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by jauer 6y ago
Expensive if you need to be competitive with higher volume. Old fusion splicers can be inexpensive. Tradeoff is they take longer to to do alignment and are much heavier than modern splicers. I got a FSM-30S for sub $3k on eBay years ago. $3
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by jauer 6y ago
People have to be careful when splicing fiber when every dB of loss is important, but modern fusion splicers make it pretty easy. For just running between houses, I've seen links working over fiber that was cleaved with linesmens plier
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by jauer 6y ago
Giving someone the wrong hormones is one way to induce gender dysphoria in non-trans people, so suicide rate there should be similar to that of trans people with unmanaged gender dysphoria. Suicide rates among people who transition are gene
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by jauer 6y ago
A little, but not always enough to be a problem. I took 4x the does he was on for a year without any change in liver function markers. Some transfem people take 1-4x his does for life.
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by jauer 6y ago
Power lines are increasingly buried (even MV) in cities, so it's not a good use case for this tech. Poor connectivity in the US is a political problem, not a technical one. Google Fiber tried to solve this by getting cities to make per
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by jauer 6y ago
This is all middle-mile deployments, so the utility would be leasing strands to cable/telco/other entities. There are quite a few routes built on HV power lines. Problem is you get weird problems like lightning strikes inducing ma
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by jauer 6y ago
> They were part of the PRISM program. This is highly deceptive framing. PRISM was a passive cable tapping program. Companies weren't "participating" in it as much as they were victims of it. Facebook was targeted by PRISM
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by jauer 6y ago
"is looking to" makes this sound aspirational. The absence of operational lessons learned that would come out of a deployment make me wonder if this actually happened.
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by jauer 6y ago
(not a lawyer, if one shows up, listen to them) Generally speaking, you can listen to anything, as long as it's not for commercial gain. The exception to this is mobile phones, because it was trivial to listen to them using children&#x
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by jauer 6y ago
Are you referring to the reporting feature in this PR, or something else?
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by jauer 6y ago
Sure, the one that specifically worries me is when governments restrict identity documents in response to religious pressure: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/21/hungary-ends-legal-recog... Enshrining le
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by jauer 6y ago
Really depends on what phase of life, but right now one of: * Most likely: somewhere between Austin and San Antonio TX. * Alternate: ~45 minutes southwest of Denver, CO. * Wildcard: Minneapolis, MN. * If U.S. adopts laws like
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by jauer 6y ago
This is nonsense. There is no "Seattle org chart." A given office may have a lead, but only small percentage of people in the office will report to the lead. In some cases the lead isn't even a manager. Personally, across fo
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by jauer 6y ago
Facebook and Google aren't leasing wavelengths and haven't for years. Sometimes they lease strands, sometimes they own the fiber in the ground and lease excess to traditional carriers. They own the longhaul equipment that puts wav
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by jauer 6y ago
> I suppose that the boring truth is that Facebook just used it's vast financial resources to protect itself in a way that lavabit never could This is the accurate take :) Facebook, like Google, was very unhappy about the wholesale
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by jauer 6y ago
Bold to expect Defcon to happen this year.
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by jauer 6y ago
> it's irresponsible for non-medical researchers to not only pursue, but also disseminate, these jailbreaks. A good portion of medical device RnD is related to creating technology that is hard to misuse and result in accidental deat
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by jauer 6y ago
This hasn't been a significant issue for a while now, to the point that Linux is used on cache appliances from the FAANG (though Netflix is notable for using FreeBSD in that role).
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by jauer 7y ago
Phabricator was/started to be replaced a year or two ago. AFAIK it's been largely rewritten at this point.
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by jauer 7y ago
> Not stores. Data centers. Honestly, it doesn't make much difference. Datacenters built for random corporations often only have connectivity to the local ILEC or MSO which is going to get you pretty poor pricing.
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by jauer 7y ago
Already exists (well, not iPhone, but...) https://www.samsung.com/us/business/solutions/industries/gov... And accessories like cases and cables from Kagwerks: https://kagwerks.com/collect
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by jauer 7y ago
Portal: https://portal.facebook.com/
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by jauer 7y ago
Facebook runs on btrfs: https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/btrfs/docs/btrfs-facebo...
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by jauer 7y ago
My personal favorite is assuming that /31 IP subnets (255.255.255.254) are invalid (RFC 3021), but also, to quote wikipedia: > IPv4 addresses may be represented in any notation expressing a 32-bit integer value. They are most often
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by jauer 7y ago
Looks cool, but is there a tl;dr for why I’d use this instead of something like Bazel?
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by jauer 7y ago
There was a recent talk on tupperware that gets into some of what Alex's team does: https://engineering.fb.com/data-center-engineering/tupperwar...
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by jauer 7y ago
> If you don't have multicast support at all in your network infrastructure, which as the article points out isn't common to have on cloud networks, Huh? Are you assuming large flat L2 networks addressed with IPv6? IPv6 works
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by jauer 7y ago
Who "cleans up" trash by throwing it in a lake? That's making a mess that's harder to clean up.
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by jauer 7y ago
It's probably less "as they wish" and more "here's an approved statement" or "your role involves engaging with external parties, here are some guidelines"
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by jauer 7y ago
Facebook is a target of a lot more then dissent: https://fortune.com/2017/06/16/facebook-content-moderators-l...

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