We had edge delivery issues when I didn't use my ISP's DNS, especially from Apple. Not exactly sure of the mechanism, but downloading Xcode would take 2 hours instead of 10 minutes.
That’s really weird that’s the case. DNS simply resolves “google.com” to an IP address (8.8.8.8 or something). Shouldn’t impact anything download related. I’m pretty sure DNS isn’t used for geolocating either
I wanted to correct you but than I stopped myself because I'm not sure if you meant that sarcastically. Because with a /s at the end your post makes sense.
DNS servers can take the IP address of the client into account. If you query a record for amazon.com from the USA you will get a different answer than from Europe. (And you don't need anycast for that.)
That the client information doesn't get lost when it goes through different resolvers
the DNS extension EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) was invented.
explains it better than me. The whole point of the extension is to make geo-guessing the original client over DNS more stable.
Now you can have privacy conscious DNS servers that strip the ECS information (or mess with it somehow) and instead of the server closest to you you get the global fallback for example.
(controld.com goes as far to say "switch countries without a VPN" by only messing with ECS. No idea how stable that is though.)
Interesting! I always just assumed sites used geoDNS to figure out where the user is. I like the "Controversy over lack of support" section in the wikipage. I've been mainly using NextDNS and learned that they anonymized this information https://medium.com/nextdns/how-we-made-dns-both-fast-and-pri...
I absolutely love his performance in Airplane, the facial expressions are perfect and the way he looks around after “the hell I don’t” shows he really has great comedic timing and movement.
Incidentally, for anyone that didn’t know, the film Airplane was an almost shot for shot remake of a film called Zero Hour [1] and the copilot in the original film was a famous NFL player (Elroy ‘Crazy Legs’ Hirsch), hence why they’ve got Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to play the copilot in Airplane.
We have clearance Clarence. Roger, Roger. What's our vector Victor?
Airplane! was just on The Rewatchables, one of The Ringer podcasts, and the co-pilot role was originally written for Pete Rose but he couldn't do it because they filmed during baseball season.
It seems funnier with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar because at 7’2” the idea he’d be able to slyly get away with moonlighting as an airline pilot is even more ridiculous!
Who's the guy who, late in the movie, jumps from the left side of the frame, grabs Leon's love handles, shakes them, saying "Leon's getting too fat! He's too fat!" and then jumps back out of the frame, leaving Leon astonished and speechless, staring to the left? And who is Leon?
It looks like an ad-libbed scene to me: "Leon" was absolutely struck dumb by the move.
The one issue I have with SQLite's file format is that if part of the file gets corrupted, you can't easily recover the rest of the file. I asked Richard Hipp about this many years ago and he said that fixing the problem would unfortunately break binary compatibility.
It'll likely be very workload dependent. The M4 Max will probably do a little better in single threaded tasks like browser benchmarks and the M3 Ultra will do better in things like video transcoding and 3D rendering.
I noticed that a little while ago too. Very bad UI. Tempted to post in r/dataisugly.
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