greengreengrass

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by greengreengrass 4mo ago
> I thought parliamentary elections in UK worked like in most of Europe: you vote for a party, not a candidate. They are. It's a parliamentary system, not a presidential system. Nobody votes directly for who will become PM, who is u
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by greengreengrass 4mo ago
Fascinating. Also fascinating to see the relative importance they attribute to wildly different geographic abstractions – US/Canada/Australia called out, meanwhile Europe and Asia bucketed together, despite those being the more in
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by greengreengrass 4mo ago
Disappointing that it seems difficult to actually sign up for – "real-time view" hidden behind layers of legalese and licensing, although it's pleasing to see the fees are effectively nothing for individuals or small firms. T
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by greengreengrass 4mo ago
Not commenting specifically on the companies and VC/PE firm discussed there, but this and the comments demonstrate just how many firms exist to do things other than make a profit. I think I understand why people with the big bucks can
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by greengreengrass 4mo ago
Too true. We all think these payment systems are 'strongly consistent' and RDBMS vendors and projects since time immemorial love to talk about their ACID suitability for payments. In reality, zoom out enough and it's all even
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by greengreengrass 4mo ago
I was expecting someone to say this when I said "widely understood" without qualification. Unfortunately, I do tend to agree that we can't fix stupid or the inability to read the RFCs. :-( Thanks for providing a balanced view
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by greengreengrass 4mo ago
Good thought experiment! Makes it hard to remember the correct address for each site, but meh, that's the job of my password manager anyway.
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by greengreengrass 4mo ago
What's the point of this article? The most I got was "email is here to stay," followed by some discussion of an MCP server for their proprietary mail platform. I particularly don't understand the constant fanfare around
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by greengreengrass 4mo ago
The best one was when someone said they were going to give me excellent service because “you work for corporate”, confusing the company name before vs. after the @ sign. I forget which company it was now but the agent was convinced I must b
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by greengreengrass 4mo ago
I started doing it when so many sites had broken + aliasing stuff, which I use for filing mail to keep my inbox manageable and actionable, as it was easier to type than my double-hyphen hack described above. I’m not concerned about the leak
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by greengreengrass 4mo ago
My setup is more complicated than it needs to be for $reasons (I like playing with networking protocols, have my own v6 prefix and ASN etc. and my mail and other important personal services are hosted across multiple sites for redundancy),
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by greengreengrass 4mo ago
I, too, get so frustrated by + addresses not working that I’ve configured my MDA to rewrite —- (double hyphen) to plus, and use this in spite on sites that dislike the + variant. I’ve made it impossible to /not/ host my own mail d
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by greengreengrass 4mo ago
Or, even easier, just make the call idempotent. The user doesn’t know anything and doesn’t have extra clicks, and it doesn’t matter much if the mail client actually did the “confirming” given it’s proven the email address is valid at that p
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by greengreengrass 6mo ago
Came to say the say thing. Strong Club Penguin feeling as soon as I saw that “off duty” sign on the lifeguard tower
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by greengreengrass 11mo ago
> you are by definition moving _away_ from single point-of-failure Depends on the frame of reference of “single point-of-failure”. In the context of technical SPOFs, sure. It’s a distributed system across multiple geographies and failure
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by greengreengrass 1y ago
Turns out most of the human population do not understand the difference between the local part and the domain part. I’ve had this too. They ask if I work there because I have store.name@myname.com. No , go and read the RFCs…
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by greengreengrass 1y ago
I have often wondered why we don’t see more usage of the brand gTLDs, which many of these big firms own. I muse that this is (part of) the reason why – there simply isn’t the understanding or recognition outside tech circles (or even within
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by greengreengrass 1y ago
It's one of the few pieces of software I bought a licence for, rather than tolerate free tiers or simply not use it, because I approve of the licensing model.
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by greengreengrass 2y ago
Teslas have a large driver base (note, likely doesn't apply to this forum) who don't know good engineering or design when they see it. They confuse "I spent good money on this" with "this is a good product". So
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by greengreengrass 2y ago
They invented that back in '88 when the roof came off Aloha Flight 243! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243 )
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by greengreengrass 2y ago
One of the best and most memorable experiences I've had was sleeping in Premium Economy on the upper deck of a BA A380 back from San Francisco (from a work trip). It's quiet and the ride quality comfortable. It's a shame the
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by greengreengrass 3y ago
Indeed! They're interesting cars to drive when you get them up to their speed limiter, and whizz past far more powerful vehicles in the outside lane.
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Solo traveler drove from London to Lagos in a tiny car(cnn.com)
8 points by greengreengrass 3y ago|7 comments
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by greengreengrass 3y ago
Ross was one of the most influential people in my time at Cambridge, someone of whom I was very fond and whose work I still follow over a decade later. I am deeply saddened to learn of his passing. His dry sense of wit and humour, his uncom