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What if the universe is fundamentally hyperbolic, and redshift reflects an accumulated twist along the path?

@BestBuy please fix your order pickup process - just spent an hour in your store waiting for the system to release my online purchase to me A $1000 Black Friday deal became a huge waste of time - not worth it

Bye bye @Verizon, hello @Mintmobile (on @TMobile)

@jwbensley I imagine the risk/reward calculation for most network operators would tilt towards not doing that in production. Researchers and academics - fun challenge

@digitalbyte_ Actually, cables with a hollow core are faster than physical fiber cables due to reduced resistance. See rp-photonics.com/hollow_core_fi…

when I first learned about the undersea cables, I thought my instructor was pulling my leg. hope y’all think this is as cool as I do 🤓

@AdjacentNode s/wine/morning coffee/g but otherwise spot on

How a network engineer keeps his wife happy with a magic button. Wait…

@TimBertino See de-cix.net/en/about-de-ci… for a case where @DECIX uses it to reduce "network noise" that may affect customer routers

Can anyone give some examples of production network use cases that would require proxy ARP? Just trying to understand what scenarios it would make sense.

@OrhanErgunCCDE When you incentivize “high uptime”

The best comment wins! Router on a stick.

@nokia @nokiaindustries

@satyanadella s/IT systems/Windows systems/g The industry would do well to diversify and safely switch their systems to Linux, supported by a broad ecosystem of vendors. Microsoft is the single point of failure here

Yesterday, CrowdStrike released an update that began impacting IT systems globally. We are aware of this issue and are working closely with CrowdStrike and across the industry to provide customers technical guidance and support to safely bring their systems back online.

@mbushong Sorry to hear about your wife, hope she recovers soon

@ntdvps An extensible model-driven API to query state and configure the network using a consistent, unified human friendly interface "Show me the top ten customers in terms of traffic volume" "How much room is left in my route tables?" "Enable Segment Routing on the backbone routers"

A powerful, 100% streaming, state-less and real-time Network Query API is coming to your networks this fall 🍂 Operational visibility gets much better when you have a chance to work on a network-wide level, instead of on a per-device level. With natural language support, of course. Be honest, it is time to do better than just grepping for "oper-state up" in a stream of text over ssh.

@mbushong @DavidSvendsen Some call this #prelest - spiritual delusion

@ntdvps @markboost what would it cost to run 70 8vcpu/32GB VMs in @CivoCloud for 24 hours?

Still feels surreal that one can work on preparing 70 VMs for Autocon1 attendees while being 10k feet above the ground 🧐 Pst, I drained the private cloud, no more 6cpu/24GB VMs left, oopsie. I also went and quickly checked what would it cost me to run 70 8vcpu/32GB VMs in public cloud for 24 hours, and it is not cheap :D

@ntdvps So what’s the next hurdle? ✅ Freely available image ✅ low resources …

And while having an accessible image is a first step to make, the other one is making your image consumable. If a single instances demands 8vcpu/32gb mem and 15 minutes to boot -- you are doomed to have a negative overall experience

@danieldibswe #3 because it is portable to a cloud environment and it's the only option currently supported in #netlab @ioshints

You have two L3 devices. You want to run a routing protocol like OSPF or BGP between them. You need multiple links for load sharing. Would you do: 1. L2 bundle with SVIs. 2. L3 bundle with routed ports. 3. Routed links with ECMP. Motivate your answer.

@AdjacentNode I think the 16U might be a problem, if you can convert to a 4x4U layout you may have more options

@AdjacentNode or basically

I have a 16U rack for my network and server gear that’s currently in the garage because the wife doesn’t want it in the house. She conceded that I can bring the lab in the house if I can make it look like furniture. Anyone know of a nice looking solution?

@martin_casado Not just "application logic", all logic and value creation is being abdicated. As in "we're using an LLM (doing 'AI') and that's the application" It's a consequence of abandoning explainability. Now we have a black box that occasionally produces some interesting output

One thing that's so unique about current use of LLMs is that application logic is being abdicated to them. I can't think of any other time this has happened. Normally infrastructure moderates resource usage, not logic and correctness.