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by anyfoo 3y ago
I might be dumb, but I don’t get it? Can you elaborate?
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by anyfoo 3y ago
> but basically in the 80s you mostly only had a choice of 8-bit computers Ah, that was my confusion. I thought we would compare with systems nowadays, to replace the Amiga. > A DOS PC could have run a multi-threaded program, but if a
693.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Apparently, by requesting it from the state, and fulfilling a whole laundry list of requirements. Including exams, background checks, disclosing financial information, adding an alarm system to the car, and more: https://www-buss
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by anyfoo 3y ago
> That 80s Amiga is probably incredibly reliable and robust with its real multi-tasking OS and doesn't require "security patches". I generally agree with some of your comment, but this sentence confuses me a bit. I'd
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by anyfoo 3y ago
I don't know anything about the taxi industry in New York, or how well it is regulated. I have no idea whether NY medallions are traded in a similar manner to Germany's taxi concessions, or whether they are really related in any w
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by anyfoo 3y ago
I just looked it up on Wikipedia. Apparently, in Germany Uber only dispatches to local rental car and taxi providers, so it effectively seems to be a frontend to German taxis. They also mention the rather strong transport laws, that most li
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by anyfoo 3y ago
I don’t know how to read this comment. Assuming it’s about regulations potentially impeding the ability to scale, the (million people) city I grew up in did not seem to have problems providing enough taxis in any way. As far as I’ve heard f
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by anyfoo 3y ago
I was in the same predicament at some point, and it was truly soul crushing. I now have more free time, and take care to not let it come so far anymore. I don't regret it, since I was effectively paying forward for more free time to en
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by anyfoo 3y ago
Probably everyone who has used a Taxi in Germany in the past can tell you how professional, knowledgeable, and safe Taxis were there, and that came through very strong regulations. Getting a taxi concession was no joke. You literally had to
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by anyfoo 3y ago
That convinced me to try it out again, with a slightly different mindset, thanks.
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by anyfoo 3y ago
Same here, and I also felt like I was missing out, since people were raving about it so much. But to me it really did feel like I had to slowly work on making any progress, and I mean "work" in its most tedious meaning. Though, I
702.
by anyfoo 3y ago
> an OS designed after the idea of "the network is your environment, not the computer" where it should make little difference if the resources you are accessing is on your computer or not. [..] For some reason (maybe related to
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by anyfoo 3y ago
They stayed fixed because they were fixed devices in a simple computer. Basic keyboard support, legacy interrupt controller, legacy timers, VGA… stuff that still to this day to an extent makes a PC actually “a PC”, and that may even still b
704.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Wasn’t 13h disk services? Guess they got shared? Or is it hardware interrupt 13h mapped somewhere else through the interrupt controller?
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by anyfoo 3y ago
You should write that answer as a comment to the blog post. The author of the blog is very thorough and likely to take an interest to it, if there’s anything to it. (As an aside, why are we assuming 80287 and not 8087? I know nothing about
706.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Yeah, but if you work with a central repository, when using local git clones the clones are hanging off the local repository, not the central one. Sure, you can change back origin to point to the central one again, but you still have to do
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by anyfoo 3y ago
I work with massive repositories, and creating new worktrees works in an instance, because it only creates hardlinks instead of copying files. Saves disk space, too. Also, all branches stay in sync between worktrees. For example, I do git f
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by anyfoo 3y ago
Thanks for your article. I’m not even currently working on any network-related stuff, and I found it very interesting and enlightening to read.
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by anyfoo 3y ago
I’m not sure what you’re saying. That that checkbox enabled IPv6 and made all IPv6 capable devices behind the router accessible without any filtering? You said “had”, so presumably people found out what a bad idea that is and routers added
710.
by anyfoo 3y ago
You should really read the article, because it covers every single point you just mentioned.
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by anyfoo 3y ago
> > NAT mappings can change (your router can reboot etc). So you have to be ready to 'try again' dynamically. > Yes, this is a big issue [...] You gotta cut your losses somewhere. And the article also gets into that, in
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by anyfoo 3y ago
> Because they did ship like that, years ago Yeah, years ago. Years ago there was no encryption whatsoever. "Host based" authentication was common. And not the type that used certificates (or, in fact, cryptography of any kind)
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by anyfoo 3y ago
Hah? I'm missing a step here. Why would they ship like that?
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by anyfoo 3y ago
Someone else here said that it is custom for Parisians to lay on any available patch of grass (like I know from other Western European cities). So it’s okay to assume that that particular patch, along with Disney Land in the article, are ex
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by anyfoo 3y ago
In my experience, grass is only threatened if you have a lot of people in a very short time. Think concert or festival. Granted, NY/Manhattan has many more people than SF, but I don’t know if Central Park is that popular to reach tho
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by anyfoo 3y ago
Entirely correct. I'm from Western Europe, and almost everything (or at least a great lot) that is humanly accessible is meant to be used by humans, including grass. Note that this is not in opposition to "carefully manicured&qu
717.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Maybe everyone sees this differently? Or maybe is more than one viewpoint to it. For example, if someone tells me that something is "actually really simple", and I did not get it yet, I tend to think that I likely (not certainly,
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by anyfoo 3y ago
My impression as well. Though I'm biased, because it's also the case for me specifically, so I tend to see the world through that same lens. In my case, I didn't give up social media entirely, but mostly shifted back to &quot
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by anyfoo 3y ago
Above, scottlamb came to the conclusion that live lock isn't possible after all, because one transaction will always have made progress. Intuitively, that makes sense, but intuition alone is always dangerous with concurrency. Which is
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by anyfoo 3y ago
Neat. I wonder if we'll somehow reach the point where sqlite isn't really "lite" anymore, but I'm actually not complaining. If it keeps the stability and self-containment (in multiple ways, e.g. you don't need

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