Hacker News: tardoe

New comment by tardoe in "Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours"

tardoe — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 03:48:15 +0000

Average of twice a night is freaking insane. I was burning out doing 1-week-in-3 with pages 3 nights out of 7. These were all actionable issues (DDoS, packet loss etc.) so I had to actually wake up and work.

New comment by tardoe in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

tardoe — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 04:06:31 +0000

If you could take 10-12 key words and build personalised channels based on those topic/keywords would be amazing.

New comment by tardoe in "Aussies want employers to help with cost of living, travel to the office"

tardoe — Thu, 30 May 2024 01:34:25 +0000

But it's well understood that salaries aren't keeping pace with inflation / retail cost inflation. If salaries aren't then the ask starts to make sense.

New comment by tardoe in "Show HN: Brewer X, a native macOS client for Homebrew"

tardoe — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:23:46 +0000

I clicked on this really fast because this would be nice... but I really have to complain about the pricing model. $49 "once" is a scam when it only comes with 1 year of updates but an extra year of updates for $29 (60% more!!). Exactly how many features can one add to a Home-brew UI in the space of 2 years? There's no detail on what's in the roadmap to warrant such a price (on the website) nor is there the option of a trial. I shouldn't have to email for a refund (as advertised) if I feel like $50 was a rip-off. Honestly, if this was $10-20, I would already have paid.

New comment by tardoe in "Cloudflare Calls Open Beta"

tardoe — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 22:52:21 +0000

Twilio?

New comment by tardoe in "Nokia unveils AI that can reconfigure networks through human speech"

tardoe — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 23:23:59 +0000

ROADMs + dynamic reconfiguration using domain controllers is the way to go - Nokia has this sort of tech and it's well in-use by large T1 networks. Routers are often pre-patched into ROADM ports and wavelengths on longer spans are add/removed as capacity is needed.

New comment by tardoe in "I discovered caching CDNs were throttling my everyday browsing"

tardoe — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 23:22:11 +0000

So I have seen this before - a lot of ISPs now days are using "optimiser" boxes that are designed to throttle Elephant Flows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_flow) to reduce overall consumption. Usually they add a little bit of buffering or the occasional TCP congestion notification to cause a client to back-off and (for example), reduce the streaming video bitrate. But I've also seen bad configuration that can cause this sort of issue - e.g. an mis-configuration that limits you to 2kbps vs 2mbps. The reason the Wireguard tunnel works fine is because it's UDP-based and you can't trigger the same congestion notification behaviour over UDP. These boxes are usually inline to your traffic and are often referred to as "middle-boxes" - more commonly they're used in mobile (4G/5G) RAN aggregation networks where bandwidth is more scarce but they're now being sold into fix-line network providers as a cost-cutting measure.

New comment by tardoe in "Man whose blood plasma saved over 2.4M babies donates for the last time"

tardoe — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 00:28:05 +0000

This article is from 2018 FYI.

New comment by tardoe in "Ask HN: Which software do you guys use for managing devices in rack"

tardoe — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:41:23 +0000

Netbox is becoming the Open Source standard for this. https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox

New comment by tardoe in "ISP protester's problem solved by police called to remove him from store"

tardoe — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 04:49:32 +0000

Yes... but the Government failed to ensure Telstra didn't becoming the monopoly on infrastructure.