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by zrm 9y ago
It wouldn't work unless everybody including the gamers were willing to preorder a year or more in advance, because if the bottom fell out of GPUs for cryptocurrency then everyone who preordered for mining would immediately turn around
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by zrm 9y ago
> Docker's killer feature is the packaging mechanism. That seems to be its Achilles' heel. Instead of having packages maintained by dedicated people (as with package managers like apt), you get a program that comes together wit
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by zrm 9y ago
> With the Ryzen 5 2400G, AMD has completely shut down the sub-$100 graphics card market. Well, almost. Integrated graphics generally take the place of additional CPU cores. For example, there is no 8-core Ryzen with integrated graphics.
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by zrm 9y ago
They can do things like spoof DNS requests from the victim which are known to have large responses. The attacker causes ~4000 bytes of traffic to be sent to the victim from the DNS server by sending a ~40 byte DNS request. That amplifies th
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by zrm 9y ago
"Have middleboxes do something" as a method of solving problems has historically created more problems than it solved. The current dark age where nearly everything uses TLS/443 has been the net result, because for a significa
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by zrm 9y ago
> Clearly, we are lacking a means for pushing 'cancer' filtering over to the source side of data transit. To the point where it becomes the problem of the source ISP. "Block this customer" (for a while) and "don&
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by zrm 9y ago
> It would be very good for the net if something came up that penalised middleboxes though. What you can do is to have a good protocol that requires no interference from middleboxes but detects it if it happens, and then a less efficient
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by zrm 9y ago
That isn't much help for running your own DNS server though, since it's is a bit of a chicken and egg problem then. It's also hard to run a mail server on a residential connection because most of them block SMTP. Fortunately
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by zrm 9y ago
Comcast has a huge network but none of their customers are only talking to each other, they're talking to Verizon's customers and Google and Facebook and Amazon. Everyone has to interconnect with everyone else regardless of how bi
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by zrm 9y ago
The thing that protects metadata is onion routing. It's somewhat understandable why that isn't already used for everything. The latency impact is not small and it's unlikely the network could take the load if everyone actuall
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by zrm 9y ago
The false sense of security is what WPA2 gives anyway. Coffee house has a password on their wifi? Great, then only someone with the password can impersonate the AP, which is only... everyone. You can't tell everybody something and stil
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by zrm 9y ago
I'm not convinced. > A new machine is in warranty. Warranties are for individuals. Businesses will use them if they exist, but when a machine fails you replace it with a spare off the shelf. All a warranty does is save you the cost
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by zrm 9y ago
> Motherboards, CPUs, RAM chips, GPUs are analog and physical objects. For AWS to switch a DC from one mobo to another just to find out that this one draws 5% more power and their standard backup generator can't handle it, which
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by zrm 9y ago
> For a large enterprise, monoculture that works is actually better than diversification. But that's the problem. Nothing works 100% of the time, which is why monoculture is bad. When there is a bug that affects 20% of your systems,
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by zrm 9y ago
> Just like cloud infrastructure, it is more efficient to centralize and rent out capacity as needed. Cloud infrastructure is probably a bad example. It essentially got started at the same time as x64 virtualization was becoming a thing,
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by zrm 9y ago
It isn't that new coins can't be created, a coin may be worth e.g. $100 and it costs $101 in electricity to create another one so nobody does until the demand for coins increases. But the amount of work required to validate a tran
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by zrm 9y ago
> That wouldn't work because mining blocks also validates transactions. It's possible to validate transactions with proof of work and compensate the work with transaction fees rather than the creation of new coins.
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by zrm 9y ago
> What is being missed by your analysis is that the value in a blockchain comes more from the network than the tech. That is the reason why anyone can't just create a new coin and expect everyone else to value it, but that doesn&#x2
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by zrm 9y ago
If you use a browser that supports it then security flaws in the black box(es) can affect you unless you actually remove it or otherwise disable it. There are EME-free editions of Firefox available however. https://ftp.mozilla.or
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by zrm 9y ago
> During Carleton's (Carly's real name) reign of terror, you would not be able to get office supplies at certain times of the month to make the quarterly numbers. And it's not just the employees they're annoying. I we
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by zrm 9y ago
> See that's the bit that's weird to me. My OS drives are small SSD's and the spinning platters are all comfortably full. You have to remember that you know what you're doing. You know how much space you need and you
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by zrm 9y ago
> Wouldn't this mean that if X is the total amount of consumed storage currently used, you still need 2.5 times X _additional_ unused storage across the swarm in which to hold the 2.5 distributed copies? No. The first copy-equivalen
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by zrm 9y ago
> Just like I don't get 100 IPv4 addresses on my phone, I don't get a block of IPv6 addresses. There is nothing I can do about it. Sure you can. Do the thing the people whose ISPs give them zero IPv6 addresses do -- use a tunne
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by zrm 9y ago
> Why does the author implicitly assume that the amount of spare local storage is enough for the swarm+redundancy? Furthermore how many backups are required for data to ensure the same level of protection as a modern cloud provider? Does
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by zrm 9y ago
Not only that, it's possible that a USB port on a monitor is only because the monitor contains a USB hub and it doesn't accept video over USB at all.
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by zrm 9y ago
> Suggesting that everyone introduce four hops of latency or that we all participate in a multi-billion device DHT (which all just translate to "much slower" to the typical user) is just not a practical solution to these proble
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by zrm 9y ago
Giving out the wrong page for several hours is obviously better than giving out the wrong page forever, but it's still broken. Better would be to re-request the page after several hours and compare it to the cached copy. Then if they&#
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by zrm 9y ago
You can do even better than that with something read-mostly like Wikipedia. Have a bunch of caches (or a cache hierarchy) which request pages on first use and then cache them indefinitely . Then when a page actually changes, you push notif
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by zrm 9y ago
Any reasonable FTP server (e.g. vsftpd) will saturate ethernet. Maybe the ones you were using were rate limited?
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by zrm 9y ago
If you assume the user has a /48 when they really have a /64, you're off by a factor of 65536. For address blocks allocated to business customers, a nontrivial percentage (say 10%) may be operating mail servers. Which means t

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