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by zrm 7y ago
> With the in house server you need at least two, in case one fails. That doesn't really change much when the difference is a four figure sum spread over five years. > Then you need someone to plan, provision, troubleshoot, and m
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by zrm 7y ago
It'll be interesting to see what these high core count servers do to The Cloud though. Fifteen years ago a lot of medium-sized organizations had a full rack of single and dual-core servers in their offices that cost half a million doll
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by zrm 7y ago
> Moreover if your company matches 501(c) donations (mine does, at least up to something like $20k a year), you can have them match your donation too, effectively giving the archive a 4x your original donation. Wouldn't it be 6x, as
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by zrm 7y ago
Decompiling the program is arduous but it is possible. You only need one person to do it and expose the nefarious activity to destroy their reputation, which acts as a deterrent. Another option is to restrict its network activity. If it can
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by zrm 7y ago
The problem is the alternative is giving your bank credentials and other sensitive personal information directly to a third party. At least when the software is on your computer it's possible to analyze it to see what it's doing w
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by zrm 7y ago
Suppose you have a VPN server that routes traffic between several offices. It has tun0 with 192.168.0.1/24 linked to the New York office and tun1 with 192.168.1.1/24 linked to the London office. The server also runs some service,
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by zrm 7y ago
> Isn't the price like $12 a year? So prepaying 10 years would be $120? That's not an insignificant amount, but it's not like you're going to make a life-changing profit by investing it either. For most people there a
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by zrm 7y ago
Technically correct -- the best kind of correct. Though obviously if you've got your own DNS server in front of the ISP's then you could just configure that to resolve names however you like. Which would then typically cause it
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by zrm 7y ago
> 1) Windows Group Policy is used to manage a computer This is solving the problem only where it least matters. If you're using Group Policy then you can configure DNS using Group Policy anyway, so any default there is already easy
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by zrm 7y ago
> The EU might be doing a better job here-- but is this suggesting that I trust my US ISP's DNS servers? That's the false dichotomy. You shouldn't use either one. The issue is that if you've already made your choice,
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by zrm 7y ago
If it's reverted back to non-profit then prepaying is still a bad proposition because then you're paying today the same amount you would be able to pay years from now -- and paying it to the for-profit entity now instead of the no
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by zrm 7y ago
> This is a good chance to stop our dependence on DNS and move to things such as .onion domains instead (which by the way help avoid the whole certificate CA mess). .onion isn't a direct competitor for DNS. It does some of the thing
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by zrm 7y ago
That's a bad deal unless you actually need ten years to migrate, which you probably don't. Better off to take a year or three at the 10% annual increase and then stop paying entirely (~364% of the existing rate for three years, wi
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by zrm 7y ago
> So they introduced a new socket/platform for supporting up to 64 cores, yet still restricted memory to 256GB UDIMMs, instead of switching over to LRDIMM and allowing up to 4TB of RAM. The only reason all desktops don't suppor
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by zrm 7y ago
You can kind of see how they ended up where they did with TR3. With Zen 1 they had Ryzen going up to 8 cores, Threadripper between 8 and 16 and Epyc picking up from there. For Zen 2 they've got the AM4 Ryzen with up to 16 cores and PCI
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by zrm 7y ago
If tomorrow somehow everyone's memory got wiped so they could no longer remember how to make Pad Thai then it would cease to exist as well (unless someone independently reinvents it). That doesn't mean Pad Thai exists by consensus
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by zrm 7y ago
It only became a topic for discussion after people failed to take your advice.
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by zrm 7y ago
How is it a consensus when people on the losing side often respond with violence, riots or protests? Lacking effective means to overthrow the government hardly implies agreement.
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by zrm 7y ago
A thing doesn't exist by consensus just because a consensus against it could destroy it, because a consensus against pretty much anything could destroy it. What makes it exist by consensus is that a rough consensus in favor of it is re
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by zrm 7y ago
> the ruling will be enforced if there is a consensus that it is a just ruling The Supreme Court regularly makes rulings that are contrary to popular opinion. I see no evidence that the rulings are not being enforced despite the lack of
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by zrm 7y ago
It takes two to tango. Once you get majority support then the holdouts are the ones forking the TLD, and since forks are not in anybody's interest a consensus would be reached.
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by zrm 7y ago
Property is not based on consensus. Even if millions of people think Jeff Bezos has too much money, with nowhere near consensus that he should have it, a court will still convict anybody who tries to take his stuff. The DNS really does oper
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by zrm 7y ago
Not only that, isn't there a sense in which a TLD is not actually property at all? The DNS operates by consensus. There are a bunch of root server operators who all agree who operates the .org TLD and then list those NS records in thei
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by zrm 7y ago
You're looking at this from the perspective of someone who is actually using this specific library. The issue is that it's cheating on a benchmark . The large majority of the code people actually run isn't written by Intel o
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by zrm 7y ago
High bandwidth costs are an advantage for big players like YouTube because their economies of scale allow them to pay less than smaller competitors. The more bandwidth costs the bigger their advantage. Lower bandwidth prices would both incr
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by zrm 7y ago
> It's all under one site so it's easier for people to find a new community to join In theory you can find new subreddits starting from the main page, but it's more often because of people cross-posting things from somewhe
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by zrm 7y ago
It's good to see DoH going where it ought to be here -- the place where it gets used by everything automatically, keeps your ISP out of your DNS queries, and doesn't require everybody to manually configure every separate applicati
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by zrm 7y ago
~35 watts isn't actually all that much heat load, and that's what you get from the likes of a business-class Core i5 at the loads routing packets would put on it (i.e. basically idle). Something like Atom or AMD Bobcat is <15 w
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by zrm 7y ago
Mac market share cratered around the turn of the century as result of a stagnating operating system (MacOS 9) and then use of uncompetitive PowerPC processors. Since OS X and the switch to x64 processors they've been slowly crawling t
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by zrm 7y ago
Here was goatinaboat's initial concern: > One bad software update kills... everyone. That's a fair concern. If you push a software update out to a hundred million cars at the same time which causes some of them to crash into on

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