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by mcspiff 5y ago
It’s even worse now in Canada — not smart devices, but water heater rentals. These companies charge astronomical rates per month for a rental, or a large “contract buy out fee”. They give kick backs to developers so almost all new builds in
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by mcspiff 5y ago
Not to diverge too much, but if you’re keeping everything in memory how do you handle hardware failures etc? Wouldn’t that result in data loss?
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by mcspiff 5y ago
Yup, definitely agree with this. I’ve noticed these are the managers that “feel like they’ve always been there”.
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by mcspiff 5y ago
Somewhat satisfied customer here. Omnia is great as a wired router but I offloaded wifi to another device (eero in my case). Mox I was less satisfied with, has some strange bugs that have never been fixed. I probably wouldn’t pre-buy a new
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by mcspiff 5y ago
Could be anything from poor management to contractual/legal requirements. For one client, we had to fly from Canada to the US, but could work remotely from any US site. Usually the client would set us up with a nice office a short flig
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by mcspiff 5y ago
Who decides what’s non-critical? I’d prefer my news articles not be rewritten by the government for example. Catering security to the absolute lowest common denominator (“can’t set a clock”) is not a path to success.
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by mcspiff 5y ago
That’s generally the definition of free, yes. You might have a different definition, but it’s certainly not a common one.
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by mcspiff 5y ago
On the flip side, it’s the longer you can survive an outage by relying on enough clients having the cached records. So can go both ways a bit.
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by mcspiff 5y ago
I wish I had some really insightful reply that would expand upon this, but really I think you captured it beautifully. I can remember conversations at a music festival 20 years ago for exactly the reasons you said — in one or two nights I w
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by mcspiff 5y ago
You’re assuming the over subscription is only occurring on the transit / peering side and not the last mile. I’m not so sure that’s entirely true.
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by mcspiff 5y ago
“Even the Iraqi Air Force could manage to hit a rail yard” — did I roughly capture it?
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by mcspiff 5y ago
Positions past senior have existed much longer than 5 or 6 years at Amazon.
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by mcspiff 5y ago
Distinguished Engineer is the top “level” for engineers at Amazon. It’s equivalent to a VP position for managers. So it’s a job title, similar to Sr Engineer.
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by mcspiff 5y ago
I wonder if you’re bumping into issues with t-mobile’s 646XLAT ( https://sites.google.com/site/tmoipv6/464xlat )?
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by mcspiff 5y ago
This more-or-less describes the Canadian system as well. We get “voter cards” mailed to us that make it easier to look up the person on the voter rolls, that’s the only notable difference. And they aren’t required, similar to what you say.
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by mcspiff 5y ago
Not if you it want a 1:1 duplicate
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by mcspiff 5y ago
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/awsintelligence Might have something that’s a good fit and previous military experience definitely won’t hurt him.
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by mcspiff 5y ago
They do have Cloudfront Functions now for real Edge compute: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-cloudfront-func...
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by mcspiff 5y ago
Being on the top of the Empire State Building with my uncle who absolutely loves NYC and having him just point out so much famous stuff is a great memory. Just history as far as the eye can see.
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by mcspiff 5y ago
Might depend on your environment too, I generally find the newer you can get for systemd the better off you are (which is really quite high praise!). Unfortunately the life cycle for some of our environments is quite long for things like RH
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by mcspiff 5y ago
I generally agree, but will say that’s not always easy if it’s something system level that’s being induced to be too chatty —- you’re stuck replacing the upstream unit’s Exec, which frankly kind of sucks. I’m also trusting the filter to be
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by mcspiff 5y ago
I’m a big fan of systemd, but we’ve definitely run into actual bugs in it. Especially the early RHEL7 days (7.0-7.3). Some were fixed upstream, some we’ve worked around, etc.
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by mcspiff 5y ago
To add to that excellent point, I’ve personally found while I’m learning it’s easier to stick to a small number of authors for recipes. Since the same author will tend to make the same assumptions, you kind of perfect their style (or your t
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by mcspiff 5y ago
What blows me away is how often a reporter/author/expert will reply. Sometimes even super informally — I’ve gotten great restaurants recommendations from people I’ve just respected from afar previously. Extremely humanizing experi
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by mcspiff 5y ago
Yup, with the Adblock package on openwrt this was a one click option in the GUI. Doesn’t help with DoH unfortunately, but it definitely helps in general.
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by mcspiff 6y ago
Yup, I would echo this strongly. My wife ended up in hospital just before Christmas a couple of years ago, and she’s an extremely quick professional but between the emotional impact and the sheer volume of information she just couldn’t keep
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by mcspiff 6y ago
I did something similar! It shoved lab results into a SQLite DB and ran some simple queries for them. Before it was all being hand imported into excel. I thought it was neat throw away work but turned out the entire lab team migrated over t
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by mcspiff 6y ago
Unless you’re frequently powering down your equipment you’ll likely keep the same IP. DHCP will try and keep the same address to avoid impacting in-flight connections, etc
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by mcspiff 6y ago
That’s definitely not true for TLS. Your certificate private key should never leave your possession, outside of a few narrow exceptions (Amazon’s ACM comes to mind). The normal process is to send a certificate signing request, which your CA
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by mcspiff 6y ago
Not exactly something that was considered private for a long time. Phone books included this for example.

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