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by mac3n 5y ago
does it come with a rootkit? will it phone home with updates on my location? does it have DRM?
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by mac3n 5y ago
i guess it means as much as USB "Full Speed" (1998 USB 1.1 12Mbps)
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by mac3n 5y ago
in the last case, a multithreaded C++ backend service where the STL String reference count updates weren't atomic
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by mac3n 5y ago
_slightly_ tongue-in-cheek, because i'm annoyed by people calling the top 3% "full" stack But, an example is discovering from the DSACK responses that your network performance sucks because the intel TCP offload firmware is r
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by mac3n 5y ago
well, for web it ought to include some knowledge of, and ability to debug, the underlying protocols, HTTP[S], TCP, IPv4/v6. And modern Ethernet switching. On the host side, network sockets and some kernel implementation chops. At the l
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by mac3n 5y ago
> One SSD in a Macbook is ~1000x faster than the default disk in an EC2 instance. is there a reference for this astounding number?
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by mac3n 5y ago
Natural boundaries often don't make borders. Rivers are as much a highway as a barrier. Likewise, mountain ranges might seperate highlanders from lowlanders, instead of one side from the other. Also, it wasn't for want of trying.
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by mac3n 5y ago
The reason there are APIs is that this is constantly changing. Be aware that you get what you pay for. Even MaxMind offers a paid tier. It also depends on your needs - are you geolocating servers, users, or infrastructure? Most suppliers fo
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by mac3n 5y ago
There is at least one [science fiction] short story where this happens. Greg Egan, maybe? There is a fast quantum factorization method, Shor's Algorithm. As far as we know, it is not yet practical. However, there is ongoing work on pos
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by mac3n 5y ago
"Death March", Yourdon. Doomed software projects - how to recognize and deal with them, and sometimes use them to your advantage. "Software Craftsmanship", McBreen. Take pride in your work.
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by mac3n 6y ago
cool! see also https://gitlab.com/mac3n/qrl "simple serverless single-system sequential scheduler" for the same trick note that many shared filesystems ae not posix-compliant
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by mac3n 6y ago
perhaps not what you're looking for, but one of my all-time favorites https://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/91q2/vangog.html