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packetslave
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About packetslave
My opinions are mine, not my employer's.
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Comment #49128340
And you're under the impression that the purpose of a company blog is WHAT, exactly?
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Comment #48714822
> Didn't the DoD at one point build a 1k+ PS3 cluster based on their multi-core chip and had a mini supercomputer CotS? The Air Force did (Condor) and it hit #33 on the 2010 Top500…
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Comment #47826058
Nintendo is probably THE most aggressive company in the industry in terms of going after people for using their IP in unauthorized ways. They don't have a blind eye.
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Comment #46830172
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Comment #46817720
> Waymo driver? The vehicles are autonomous the "Waymo Driver" is how they refer to the self-driving platform (hardware and software). They've been pretty consistent with that bran…
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Comment #46817604
right-click, search Google: "MSK most commonly refers to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a world-renowned institution for cancer treatment and research"
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Comment #46416079
Right-click, "Search Google for 'ADC'", takes much less time than making this useless comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog-to-digital_converter
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Comment #46063090
yep, and it was this exact requirement that also caused the exact same outage back in 2013 or so. DDoS rules were pushed to the GFE (edge proxy) every 15 seconds, and a bad release…
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Comment #46026302
I have a bit of a different take on browser fingerprinting: I don't want to uniquely identify you as a person so I can serve you ads, or whatever. I want to identify your traffic w…
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Comment #45917140
TCP/IP Illustrated is still in copyright. Please don't post pirated material here.
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Comment #45816822
and his dad was head of computer security at the NSA for a while
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Comment #45765472
Google had 86TB of sourcecode data in Piper way back in 2016.
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Comment #45609781
Also the just-released DGX Spark from Nvidia (although it "only" has 128gb of unified memory)
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Comment #44839053
in AWS's defense, it's pretty easy to see the rationale for this. The amount of abuse they must deal with is staggering -- "spin up account, do evil stuff until they notice and nuk…
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Comment #44564927
It's a less... dramatic... version of what happens when HN links to JWZ's blog.
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Comment #44564923
Someone who is writing on their personal blog and doesn't give a damn what is "acceptable" to some rando on the Internet?
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Comment #44526653
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Comment #44023357
Those look like E5500 or E6500 cabinets (hard to tell from the angle).
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Comment #43599276
Netflix is a weird case, in that they let new hires pick the mix of stock vs. cash in their total compensation. Since the CA law requires posting the cash salary in the job offer, …
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Comment #43591356
Sparklines have been around (in modern usage) for nearly 20 years (coined by Edward Tufte in 2006. Also, Google is a thing.
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Comment #42807131
what an intrusive, nosy question!
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Comment #42591948
Not everything needs to be spelled out for people who are too lazy to Google
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Comment #41514435
that's a related tool for monitoring the utilization of BPF programs within the kernel, but NOT the focus of the article -- detecting noisy neighbors in non -EBPF workloads.