seanp2k2

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by seanp2k2 5y ago
cough XMPP federation cough Not only did Facebook and GChat refuse to peer with little players, they refused to peer among the big players too. We could have had something like IRC for the masses, peered chat servers with bring-your-own
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
How is this so different from planar loudspeakers which have been around for decades? E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnepan
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Why does Tesla sell surfboards and The Boring Company flamethrowers? I’m guessing this R&D will show up in vehicles eventually as some sort of selectable custom soundscape.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Yep, try doing that in an electron context and you quickly learn why a lot of this software still runs on mainframes with UX from the 80s, hard T1 lines (if they’re lucky enough to be off ISDNs), faxing things all around since that’s consid
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
The “American Way” of finding a good enough monopoly that one can afford to pay legislators to allow it to continue so long as taxpayers can be convinced that it’s not bad enough to favor a different candidate. Or, just get every candidate
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
> Why not price the network equally for everyone? Because settlement-free peering was a foundational piece of the internet until ISPs decided to ruin it: https://www.inap.com/blog/despite-comcast-netflix-deal-settl..
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
It wasn’t just through installing caches, it was through paying ISPs: https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/29/netflix-and-att-sign-peeri... And it wasn’t just level3, it was L3, Akamai, and Limelight: https:/
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Taxpayers also paid ISPs to both deploy rural broadband and to upgrade existing infrastructure, so they’re getting paid 3x if you count that. Look up “The Book of Broken Promises”.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Check out https://broadbandnow.com/report/dig-once-digital-divide/ and read up about how PROW’s (public rights-of-ways) work. It’s why even in Silicon Valley in 2022 we’re paying Comcast and can’t get Google or ev
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
They pay to prioritize only because ISPs held their own customers hostage . Links would become saturated (because ISPs wouldn’t upgrade them) and they’d let customers suffer until people running CDNs paid ISPs to upgrade their own damn lin
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
ISPs pay enough to politicians that it’s not a problem they really have to solve. It works out through game theory. Solving it requires playing better and beating them.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Thanks, I'm going to write all this out on a whiteboard the next time someone asks me to sort a linked list in a technical interview. Edit: just wanted to clarify that the point I'm trying to make here is that if you want to ask s
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
The AT&T emails were what they got him on, but they were mad at him for a lot more than that. Do some research if you’re curious. Smart guy with a lot of wasted potential.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
sometimes people also sit down and ask "how can I build a platform to do this kind of thing so expanding and maintaining that platform can be my new job here?"
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
> Paint is perhaps the worst drawing tool in existence. Excel artists beg to differ: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel...
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I always thought that the smartest model for creative software was to give it away for personal use and charge a lot for using it professionally. Interested people can download and use it for non-commercial purposes, then want to use it in
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
The real purpose of crypto is money laundering. Even easier than art.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Because it’s not a profitable problem for telcos to solve, and telcos have lots of lobbying power to ensure Washington doesn’t make them stop. They value the pennies they get from routing these calls more than all of our financial futures c
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
It’s fun to look up economists opinions on markets, since you can almost always find opposing views. It’s like the weather people, where there’s no downside to being wrong.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Methodus Toolz + Shit Talker Version 1.2 By Jaundice back when you could make free Skype calls to land lines. People still answered the phone and couldn’t fathom that they were talking with a computer.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
The only buddy I want to remember was Bonzi :) Also, PS1 mod chips and copied games / VCDs were good for selling in school for a couple bucks.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
JS snow was top-tier, as were flashing holiday lights with transparent backgrounds around the site for the holidays. Bonus points for midi choons. It was truly a lit time when you could control browser window size and position on the deskto
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Fortune City for me, eventually convinced my dad to pay for a boxed copy of Macromedia Flash 4 and a real hosting account with front page extensions. I think it even did PHP, which led to lots of messing around with every PHP CMS under the
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Yeah; GitHub is orders of magnitude better than Planet Source Code ever was, but the high of posting your sick new vb5 BAS with “A+++++++++” in the title and getting all the gloves isn’t really the same today. Also, irc and newsgroups were
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I guess… If it’s a short-term problem and you’re living paycheck to paycheck, you’re screwed now but might be OKish in the future. If it’s a long-term problem and you’re living paycheck to paycheck you’re screwed for longer. Honestly, what’
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
My favorite is Detroit and their absolutely ridiculous approach to planning the city, which was along the lines of “hue hue hue hue let’s make it look like a wheel and spokes!!” then only a decade later “hmm wait never-mind”, leading to an
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Yeah, I kept running into docking problems trying to keep the lid closed as well. It seemed like it worked less than half the time. Worst-case I'd have to restart. Sometimes it'd wake up with no mouse or kbd working, other times m
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
So, this is really random, but if you can open up the case and figure out what is whining, folding up tinfoil neatly in half about a dozen times will make a really effective shield and cut like 95% of the whine. I found out about this trick
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I'm running a CalDigit Connect 10G on a relatively high-end NUC and it's great for a quick little Plex box that also sits on my 10G network segment next to a TrueNAS box doing 2x10G on DAC cables with LACP on a Chelsio T6225-CR. I
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I did see those a while ago! They sadly weren't out when I got the original TB3 dock from them when that first came out, so no idea how well they work, but seems like they might help. IIRC the dock itself tended to generate a fair bit

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