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travbrack··on AWS’s Elastic Load Balancer is a Strangler
Right. Without reading http headers, you can only differentiate traffic by IP and/or port.
travbrack··on Speeduino: Open-Source Engine Management
People do this all the time, go search any car forum for 'megasquirt'.
travbrack··on The boss who put everyone on 70K
Huh? Inflation calculator says 70k in 1950 is worth 754k today.

Edit: I did the calculation backwards. Thanks to everyone who pointed that out.

travbrack··on Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions
If OP's goal was to get a job at Github, I'd say this was very well played.
travbrack··on A video game that lets you make video games
Roblox is a game engine that's quite powerful actually.
travbrack··on FCC forced by court to ask the public again for feedback on net neutrality
It also doesn’t cross the ISP boundary.
travbrack··on FCC forced by court to ask the public again for feedback on net neutrality
That’s one of a whole host of issues raised by the idea of tagging packets on the internet. Attackers could assign priority to their DDOS attacks for example. I don’t have the answers but I think this is the direction the conversation should go in. The discussions I see on the topic almost never competently address the issue I’m raising. Nobody should be arguing that all traffic should be equal, we should be discussing which traffic gets priority and how that decision is made.
travbrack··on FCC forced by court to ask the public again for feedback on net neutrality
Without tagging packets over the internet, you can only throttle tcp streams and prioritize your upstream.

I can prioritize the packets I send to my ISP, but I have no control over the order I get packets from them.

travbrack··on FCC forced by court to ask the public again for feedback on net neutrality
Paid fast lanes are a bad idea, but I think 100% equality for all packets is just as bad or worse. Real time traffic should be prioritized over data transfers. Right now my video call gets clobbered when I download a file. It doesn’t have to be like that.
travbrack··on Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?
>what devops was supposed to be but nobody does it that way.

Can you elaborate on this?

travbrack··on Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
They can get away with this because they're essentially a cash machine. As long as people keep buying their products and putting up with bad experiences, this will continue. Why spend money on improving customer experience when you have record sales?
travbrack··on Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine
Oops, I was on low battery. Carry on. Nothing to see here.
travbrack··on Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine
iPhone 11 and I'm getting what looks like 15-30 fps
travbrack··on ThinkPad T480 is my new main laptop which runs FreeBSD
Because running freebsd on a laptop is an edge case. Most people run it on servers. It’s not trying to be everything to everyone like Linux is.
travbrack··on Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)
Maybe I've spent too much time writing one-liners in bash but I really prefer the original to yours. I can read the original much faster because it matches the pattern for how I write bash on the command line. Yours looks totally foreign to how bash is normally written. Not saying one is better than the other, just my personal preference.
travbrack··on USB, Java take center stage at Comdex (1996)
That reminded me of setting IRQs on my ISA sound blaster using jumpers. I called tech support when I couldn't figure it out and talked to a competent person in the US. Things are so different now.
travbrack··on PyRobot
Is your curriculum online?
travbrack··on An update to 37-year-old MIDI
VLC is a pretty good cross platform solution. You do have to load a soundfont, though.
travbrack··on An update to 37-year-old MIDI
I love how clickbait gets torn apart on this site.
travbrack··on Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)
You can do this with graylog
travbrack··on Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging
Glad there's a modern alternative to big tech's walled chat gardens. It's tragic that this protocol has so much potential but the "last mile" of getting it out to users has prevented success since FB and Google ditched it.
travbrack··on SQLite Is Serverless
But SQLite has rdbms features. I remember being able to show tables and do SQL queries in SQLite DBs.
travbrack··on SQLite Is Serverless
I've seen several software projects that are built for rdbms let you use sqlite. It works.
travbrack··on Vine founder launches TikTok competitor
That is not a fun fact :(
travbrack··on Show HN: Teapong – A two-player game for fans of Pong and the Utah teapot
With the benefit of hindsight, is the implementation you used actually better than using globals?
travbrack··on PHP in 2020
Or push three buttons from any webpage in Chrome and get a js console
travbrack··on Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it
Try http://www.procrastination.ca/ and the iProcrastinate podcast. Main takeaways are:

* Just get started.

* Don't give in to "feel good".

* Use implementation intentions to put the trigger for action in the environment.

* Procrastination is an existential issue. One who is procrastinating is not getting on with their life.

* Approach goals are better than avoidance goals.

travbrack··on SoftICE
Wow more memories. Yes it was too easy to exploit the system for personal gain which was exactly the point of services. If someone managed to take over a channel, chanserv would immediately and automatically restore ownership. It's impossible to use someone else's handle when nickserv requires auth.
travbrack··on SoftICE
Ah efnet. That place was the wild west since they never adopted services. I remember channel takeovers and recoveries with extreme tactics like forcing netsplits with DOS attacks on the servers. Having to run an eggdrop bot to re-op people when they join a channel. Running your own bot to keep your nick from being stolen. Good times.
travbrack··on Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy
Suppose someone invests all of their savings into a restaurant that flops and they end up to their eyeballs in debt and declare bankruptcy. What did the government do wrong?
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