You may think I’m rehearsing a Unix textbook from 1990s. Oh, you can run programs in parallel. How nice! What an amazing UNIX you have here!
Nope. This is a real problem I was struggling to solve.
I just found a very cool utility today: netselect. It compares given hosts and answer which one is better (in terms of network connectivity). It’s a handy tool to choose a mirror for apt, or just to compare sites to each other. Under the hood it’s just a bundled…
netselect