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In your cake shop example, the more accurate version would be some gay couples only agreeing to buy wedding cakes from cake shops with gay bakers. On account of it's the customer c…

I prefer my MacBook, but the Thinkpad whatever I bought to have Windows and Linux available for some software I need occasionally has a fingerprint reader that worked out of the bo…

From what I understand, it depends on the stage. The United States Code certainly tracks any and all amendments, and you can fully trace which member introduced which amendment, wh…

I adore Canticle. It is one of my favorite books. I had recommended Hyperion to a friend, and they loved it. I recommended Canticle as a follow-up and they hated it. I never figure…

The shit people tell you about themselves for free, unprompted. It’s unreal.

Kind of but not really. The whole point of BGP is to influence your routing tables. This fundamentally makes very little sense to do when you have a bunch of routers whose routing …

Even if yawning in public affected sexual fitness: how long has it been socially impolite to yawn in public? Evolution takes a rather long time in species with long reproductive cy…

> it would be just nice to quickly change (or even better: have access to multiple at once!) networks. Accessing multiple corporate networks simultaneously from the same endpoint v…

It's fine if all you need is a packet filter, but in 2026 I question that many production use cases can get away with just packet filter. As a host firewall, it's obviously fine, I…

> almost all humans use computers but only 0.1% or so can program them. This is nitpicking but I was curious: there are 4.4 million software developers in the US ( https://www.grid…

They’re both short stories, less than 10 minutes to read. If you’d like to read novel length LeGuin, “The Left Hand Of Darkness” and “The Dispossessed” are excellent. Much of her m…

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/ Why Don’t We Just Kill The Kid In The Omelas Hole by Isabel Kim. My favorite short story of 2024, and very much worth reading if you’re …

That’s a great way of explaining why this was historically done.

> The previous diagram absolutely does not have positive and negative for each transaction! But it does. The $500 transaction for furniture is an edge from the bank to the furnitur…

IP addresses in both protocols are just a sequence of bits. Combined with a subnet mask (or prefix length, the more modern term for the same concept) they divide into a network por…

It’s not _that_ different. Larger address space, more emphasis on multicast for some basic functions. If you understand those functions in IPv4, learning IPv6 is very straightforwa…

But TCP or HTTP don’t care about the underlying transport. They’re higher level protocols that are payloads to either IPv4 or IPv6. It’s irrelevant what the transport is when disse…

An alternative is that he isn’t on that list because he’s a bad person, like Hitler. He’s on a list of people GP doesn’t want to read. He doesn’t want to read Hitler because Hitler…

> A man who built what he loves and produced so much surplus value for the rest of us to enjoy (read: profit) is _exactly_ a hero. Life imitates art, I suppose. https://www.newyork…

“Democracy in the US is failing because of the resources invested into public transit” might be the hottest take I’ve read in 2025. Nice.

One of the achievements in my career I’m lowkey proudest of is sneaking in the rewire of about 45,000 ports on a campus that were split pair after an explicit project to do so was …

Comparing one billion exact copies of the exact same thing to a different thing that shares some superficial qualities doesn’t make any sense whatsoever when the GP is simply sayin…

It says network routing issue. Network routes consist of a network (a range of IPs) and a next hop to send traffic for that range to. These can overlap. Sometimes that’s desirable,…

“Just let students vibe code your ERP” is a hell of a take.