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HE has a lot of points of presence in North America and Europe: https://pop.he.net/ , so latency should be negligible there. Elsewhere, yes you might see higher latency.

The modern Olympics is at least as much for entertainment as it is for measuring human ability, and the butterfly is simply an awe-inspiring technique. The line of swimmers repeate…

You're absolutely right, abs-o-lutely, everybody says so. A lot, lot lot of people have been saying, you know they come to me and they say, "Mr. Claude, I can't believe the stuff I…

We could invade other countries and take their actors. We could reinstate the actor's draft or do mandatory 1-2 years actor's service like some other countries do

https://tomu.im/somu.html This is an stm32l432kc in the form of a yubikey nano.

I guess you are referring to the TLS requirement? I guess I could see how on a more restrictive platform like a phone you could conceivably be prevented from accepting alternate CA…

AWS had a similar article a couple months ago: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-liquid-cooling-data... In either case I cannot find out how they dump the heat from the outp…

... or get out.

Encryption gets you data integrity "for free". If a bit is flipped by faulty hardware, the packet won't decrypt. TCP checksums are not good enough for catching corruption in many c…

The EU is better on average, but isn't universally great either. I pay 60 EUR for 200Mbit down/20Mbit up ADSL in Amsterdam, after my 6-month discount ran out. No fiber in my neighb…

For very hot data centers, evaporative cooling is still popular. This is from 2012 but I doubt much has changed. https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/gett...

Don't sell yourself short. If you have eyes and a voice, you can learn to read sheet music and hum a tune.

The traffic has a negative effect on more than just car owners--smog, noise, accidents, slower taxis, to name a few. Why should only car owners, who are a minority in Manhattan, vo…

I'm working on a multicast dns implementation in OCaml. It's a library allowing one to build custom queries/responders, plus a conventional querier that can be used as a stub resol…

I didn't dig into it too deeply at the time, but I think part of it was that you don't need to open and write to a socket, so that's avoiding some system calls (socket(), bind(), s…

I used to work for a huge email sender (constant contact). Our mail servers needed to perform an absurd number of lookups while receiving and validating mail. When I was there, we …

For the read-only, newsletter-type mailing lists, this makes sense and I do it too. But for mailing lists that are used more as a forum, I like posting with a recognizable, memorab…

I noticed Netflix doing this while watching this series: https://about.netflix.com/news/beyond-goodbye-premieres-nove... It was so jarring I couldn't watch it and switched to Japan…

I got a monthly discount (small, between 5 and 10$) for using my own cable modem in Sunnyvale. I was using Comcast business, though.

I remember enjoying this video essay on the shining and the spacial anomalies in the overlook hotel. It contains snippets of a recreation of the impossible hotel in a Duke Nukem 3D…

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Fixed, thank you

> Because the last release of the app was in 2002, and it was for Windows 95/98/2000/NT4, we’ve got a little bit of work to do to get it running on macOS Much of today's software i…

I think guix was just late to the party and the extra steps to setup the nonguix for the non free software like steam is enough of a deterrent for users to go to nix instead. I use…

It's a good mindset to have, but I think ssh access should still be available as a last resort on prod systems, and perhaps trigger some sort of postmortem process, with steps to d…