mehrdadn

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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> The digital emissions from this story are an estimated 1.2g to 3.6g CO2 per page view. Holy cow, that is a lot . 1-3 grams of CO2 per single load of a page? Makes me feel guilty about even clicking the article.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I'm sorry but I still don't get how any of this implies NAT table exhaustion. A few hundred entries is literally 3 orders of magnitude away from a few hundred thousand entries. I don't see the problem.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Same reason why we have subdirectories in the first place and don't just shove everything into one directory. Same reason why you (hopefully) don't put everything on your desk and instead designate places for things, like in drawe
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> I don't get this, what's the problem here? Having config files in root means you know they can apply to all sub directories. This makes sense for configs that could ostensibly do this, but that's only a fraction of them.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
You're talking about the state-mismatch rate being nonzero, right? I take it as a given that that represents the router dropping states? And you're assuming that must be due to NAT slot exhaustion? If that's what you're
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. While I have a hard time grasping your usage (why in the world are 3 devices opening 1.6 connections every second?), it's not really relevant as your own data shows state tables don't get exhausted, right? Yo
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I meant "doubling" the complexity as in IPv6 + IPv4 vs. just IPv4. If your argument is users can ignore IPv6 complexities as they already do with IPv4, then you've just established the IPv4 complexities can be disregarded by
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I'm not ignoring the complexity of v4. I'm responding to "What complexity?" But even if I was, "it only doubles the complexity" is not exactly a compelling response to "why should I switch to IPv6?"
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Makes sense if this happens, but does this actually happen to you? I've heard vague and rather dubious third-hand stories along these lines, but I've never actually encountered a router that needs rebooting to keep working well. T
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> The state table can get full. When that happens some connection needs to be evicted. This would be so much more convincing with some numbers to show it actually does happen in reality, especially at a rate that's comparable to oth
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> What complexity? 1. What the hell is DHCP-PD and is it better on or off? 2. What are 6to4, 6in4, 6rd, etc. and should the user care? 3. When should autoconf be stateless vs. stateful? I thought the point of IPv6 was to allow things to
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Not a physicist, but "hot" just means high average kinetic energy ("moving really fast"). So imagine a single particle moving really fast (even close to the speed of light if you want)—why that mere fact cause it to emit
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Veritasium videos are pretty darn high quality. Fun to watch and learn from, sometimes mindblowingly. Definitely recommend subscribing. One of my favorites is Derek's video on compliant mechanisms: https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Oh I see. But putting it in the charger all the time just makes the battery die more quickly, right? Though I see the value now if you don't care about that.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Never used wireless charging but also never really understood what is so dramatically elevating about it. Is it just the requirement for 1 hand vs. 2 hands that people find so life-changing? Doesn't it waste a ton of power in the proce
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
This isn't really true in every language. Not every use of inheritance is a case of OOP. Inheritance is a mechanism used for multiple purposes (especially in C++) and OOP is merely one of them. It's also just a way to do mixins, a
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
You might not be the author of that class to be able to add a method to it.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I believe that's the intent of the clause. It's pretty clever.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
The quote was that the source code is the form of the program you would prefer to modify , not the information you would prefer to have available . These are different things.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
It's the form you would prefer to modify , not the information you would prefer to have available . I'd prefer to have all the information in the world available, but that doesn't make everything the source code.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Layman here, but this seems pretty easy to answer for GPL at least because it defines [1] what "source code" means (with a rather brilliant definition, I might add): > The "source code" for a work means the preferred
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Thanks! I did look at Wirecutter actually, but for example the Amazon reviews for LG LP1419IVSM appear a little scary -- average 3.5/5, with 20% of them being 1/5. Have you actually had good experience with portable ACs from Wirec
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Tangentially related, but how do you find portable ACs that work reasonably and reliably? I always found it so hard to search for them because it always seems like the reviews on these are difficult to trust. I've had at least one bad
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
The second syntax when you want to ask a program to pass an argument to another program. Having to pass 2 arguments is a lot more annoying since you'd often then have to prefix each one.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Any chance someone different might've done filtering with cover letters than the person who would call you?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> The question is whether this will be a problem as the economy starts to reopen. Isn't the question whether the economy should reopen?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> It's not the fault of the car owner for not securing their car. Securing their car against... their children? Or distributing the car's keys to 2,000 people?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
My initial reaction is the same every time, but then about safety issues. Everything from toxic materials to potential fire hazards -- you won't know unless it's too late.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Do IBANs allow debit without reliable authorization? In the US having a bank account number (and I suppose maybe a name/street address for more plausibility) is enough to print a check and then withdraw money from it. Do IBANs let a ra
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I.. guess? Didn't even occur to me... I thought it went without saying that my comment wasn't just blatantly irrelevant to the article, but maybe I shouldn't have assumed that.

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