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The internal hard drive uses SCSI with an unusual connector. Adapting it didn't seem straightforward, and we weren't confident the old file system (HFS) would be easy to read from a modern system.


Oops! I forgot I read that part. You are right.


We found that most proxies/firewalls (90%+ ? I forget) didn't tamper with it. The largest hurdle was working with load balancer vendors to implement it.


NUCs are a tremendous value over previous generation surplus hardware in areas where the cost of electricity has skyrocketed (SF Bay Area).

We’re talking more than one order of magnitude less power consumption when you compare to 2-3+ generations ago.


"Shit" or not, it was a fairly popular place to hang out while waiting for a train at Dirdon Station or an event at SAP Center. It was only a few steps away, and now there's nothing there (after existing for 88 years).


OK, but the form of my YIMBYism is that of vanilla libertarianism. Is it fine by me if the owners of private property do what they will with it. Governments should not step in to protect the local outpost of alcoholism.


If you Google "San Jose Google Construction," you don't even have to click into an article to learn that there has already been a large amount of demolition.


You've clearly never run it at scale nor have you migrated between Enterprise (on-prem) and Splunk Cloud at scale. Managing .conf files and eliminating intermediate IDM logic was absolutely not "amazing."

https://lantern.splunk.com/Splunk_Platform/Splunk_Cloud_Plat...


Even 10 years ago, Apple internal privacy policies prevented itself from collecting precise lat/long. We had to use HTTP session telemetry to determine which endpoints were best for a given IP (or subnet, but not ASN), which informed our own pseudo-geoIP database so we knew which endpoint to connect to based on real world conditions.

Even still, it had to be as ephemeral as possible for the sake of privacy. We weren’t allowed to use or record results from Apple Maps’ reverse geo service outside of the context of a live user request (finding nearby restaurants, etc).


You don't need precise lat/lon to make a good database. Even a 1km circle would be more than enough.

> but not ASN

Why wasn't ASN allowed? That's what Netflix used to make endpoint routing decisions and worked really well.


You’re not wrong, but privacy concerns were paramount.

ASNs were allowed but too vague. We needed more granularity. Corporate proxies, subdelegations, many providers aggregating announcements below /24, etc.


Chargepoint requires you to maintain an account balance, and requires auto-refills. You can't just bill a CC for the entirety of a session through the app/site. Sometimes you can initiate a non-linked session with an EMV tap from a physical card, but that doesn't always work.


No, it is not bullshit. And no, he certainly was not excellent. Perhaps he managed to take credit for a few "good" things, but it's interesting to watch you defend someone who was ~so~ widely hated.

I could give you a list of 40 tenured engineers and leaders in Eddy's org [along with at least 20 in adjacent orgs] who physically celebrated his departure.


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