaride 11mo ago
Mitchel Hashimoto was a genius when it came to opinionated design and that was Hashicorp's biggest strength when it was part of their culture. It's a shame Nomad couldn't overcome the K8s hype-wagon, but either way IBM is des
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by hylaride 11mo ago
I still am trying to decide what's a better balance. If you're too tech/engineering oriented you have a higher chance of not becoming/continuing as a viable business (DEC was a perfect example of this). Swing too far the
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by hylaride 11mo ago
Oh god, netrek was addictive. At 12-14, I played it a lot on the HP-UX machines when my mom had to work weekends and drag my brother and I along (very willingly) in the mid 1990s. The early internet was also accessible to us.
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by hylaride 11mo ago
"No wireless, less space than a nomad, but can be fully synced up and fast-charged in a few minutes" is what the review should have been. USB support came after when usb2 was "good enough". Syncing and creating playlis
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by hylaride 11mo ago
I disagree. Apple had no monopoly on 1.8" hard drives nor most of the other components in the original iPod (except maybe the scroll wheel itself?); they were merely among the first to apply it into a media player. It was the UI that
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by hylaride 11mo ago
Use an MP3 player from before the iPod existed and then try an iPod classic. Same with smart phones. There is no way you're going to convince most people that what you say is true in any general sense. Sure, simplification means havin
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by hylaride 11mo ago
FWIW, this has being going on for decades. Bell literally doesn't care if there's a chance they can suck up some peering fees. There have been periodic times where it became an acute problem, like early in the YouTube and Netflix
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by hylaride 11mo ago
I was shocked just how slow and poor the mobile networks were in Germany. When I last visited (circa 2014) I literally switched my prepaid sim from T-Mobile to Vodaphone because the experience was so bad - only to have the same bad experie
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by hylaride 11mo ago
Bell Canada also has had a long-standing policy of refusing to peer with internet exchanges. They'll only truly peer with other direct backbone providers and a handful of one-off peer with other large networks (google, cloud flare, et
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by hylaride 1y ago
There are several options to choose from, but most data brokers will know that small custom domains go back to a certain or small group of people. That being said, this is a good list: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy&#
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by hylaride 1y ago
A lot of them got built with per-mile subsidies and cashed out via shoddy construction. The ones that focused on long-term financial sustainability more often did fine, but it is a lesson in perverse incentives (though some would argue tha
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by hylaride 1y ago
I think that has more to do with the fact that JS is the most popular language in the world, especially available code to train LLMs on. Backend code is far less likely to be available because it's more likely to be closed source and i
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by hylaride 1y ago
I think they misspoke when they said "in" the wheel, but supercars can have a separate motor for each wheel, and the closer they are to the wheel the better the torque as it's not also driving a longer shaft. The smaller the
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by hylaride 1y ago
Passports are much more common in some countries, and for most of the others where it's not you were probably obviously a foreigner based on your appearance, accent, or the fact you were likely in a tourist area. Many countries also ha
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by hylaride 1y ago
Interesting historical note: the main reason PuTTy exists is because its author was given a Windows NT on alpha workstation and there was no native terminal emulator for it that he needed to connect to other equipment. IIRC, PuTTy still su
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by hylaride 1y ago
Yeah, I knew why. :-) My brain immediately went into "solving" mode, though.
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by hylaride 1y ago
This is all automatable and is well documented for almost every setup. If you're on a cloud provider/CDN it's even easier as they'll handle all this for you at pretty much no cost. You can also still use your own threat
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by hylaride 1y ago
Back in the analog TV days, I could see the flicker on the 50hz PAL/SECAM signals whenever I visited Europe, especially when the screen was white and in my peripheral vision. I always wondered why it didn't drive everybody nuts,
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by hylaride 1y ago
Don't worry, it'll be relevant ads, just like google. You're going to love when code output is for proprietary libraries and databases and getting things the way you want will involve annoying levels of "clarification&q
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by hylaride 1y ago
In Quebec, most of the dams are in the middle of nowhere, but your point still stands. There are costs/risks for most forms of power. If you're in an environment where wind and solar can make economical sense, go for it. For rel

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