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Excellent post, thank you

Gonna re-post my 2023 comment on IPv6: >It is gradually becoming acceptable to dismiss IPv6 and suggest searching for a modern, practically minded alternative. Important first step…

At my old uni there were a couple public terminals running DOS, most of the time sitting idle at the prompt. It was bespoke kiosk cabinets only exposing keyboard and screen. One Ap…

In which Jerf longs for PHP. Every single point has been in, and actively used, for a long while. The __call() & friends is particularly nifty - simple mental model, broad applicab…

>printing also will likely impact timing and can change concurrent behaviour as well. I've had a bug like that and the intuitive way to handle it turned out to be entirely sufficie…

>government getting private property snatched in transit by extending letters of marque to ISPs Yep, that is piracy indeed, even if done under the figleaf of "privateering".

For sake of example: a "locale-aware" number conversion routine would be the worst possible choice for parsing incoming network traffic. Beyond the performance concerns, there's th…

>Unless it's one of those cursed things installed at the customer thousands of miles away that never happens back in the lab. I had a bug like that in my previous (telcom embedded …

The brevity carried over to Plan 9. Re-posting my older comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4023385 ): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs follows the Uni…

To further expand upon this, quickly ascending to high altitude (flying airplane or balloon) after diving is also dangerous, for the very same reason. Pilots are trained to wait ou…

Author states "i feel disrespected in my own ~home.". And funnily enough "~" is exactly what he's looking for: df -h ~

Interesting, thank you. Especially the point about government being a huge spender where it has reduced regular commerce.

It is sad to see the correct reply grayed out. This kind of regulation is known to breed corruption & abuse, tilting the field heavily towards the highest spenders. Can only be ena…

Seconding this. Having lucked into using Lilo and no initramfs for several years now, I'm very happy with robustness and straightforwardness of the solution. In contrast, on the ra…

The article is about latency, the GP is about latency, you instead pivoted to throughput. Of course throughput can be made arbitrarily high when you don't measure latency. Doesn't …

I particularly like how in Acme, when selection is zero-width ("empty"), it is the cursor. Conversely selection can be extended from cursor in any direction. As a side effect, this…

Love this. Aligns with some of my recent musings. Even better, it would be largely immune to certain recently discovered problems with AI, including ingesting AI-generated content.…

Secondend! I like how this checks for both actual work quality, and for cultural fit, in one step.

Surprisingly the difference isn't quite as it seems. There's an important distinction between mass of the vessel's own structure, the bare necessities like fuel, stores & crew, and…

>Computers and other automations never made creative decisions before Oh they absolutely did. Even the early optimizing compilers discovered new pathways and created code that surp…

I subscribe to your and broadly follow your arguments. It's also worth pointing out the speed of information propagation, speed of manufacturing, and speed of distribution & logist…

>how has the situation improved since then? It is gradually becoming acceptable to dismiss IPv6 and suggest searching for a modern, practically minded alternative. Important first …