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by jemfinch 14y ago
Hulu seems to have N-1 redundancy: with Facebook Connect down, I can't even login using my non-facebook Hulu account.
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This is exactly how my allocation went in mid-2010.
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Being "really, really into this stuff" is why I lost my faith. The deeper I dug, the more I found that none of the meaningful Christian beliefs that I held stood up to the epistemic bar I'd adopted as an adult. You can read more details at
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by jemfinch 14y ago
"With 64-bit sessions, the odds of having two people have the same session is 1 in approximately 18446744073709551616." Please read about the Birthday Paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_Paradox . The probably of a random coll
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Catholics don't use the KJV. King James was a Protestant. The contemporaneous parallel to the KJV used within the Catholic Church is the Douay-Rheims, but even that isn't approved for liturgical use in English; only the Revised Standard V
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The only "tone" in "I've never understood why bible fanatics are so fixated on that story, it's one of the bible's most conspicuous flaws." is the one you've projected onto it. On its face, it's an honest statement of lack of understanding
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by jemfinch 14y ago
Please don't refer to atheists as "militant" unless they're wielding weapons and waging wars for atheism. There really are militant groups in this world, many of them militant in support of their religion; it's utterly unfair to put "athei
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by jemfinch 14y ago
Referring to "Bible fanatics" is no more intolerant than referring to "Tolkien fanatics". If you're being downvoted, it's because you're applying an inappropriate and prejudicial label.
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Since BGP is sent over TCP, the routers are definitely pingable. You know how when you run traceroute you see a bunch of IPs between you and your destination? Routers like these are those hops.
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I think that if 3-5% of the Internet population suddenly stopped querying Google, Google would have noticed before CloudFlare.
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Yes; to be clear, I was complaining about the author's original title, not the submission title.
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Isn't the title a touch sensationalist? Google did not go "offline": it was briefly unavailable for a relatively small number of networks.
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First, TCP and DNS don't come into it: they both piggyback on IP (TCP directly; DNS via UDP in typical use), so IP is all that's really relevant. BGP is how routers communicate with each other. Every major edge router for a network is typi
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by jemfinch 14y ago
You've reached DH2 on Paul Graham's hierarchy of disagreement: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html . Please try responding to content, not tone.
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Do you not work in an equal opportunity workplace? Are you concerned that someone might be grepping the DNS resolution logs to find closeted homosexuals? Are you legitimately concerned about retribution if someone believes that you're hom
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by jemfinch 14y ago
Why do you think Disney has access to high quality admins? Do you know high quality sysadmins who want to work for Disney, or companies like it? Just because a company is a big name doesn't mean it attracts big talent. Disney is still fis
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by jemfinch 14y ago
> This is the job of the OS. No, Apple has made it a job of the OS. There's absolutely nothing fundamental to the problem that makes it a job of the OS.
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Either your engineers are underpaid or you're anticipating a larger price hike than would seem justified to gain the redundancy you need.
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How are you distinguishing between what's "critical or core to the processes themselves" and what's not? What makes taking bytes from a disk or memory cache and pushing them over a socket somehow more "critical" than getting the client to
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by jemfinch 14y ago
I work on Google's CDN. I have an intimate understanding of what's running here.
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by jemfinch 14y ago
If dl.google.com fails, Chrome installs halt . By what definition is that not shit hitting the fan?
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by jemfinch 14y ago
"Meta"ness is not a problem here. Rudeness is. Comments like mine are necessary if the level of discourse is to remain higher here than other sites. Comments like the OP's are not.
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by jemfinch 14y ago
This type of snarky comment diminishes the level of discourse here. Please stop making them, and please encourage others to stop making them.
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by jemfinch 14y ago
Why should the TSA care how much US travelers hate them? Minimizing traveler ire does not affect their funding.
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by jemfinch 14y ago
No, the sarcasm is obvious. It's just not very funny, and doesn't positively contribute to the level of discourse here.
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You need to make sure you do all your benchmarks in a function. In a funtion, local variables translate to indexes into a local variable array; outside of a function, they remain globals lookups. Your first reply that "there's always a loo
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by jemfinch 14y ago
Sorry, this is hard for me to understand. You seem to be saying--and I apologize if I misinterpret you--that it is better to focus on dishwashing than to use otherwise idle mental time to plan one's future. Is that really the case? What g
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I did nothing of the sort.
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"The glitch arises from the possibility that the average number of people living in the preposthuman phase might be different in civilizations that produce ancestor simulations than in civilizations that do not." No, that's not the problem.
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It's not actually a true statement to say that "if recursively-simulated universes are possible it becomes vanishingly unlikely that we do not live in one." Yes, I've read Bostrom's paper[0], but he misses a key point: the number of rationa

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