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by mikl 7y ago
Interesting insights. It’s like a laundry list of software engineering management failures.
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by mikl 7y ago
I’m sure the air quality isn’t great in London, but this article is a hodgepodge of anecdotes and pollution stats. But no actual facts about the claimed crisis. Not a single statistic about how people are affected. No documentation of the e
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by mikl 7y ago
True. I wish there was a setting to make single column permanent, but having to press Cmd-1 when opening a book is not too much of a hassle.
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by mikl 7y ago
> dual stack IPv6+CG-NAT deployments should be the norm for many years to come One can hope. I wouldn’t be too surprised if some ISPs try to deploy just CG-NAT and punt on IPv6 deployment as long as they can.
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by mikl 7y ago
It’ll be very intersting to see if this is enough to push ISPs to adopt IPv6 en masse, or they’ll keep dragging their feet and use nasty hacks like CG-NAT to avoid it.
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by mikl 7y ago
Not really sure what you would have expected the embassy to do in that case? In Poland, Polish law applies to everyone, U.S. citizen or not.
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by mikl 7y ago
This is not particular to Switzerland. Any bank in any country that has U.S.-related clients (just having a green card is enough) is compelled by the U.S. to comply with FATCA and similar legislation.
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by mikl 7y ago
I am a Dane living abroad. I don’t have to do any paperwork and jump through hoops for the Danish government. That the U.S. government makes demands of people living outside its borders is preposterous.
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by mikl 7y ago
I’m afraid that ship has sailed.
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by mikl 7y ago
> A superset of PHP that makes PHP cool again. Is this real, or a massive troll attempt? If they’re serious about this, they desperately need better marketing. Nothing like calling your own project "cool" to make it appear incr
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by mikl 7y ago
The current pricing system is nuts, the European nations should consider doing the same. In Denmark, sending a package within the country (a country the size of Maryland), is more expensive than getting one sent around the world from China.
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by mikl 7y ago
There aren’t a whole bunch of companies that are able to provide a good DNS service world-wide. You’ll need high-reliability DNS servers co-located all over the world. Probably a multi-million dollar investment to get such a thing going, sa
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by mikl 7y ago
Disagree. Most users haven’t chosen their DNS server, so replacing one unchosen DNS server with another makes no practical difference. And DoH means that people snooping on your network can no longer spy on you. Cloudflare has committed the
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by mikl 7y ago
> most of Western Europe also has a pro-EU majority at the moment. Depends a lot on how you ask the question. The pro-EU governments are working to turn EU into a superstate. The great majority of people don’t want that. But thanks to th
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by mikl 7y ago
No, some of the infrastructure is of course useful in itself (although a good chunk is wasted, like this lovely report explains: https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR14_21/QJAB140... ), but the prom
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by mikl 7y ago
Generalising, of course, but a lot of people don’t really care. Yes, the discontent is slowly growing, but it’s still small minorities that really oppose EU. All of western Europe (aside from the UK) have pro-EU governments at the moment.
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by mikl 7y ago
The EU is terrible in many ways. But all the big infrastructure project they fund with prominent EU branding (this bridge/airport/tunnel was kindly funded by the EU) as well as consumer initiatives like the roaming rules are all
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by mikl 7y ago
EU certainly has good marketing. They do a few very obvious nice things for the consumers, like the roaming fees, and then nobody cares much about the rest – billions wasted on prestige projects, the economic and immigration crises, the ter
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by mikl 7y ago
Yeah, all the power in EU is vested within unelected officials. Their so-called parliament is a farce to give EU a veneer of democracy.
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by mikl 7y ago
EU is pretty captured, too. The copyright stuff that passed earlier this year is one massive boondoggle for the publishing industry.
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by mikl 7y ago
Good grief. All this power in the hands of a career politician, with no background in technology (she studied economics before becoming a politician). I imagine we’ll see more ham-fisted attempts from the EU to regulate the internet in the
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by mikl 7y ago
Pretty sure Clue were not the first people to figure out how to track things with a database. I wouldn’t be surprised if they weren’t even among the first 100 period trackers in the iOS App Store. It’s a really obvious and easy app to build
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by mikl 7y ago
Yeah, once iCloud Drive gets shared folders, I know a lot of people who’ll be very happy to ditch Dropbox and it’s new “features”.
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by mikl 7y ago
Everything is a remix. Every app has copied some parts of its functionality from elsewhere, and the world is better for it. If Apple could only add features to iOS that isn’t covered by an app store app, there would be almost nothing new th
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by mikl 7y ago
My main complaint with XML is that it’s far too complex for most use cases (like config files), and thus requires an unhealthy amount of tooling to work with. I can’t just load the file and run it through a parser and get an easily accessib
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by mikl 7y ago
Less footguns, built-in validation, strong types. Me gusta.
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by mikl 7y ago
We do indeed. XML is awful, YAML is a clusterfuck, JSON is often insufficient, and so is INI. TOML looks promising, but might not make it out of its niche. If Cue is basically a better YAML with built-in schemas, that sounds pretty good.
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by mikl 7y ago
That’s a big _if_. Until now, each package with ads have rolled their own, and since there’s probably more money to be had that way, there’s no reason that would not continue.
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by mikl 7y ago
That was the correct thing to do. Considering how many npm packages the average project consumes, having even a single line of advertising for each would make npm a pain in the ass to use, and people would be looking for ways to block the a
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by mikl 7y ago
It’s a slippery slope. The first packages with ads just printed a single line of text. Then others started adding more lines, more aggressive colors, and now you have npm ads painting a half a screenful of empty lines with their ad in the m

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