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by phicoh 5y ago
Yes, it is weird that a broken protocol translator results in blame for the newer protocol. As far as I can tell, the article doesn't attack HTTP2, that seems work fine. The article clearly demonstrates the problems of HTTP1. But the r
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by phicoh 5y ago
That is different type of future. For a while leap seconds would come at a rate of around one leap second every 18 months. It is safe to say that the current calendar will be with us the next couple of years. Long term, who knows. But we wo
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by phicoh 5y ago
The problem is that posix needs the conversion between 'posix time' (seconds since 1970) and the split out year/month/day/hour/minute/second format to work for the future as well. Given that we don't
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by phicoh 5y ago
Could be a UI thing. When the screen is black you expect the monitor to be off and press the on-off switch. Same thing with switching monitors off after work. Though same screensavers would run for a while and then switch the monitor to pow
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by phicoh 5y ago
My experience with some early Android sliders (HTC Dream and HTC Desire Z) is that the keyboards don't have all the keys I need. So in the end, typing the usual array of Unix and C graphics characters was a bit of a hassle. For years n
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by phicoh 5y ago
The problem is that many libraries need access to configuration files or other stuff that comes with the library. So if you start with a system that has some form of persistent objects, then very quickly a root namespace object is created t
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by phicoh 5y ago
The key feature of chroot is that you can provide a process with a completely different filesystem view. You can leave stuff out that exist in the standard view, or change things. Change the contents of system directories. The problem with
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by phicoh 5y ago
The solution is simple. Produce green gas from electricity. Probably first make hydrogen and then add CO2 to create methane. This will cost a fortune compared to current gas prices, but will allow everybody who is really set on using gas to
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by phicoh 5y ago
Heating a home with a heatpump is a net win compared to gas in many parts of the world even when the electricity required is made with gas. The reason is that the heatpump moves heat (from outside to inside) which is more efficient than gen
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by phicoh 5y ago
I assume that the vast majority of car owners is quite sensitive to cost. If all things considered the cost of hydrogen is similar to that of an BEV then it make sense that both will exist next to each other. On the other hand, if hydrogen
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by phicoh 5y ago
I naively assume that if you buy an extra house as investment, you rent it out. So the house is actually being used, no need build extra houses or have a longer commute. Blindly investing and then assuming that it still has value when you r
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by phicoh 5y ago
That why I specifically mention The Netherlands raising the retirement age. That causes both more labor to be available and reduces the number of people who are retired. Pensioners don't cash out at once. The number of pensioners grows
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by phicoh 5y ago
Many countries have realised that relying on a continuously growing population has its own problems. So you need a pension system for a population that doesn't grow. Basically that means that everybody has to pay for their own pension.
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by phicoh 5y ago
Why would the cost of living factor in? If I move to a place that has a very high cost of living, then I don't get paid more. Why would the reverse be true?
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by phicoh 6y ago
If I look at the center of Amsterdam, in the past year there have been losts of tourists from all over Europe even when bars and restaurants are closed. So this means that any strict lock down would have to be coordinated at least within th
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by phicoh 6y ago
At the end of the day, the capacity of the grid has to be such that you can deal with the worst case situation. So the grid has to handle the case where it is cold and your solar panels are off line. This means that your neighbor would stil
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by phicoh 6y ago
I wonder if it makes sense to separate the generation of power from the sale of power to consumers (and of course there is a separate transmission/distribution network as well). The transmission/distribution network is natural mon
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by phicoh 6y ago
I don't know about Germany, but The Netherlands has a significant market for second hand cars, and many cars, including German ones, are sold for serious amounts of money when they are 10 years old. It is instructive to go to scrapyard
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by phicoh 6y ago
In my opinion, the problem with MINIX3 is that as a product it lacked focus. MINIX2 was excellent for education. MINIX3 led to great research. But if you want to maintain a software product with a small team, you have to have a clear idea o
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by phicoh 6y ago
Ah, it's sad that minix-vmd.org is down. It is not maintained by me, but I'll see if it can be revived. That said, the sources on minix-vmd.org are quite old. It seems that last time I put something online is also already awhile a
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by phicoh 6y ago
It is indeed Minix-vmd. The current toolchain is way too old. Most of the software I want to run is written in C, often C89, or C99. So it doesn't cause a lot of issues at the the moment. I think adding minimal ELF support would not be
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by phicoh 6y ago
As somebody who maintains a fork of MINIX2, just for private pleasure, I know the limitations of ACK. In the end, you either need gcc or clang if you want to compile modern source code. I doubt that clang would be reason not to volunteer fo
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by phicoh 6y ago
That seems unlikely. If, for example, you run at a loss 50% for the time, then you need to have extra expensive rates during the other 50% of the time. Based on typical construction costs of nuclear power plants, those high rates are extrem
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by phicoh 6y ago
What do you do with this power if solar and wind are cheaper? I.e. in a free market, what if buyers prefer wind and solar energy? Do you dump the energy at a loss, go bankrupt leaving investors and banks to write off the cost? Why would any
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by phicoh 6y ago
As far as I know, this is not true. On a small scale wind has been profitable for a long time. In The Netherlands, small scale commercial wind turbines go back a long time. As far as I know there were no subsidies back then.
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by phicoh 6y ago
The right wing parties want to keep the tax deduction. One thing they did introduce was that the imputed rent tax was limited to the interest tax deduction. To encourage people to pay off their mortgages, but that is now being rolled back.
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by phicoh 6y ago
At the moment, interest rate on morgages are low enough that tax deduction doesn't make a big difference, in addition, The Netherlands has a special tax for living in your own house (fake income due to not paying rent), so these cancel
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by phicoh 6y ago
As far as I recall that was not a hardware problem. ISA PnP cards describe what they can do and then the driver picks one of the possibilities and programs the card. It got fun when real sound blasters had broken config, so a generic driver
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by phicoh 6y ago
I don't see how that would work. Suppose there is no wind for a couple of days, do you expect homes to shutdown everything and wait for wind to return? Solar in a desert is easier, if you only have to cover the night then install a big
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by phicoh 6y ago
It is a choice, spend a fortune on nuclear power that nobody wants in their own backyard, or deal with a less stable grid due to solar and wind energy.

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