They keep renaming the company, but it's still the same old Qwest, now Lumen, formerly Mountain Bell all outsourcing E911 services and all going down in 4-14 states MANY times in the last ten years.

This is nothing new, and has nothing to do with a "light pole" or a "fiber optic cut."

Each time they get a free pass and do nothing to fix the problem. They have outsourced crucial emergency response services to remote datacenters that are not redundant, not given E911 data (address and callback# of caller) and no modern logging capability (as in who called in when for how long, how long on hold, etc.)

Lumen (that's Qwest''s new name) is the same piece of shit southwest US network operator that's been flailing for decades.

End of story.

I wonder if running iPerf3 under WSL is better than using a version compiled with Cygwin libraries.

Not especially. iPerf3 is very performant and sensitive, which makes it a great tool for measuring network performance, but that also makes it sensitive to even small perturbations.

WSL2 is a virtual machine, so all network traffic goes through the virtual NAT system. WSL1 is technically a compatibility layer, but its recreating/emulating of Linux I/O typically comes at a pretty hefty performance hit.

False.

That will happen to Reddit too, once people realize they can get on the front page of search results by posting there.

Look, I'm as big a fan of collecting a cool million dollars from a Nigerian prince.

If the Nigerian government (is that a real thing?) wants to do something useful,
STOP SPAM AND CRIMINALS FROM YOUR COUNTRY ATTACKING THE WORLD.
Yes, that means Nigerian princes and lotteries and whatnot.

We don't give a rat's ass about your "fiber cables" and frankly if they all go damaged
and your princes couldn't send spam, that would be JUST FINE.

We just want Boeing to make planes that stay in the sky, don't drop doorholes, engines keep going, etc.

But I get it. The US market is no longer eager for Boeing's crappy product so they're going to try and unload it in Asia.

Flying cars.

Serioously.

What a bunch of nonsense.

Terrorists use terror for political purposes. Violence is deprecated, but not everyone who is violent is a terrorist.

Your idea seems unrealistic on two counts:

Historically we have seen groups with houses and future to reach for, who still go to war.

Israel did withdraw from Gaza, motivated by your idea, closing the settlements and removing the settlers, and Gaza got worse, not better. The infrastructure got damaged.

You should read what I wrote again, because I clearly did not ignore that.

Well, I'm uncomfortable killing, period. Even if they are terrorists, we should look for another way before jumping in to killing them. In the case of Hamas there may (or may not) be another way, but war is always and everywhere a sad thing.

I'm basically speaking from personal experience here. I believe Microsoft had a lot of managers with engineering degrees. This trash person has an engineering degree.

It's also a temporary problem. Short-range anti-drone missiles should cost roughly the same amount as drones.

For a while I was making a list of weird translations I saw it do. The most extreme was translating "woman" as "man."

I think more often, whistleblowing is just complaining to your manager, or manager's manager.

Yeah. I don't think they've improved in translation ability. I think they've gotten worse in translation ability.

They have improved in the sense that the output of the translation tools is more likely to be grammatically correct.