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by jauer 5y ago
Sure. A single rack is a common failure domain so you make sure to replicate across racks. E.g. Dunno about anyone else, but Facebook racks (generally) have a single switch.
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by jauer 5y ago
WhatsApp ran on bare metal in SoftLayer prior to (and well after) being acquired by FB. CloudFlare went well beyond leasing servers and built their own POPs with network etc prior to IPO. Much of what they built wouldn't have made econ
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by jauer 6y ago
Location can certainty be derived from their their data. Relationships as well, but perhaps not as cleanly as from social.
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by jauer 6y ago
I patiently watch eBay, so mine cost far less.
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by jauer 6y ago
Public discourse really overindexed on social media companies selling data (not their biz model) and ignored LexisNexis, Axciom, and their ilk (is their biz model). Not to say that the influence aspects of social media aren't worthy of
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by jauer 6y ago
Aruba doesn't require a cloud controller, that's just the "Instant On" version. I used to run Aruba Instant (not the "instant on", no controller), but gave those APs to a friend and now run an Aruba 7005 contr
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by jauer 6y ago
but you do need the certified installer flag/license, which ISTR is $700 on Coursera and access to a SAS to check out spectrum (like checking out a book from library). Harder than setting up a WiFi AP, but much easier than winning spec
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by jauer 6y ago
It depends. Off the top of my head, major devices that support it include: iPhones & iPads since late 2019, Google Pixel 3 & 4, Samsung Galaxy S10.
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by jauer 6y ago
I'm disappointed that they don't support LTE Band 48. Band 48 (CBRS) provides a relatively easy way to run your own LTE network for testing or whatever. Commercial eNBs are sub $1k, and you can spin up an open source EPC in an eve
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by jauer 6y ago
And then from mercurial extensions to our own server, mononoke, which apparently has been moved under the Eden umbrella: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden
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by jauer 6y ago
> Why did they published anything about the vulnerabilities before they were absolutely sure all of those has been mitigated? Because various entities tried to exploit that to defer any publicaton, which lead to things never getting fixe
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by jauer 6y ago
> Lack of proper releases, testing, and versioning results in unending checkout-fu to figure out what commits for each of 20 libraries will work for each other. Admittedly I'm basing this on my experience in a very large monorepo en
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by jauer 6y ago
> Two different communities create two very different kinds of software, which run on the same systems, but are created and distributed in very different ways. This is where the disconnect is coming from. The distro maintainers are comin
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by jauer 6y ago
This ignores demonstrated harm* from the combination of human behavior and low-effort large-scale communications. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings
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by jauer 6y ago
> when there is a water pipe behind the walls a plumber (a good one) would also put a plate in front of it Where are you located (roughly)? Having assisted in remodeling of 7 homes in the US (IL, WI, CA) built between 1880 and 2005 I hav
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by jauer 6y ago
> Nobody believes abortion is literal murder. They might say they do, but if there were buildings where actual literal murder were happening it wouldn't be long before people would destroy those places The number of clinic bombings
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by jauer 6y ago
That just says that Ocelot consumes quite a bit of your latency budget. Maybe the features it brings are worth it to you, but it's def not anywhere close to the limit of what's achievable. e.g. Envoy (which replaced Ocelot in Micr
108.
by jauer 6y ago
> Lost interest when I read: > >The test location had a rocky desert topology with minimal foliage, and tests were conducted using LTE Band 41 (2,500 MHz). Testing was conducted in other locations as well. One use-case being discus
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by jauer 6y ago
This was likely for Tim Cook's personal security detail. Basically every high net worth or highly visible tech CEO has a PSD (really high end folks have a counter-kidnap team on standby).
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by jauer 6y ago
Why do you consider it unethical?
111.
by jauer 6y ago
This poll would be more useful if it was bucketed by PHQ-9 scores. Who doesn't experience at least one depressive symptom?
112.
by jauer 6y ago
This exactly. My baby bro was a preemie with potential heart issues (he grew up fine), but he had a proper heart monitor connected with sticky leads 24x7 for the couple of months. It had a really loud siren and decent battery built in. When
113.
by jauer 6y ago
Custom image built on Yocto
114.
by jauer 6y ago
Mikrotik's OpenVPN implementation is missing UDP support.
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by jauer 6y ago
Cost recovery fees in areas where they were blocked by NIMBY groups? I'd love to see that, but skeptical that the regulator would approve.
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by jauer 6y ago
Transitioned a while back, didn't get it backwards :) To elaborate: I was wondering if trans men (AFAB) acquire the male-gendered autistic traits and trans women (AMAB) acquire the female-gendered traits (and underdiagnoses from diagno
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by jauer 6y ago
> observed to a greater extent with trans men I wonder if that's a result of autism being under-diagnosed in women (and that under-diagnosis carrying over to trans women).
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by jauer 6y ago
Small providers often don't have the resources or skills to properly cover their bases and get hit by random BS. They may not be targeted today, but they will get hit by random badness. Example of shared hosting providers not patching
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by jauer 6y ago
> Does this mean running in a public cloud might actually be more secure? Yes with two conditions: 1. your public cloud is run by an Amazon, Google, Microsoft-type company (FANMAG) 2. You trust the company to lean on rule of law. 1. Very
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by jauer 6y ago
Per-splice costs of crimps are higher, but startup cost can be lower. Tools for crimp are generally $1k or so and splicers used to be $10k+ (though now you can find new ones for sub 3k and used for lower than that). A mechanical splice can

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