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by phirephly 2y ago
If every torrent includes a webseed, then you're still left with the problem of needing to build a full HTTP CDN, and now have to also maintain the largest tracker infrastructure ever deployed for Bittorrent. Under normal conditions wi
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by phirephly 2y ago
I've made a point of calling out Digital Ocean in Linux mirroring talks as the gold standard for being a good citizen; run their own internal mirrors, which are FAST, making it a value add feature for them as well.
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by phirephly 2y ago
EPEL is a separate module from fedora-enchilada, but uses the same backend CDN infrastructure and most mirrors tend to carry both /fedora/ and /epel/, so they're not technically the same mirrors, but most mirrors te
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by phirephly 3y ago
The map is a latency heat map. I should probably replace it with a POP map
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by phirephly 3y ago
Sure. And switch ASICs hang off a CPU as a PCIe device, so the line between smartNICs and low end ASICs start to blur. The key is hardware acceleration of some sort.
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by phirephly 3y ago
256 next hops isn't enough. Typical ASICs support 20,000 to 160,000 next hops FECs. Cisco tried caching routing decisions from non-line rate routing engines in the 90s, and the industry learned the lesson that it's a bad idea. Cac
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by phirephly 3y ago
The base power with any colo space is going to be minimal. You typically come back and spec out what additional power you want with the rack a la carte.
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by phirephly 3y ago
When you want line rate forwarding across several Tbps of front panel ports, you need the packet pipeline to be able to make all the routing decisions without involvement from the OS. 8Bpps just doesn't give you time to be able to walk
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by phirephly 3y ago
I started an Internet Exchange Point adjacent to it, use it to host mirror.fcix.net, and got a second ASN to build the anycast ns-global.zone service
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by phirephly 3y ago
I only got a few years out of it. I'm running an Arista 7280SR-48C8 now. The problem is that the million tcam entries are split between IPv4 and IPv6, so I really ran out of space.
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by phirephly 3y ago
This article is also essentially available as a podcast. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal/kenneth-finnega...
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Serving 90TB/Day of Linux Updates from Thin Clients(blog.thelifeofkenneth.com)
106 points by phirephly 3y ago|6 comments
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by phirephly 4y ago
A good old fashioned slash dotting on a self hosted server. Chill dude.
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by phirephly 15y ago
As far as I can tell, SU traffic is almost useless. I may get 1,000x as hits from SU, but I derive more value from some hole-in-the-wall site writing about me and sending 20 people.
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by phirephly 15y ago
So what? Do I incorporate in Nevada? I can't believe there's no way around this.
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Why can't Californians lie about where they live to Amazon?
7 points by phirephly 15y ago|5 comments
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by phirephly 15y ago
Alright guys, so we all lost our Affiliate programs. What are the legal implications for just putting down an out-of-state friend's address in our Amazon account information?
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by phirephly 15y ago
Because the state is not allowed to. The items are still being entirely taxed, people are just dishonest when they file their taxes.
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by phirephly 15y ago
A few small sites, but most of my Amazon earnings actually just come from one post: http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/2011/06/so-you-want-to-b... The rest of the site pulls in about $20/mo in Adsense, which is still pretty nice, but the
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by phirephly 15y ago
And if I have to start filing tax returns with every state and county my small business happens to do business with (~$1000 / year business), I'll probably shut that down entirely for not being worth the bother as well.
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by phirephly 15y ago
Damn. There goes my $300-$400 a month passive income... And I already report my use-tax to begin with. Guess it's time to start calling up friends out-of-state for their mailing address.
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by phirephly 15y ago
Then pursue the customers and force them to actually report their rightful use-tax when they file their taxes at the end of the year. Amazon isn't not collecting CA sales tax because they think it shouldn't be paid. They're not collecting
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by phirephly 15y ago
I don't think the award is for perfect attendance. I think the award is for showing up for work for one hundred and ten freakin years.
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by phirephly 15y ago
No cost, plus a $50 programmer. What is the PIC equivalent of the $20 USBtinyISP?
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Everything you need to get started in electronics(kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com)
4 points by phirephly 15y ago|0 comments
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by phirephly 15y ago
When you treat it as a microblogging platform, yes. Twitter isn't useful as a microblog. Twitter is useful for interacting with your internet friends from the blogosphere. It's how you text people before you trade cell phone numbers. I fo
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by phirephly 15y ago
As I understand it, this is very standard lawsuit boiler plate, such that if they later realize there is another party involved, they can just tell the court, "so-and-so is Doe 1," allowing them to very rapidly fold in new parties without r
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by phirephly 15y ago
Embedded systems, 128 bytes of RAM. I really do just want portable assembly.
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by phirephly 15y ago
Ohhh... you want to know about the age bias for the actually successful startups, and not just the age bias of having enough life flexibility to go off on some 80%-baked adventure...
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by phirephly 15y ago
There's a difference between admitting you don't know a piece of trivia, and just giving up on questions. Engineering interviews that are quizzes on trivia are really poor interviews. But if they ask a question I don't know the answer to,

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