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by kitteh 6y ago
It's all about how much bps it was at peak. That drives scaling infrastructure which is real money also p95 billing). Sadly the world has gone in a diff direction when it comes to billing people. The rationale? Util based billing and p
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by kitteh 6y ago
There is a famous story of how the album from Plastikman (Richie Hawtin) had a blotter paper album cover that was perforated landed someone in jail because they thought it was LSD. The father of the son arrested contacted the label (novamut
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by kitteh 6y ago
You also need precursors (like ET) which is difficult to get. Though China is a pretty good source if you can pull it off (and for other things like safrole, etc.).
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by kitteh 6y ago
Friend of a friend got caught with two sheets in the 90s and I think he got 20 years for each one. Downstate Illinois. My recollection was the weight of the blotter paper was considered as the drug itself and that easily increased the feder
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by kitteh 6y ago
He got a raw deal. People around him who were pretty evil got off.
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by kitteh 6y ago
The fact that there are businesses that specialize in engine data monitor analysis and training on mixture operation says a ton about where GA is on this topic. There has been very little movement from the manufacturers on this. That said h
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by kitteh 6y ago
Eh there were several phases of stupidity there. 757 to replace the 727 when the 727 was doing quite fine. That said the 757 is a great plane and proved out well, just had a high price tag that really held it back. The delay and screwing ar
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by kitteh 6y ago
Thing is the artists you specify did get play on MTV and the radio. Except for aphex twin, but out of all the artists here aphex twin had a bigger impact on my life.
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by kitteh 6y ago
Advisors make these recommendations. Say the right words about the US falling behind China or national security risk and no one wants to be the person on record who said no to this.
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by kitteh 6y ago
Is it US Marshals? I thought it was CBP BORTAC.
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by kitteh 6y ago
I quit (10 year smoker) first week of March. Within a week several coworkers which I was in close proximity to got Covid (pcr confirmed). Dealing with allergies plus the stress of quitting and being paranoid about chest issues and other sym
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by kitteh 6y ago
Two things surprising to me: the SAM system was relocated and not recalibrated. Those running the system couldn't communicate with their command center and fired without approval.
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Iranian authorities updated account of UIA 752 shoot down(avherald.com)
1 points by kitteh 6y ago|1 comments
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by kitteh 6y ago
The guidance for the last month has been that they insert it into each nostril for at least 15 seconds out here. Curious if they do the tests differently in certain locations.
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by kitteh 6y ago
Yes there are totally pager networks alive and kicking.
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by kitteh 6y ago
Yes, modern pagers do operate on the same tech (pocsag/flex) for the last few decades. And for the most part, are clear text. There are posts on HN about this in the last year.
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by kitteh 6y ago
I think the world of business travel has changed quite a bit since the Concorde. The amount of companies willing to pay for first class compared to years ago is much different I suspect. Pre-Covid we've had over a decade of corporate t
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by kitteh 6y ago
Unfortunately in some parts you deal with the theft and vandalism. Acquaintance of mine deals with this a lot in Arizona on mountain tops. Sometimes folks stealing gear and selling it on eBay for whatever they can get. Back in the 90s and e
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by kitteh 6y ago
I know two coworkers going on 100+ days since they got it and they still can't taste or smell. One of them has the covid toes/fingers as well. They said that the doctors really don't have any answer for them.
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by kitteh 6y ago
Yes. This was the reality. A ton of money went into DSL/clecs that were gone within years. Saw it first hand.
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by kitteh 6y ago
They've fought the installation of CEVs (controlled environment vaults) which are used to put in network/telecom gear to extend broadband services. One town decided they didn't like this beige box on a main street so they pai
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by kitteh 6y ago
It was the 1996 telecom act and it was implemented poorly and the telcos made it super difficult to operate within. Note that cable companies were exempt (which is because they had better politicians) and telcos had a lot of runway to put u
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by kitteh 6y ago
+1 to calling out the holding out stuff. Lots of people assume commercial means you can start flying people for cash - so not true.
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by kitteh 6y ago
What about your ISPs employees? Do you trust a sysadmin pulling 40-50k a year (or less) to not sell your DNS resolver data? Do you think your ISP has better controls and a security team than some of the big CDNs and cloud providers to detec
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by kitteh 6y ago
Who says it's the largest ever? Plenty of folks keep this stuff secret.
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by kitteh 6y ago
What is concerning is the fact that a failure in one part of the network was able to spread so wide. yhere are certain words in there that make it sound like they don't capacity plan or anticipate these sorts of failures? Certainly the
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T Mobile response to US wide outage(t-mobile.com)
7 points by kitteh 6y ago|3 comments
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by kitteh 6y ago
Turboprop/turbine engines are quite reliable. Will gladly put my trust in a single engine Pratt and Whitney (Canada) PT6. Piston on the other hand.
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by kitteh 6y ago
The A220 was the plane that not many folks wanted. Purely due to union / regional scoping rules. It was too large for regionals, too small for mainline. For example many airline union scoping contracts require planes with more than 70
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by kitteh 6y ago
I do. I store all this stuff. Where should I put it?

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