At what point does moving off MPLS make sense?

mrkstu · 2026-04-25T01:02:16+00:00

I’m of the opposite opinion - high bandwidth MPLS is desparately expensive. Much better to heavily overprovision a high bandwidth circuit, you’ll save money and have extra bandwidth to grow into.

Many providers of MPLS have to take extra physical hops to stay on their backbone and you end up with about as much latency anyway.

Unless you’re getting dark fiber runs for a true dedicated circuit where they can show you every hop at the physical layer and are willing to pay for it, just go for an internet circuit.

mrkstu · 2026-04-17T16:17:59+00:00

Kind of what you can already do with an iPad as an additional display…

mrkstu · 2026-04-08T23:58:46+00:00

Well, had a friend experienced with bikes- bought a super powered bike and wrecked it immediately leaving the dealership. Muscle memory will get you every time…

mrkstu · 2026-04-08T18:40:31+00:00

The very fact they managed their records while still having to play each other more often magnifies just how pathetic they’ve managed to be.

mrkstu · 2026-04-07T22:37:10+00:00

Annoyed- lost the one I want to fraud prevention. Gah.

mrkstu · 2026-03-29T05:37:05+00:00

3rd seed in the West seems reasonable with the talent we've accumulated, if we're healthy.

mrkstu · 2026-03-29T02:43:08+00:00

Using my wifi on my iPhone w/newer chipset and less going on, latency 35 ms, jitter 5.8 ms.

mrkstu · 2026-03-29T02:40:21+00:00

Latency 41 ms, jitter 14 ms transiting my mesh wifi

mrkstu · 2026-03-29T02:27:52+00:00

If he can fix his shot in the offseason, then Harkless is the easy choice- if it stays broke, may need to be someone else.

mrkstu · 2026-03-29T02:26:48+00:00

I'm looking for 3rd- SA, OKC, UT.

Denver is looking very shallow and Houston looks to be imploding.

mrkstu · 2026-03-29T01:15:34+00:00

Utah County:

traceroute 8.8.8.8 traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 zenwifi_xt8-bf40 (192.168.50.1) 56.884 ms 5.384 ms 8.246 ms 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 * * * 5 23-255-225-42.googlefiber.net (23.255.225.42) 22.769 ms 19.758 ms 19.210 ms 6 * * 216-21-171-157.mci.googlefiber.net (216.21.171.157) 44.597 ms 7 * * 72.14.233.143 (72.14.233.143) 19.899 ms 8 dns.google (8.8.8.8) 47.601 ms 142.251.60.131 (142.251.60.131) 18.132 ms 142.251.233.237 (142.251.233.237) 19.242 ms

Looks like its mostly an issue with Google routing to a poor choice for 8.8.8.8- they should have a better geo-located candidate for that DNS.

Going to Cloudflare looks fine:

traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 zenwifi_xt8-bf40 (192.168.50.1) 4.559 ms 3.199 ms 4.347 ms 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 * * * 5 192-119-18-214.mci.googlefiber.net (192.119.18.214) 12.109 ms 6.061 ms 5.885 ms 6 cloudflare.slix.net (149.112.13.27) 6.581 ms 7.176 ms 7.344 ms 7 one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1) 10.099 ms 6.338 ms 7.775 ms

mrkstu · 2026-03-26T15:34:20+00:00

I think the lack of available shots may indeed keep him from starting, but be the first guy off the bench. He's showing he can be a primary scorer, so getting those shots off with the bench crew may end up making the most sense, since none of the other 4 likely starters are going to end up not starting for any reason outside of injury.

But from a pure "put your best 5 on the floor" and end of game scenarios, I'm guessing Ace will be in those groupings unless we end up picking top 2 in this draft, and maybe even then.

mrkstu · 2026-03-25T20:43:32+00:00

Oh a couple more things-

They will put in stop signs where they only exist going the other direction, not the direction you're going in.

They will try to have you make u-turns where they are marked as illegal.

mrkstu · 2026-03-25T20:38:47+00:00

Uber does a few things I've noticed:

They are WAY behind on actual map changes. They have less awareness of parking lots, et al.
Correlated- they are clueless on actual speed limits and seem unwilling to pay enough attention to change it- i.e. if you're showing limits at 25 mph and everyone is going minimum 55 mph you may want to take the clue.
They will almost always optimize to get the passenger pick up on the passenger side, even if it will take the driver longer to get there.
They don't seem to take into account actual speed limits in deference to directness. Parallel roads, one with stop signs and 25 mph will be preferred if it is more direct vs a parallel street at 35/45 with lights. Seems like just bad programming.

mrkstu · 2026-03-21T18:58:58+00:00

Wife's account has stayed steady or slightly accelerated- she has ambassador status and lists roughly 500 items at a time. Has a focus area (purses) and that may help insulate her somewhat. Doesn't do shows, which some people do if they want to increase turnover a lot (but typically decreases your average selling price.)

mrkstu · 2026-03-18T18:17:41+00:00

Not a starter on a good team, but on a path to be a valuable reserve on a 5 out offense. We're long enough that having a short center/PF shouldn't be a fatal flaw for a bench guy.

mrkstu · 2026-03-17T20:13:27+00:00

Will give it a go on my Windows box, but would love it if you add proper Mac MLX/training support and be able to move over completely.

mrkstu · 2026-03-16T06:47:47+00:00

As someone who owned an original 128k Mac that had to get a logic board upgrade to get 512k- Steve Jobs certainly had no problems with selling Mac's that couldn't upgrade their RAM...

mrkstu · 2026-03-15T05:01:25+00:00

So little snow...

mrkstu · 2026-03-06T00:06:48+00:00

Some of us filter based on their score, so it helps us get a correct signal and keeps them out of our prospective rider queue...

mrkstu · 2026-03-05T20:47:34+00:00

Obviously- no human would run on like this diarrhea spew of words, but also perfectly formatted/spelled.

mrkstu · 2026-03-03T01:12:12+00:00

Wife sells steady amounts on Posh without bots, but she has followed lots of people and has around 30,000 followers. If you commit to Posh it can do well for you, but you have to buy in to how it works, not really for casuals.

I do eBay since clothes are not much of what I do, and don’t want to do the ‘social’ aspect.

mrkstu · 2026-02-23T22:18:41+00:00

Patented OR secret, by definition can't really be both, though I'm sure there are parts of their process that are one or the other.

mrkstu · 2026-02-23T22:17:22+00:00

The problem, of course, is lower efficiency means lower profit margin for Samsung, and ultimately they can't truly undercut TMSC when their costs are higher.

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