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If every torrent includes a webseed, then you're still left with the problem of needing to build a full HTTP CDN, and now have to also maintain the largest tracker infrastructure ever deployed for Bittorrent.

Under normal conditions with well behaved clients, raw bandwidth for the large packages is essentially never the issue. Misbehaving clients, cache thrashing, IOPS are the sort of issues that cause pain for mirrors.

I've made a point of calling out Digital Ocean in Linux mirroring talks as the gold standard for being a good citizen; run their own internal mirrors, which are FAST, making it a value add feature for them as well.

EPEL is a separate module from fedora-enchilada, but uses the same backend CDN infrastructure and most mirrors tend to carry both /fedora/ and /epel/, so they're not technically the same mirrors, but most mirrors tend to carry both.

The map is a latency heat map. I should probably replace it with a POP map

Sure. And switch ASICs hang off a CPU as a PCIe device, so the line between smartNICs and low end ASICs start to blur. The key is hardware acceleration of some sort.

256 next hops isn't enough. Typical ASICs support 20,000 to 160,000 next hops FECs.

Cisco tried caching routing decisions from non-line rate routing engines in the 90s, and the industry learned the lesson that it's a bad idea. Caching works until you overflow the cache for some reason, and then the box completely falls over as it thrashes.

The base power with any colo space is going to be minimal. You typically come back and spec out what additional power you want with the rack a la carte.

When you want line rate forwarding across several Tbps of front panel ports, you need the packet pipeline to be able to make all the routing decisions without involvement from the OS. 8Bpps just doesn't give you time to be able to walk any kind of data structure in memory.

Running full internet tables on a x86 server where you can only get a few Gbps up to maybe a few dozen Gbps is much easier.

I started an Internet Exchange Point adjacent to it, use it to host mirror.fcix.net, and got a second ASN to build the anycast ns-global.zone service

I only got a few years out of it. I'm running an Arista 7280SR-48C8 now.

This article is also essentially available as a podcast. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal/kenneth-finnega...

A good old fashioned slash dotting on a self hosted server. Chill dude.

As far as I can tell, SU traffic is almost useless. I may get 1,000x as hits from SU, but I derive more value from some hole-in-the-wall site writing about me and sending 20 people.

So what? Do I incorporate in Nevada? I can't believe there's no way around this.

Alright guys, so we all lost our Affiliate programs. What are the legal implications for just putting down an out-of-state friend's address in our Amazon account information?

Because the state is not allowed to. The items are still being entirely taxed, people are just dishonest when they file their taxes.

A few small sites, but most of my Amazon earnings actually just come from one post: http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/2011/06/so-you-want-to-b...

The rest of the site pulls in about $20/mo in Adsense, which is still pretty nice, but them added together is much more interesting.

And if I have to start filing tax returns with every state and county my small business happens to do business with (~$1000 / year business), I'll probably shut that down entirely for not being worth the bother as well.

Damn. There goes my $300-$400 a month passive income... And I already report my use-tax to begin with. Guess it's time to start calling up friends out-of-state for their mailing address.

Then pursue the customers and force them to actually report their rightful use-tax when they file their taxes at the end of the year. Amazon isn't not collecting CA sales tax because they think it shouldn't be paid. They're not collecting the sales tax because they have no legal requirement to.

I don't think the award is for perfect attendance. I think the award is for showing up for work for one hundred and ten freakin years.

No cost, plus a $50 programmer. What is the PIC equivalent of the $20 USBtinyISP?

When you treat it as a microblogging platform, yes.

Twitter isn't useful as a microblog. Twitter is useful for interacting with your internet friends from the blogosphere. It's how you text people before you trade cell phone numbers. I found this particularly useful when trying to meet up with people for the first times at conventions and Meet-n-Greets.

As I understand it, this is very standard lawsuit boiler plate, such that if they later realize there is another party involved, they can just tell the court, "so-and-so is Doe 1," allowing them to very rapidly fold in new parties without refiling the suit.

Embedded systems, 128 bytes of RAM. I really do just want portable assembly.

Ohhh... you want to know about the age bias for the actually successful startups, and not just the age bias of having enough life flexibility to go off on some 80%-baked adventure...

There's a difference between admitting you don't know a piece of trivia, and just giving up on questions. Engineering interviews that are quizzes on trivia are really poor interviews. But if they ask a question I don't know the answer to, I'll talk my way through it as far as I can, but at some point you have to identify the missing pieces.