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by mbreese 3y ago
This is the problem… CSV isn’t specified at sufficient detail, it is just too loose in the real world. So the question “can you make a small parser” isn’t a real issue. And then, the problem with such a small parser is — which edge cases ar
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by mbreese 3y ago
I didn’t think that centralization itself was the problem… just where the centralization was occurring (outside the EU).
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by mbreese 3y ago
True, but in that case, I think it would still be difficult to swap in a completely new system into the network (with your IP) with your old private host key. (Without a physical breach... if that happens, all bets are off).
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by mbreese 3y ago
Is high availability or easier backups why people look to horizontal scaling though? I don't think that's ever been a primary reason for any story I've read. It's a great "bonus", but I can't think that it
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by mbreese 3y ago
Isn’t there a host SSH key involved? The server itself may have been physically breached, and if so you can’t trust anything. But, if your host key matches, you should be confident that at least you’re logging into the correct machine (ther
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by mbreese 3y ago
But, if you had a good non-winmodem (external or more expensive internals), it was very easy to get working. Same as now... some peripherals are better supported than others. The more standard, the better. And this is true regardless of the
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by mbreese 3y ago
20 years ago Linux still had issues with wifi drivers and power management. You had to be very careful with which network card you had (wifi and ethernet), as only a few had good in-kernel support. Actually, it was very analogous to Asahi t
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by mbreese 3y ago
This was my rationale for switching over to Macs (from a mix of Windows and Linux) many years ago. I liked the flexibility of working within Linux to get a workstation to be setup exactly as I wanted it. If I had problems, I was able to (us
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by mbreese 3y ago
I’ve never understood the messaging interop angle when there are so many non-phone network based messaging apps available. It’s just always seemed the weakest of the arguments against Apple w.r.t. the iPhone. SMS/MMS/RCS standardi
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by mbreese 3y ago
It was useful at the time though. Both network and disk were substantially slower at the time. And servers had far fewer cores. So which server stored the data could make your processing faster. And you’d have less risk for IO contention wi
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by mbreese 3y ago
It’s just a common saying “the problem is always DNS”. When you have a weird networking issue, the problem always seems to be DNS. Either some misconfigured DNS entry or DHCP giving you the wrong server address, etc… And then the problem is
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by mbreese 3y ago
I figured for all ages it would also encompass falling off something. A chair, bed, etc… one type is more predominant for the younger ages (falling from something), the other is likely more predominant for the older ages (falling down, trip
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by mbreese 3y ago
Look at the spread from #1 to #2. At young ages, the difference is pretty high, suggesting that young kids falling from things is common. In the middle age ranges, #1 and #2 are pretty close, suggesting that falling isn’t that different (fr
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by mbreese 3y ago
Not just a computer... equipment could be anything needed in the course of developing -- or testing -- the software. I'm thinking of something like a warehouse management tool and you interfaced with a barcode reader or something like
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by mbreese 3y ago
I have issues trusting SSHFS. It's never been stable enough for me. Maybe it's because I have to go through at least one ssh proxy, in addition to a VPN. Maybe it's that the remote filesystem is slow enough, so trying to do a
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by mbreese 3y ago
Maybe, but I read it as wormholes at the application level. Which would be awesome for me. I do a lot of work on remote servers for heavy data processing (large files). Sometimes I need to get these files back to my local computer, or just
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by mbreese 3y ago
The network effects associated with hosting code in a public source repository are just too great. If you want your code to be seen, used, trusted, you put it on one of the primary code repositories. At one point, this was sourceforge. For
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by mbreese 3y ago
For me, it’s a provider installed ONT on the side of the house. This converts fiber to Ethernet that runs inside my house. I then have just a port to plug my router into. Now, the provider trying to bundle a router is another question… but
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by mbreese 3y ago
I see this as an issue of scale. HN loves to think about infinite scales where there are millions of simultaneous users of systems. This is rarely the case. Caching in Postgres is for smaller scale applications where the extra complexity of
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by mbreese 3y ago
> Because now you have already decided you don't want to game, etc That’s exactly what I’m not saying. If you want to play games (with Windows only games), then a Mac won’t work for you. If you get a Mac, that means that gaming li
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by mbreese 3y ago
You’re going about your decision tree backwards. People don’t say “I don’t want a touchscreen” or “I don’t want to game”. You don’t make decisions based upon what you don’t want to do… you make them based upon what you do want to do. I
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by mbreese 3y ago
That’s actually what the story was about. In order to have/sell a good AC grid-powered clock, it was necessary to have a consistent AC frequency. A consistent frequency was also necessary to have an interconnected grid. Solving one pro
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by mbreese 3y ago
If you’re okay with just text communications, the meshtastic project is also an option. Because it uses LoRa for communications, nodes can be further apart. As a bonus, it allows for encrypted [1] communications as it doesn’t use licensed s
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by mbreese 3y ago
To add to your comment… I thought the use of paper tape was directly related to the teletypes (when used for I/O with a computer). Where the paper tape could operate as both an input and output mechanism, depending on if you wanted to
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by mbreese 3y ago
> Can routing in Telcos even work like that? Why not? I don’t know how this company actually has things setup, but I suspect you’re right — it’s all done with routing tables. DNS tends to cache too much, and I think DHCP would either
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by mbreese 3y ago
True… state can get out of sync. But in general, I think this can be (and is?) handled with a heartbeat process. The compute nodes notify the central server of their status every X minutes (or get polled by the central node). Or even when t
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by mbreese 3y ago
It’s also really good for when accounting is needed too, it’s just more complicated to setup. :)
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by mbreese 3y ago
Another place to look for similar workflows is the HPC world. HPC schedulers have been doing resource requirement based scheduling for forever. Many of those those keep the scheduling state centralized though. Instead of asking the workers
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by mbreese 3y ago
I use Ethernet everywhere I can and only use wifi if I need to. When you have dozens of devices on a network, reducing the WiFi congestion as much as possible helps all devices. I also use it as a backhaul between mesh wifi access points, s
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by mbreese 3y ago
Thanks for the confirmation. I spent way more time than I care to admit double checking this. I tend to not make my own cables anymore and just use punch down sockets, so it’s been a while.

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