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The author was a senior engineer at FB, well respected, and known for digging into really hard technical problems. But yeah, it is a bit "inside baseball" and I'm not sure how applicable to outsiders.
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> Also a big annoyance of mine is that TCAM space is something few people graph by default on their NMS system. [...] This (and really everything else you mention) is one thing I like about doing NetEng at FB. We collect all this info (
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9y ago
You don't like conversational narrative?
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> Same goes for Facebook. Yeah, no. With very few exceptions FB builds and owns their own datacenters. Basically, anything you read about in the news is entirely self-owned and operated. Yes, even employing security guards. E.g. this ht
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FB uses colo facilities as POPs because that's where the eyeball networks connect. It's strictly a latency/connectivity play.
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local HAM radio group . Perhaps being local creates more social cohesion. I've seen plenty of these issues in online ham groups, including political and religious sniping.
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Is it? This looks like "just" the matchmaking service. From the README: > The dedicated game server is called Wic_ds.exe and is included in the distribution of the game. It is installed by Uplay upon download.
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Um, that makes a vagina, not a uterus. There isn't enough material in the penis to do that much :/
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> Since there is no dislike button, or negative feedback, any likes received makes the poster feel good. Sure there is. Next to Like you have: Love, Laugh, Wow, Sad, Angry.
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9y ago
Off the top of my head, Cisco routers with the PXF chipset (7304/NSE-100) had this problem for much of their service life
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selectively enforcing laws against Pokemon players... E.g. enforcing parking hours including threatening to immediately tow cars except they'd ignore cars in the same lot that looked like they would belong to patrons of the restauran
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I wish there was a way to give a psychologist all my online tracks (down to Slashdot posts when I was 12), context of what I was thinking around the posts, and along with the usual story of my life. Then diff it against "normal" a
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From 2012. This part is quite dated: "Facebook can disable your account if your display name is different than that on your birth certificate".
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Based on the locations + description I suspect this is for Military/IC-related jobs. Those tend to require citizenship...
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OK, but what does it do ? The README is pretty sparse. Some examples would really help. Edit: the header from the script is good, toss it into the README for great success.
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> have a human review the images and delete whatever was illegal or against their ToS. Except the BBC didn't "report" it (provide a link to it), they "distributed" it (spread the actual content). Online hosts
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10y ago
Coming from a WISP, He has advocated for increased unlicensed or lightly licensed spectrum which helps increase last mile competition and rural access.
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This is a case where the writer isn't in Brocade's target market or the article just hasn't aged well :) There are any number of open source router distributions using kernel-based forwarding (e.g. not fast enough for high PP
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I've noticed a patient-driven push to add Progesterone to transwomen HRT based on anecdotes about mood, sex drive, and breast development. Alas there isn't much research into trans health.
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This is pretty much what my town does for their public electric utility. I moved from larger town A (has an electric utility, a lot of trucks, linemen, and a yard full of transformers and cable spools) to smaller town B and noticed that whi
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Taking this in a totally different direction... Have you been evaluated for ADHD? (PsychD with the long paper test & blinky box with clicker, not necessarily MD with the "Ask your Dr about Adult ADHD" screener). You might not
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Often, replaced with fiber patch bays, DSLAMs, etc. Then you have the same gear duplicated for CLECs that have colocation. At one point AT&T was claiming that COs were full/that there was no more space for CLEC colocation. In large
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WISP quality is very uneven. It's rare to find one that has the right combination of business acumen, network engineering, and rf engineering to run successfully... IME when correctly configured Canopy is one of the most robust last mi
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By using a stateful firewall with a default-deny policy on the external interface? One would hope that SoHo routers that ship with IPv6 support are configured that way by default so they mimic the apparent behavior of NAT (though NAT is not
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Yeah, I have family that went to Iraq and they seem to be like "If we were that trigger-happy we'd be in jail. If we can operate in a war zone with tighter rules of engagement and risk of car bombs what's their problem?"
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Often very low. Urban 24Ghz/60Ghz point to point connections are usually 2ms or less per hop. My house (rural small town) is 4x5Ghz & 1x11Ghz hops away from my datacenter and I get ~15-20ms ping times to Google, League of Legends,
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There isn't a single 60Tb/sec datastream though so it is quite feasible (and I'd be shocked if people aren't doing it, especially after the post-Snowden rush to MACsec). Undersea cables are DWDM systems where you have N
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(I didn't downvote you, but this might be why someone did...) Eh, BGP on local networks is common enough that it was novel maybe a decade ago. It's perfect for running on servers to announce /32 addresses upstream to ToR swit
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A popular model is to use wireless until enough you have enough customers in a building to justify building out fiber so you can supply more bandwidth. Even without fiber you could have a 50 unit building with half the units streaming 4K@30
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So UUCP just modernized and in space?
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