My (very large) corporate network uses 172.16 and 10. heavily, which has lead me to set my docker/daemon.json default-address-pools to 84.54.64.0/18, as it's very unlikely we need to communicate with any IPs in Uzbekistan.
C) I got teased for it a long time ago by my other nerd friends.
But the US DOD has huge blocks of prefixes that it doesn't do anything with, presumably they use it for internal routing so every device they have could publicly route without NAT..
One of those prefixes is 7.0.0.0/8.
My home network uses that. I have never had an issue with S2S VPNs.
However, there have been a few bits of software (pfsense for example) which have RFC1918 hardcoded in some areas and treat it like a public network and overwriting it means doing the entire network setup manually without the helping hand of the system to build-out a working boilerplate.
In this vein there's also 3 TEST-NETs, all /24 but still useful. I've been known to use TEST-NET 1 for Wireguard: 192.0.2.0/24. The other two are 198.51.100.0/24 and 203.0.113.0/24.
There's also 198.18.0.0/15, Wikipedia says it's "Used for benchmark testing of inter-network communications between two separate subnets"[1]. Use this if you really want to thumb your nose at the RFC police.
Adding Caddy as a proxy server is literally one line in Caddyfile, and I trust Caddy to do it right once more than I trust every other random project to add SSL.
My former employer, Ab Initio, has a Connection Machine in the basement. (Ab Initio was founded by the same person as Thinking Machines, and many/most of the early employees were from there.)
Can you explain this more? It seems trivial to extrude a 2d coastline along a third dimension to produce a paradoxical areal calculation corresponding precisely to the perimeter paradox...
If you extrude a coastline into a wall the wall's surface area will blow up the same way the measured perimeter does, but that;s because you've turned a boundary-length problem into the area of a different object. It still doesn't mean the country's ordinary map area becomes paradoxical, the extra boundary detail only affects a vanishingly thin strip near the edge, so the enclosed 2D area stays well behaved.
Aha, so you've misunderstood my joke entirely. We agree about the math, please reread my original comment with the understanding that I'm insinuating that the article has deviated from "ordinary map area" and is instead measuring the fractal surface area contained within Estonia's perimeter.
[now that the joke is explained, feel free to laugh]
Which would be fine if they were calling themselves mathematicians, we can debate if their ideas are more/less worthy of funding vs all the other mathematicians working on interesting math that might or might not be useful. However when they call themselves physicists we demand they prove they are creating useful physics. There are other areas of study in Physics that are producing results and thus seem more worthy of funding.
Remember resources are limited. We cannot fund everyone who wants it. Society needs to make choices, we are generally okay with a bit of "interesting but unlikely to produce anything important", but most of what we fund needs a return on investment.
It's really not, though. If a "valid counterexample" can be something with, say, one user, then I can make a "valid counterexample" to literally anything you choose, but that's meaningless.
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