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tacticus··on California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up
The place i've been to used compressed air for most of the time. reducing the frequency of water washes
tacticus··on Google’s Equiano Cable Will Extend to the Remote Island of Saint Helena
But not wider and not reliably so.

Also marketing videos are always going to show best theoretical case. They are not going to show a cloudy day in a high contention network in a region not favoured by the orbit gods.

tacticus··on Google’s Equiano Cable Will Extend to the Remote Island of Saint Helena
Unless they are hosting the servers in orbit your destination will be on earth somewhere. You will come back down go to it then return through a similar path to the client.

the speed of light in a mostly vacuum could (provided their meshing algorithms are up to it) make latency comparable but MEO sats already have a 125ms rtt time halving that distance isn't going to get rid of that penalty.

tacticus··on Google’s Equiano Cable Will Extend to the Remote Island of Saint Helena
lol no.

You still have to go up, over, down, across wire, back up, over and down again

you're going to be paying a 25 to 50 ms latency on everything and that depends on having the dish tracking stuff working perfectly. (it is vastly better than the GEO stuff i've had to use in the past. but a replacement for fibre in general use. nope.)

oh and weather is still going to poop on your signal

tacticus··on Google’s Equiano Cable Will Extend to the Remote Island of Saint Helena
Shared spectrum, low power transmitters, high latency and limited max bandwidth.

It's going to be "fun" for anyone who depends on something in orbit

tacticus··on Next steps toward Go 2
modules as a way to download stuff, and to remove the dependency on go path.

Sure

Semantic import version and the rush of shit to the head in their attempts to break vendoring on the other hand.

tacticus··on HAProxy 2.0
As in nginx that still doesn't have support for h2 in the backend?
tacticus··on Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
But compared to java, python, node, ruby, c# or similar deployments. It's minuscule
tacticus··on Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool
oh god. it's based on pcp o.O
tacticus··on How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals
ifixit can solve that problem as well (though reasonably expensiveish (additional thing. their magnetic mat with squares on them was the greatest purchase I ever made for the workshop at my first job.))
tacticus··on Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of storing data in Australia
You have to go. you don't have to pick. Makes it difficult for states to disenfranchise people through budget cuts.
tacticus··on Huawei Sues U.S. as a ‘Last Resort’ Over What It Calls an Unfair Ban
The coal ban in china is probably not related to .au more just protection of their internal coal mines.
tacticus··on Bitbucket Pipes
because "security" or some bullshit.

Why does the bitbucket not saas implementation still not use the same API :|

tacticus··on George Pell: cardinal found guilty of child sexual assault
The fuck?

The guy has had rumours around his actions for decades. He set up a "compensation" scheme that was designed to prevent criminal charges or publication of offenses. He belittled and degraded abuse survivors whenever he could.

And you fucks think this is about an already corrupt bank being reformed by someone who is skilled at concealing and papering over issues.

tacticus··on DigitalOcean launches its container service
The only problem with the gke solution is loadbalancers :( It's weird that a signle LB rule costs more than the rest of the kube cluster
tacticus··on Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH
Winrm stopped being usable if the machine was overly remote.
tacticus··on Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network
Hey Sorry to jump on something unrelated but i have a super tiny personal site on netlify and would love a smaller plan so i can actually pay you.

I know it's probably not worth it for you to do such a thing but an optional pay money for nothing extra compared to the free hosting option would be great

tacticus··on Go in Debian
Video is out now as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQNWrFw2bQw
tacticus··on HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh
Have a better proxy that doesn't need to create a new generation of workers for config changes.

Like traefik or envoy or nginx when you pay for it or use the lua shit to do backend discovery (haproxy also has lua shit iirc)

tacticus··on HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh
Old workers stay around until all the connections for them or their grace period has expired. So i hope you're not too close to the resource limit to handle many generations of workers sticking around. also if you have many services behind a single port with path based routing and do a deploy the connection will stick around on the old workers until everything dies.

It's super fun with haproxy :(

tacticus··on Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now generally available
Unrelated to pg but could you badger the spanner team to make a mini spanner product :)

Related to postgres. We have many many concurrent connections but a load satisfied by an n1-standard-4 atm do you recommend a connection pooler or something to help us get down to the 100 to 200 connections we need to be at to use cloudsql?

tacticus··on What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Crash Is Being Investigated
Also a black hawks blades are probably going to be significantly stronger than those on an r44.
tacticus··on Utility poles
Dry season is very much a northern part of australia concern (for now. the dry\wet cycle is moving south quite rapidly). The summer (which is the wet in the north) is when the bush fires happen.
tacticus··on Utility poles
Though from what i recall the NT poles are mostly steel.
tacticus··on Utility poles
Not just utility related reporting uses the pole numbers.

My father was the volunteer emergency service coordinator (and power station operator) in the tiny town where we grew up. his use of road names + power poles ids + direction & distance was frequently complimented by the accident investigators when they came to look at shit (and later the court cases for some)

Remote areas with 10s of KMs of power line and 0 other features :|

tacticus··on The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes
And you can indeed just sit around on an older version. The vendor in this case just won't bother doing stuff to help you.
tacticus··on Twirp: A new RPC framework for Go
And it's not difficult to swap it out for a consistent hash balancer or other solution.
tacticus··on When the Soviet Union Paid Pepsi in Warships
It's interesting how long lasting the reaction to french terrorism is in NZ.
tacticus··on Free static websites with SSL for hackers
netlify's ssl is one button plus a dns entry. it's pretty shiny
tacticus··on Show HN: A simple Go web server with logging, tracing, health check
And the rest of Marks (and others) buffalo https://gobuffalo.io/
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