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Shoulda teamed up with the umbrella cover museum: https://www.umbrellacovermuseum.org/

Right across the water on Peaks!

Once I got laid off via 1:1 call. Once I got laid off via a mass call with HR, they canned my entire department at once (300+ people). Once I got laid off via bulk bcc'd email because I was on vacation and missed the last-minute mass call with HR.

This has never happened to me, but I am absolutely 100% positive some companies just shut your access off, send you an email to an account you can't log into any more, and move on without a second thought.

> just in time manufacturing has the noted weakness of having slack or resilience in the system

Did you mean 'having no slack or resilience'?

Assuming you did and I understand your point, I disagree with it insofar as it applies to knowledge. Yes, JIT manufacturing of real things can be easily tripped up and it screwed us during the pandemic, but does that apply here? The author is saying "when you figure out what you need to read, go out and get it" rather than "keep a bunch of tabs and bookmarks hanging around in case you need them".

I mean, yeah, I guess if you only read things you can get from the library or in dead tree form, but if you really want to read something there's ebooks and audiobooks galore out there, and if we have a supply chain mess that's so bad that you can't get an electronic book, we're all kinda screwed anyways.

It's on YouTube. https://youtu.be/cQP8WApzIQQ

And yeah, it's excellent.

It would be nice to have a way to submit museums. I'm thinking of https://www.umbrellacovermuseum.org/

I don't know about Standard Chartered specifically, but I remember one of the big US banks (I forget which one. JPMC or Goldman Sachs, probably - it was a while ago) telling us that they had more developers than Microsoft.

Don't sleep on these finance companies, they're big development shops.

As someone who knows barely enough to be dangerous, I like this. I'm sure it leaves enough out to make most experts angry, but it makes a lot of sense to me.

Huh? What Karpathy are you talking about?

LDP gave us BGP-free cores. Don't underestimate how much that changed the game in large networks. BGP converged faster and core routers didn't need to do anywhere near as much. SR is a better way to do that now and LDP/IGP sync was a huge pain, but IMO BGP-free cores changed the SP game as much as route reflectors did.

LDP also enabled L2VPN and was an IGP-bound mechanism to enable MPLS VPN, which was always the killer app for MPLS.

LDP by itself? Meh. But it opened up a whole lot of other possibilities.

Yeah, for sure. I'm not saying FRR was always the right answer for all questions, but for a good decade or more it was a pretty solid choice, and particularly with auto-tunnel, it was easy to do. RSVP was far too complex a hammer for just FRR, and I like SR-LDP for FRR now, but from maybe 1998 (?) to 2015 (?) MPLS-TE FRR was the best tool we had.

I always broke MPLS-TE into two categories - traffic engineering for bandwidth, and fast reroute (FRR).

Bandwidth engineering, like Bruce said, was religion for some people and anathema for others. It saved at least one company from bankruptcy, letting them run the network they had much hotter than IP would have.

FRR, though, was an absolute game-changer. Local protection to failure and sub-50ms (often sub-10ms) protection switching in an IP network? Immensely valuable. Link connectivity protection was easy to deploy and I will argue made a massive difference in an Internet network's ability to provide real-time services in the face of failure. Node protection and bandwidth protection? Less so. But MPLS-TE-based FRR was the first local protection mechanism that didn't require you to have a specific topology and which could cover 100% of all connectivity failures.

I'm surprised Bruce didn't call out this distinction, because they really are two separate things using the same underlying tech.

You can already do this with Spectrum (https://developers.cloudflare.com/spectrum/).

I haven't done anything with Perl since 4.036 in the late 90s, so I haven't kept up with all the Raku stuff. From that outsider perspective my first reaction to this was "how many languages are they going to turn Perl into?"

There's a perl 5.

There's no perl 6 because it's too much not like perl.

There's a perl 7 but it looks like it'll have two totally different syntaxes for stuff

And maybe there's a perl 8 but maybe with the same syntax as one of the flavors of 7?

I still see no compelling reason to get interested in perl. I have python for some stuff and go for some other stuff. What does perl do for me that these two can't?

Yeah. Not everyone who thinks they have a good idea has one, and the way this is structured it's very, very time-consuming to defeat a legitimately bad proposal. It feels a lot like when a conspiracy theorist says "Bildenberg cabal is made of hollow earth lizard people" and your only retorts are "yes" or "I'm not yet convinced".

IBM pioneered remote work and pulled much the same trick a few years ago, and for the same reasons.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-a-pioneer-of-remote-work-ca...

That's an awfully long-winded way to say "go put on a sweater before you turn up the heat".

Sure, and you can do BYOIP with cloud providers or CDNs. But then those IPs are trivial to block, and although I've never tried it, I suspect AWS GA isn't set up to constantly rotate IP addresses.

I can think of three reasons:

1. ad blockers are still so niche that it's not worth it to them

2. static IP addresses are dead-simple to block in a router or (probably? not a browser coder) in a browser plugin

3. static IP addresses aren't a real great cloud pattern, they're hard to scale out to meet demand

I can't find the option. If I go to the google admin console and click (?) I don't have 'Contact Support' because I don't have an expensive enough Google Workspaces subscription. Is there a way to switch back to legacy free from the Workspace Essentials, or do I need to upgrade to an expensive subscription so I can open a case so I can switch back to the free plan?

Sure, but I think you have some survivor bias here. How many people turned out some software that they thought people needed but which nobody did? I don't have any examples at hand but it's gotta be a whole lot.

"whois jvns.ca

This will usually give you the right answer, but it might be an old cached version."

Is that really ever a problem? Who changes authoritative nameservers for a domain? This is by far the easiest way and the whole blog post could have just been six lines long.

"The main language construct is called a FLWOR expression...an acronym for for, let, where, order by and return."

They missed a huge opportunity to call it FLOWR (flow-er as in one who flows, or flower as in the thing that grows).

Everybody is talking about clock accuracy and totally missing that devices in the middle of the network path do not care about responding quickly to pings. Middle devices are generally routers or firewalls, and their job is to route and firewall, not to respond to a packet as quickly as it comes in. Transit traffic is far more important than processing control plane packets. Devices can add several msec or more in latency by sticking ICMP echo requests and the like in a low-priority queue and getting around to responding eventually. This will dwarf any gains produced by "the best NTP server".

And no, setting QoS bits on the packet will not help.

You really only need the first one.