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Re:The Journey Before main() on Saturday October 25, 2025 @05:28PM (#45707129)
For those interested, I did a breakdown of the hashbang: https://blog.foletta.net/post/2021-04-19-what-the/
Re:Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem on Friday August 15, 2025 @08:06AM (#44911346)
Op here, no AI generated code, I'm wondering what gives the impression that it is?

I use Rmarkdown, so the code that's presented is also the same code that 'generates' the data/tables/graphs (source: https://github.com/gregfoletta/articles.foletta.org/blob/pro...).

Re:Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:10AM (#44910157)
Very much an inspiration and resource when composing the post.
Re:Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:07AM (#44910144)
Author here; I think I understand where you might be coming from. I find functional nature of R combined with pipes incredibly powerful and elegant to work with.

OTOH in a pipeline, you're mutating/summarising/joining a data frame, and it's really difficult to look at it and keep track of what state the data is in. I try my best to write in a way that you understand the state of the data (hence the tables I spread throughout the post), but I do acknowledge it can be inscrutable.

Re:The Origin of Cisco Systems on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @04:18PM (#44817216)
Oh god, it wasn’t ASDM for the ASA was it? Always one Java update away from not being able to manage your firewalls
Re:A Day in the Life: The Global BGP Table on Monday November 25, 2024 @05:29PM (#42240811)
The direct peering to the router is likely going to have a bad time, but route advertisement interval I mention in the article is going to coalesce all of those updates together. Downstream peers would only see the one update every 30 seconds (or so).
Re:TCP Connection Timeout Mystery on Monday March 25, 2024 @03:44PM (#39820508)
First off, the HTTP HTTP 301s to the HTTPS site, so HTTPS is still the likely trigger.

Second, I see that whatever client he's using is specifying a very old TLS 1.0. If its not MTU (which others have mentioned), then my guess would be a firewall with a policy specifying a minimum TLS version, and dropping this connection on the floor.

Re:In a Git repository, where do your files live? on Thursday September 14, 2023 @04:46PM (#37514621)
Re:Ask HN: What's Your Personal Motto? on Sunday May 15, 2022 @07:33PM (#31392225)
Strength with empathy
Re:David Boggs has died on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @01:53PM (#30518324)
Short answer is: it doesn't. When designing networks you will try to reduce the scope of layer 2 broadcast domains.