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Can't be them because they franchise. My guess is In-N-Out
This issue is already being tracked by a shiny website: https://tldr.fail/
It’s not implemented in the Linux kernel, but the latency penalty you’re describing is part of the “Happy Eyeballs” algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs
Re:Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust on Thursday March 19, 2026 @05:14PM (#47446229)
It’s pretty common for IETF drafts to be substantially complete well before they are finalized as RFCs. For example, supporting ML-KEM in TLS is still a draft, but there are already multiple large scale deployments of it since the technical aspects were nailed down a while ago
Also missing Band 13, which is Verizon’s main band for coverage
I think that'll only happen when and if the corresponding drop in sales offsets increases in revenue from the subscription services owners will be forced to use. When they announced this originally for EVs it was clear the underlying motivation was to convert owners from a one-time source of income into an ongoing stream by forcing them into a subscription model for features they would get from CarPlay/Android Auto.
Re:PoE basics and beyond: What every engineer should know on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @01:21AM (#45665146)
The smaller switches like the Arista 710P are meant for deployment out at the edge of the network where you want something small and quiet (e.g. at people’s desks or in conference rooms) to provide more ports without needing as many runs back to the network core where the big loud switches live. They’re still enterpise grade since they support enterprise features like centralized management, VLANs, QoS, IGMP snooping, etc.
Yeah, the ClientHello message(s) are already part of the transcript signed by the server (and the client in mTLS) during the handshake
Re:Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver on Saturday May 24, 2025 @06:25PM (#44084155)
This reminds me of how Sarah at the Connections Museum in Seattle wrote a driver to allow an Asterisk soft PBX on a Linux box to speak revertive pulse signaling to the pre-DTMF trunks on their old telephone switches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35N5vKKGDy8

Re:Direct TLS can speed up your connections on Thursday May 22, 2025 @03:00AM (#44059470)
Years of middleboxes tampering with TCP and barfing on anything they didn’t recognize is why QUIC encrypts everything as well
Re:O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call on Sunday May 18, 2025 @01:18AM (#44019165)
Many operators do configure the SIP signaling for VoLTE to use an IPsec transport terminated at the P-CSCF, but most (if not all) of them only configure IPsec to provide integrity protection.
Re:Intel: Winning and Losing on Sunday May 11, 2025 @12:58AM (#43951535)
> Murthy Renduchintala

He was a joke at Qualcomm before he went to Intel too. That Intel considered snagging him a coup was a consistent source of amusement.

With the industry pivoting towards focussing on post-quantum algorithms, I’d be surprised if yet another elliptic curve gains much traction.
I’ve heard this about TOMS
Re:Qualcomm wins licensing fight with Arm over chip designs on Saturday December 21, 2024 @02:25AM (#42478044)
Oh don’t worry, they have plenty of those too
Re:The Google Willow Thing on Sunday December 15, 2024 @09:20PM (#42427455)
> But I'm not sure if it works the same way against elliptic curves - or at least you'd probably need a bigger computer to attack the same level of security.

Elliptic curve cryptography is also based on the difficulty of computing discrete logarithms, which makes it vulnerable to Shor’s algorithm. Unfortunately, while the increased difficulty of brute forcing ECC with a classical computer allowed it to use smaller key sizes to achieve security equivalent to older algorithms like RSA, the smaller key sizes make ECC attackable with fewer qubits.

Re:The IPv6 Transition on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @03:02AM (#41911888)
The point was a prefix from 2600::/16 isn’t special; it’s just from one of the blocks assigned to ARIN. One ISP I know of with an allocation in that range is Verizon, which announces a number of prefixes over BGP in 2600:1000::/24
Re:The IPv6 Transition on Monday October 21, 2024 @05:23AM (#41902205)
According to the IANA assignment list, 2600::/12 is assognrd to ARIN.

https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-unicast-address-assign...

Hell, even the JWST is powered by the same CPU as the first iMac running at half the speed
There’s a great book about the development of Cell and Xenon (which went into the Xbox 360) called “The Race for a New Game Machine” that was co-written by a couple folks who worked on them at IBM.
Re:Honda's Hidden Resonators Keep Tire Noise to a Minimum on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @10:13PM (#40665271)
Lexus also has so-called "noise-reduction wheels" that utilize resonance, though somewhat differently: https://elevatingsound.com/how-the-noise-reduction-wheels-of...
Re:Answering Every Question You Have About IMEI Numbers on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @07:36PM (#40217784)
The use of IPv6 in cellular devices is specified by RFC 7066. When a device first registers for a data connection, the network provides an interface identifier to use for the lifetime of the registration, which is guaranteed not to conflict with the one used by the router. The network also allocates a /64 prefix exclusively for use by the device. These two things allows the device to perform SLAAC for link-local and routable addresses without needing to do duplicate address detection.

It’s also worth mentioning SLAAC does not strictly require a hardware address to function. For example, Apple devices implement newer standards from IETF to generate random but stable addresses that don’t reveal information about the hardware addresses (https://support.apple.com/guide/security/ipv6-security-seccb...)

Re:Answering Every Question You Have About IMEI Numbers on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @07:08PM (#40217581)
> Radio firmware and state machines have always had weird bugs, and even when it conforms to standards (some of which are extremely interpretable), does very weird things in the real world. Pre-smartphone, being able to update phone and radio firmware was extremely rare, so it was common for the networks instead to implement workarounds on a manufacturer or handset basis. Having a hardware ID that identified this was extremely useful

Now that it’s common for devices to be updated regularly, they will typically send an extended form of the IMEI to the network called the IMEISV, which is the same as the IMEI except the final check digit is replaced with a two-digit code indicating the current software version (SV = Software Version).

Re:JEDEC Publishes GDDR7 Graphics Memory Standard on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:49PM (#39610128)
You’re right that the signals have to be converted back into bits at the destination. Basically, this solves the problem of pumping those bits at high speed across traces on a circuit board vs within a chip. The longer a signal has to go, the harder it is to maintain its integrity.
Re:"Dune" and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages on Thursday February 29, 2024 @05:03PM (#39555800)
And presumably ‘Gesserit’ is meant to be a distortion of ‘Jesuit’
They’re just on T-Mobile since US Cellular dropped them last year
Re:iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @04:51PM (#39460095)
Same here: this video helped me finally understand the basics concepts underlying LWE

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