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…
Hence why in financial markets, a 10^9 billion is called a "yard" (from milliarde)!
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"…
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…
Well, there's kind of a precedent at least... > Gofmt's style is no one's favorite, yet gofmt is everyone's favorite.
> 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…
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 --…
A single PCIe-3 nvme drive will saturate it on a sequential read load.
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…
Traditionally, that was the email address for the NTP service at various organisations, in the same way that postmaster was for the mail service.
That's a good point about LTE/5G. Thanks!
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…
... Did you replace them with pringles tubes?
> 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…
I hope you mean updated... Otherwise we're about to find out what's in the letter of last resort they have onboard! ;)
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
Not entirely true. There's quite a bit of error correction applied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting#Err...
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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]…
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!
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…
Hence why in financial markets, a 10^9 billion is called a "yard" (from milliarde)!
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"…
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…
Well, there's kind of a precedent at least... > Gofmt's style is no one's favorite, yet gofmt is everyone's favorite.
> 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…
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 --…
A single PCIe-3 nvme drive will saturate it on a sequential read load.
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…
Traditionally, that was the email address for the NTP service at various organisations, in the same way that postmaster was for the mail service.
That's a good point about LTE/5G. Thanks!
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…
... Did you replace them with pringles tubes?
> 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…
I hope you mean updated... Otherwise we're about to find out what's in the letter of last resort they have onboard! ;)
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
Not entirely true. There's quite a bit of error correction applied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting#Err...
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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]…
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!