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by liotier 8y ago
> It would be hard and would likely attract only technically-minded individuals ... and police forces: a nice feature of leaving a few gaps that motivated users can use is that the police can focus its limited resources on the those inte
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by liotier 8y ago
Exhaustion of private address space is what actually motivated the beginning of a serious IPv6 effort at a well-known big telco that shall remain anonymous. The entire private IPv4 address space could have remained amply sufficient, had it
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Huawei and Security Analysis(grsecurity.net)
1 points by liotier 8y ago|0 comments
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by liotier 8y ago
> I do a lot of work with the rail industry in the UK (both heavy and light rail) - but the UK is much more passenger focussed. Same in France - allocating freight capacity in a passenger-focused network is tricky. A paper about that (
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by liotier 8y ago
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice... As for software, the optimization of rail slot allocation is far beyond spreadhseets - for the whole French network it is a math-heavy process for which a whole team harnesses
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Microsoft works toward IPv6-only single stack network(teamarin.net)
13 points by liotier 8y ago|3 comments
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by liotier 8y ago
Speech to text aboard, compress the text and send it in bursts at random times.
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by liotier 8y ago
> People love their machines... They do - and HN readers who manage technical people should remember it. Break that bond and detachment will ensue. For example, if you are scaling up and getting rid of snowflake servers with cute names a
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by liotier 8y ago
First generation "high power" LED (I have a bunch with E27 socket) had a small cooling fan... If you ever owned a laptop for a while, you know what happens to small fans after a (admittedly long) while.
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by liotier 8y ago
> Oracle succeed by being only slightly cheaper than migrating your entire codebase Amdocs, ESRI, Microsoft too... Their commercial strategy is a finely tuned parasitic equilibrium. Sales training that emphasizes knowing one's custo
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Entryism in open communities(knowwhereconsulting.co.uk)
2 points by liotier 8y ago|0 comments
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IPv6 in China(potaroo.net)
38 points by liotier 8y ago|7 comments
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by liotier 8y ago
What country is that ? As a French person, this is shocking - I can't imagine living in such place.
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A free map for a global village(thehindu.com)
1 points by liotier 8y ago|0 comments
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by liotier 8y ago
Edge of La Vanoise, near Les Trois Vallées, mid-eighties.
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by liotier 8y ago
There is a mountain in the alps where I used to hike in the winter, cross-country with ski skins - a day outing with excellent fresh snow. Few people had the skills or equipment to get there - it felt exclusive, we had fun and the people we
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My new years resolution: learn IPV6(blog.networkprofile.org)
3 points by liotier 8y ago|1 comments
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Open mapping in Africa: community spirit and the common good(lab.cccb.org)
1 points by liotier 8y ago|0 comments
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by liotier 8y ago
Same salaries as France, insignificant taxes, no social protection, Californian weather... Young and healthy developer are happy there - older people with families better stay away. Lovely tourism destination though !
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by liotier 8y ago
Maybe one already has a heap of Java code and the latency-sensitive part is only a tiny fraction where optimization will be focused.
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by liotier 8y ago
My teenage daughter's vegetarianism is about not knowingly eating cute animals - fishes are not cute enough for her. She'll happily eat meat-flavoured vegetables from dishes where cook and vegetables cook together. Whatever floats
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by liotier 8y ago
This means we may have to run power supplies to existing fiber manholes...
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by liotier 8y ago
As dense and as cheap as Musk's technological vision becomes, a question remains: why carry a car at all instead of carrynig people ? Why carry mostly dead weight ? The denser the network, the more acute that question - if Musk's
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by liotier 8y ago
The equivalent of BART in Paris (RER) has 90 seconds intervals between trains in peak time - and thats the regional train system, not the metro. It carries 50k pax per hour in each direction - that would be a lot of cars, like eleven cars a
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by liotier 8y ago
In public speaking, I used to turn red, sweat and babble... In business school, a three day seminar with theater actors made me realize it didn't have to be like that - it unlocked my attitude and set me on a self-improvement path... I
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Best of open source smart home: Home Assistant vs. OpenHAB(smarthome.university)
4 points by liotier 8y ago|0 comments
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by liotier 8y ago
In Europe, Google's search business' market share is above the threshold at which a concentration would automatically require antitrust approval - which it has, of course, no chance of obtaining.
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Africa needs its Internet institutions more than ever, especially AFRINIC(internetsociety.org)
3 points by liotier 8y ago|0 comments
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France might be losing its first big information war(blog.0day.rocks)
153 points by liotier 8y ago|176 comments
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by liotier 8y ago
Considering the difficulty of dumping heat in a vacuum and the cost of orbiting huge heat exchangers, I wager that heavy computing shall remain a mostly planetary activity for quite a while longer.

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