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Kudos to Derrick, I learnt so much from those!
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Let's pretend you didn't write the last 2 sentences... first of all "internet in Europe" makes close to zero sense to argue about. The article just uses it as a shortcut to not start listing countries. I live in a country where I have 10Gbps full-duplex and I pay 50$ / month, in "Europe". The issue is that some countries have telecom lobbies which are still milking their copper networks. Then the "competition committ…
What european countries still dont have fiber? //Confused swede with 10G fiber all over the place. Writing from literally the countryside next to nowhere.
Then there are villages, which were promised fiber connections, but somehow after switching to the fiber connection made them have unstable Internet and ofter no Internet. Saw some documentary about that, could be fixed by now.
Putting fiber into the ground also requires a whole lot of effort opening up roads and replacing what's there. Those costs they try to push to the consumers with their 800+ Euro extortion scheme.
But to be honest, I am also OK with my current connection. All I worry about is it being stable, no package loss, and no ping spikes. A consistently good connection stability is more important than throughout. Sadly, I cannot buy any of those guarantees from any ISP.
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Sadly, I'm in Germany. Which is a third world country when it comes to decent connectivity. They are rolling out some fiber now in Berlin. Finally. But very slowly and not to my building any time soon. Most of the country is limited to DSL speeds. Mobile coverage is getting better but still non existent outside of cities. Germany has borders with nine countries. Each of those have better connectivity than Germany. I'…
When I travel in Germany I use a Deutsche Telekom pay as you go SIM in a 5G hotspot, and generally get about 200Mbit throughtput, which is far higher than you can expect any place you're staying to provide. It's €7 a day (or €100 a month) but it's worth it to avoid the terrible internet.
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Sadly, I'm in Germany. Which is a third world country when it comes to decent connectivity. They are rolling out some fiber now in Berlin. Finally. But very slowly and not to my building any time soon. Most of the country is limited to DSL speeds. Mobile coverage is getting better but still non existent outside of cities. Germany has borders with nine countries. Each of those have better connectivity than Germany. I'…
> Mobile coverage is getting better but still non existent outside of cities. According to the Bundesnetzagentur over 90% [1] of Germany has 5G coverage (and almost all of the rest has 4G [2]). [1] https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung... [2] https://gigabitgrundbuch.bund.de/GIGA/DE/MobilfunkMonitoring...
The "coverage" they are reporting is not by area but by population. So all the villages and fields that the train or autobahn goes by won't have 5G, because they are in the other 10% because of their very low population density.
And the reporting comes out of the mobile phone operators' reports and simulations (they don't have to do actual measurements). Since their license depends on meeting a coverage goal, massive over-reporting is rampant. The biggest provider (Deutsche Telekom) is also partially state-owned, so the regulators don't look as closely...
Edit: accidentially posted this in the wrong comment: Then there is the problem of "5G reception" vs. "5G reception with usable bandwidth". A lot of overbooking goes on, many cells don't have sufficient capacity allocated, so there are reports of 4G actually being faster in many places.
And also, yes, you can get 5G in a lot of actually populated areas. But you certainly will pay through the nose for that, usually you get a low-GB amount of traffic included, so maybe a tenth of the Microsoft monorepo in question. The rest is pay-10Eur-per-GB or something.
For those wondering where this new git-survey command is, it's actually not in git.git yet! The author is using microsoft's git fork, they've added this new command just this summer: https://github.com/microsoft/git/pull/667
Paraphrasing meat of the article: - When you have multiple files in the repo which have the same trailing 16 characters in the repo path, git may wrongly calculate deltas, mixing up between those files. In here they had multiple CHANGELOG.md files mixed up. - So if those files are big and change often, you end up with massive deltas and inflated repo size. - There's a new git option (in Microsoft git fork for now) an…
Also, thank you for the TLDR!
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> For many reasons, that's just too big, we have folks in Europe that can't even clone the repo due to it's size. I read that as an anecdote, a more complete sentence would be "We had a story where someone from Europe couldn't clone the whole repo on his laptop for him to use on a journey across Europe because his disk is full at the time. He has since cleared up the disk and able to clone the repo". I don't think it…
The European Union doesn't like when a file get too big and powerful. It needs to be broken apart in order to give smaller files a chance of success.