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packetized··on Californians are paying billions for power they don't need
Less than 60% of Californians have air conditioners at home, as opposed to 80% of Americans. So, you seem to be missing a comparison to the 47 other states whose AC ownership percentage is strikingly higher.
packetized··on A Ferrari 250 GT PF Coupe Was Hidden in a Hollywood Apartment for Decades
I have nothing to contribute except that, as a person that generally works with computer systems and writes a bit of software, I can totally imagine someone undertaking this kind of project, and cannot believe that it started with a Ferrari chassis/Pininfarina coach nearly sixty years ago. Jawdroppingly amazed.
packetized··on Save the Date by Google
B E S U R E T O D R I N K Y O U R O V A L T I N E
packetized··on In the News: A BGP Hijacking Technical Post-Mortem
just as unsurprisingly, bishop fox points the blame at the BGP protocol instead of at the netops at omantel.

from rfc4277 import bcp as clue

packetized··on A ride in a Cruise AV
Looks like it was still crossing Market headed south on Van Ness when the light changed from green to yellow and then red. Too much following distance?

https://youtu.be/1Tp6Ubf6mE4?t=1m20s

packetized··on A distributed and coordination-free log management system
In my mind, some sort of graphical user interface that would allow you to query data and have the log system return results that are easily parsed. At the very least, have some sort of API that allows you to do this. The /query endpoint exists, but doesn't seem to return anything that's really fundamentally useful from a large-scale perspective.
packetized··on A distributed and coordination-free log management system
While super-interesting (and something that I wish I had time to really evaluate against Elasticsearch/Solr), I feel like it's missing one of the most useful things about Loggly/ES/Solr - the ability to quickly visualize log trends. And despite the statement that it's a "distributed and coördination-free log management system for big ol' clusters", I'm confused why you would want a "big ol' cluster" without visualization or field searches more complex (and less computationally expensive) than regexes. Am I missing something?

e: To be fair, I'm not attempting at all to defend Elasticsearch/Solr, just slightly confused about the actual use cases in prod.

packetized··on 105-Year-Old Cyclist Rides 14 Miles in an Hour En Route to a World Record
Well, he's riding an Origine Axxome 350 fitted with Ultegra, based on the photos - so 105 isn't that far off. Heh.
packetized··on Grumpy: Go running Python
Well, the difference here is that Google seems to be looking at Golang as the future for their internal tooling currently implemented in Python 2.x, instead of Python 3.x. I'm curious to know how much additional work might be necessary for this to support 3.x, but it doesn't sound like that's part of their use case.
packetized··on Amazon Dash Button's Wireless Audio Configuration
Ah, very good point.
packetized··on Amazon Dash Button's Wireless Audio Configuration
I'd be interested to know how much potential advertising data is collected via these microphones.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562207

packetized··on Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco
The depot is the former Otto building, I believe - seen plenty of Otto tractor cabs pulling off of the Bay Bridge, left on to Harrison, then straight down and into their garage/depot there.
packetized··on Ships Buried Under San Francisco
Odd, works on my end in an incog window.

Unrelated: huge fan of your lpeg_patterns & mmdblua work, among others. Many, many thanks - made my life much easier.

packetized··on Forwarding issues related to MACs starting with 4 or 6
Oh, I don't blame the IEEE wholly - but I think that they probably changed tack after realizing that a number of manufacturers were simply not paying the fees to actually be assigned a block of OUIs. I view it as kind of a cudgel to be used against vendors, and end-users (read: netops/sysops) are caught in the middle.
packetized··on Ships Buried Under San Francisco
Relevance: The recent discussions[0,1] on the sinking Millennium Tower (and possibly Salesforce East/350 Mission, based on the ESA isometric plots in [1]). The map[2] clearly shows that the corner of Mission & Fremont was once just offshore.

Additionally, as someone who's been lucky enough to live nearby, it's just absolutely cool to be able to 'walk' through history like this in an area that is largely derided as being sterile and faceless.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12206158

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036377

[2]: http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hpshpb_2014.jpg

packetized··on The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
I'm not sure that you read on the internet. The statistics cited in the article support his points in a fairly well-constructed way. Can you give an example of some specific works of his that you find fault with?
packetized··on Forwarding issues related to MACs starting with 4 or 6
Until fairly recently (in IEEE/OUI terms, ~2012), the distribution has been entirely sequential. FTA:

"I believe IEEE changed their strategy to attempt to purposefully higher the chance of collisions with MAC squatters, to encourage people to register and pay the fee"

packetized··on Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience
Why?
packetized··on Satellites Confirm Sinking of San Francisco's Millennium Tower
Also of note: you can actually see the buckling of the sidewalk and curbing immediately adjacent to the Millennium Tower. I'll see if I can get a photo to share today. There's certainly quite a bit of heavy construction equipment traveling on Fremont/Mission, but I can't see how it would cause buckling sidewalks.
packetized··on Satellites Confirm Sinking of San Francisco's Millennium Tower
Interesting that the lead photo[0] also shows Salesforce East (formerly Salesforce Plaza, 350 Mission) also sinking at a similar rate. I'm wondering what all of this will end up meaning for Salesforce Tower (the large hole in the ground to the left of the Millennium Tower), since it's close to topping out and will be one of the two tallest buildings west of the Mississippi River.

[0]: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/11/Millennium_T...

packetized··on Syscall Auditing at Scale
Similar to https://github.com/gdestuynder/audisp-json and https://github.com/mozilla/audit-go
packetized··on Charts That Scare Wall Street
I love how none of these charts use 0 as a base for the y-axis. Lies, damned lies, statistics...
packetized··on Let's Encrypt AUTHZ Reuse and Eternal Account Key
If you're upset about the expected operation of a service based on open-source software (github.com/letsencrypt/boulder), then I'd strongly recommend reading the code before use. Additionally:

"I also expect that our Enigma Bridge Cloud HSM service (check our PKI product with hardware key security) can securely control storage and use of the account key to prevent thefts of the keys and their subsequent misuse."

Using this as a way to promote your product and not reading the code first is a serious failure of tradecraft on your part.

packetized··on IP Spoofing
Apologies, I stand corrected.
packetized··on IP Spoofing
Why is disallowing spoofing not desirable in the first place? What legitimate uses to spoofing can you enumerate? Because I see none in your comment.
packetized··on IP Spoofing
Flatly incorrect. The latest and largest attacks are generally UDP reflection attacks, with a smattering of TCP SYN flood & pure L7 attacks thrown in.
packetized··on Show HN: GUI for writing Elasticsearch queries
I agree with you wholeheartedly on the documentation, but having a full-featured HTTP ReST API from the beginning has been a powerful driver for ES, imho. Depending on your use case, this may or may not matter. Currently, I use/admin both - ES for logs, Solr for actual full-text document search.
packetized··on Show HN: Free and easy geoip API thanks to Cloudflare and Heroku
Huge fan. Use this nearly daily in my terminal opening screen; nice and quick to tell you where are, net-wise.
packetized··on How to Crash Systemd in One Command
Erm, this does not actually seem to work on Centos7, running systemd-219-19.el7_2.13. Even tried it as root inside of a sandbox - nothing.
packetized··on Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
Incorrect.
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