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Spot on

Canadian here, I never learnt this in class. What a shame.

Why not just use IPv6?

We were supposed to run out of space in the 90s, but NAT was a temporary bandaid that turned into the status quo. Not the original intent, and it’s used as a de facto firewall with really mixed results.

I say, exhaust it and force people into IPv6 like we should all be on.

Don’t need electricity to get cell service mate. Most people have mobile phones even if they live in a hut.

This article quickly turned into a puff piece for ReFirm

The term came from South American feminists I don’t think it’s racist at all...

Why not?

Denmark loves flags... 🇩🇰

Cisco was a rip off of The Stanford Blue Box. AFAIK the deans of the biz school and CS school founded Cisco with tech created by Stanford and were almost sued. Stanford decided that it wasn’t worth the potential bad press to be sueing faculty.

Yes

AWS has better customer service and I don’t remember the last time there was a huge outage like this besides the S3 outage

I don’t think Meng from Huawei was committing a crime that was illegal in China yet the USA still had her held and extradited from Canada.

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Hostile answer further discredits google support

Consul is just Service discovery. Istio adds a service mesh in which you can introduce all sorts of routing like 1% traffic to a canary, dark deploy on another route, etc. also mTLS authentication and authorization. I think consul came out with Consul Connect to compete but I’m not too familiar with that. Also Istio just runs in your cluster effortlessly instead of needing some VMs for Consul.

It basically automatically issues certificates to pods so they can use mTLS seamlessly when they communicate with each other. More of authentication/authorization piece.

This event led to the discovery of ‘infrasound’ or very low frequency sound that travels very long distances.

It’s currently still used to detect (above ground) nuclear explosions as part of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

There is a site in the ‘Windless Blight’ in Antarctica near McMurdo Station that a couple of techs go dig out and maintain every year. I believe there are about 30 around the world.

https://www.ctbto.org/verification-regime/monitoring-technol...

Can confirm, was quiet and sat in an open room with other workstations around with no extra fans, cooling, etc. But, it's administered with a CLI computer hooked up, so not sure it is truly 'electromechanical'.

At McMurdo Station, Antarctica the ~2000 line phone system still runs on a NEC PBX purchased second-hand in the 60s from a prison. A couple years ago a line card broke and so a staff member was sent on a mission to go to a junkyard in Nebraska and harvest all the spare parts they could out of an old one.

They’re finally moving over to VOIP, but there was something romantic about this giant refrigerator sized behemoth, ready to break down at a moments notice. The battery backup system for it was homemade, about 24 car batteries in another room on a shelf, daisy chained together behind an inverted. Soon, it’ll be replaced with two pizza box sized servers.

That’s awesome

I took a inter-disciplinary arts degree and combined with a semester abroad it completely changed the way I looked at stuff. Maybe if studied engineering it would be different.

Came to the comments first expecting to hear how it’s BS, and I wasn’t disappointed :)

Chiang Mai, Thailand. It's super cheap and has a ton of 'digital nomads' there. I didn't spend too much time doing that there but there were a few co-working spaces, at least a couple years ago.