ti_ranger

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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> Flatpak is over-engineered garbage. But, it works, especially for the use case of the "I need the latest and greatest versions of two packages". > AppImage can do that too, since it is a lot less over-engineered, but sadly
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> The only thing about Linux I never really like is the package system. I think you just haven't used it enough to understand the advantages. If you don't need the lastest-and-greatest released last week versions, the package s
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
I don't mount remote filesystems, autofs does it for me whenever I browse /net/$hostname
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> Network transparency is another thing that suffers from this. On Windows, you can basically use a UNC path (\\server\share\path\to\file.txt) almost anywhere because the entire system from the file picker all the way down to the file AP
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> I also explored the good old automounter[1][2], but it has a lot of the limitations that systemd's does. It does have the advantage of supporting host maps, which gets me a bit closer to what I'm looking for. The unfortunate
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
1)How long does it take to get a Lambda Hyperplane operational, from the point I place an order? A p3dn.24xlarge is a few minutes. My experience in deploying new hardware-based solutions is that it typically takes between 6 and 12 weeks. 2)
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> Running a laptop comparison site myself ( https://www.productchart.com ), I wonder if we should add '180°' to the filter list. Taking into account the context of this story, does it make sense to add "Linux&quo
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> I was frustrated by the expectation to focus on documenting to get a promotion. I don't think it is a good practice and was surprised to see that: This was apparently a relatively recent change. Until about a year ago, apparently
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> > data centres in Nigeria ... the electrical supply is not very reliable > Electrical supply in Cape Town has had issues too: https://www.google.com/search?q=cape+town+load+shedding Oh wow, one day of residential
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> I realize that Africa is an enormous continent; I'm just curious if this doesn't also help out developers and startups in places like Nigeria...? I don't have a sense of the topology of the Internet throughout Africa vs
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> if major eyeball / gamer ISPs won't peer initially Almost all the major retail ISPs in South Africa openly peer at NAPAfrica ( https://www.napafrica.net/ ), mainly to pick up Akamai, Google, and more recently
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> Since then, most of AWS transitioned back to Seattle and the CT team focuses on some of the tooling around AWS. This is not true. Most of AWS was never in Cape Town, only most of EC2. And lots of EC2 development still occurs in Cape To
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
I am not the OP, but in my previous job, we ran infrastructure that could absolutely NOT be cloud hosted (network management control plane for an ISP), and had to be geo-redundant (3 DCs in our country, which also hosted the core routers an
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> I guess I should be clear that I have an elastic IP (which is free) Free when in use, you pay for it when it is not in use.
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> Cross-region networking. To this day, I'm flabbergasted this isn't something that AWS has. All the other networking bits seem more sensible to me as well. AWS tries to avoid letting customers create multi-region or global fai
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> Yes, but with a gym, you can switch if you keep seeing overcrowdedness. Not so with an ISP that has a monopoly. And this is the real problem. The U.S. should require access-network sharing (at least for fixed-line, mobile seems to li
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> The problem is that no consumer will buy internet advertised as conditionally rate limited.ISPs have no reason s to stop what works. And consumers have proved that they believed the first liars^H^H^H^H^Hmarketers who took this approach
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> What kind of different class of traffic would give throttled traffic to different forms of on-demand video stream services? NBCSports, Netflix, YouTube Premium and Amazon prime. There may be a small amount of packet loss at the time du
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> No one is asking that Amazon pay a vastly higher salary to their low tier employees, only that they consider the cost of living for those employees and pay accordingly within a particular market. If Amazon is paying too little compared
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> Very curious about these justification arguments. How on earth is tax-avoidance defensible in a thread about philanthropy? One topic (tax avoidance) is by one entity (AMZN) who has obligations and responsibilities towards shareholders
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> US federal budget for 2018 is ~4 trillion. Bezos has just donated 2 million. If that’s really your concern then you should try to keep things in perspective. I think you mean 2 billion .
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> "Jeff Bezos can tout himself as a great philanthropist, yet it will not absolve him of responsibility if Amazon workers continue to be afraid to take toilet breaks and days off sick because they fear disciplinary action at work.&q
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
To be clear, by "global"(around the whole globe/earth), I mean that a specific service is broken in every public region . You seem to have a wider interpretation for "global". Besides the one you listed: * https:&#
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> Google has ~3% market share compared to Microsoft's ~28% and Amazon's ~40%. Where does this number come from? If it is based on the revenue reported, be very careful with Microsoft's numbers. They report a lot of produ
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
GCP has had multiple many-hour (6+) GLOBAL outages in the past year. I think it's at about 3 so far this year. But, it doesn't make the headlines like a 2-hour S3 outage in a single region, which must mean something ...
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
The biggest AWS outage in the past 3 years was S3 being down in one region for 2 hours in Feb 2018 ... No other regions were affected, except for global APIs (e.g. create S3 bucket), which one shouldn't rely on on your critical path. M
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
And now, S3 has cross-region replication ... And so does DynamoDB, and Aurora ...
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> The fact that RH builds use MozNSS instead of OpenSSL, a constant source of low-level friction and intermittent breakage, doesn't help matters. (Likewise, Debian builds OpenLDAP with GnuTLS.) But, IIRC, the Debian developers did s
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> That article is incredibly biased. Precisely because it's run by Chu's consulting company, I cannot trust them when they describe 389DS as "a less-capable LDAP server". The article says: "This is a guest post f
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by ti_ranger 8y ago
> I had nothing but pain with openLDAP. Every guide I could find trying to learn gave examples using the 'old config format' even though the newer db config format had been around for many, many years at that time. This is a p

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