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xir78 | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

GitHub is also used for recruiting and many other data mining purposes, so seems obvious they’d find ways to restrict the data just enough or require you pay based on how you use the data somehow.

And combining that data with LinkedIn’s data would be valuable indeed.

xir78 | 8 years ago | on: GameNetworkingSockets – Reliable and unreliable messages over UDP

It’s not easy to share the bandwidth fairly, it’s taken decades of research and it continues to be improved in TCP.

You’re not consindering a server, the bandwidth is very high on the backend and does saturate links. You run many servers per physical or virtual machine due to cost, so you can have 1000s if players connected over a single network path.

xir78 | 8 years ago | on: GameNetworkingSockets – Reliable and unreliable messages over UDP

Would be great for TCP to better address the reliable transmission of messages for games, these “reliable UDP” code bases in game engines don’t address all of the other issues such as bandwidth sharing fairness and avoiding saturation of networking links, which ultimately will just make networks slower than faster and more reliable for everyone.

xir78 | 8 years ago | on: China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit

More of the same would be keeping the term limit, this signals a regression to the worst tendencies in humanity, eroding the laws that are designed to prevent them. Even if Xi is a stable leader for the next 30 years, will the next leader to take advantage of the removal of term limits be the same?

xir78 | 8 years ago | on: Rainbow Deployments with Kubernetes

TL;DR

You can drain stuff by changing a Service's selector but leaving the Deployment alone. Instead of changing a Deployment and doing a rolling update, create a new deployment and repoint the Service. Existing connections will remain until you delete the underlying Deployment.

xir78 | 8 years ago | on: Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan

A few years ago I couldn’t tell you the name of a Chinese company off the top of my head, now I can not only rattle of a list, they’re companies I’ve worked with or have significant investments in companies in the US. I also have a roster of WeChat contacts.

I also work with multiple ex-pats that fled fearing for their life due to persecution based on their religion (Falung Gong), and laugh at how freaked people are about an insignificant Trump compared to a truly vicious government.

xir78 | 8 years ago | on: How the Rohingya Escaped

> Although the vast majority of Buddhists condemn the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya, it is not intrinsically incompatible with Buddhist ethics.

For the level of Buddhism practiced in this area (Theravada) it is incompatible, there’s clearly nothing good that can come from it. They were clearly taught not to do this, there’s no ambiguity.

Additionally monks have no authority, they are not saints or have even the slightest clue about anything, anyone can put on a robe and be a monk. This isn’t understood in the West, where a monk is considered to be a title, but it’s really a zero, like saying your child got into pre-school.

xir78 | 8 years ago | on: How the Rohingya Escaped

It would be interesting to see a candid interview with what the real reason for not liking then is. I suspect it’s rooted in the Muslim conquests which are still mentioned in Buddhist texts. Needless to say the Muslim religion is not held in much regard due to that, as opposed to Hinduism which is considered worthy of debating.
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