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by dotwaffle 8d ago
Anycast is hardly unique to Cloudflare. It's been around since the late 80s (before BGP), and has been used commercially for much longer than Cloudflare has existed. In fact, the root nameservers have done anycast for about 25 years or
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by dotwaffle 22d ago
Hence why in financial markets, a 10^9 billion is called a "yard" (from milliarde)!
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by dotwaffle 24d ago
Ironically, the cheapest phones available all tend to have Dual SIM Dual Active, usually because (in Europe at least) many have a second SIM card specifically for international calls. So yes, it's "too expensive" because it&#
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by dotwaffle 24d ago
Dual SIM Dual Active phones are under £100 in the UK, I imagine under $100 in the US. Dual SIM Dual Standby (two or more SIMs, one radio) is cheaper, less battery, less space, and usually good enough. It's literally a few dollars, not
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by dotwaffle 28d ago
Well, there's kind of a precedent at least... > Gofmt's style is no one's favorite, yet gofmt is everyone's favorite.
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by dotwaffle 1mo ago
> Yet IPv6 hasn’t been adopted. For decades. I'd argue it has, but that's not the point. IPv4 is pretty much mandatory for most users of the internet. Yes, individual users probably neither know nor core whether they're on
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by dotwaffle 1mo ago
When I worked at OpenConnect (Netflix's CDN) there was a lot of Python too, and I started porting a lot of the tooling to Go. By the time I left (2019), Go was really starting to take off outside of OpenConnect too -- but yes, there&#x
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by dotwaffle 2mo ago
A single PCIe-3 nvme drive will saturate it on a sequential read load.
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by dotwaffle 2mo ago
Needing to list an "executive sponsor" (an individual, not a role or a team) for each and every item in a service catalogue seems like mindless bureaucracy. Meanwhile, having "custom properties" attached to each repo fee
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by dotwaffle 2mo ago
Traditionally, that was the email address for the NTP service at various organisations, in the same way that postmaster was for the mail service.
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by dotwaffle 3mo ago
That's a good point about LTE/5G. Thanks!
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by dotwaffle 3mo ago
I could be wrong, but I think DAB uses DQPSK (which can be thought of as a special version of QAM 4 if you squint a bit) and not anything like the higher QAM constellations because it's deliberately designed for mobile (road, train etc
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by dotwaffle 3mo ago
... Did you replace them with pringles tubes?
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by dotwaffle 3mo ago
> so for peak loudness (someone shouting or the loudest spike in music) it can take an extra 50% power to create the upper and lower sidebands Some people save energy by turning their appliances off at the plug rather than leaving them o
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by dotwaffle 3mo ago
I hope you mean updated... Otherwise we're about to find out what's in the letter of last resort they have onboard! ;)
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by dotwaffle 3mo ago
Before Radio 4 LW was renumbered in 1988, it was 200kHz. And before the early 70s it was referred to as it's wavelength... 1500m :P
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by dotwaffle 3mo ago
Not entirely true. There's quite a bit of error correction applied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting#Err...
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by dotwaffle 3mo ago
DAB+ uses EEP (and RS) which was deliberately chosen to give better signal quality all the way to the point of losing reception. Old DAB used UEP which degrades faster, but instead of having no signal, it went to a muddier / warbling k
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by dotwaffle 3mo ago
The phrase "if I were to hazard a guess" should tell you all you need to know. All I did beforehand was update my existing knowledge by reading the Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Sta
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by dotwaffle 3mo ago
Starship isn't a proven manned transport vessel yet. And Boom was founded in 2014. If I was to hazard a guess, the BFS concept is 2035 at the earliest, most likely 2040 -- and it'll be at a much smaller scale than previously adver
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by dotwaffle 3mo ago
Boom is planning to operate at Mach 1.7 (approx. twice that of current aircraft) with a range of about 4250 nautical miles (4900 miles, 7900 km). Over land they're only going to fly at Mach 1.3 to reduce sonic boom effects. That's
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by dotwaffle 3mo ago
All markets are finite. But you're thinking too finitely -- remember that there was a proposal to use Starship (BFS?) as a point-to-point method of people transport too (London to Sydney in under 50 minutes I seem to remember). You als
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by dotwaffle 3mo ago
I genuinely worked somewhere that used the term API to mean "a person in India". The same company had someone order me not to use the term "postmortem" as part of the SRE function. I did not stay long after that.
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by dotwaffle 3mo ago
The use of the word "chore" in many users of conventional commits has always riled me. I've always tended to favour the "linux kernel"[0] style of commit subject, which thankfully gets a mention here. [0] https:&#x
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by dotwaffle 4mo ago
There's an RFC for Peg DHCP! :D https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2322 While it's an April 1st RFC, I've seen this implemented at a Hackspace in Amsterdam, works very well!
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by dotwaffle 4mo ago
I'd have thought that by now, most would have been swapping to WebAssembly. It's really nicely sandboxed, you expose it to only what you want, and you can compile a lot of languages into a WASM form meaning you're not stuck w
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by dotwaffle 4mo ago
I have done extensive research on CDC and it almost never works out because most utilities don't create compressed archives in an "rsyncable" (rsync does CDC) format, I actually saved a lot of storage using restic when I swit
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by dotwaffle 4mo ago
If you're the author of https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse/ -- thank you :D
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by dotwaffle 4mo ago
As someone who predominantly writes in Go, cider-v was a massive step backwards compared to cider. I eventually moved entirely over to using vim (with the set of internal plugins for blaze etc) which became so much more useful, but I still
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by dotwaffle 4mo ago
> flow-crushing remote desktop latency Yeah, I was working out of the Sydney office. Almost everything was incredibly slow due to that latency, not just chromoting but also just accessing most sites through beyondcorp.

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