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by billpg 4y ago
8 inch floppies in 1986? My recollection was that the 5¼ inch floppy was ubiquitous with 3½ inch floppies as the up and coming next-generation technology.
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by billpg 4y ago
One thing I would find useful in the situation is a shared IPv4 machine that will do host-based HTTP(S) proxying. This way, I can have an AAAA directly to my IPv6 and an A pointing towards the shared machine for those who can only do IPv4.
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by billpg 4y ago
Brexity politicians still half-arsing it, I see.
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by billpg 4y ago
There was probably a time when people thought the 32 bits of IPv4 was ridiculously large. They set aside a whole /8 for the loopback address.
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by billpg 4y ago
I remember the game music of that, "Ari San Crossroad" by "Sidewinder". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvqcW0E0osE (Dammit brain, I forget all sorts of useful things, but why did I remember that?)
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by billpg 4y ago
Awww, I missed it.
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by billpg 4y ago
I wonder how Bhutan feel about their country code being used for Bitcoin. What if they ever decided to switch to a new currency with a name beginning with a C?
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by billpg 4y ago
I get not wanting to forward JS in email messages onto your customers whose browsers will run it and forward your login cookies to criminals. I do not get thinking that replacing the word "eval" with "review" is a soluti
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by billpg 4y ago
"and extolled the virtues of veganism." I think he's done that better than he ever thought he could.
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by billpg 4y ago
I do remember this not-quite-internet at university in the 90s. Telnet was "spad" and FTP was "hhcp". If you wanted to connect to a real FTP server, you had to send hhcp requests to "ft-relay" and the FTP hostn
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by billpg 4y ago
I'm old enough to remember buying a mouse and having to install the driver that came with the mouse on a floppy disk. Once the mouse market agreed to a single interface standard (and again when USB mice appeared) the world got simpler.
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by billpg 4y ago
I'm about to start a new repo. Should I use the SHA256 option?
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by billpg 4y ago
Thank you. If my comment does get into a hall of fame, please edit out the repeated "indeed".
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by billpg 4y ago
When I last installed 7-zip, I had a merry time checking I had a genuine copy looking at SHA256 values from various sketchy websites as the installer wasn't signed. I persisted as 7-zip was just too darn useful but the experience puts
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by billpg 4y ago
I answered "Very Favorable" to "How favorable are you about blockchain, crypto, and decentralization?" I am indeed very favorable indeed to decentralization. I also think blockchains are almost always a waste of electric
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by billpg 4y ago
Councils (local government) did mortgages?
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by billpg 4y ago
I asked this a year or so ago. Interesting to read this article in light of that discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=863871 (13 years? Yikes!)
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by billpg 4y ago
Warning: The entirety of this comment might be a bad idea. There are 124 bits available. (Actually a little less but let's pretend only 4 bits are needed for the version to keep it simple.) You'll have to decide how many are the I
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by billpg 4y ago
Never mind. I heard you can just use an SFTP server and rsync to get the same experience. (I've been on HN how long? I'm old.)
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by billpg 4y ago
"...cached content is no longer shared between domains. This is known as cache partitioning..." But why?
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by billpg 4y ago
Do web browsers look to SRV records with its port field in preference to A records?
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by billpg 4y ago
"How can you be sure the copy wasn't modified? Why isn't the EXE signed?"
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by billpg 4y ago
Back when I made videos for YouTube, I did a little video on this paradox. I used a pair of cash boxes instead of envelopes because I thought opening boxes looked better on screen than opening an envelope. I know I didn't explain the i
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by billpg 4y ago
Next week: Falsehoods programmers believe about lists of falsehoods.
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by billpg 4y ago
Besides the point, but I would hope that for the version found mid-way along the article, (compute in constructor, return value via the count function) the compiler would first optimize away the container class because the container only ha
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by billpg 4y ago
// Stop propagation of events. Job done!
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by billpg 4y ago
"Not your keys, not your coins."
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by billpg 4y ago
I am incorrect in this regard.
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by billpg 4y ago
Since everyone else is posting their wish-list, here's mine. Use a database like SQLite so I can back-up a website into a ZIP without being concerned about keeping a separate MySQL database backup in sync. (I wrote about this three yea
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by billpg 4y ago
If you discovered a significant shortcut to hashing and then went back to block 1 and re-mined every block until your branch was the one with the most proof-of-work, I'd have a hard time trying to claim that your branch wasn't the

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