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by pif 3y ago
You are describing the client point of view. But, from the server point of view, IPv6 is like a newer, better version... that cannot run alone! IPv6 can work side by side with IPv4 on the servers, but it cannot replace IPv4. Thus, don'
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by pif 3y ago
In other words, from a website point of view, IPv6 is useless.
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by pif 3y ago
It cannot gain any momentum, because website cannot switch to IPv6: they can only support it as well , but they cannot get free of the burden of IPv4.
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by pif 3y ago
We may discuss the past, if you wish, but the present is what matters. And, today, NAT is , and IPv6 is not .
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by pif 3y ago
> It's a massive chicken-and-egg problem This was known since the incipit, still we moved on <facepalm/>. > And so the kinda-working status quo makes moving to the properly-working system much harder. It's called
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by pif 3y ago
> I'm all IPv6 and ... Good for you! I hope my thorough ignoring the issue will not hurt your feelings.
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by pif 3y ago
> We need people to stop trying to deny IPv6, it IS the future. You can scream and cry as muck as you like, IPv4 IS the present. And people in general will not care until the world will work for them. And I trust those companies to know
368.
by pif 3y ago
Customers vote with their wallet. I trust those companies to know how to care about their earnings. IP version 4 or 6, is nothing more than a nerdy thing as far as revenue is concerned.
369.
by pif 3y ago
The idiocy of this site is shocking! Why should companies care about anything not directly linked to their customers' satisfaction?
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by pif 3y ago
At this point, we should just accept we were wrong and bury IPv6 six feet under.
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by pif 3y ago
"rmtree" and "untar" look too much like: #define BEGIN { When on Unix, do as Unixers do.
372.
by pif 3y ago
One example of a situation when the answer "It is the way it is because this is the way it is" is correct.
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by pif 3y ago
> As the decades go by it confounds me that we are still messing with plain text As the decades go by, it confounds me that people have yet to understand the concept of simplicity.
374.
by pif 3y ago
Imagine you own an ice cream shop and you don't know how your dipping cabinet works.
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by pif 3y ago
I think you are missing the only point of the article: performance and compatibility are important; everything else is just aesthetics. As long as Intel can produce fast CPUs, with new features and while maintaining support for the existing
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by pif 3y ago
> should not be programmed with a text editor on a remote machine. The programmer should have a proper development environment installed locally. "should not", "They should have" ... well, it had to! And they didn&#x2
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by pif 3y ago
> the obtuseness of the standard library function names I suppose you are too young to remember that back in the day there was no IDE helping you with autocompletion, thus one character less in the name is one character less to type. Fur
378.
by pif 3y ago
Code quality has zero correlation with typing speed.
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by pif 3y ago
> We're discarding quality in pursuit of scale. Actually, we have been discarding non-free for free. We only look for free; quality is not a target.
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by pif 3y ago
>> in the real world the spec is essentially "Can you import it to Excel?" > And the answer to that is always no. Sorry, you are wrong! You are confusing "No" and "Yes, after a quick setup at most".
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by pif 3y ago
> "There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution that works" > I use it often at work to ensure we ... do it right the first time. If it works, you did it right!
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by pif 3y ago
> Complainers will vote, will take control of local government And you won't care, because you have surrendered the zone surrounding the airport to a national authority, whose mandate is clearly linked to the mobility and who is no
383.
by pif 3y ago
> make it very inconvenient for passengers and staff to approach the airport by other means Absolutely not! High-speed train have many advantages, but serving stations with large, long-term parking lots is not one of them. After all, you
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by pif 3y ago
> I can hardly think of any media publications that are still relevant, and worth subscribing to--and they're all business related ... Anything that used to be a hobby (music, photography, etc.) has now moved ... Because businesses
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by pif 3y ago
> There are many questions which economists can answer quite clearly. Yes, and they always concern the past. Ask an economist about the future, and he'll show their actual value: zero.
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by pif 3y ago
> It just means there are limits to our knowledge. Sure there are! But, do economist acknowledge such limits? This is the question!
387.
by pif 3y ago
> Everyone's needs would be better served if we could pay for content the same way we did back in the day of printed newspapers. This is one option. Another is that advertisement goes back to those days: you associate advertisement
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by pif 3y ago
You are implying that strict anti-emission laws caused uncontrolled emissions by Volkswagen vehicles. But Volkswagen was very discreet about it, and when uncovered everybody was against them. Website are being obnoxious, instead, and people
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by pif 3y ago
Please, let me be that guy... If you chose to write your program in Go, it is likely not worth to copy. ;-)
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by pif 3y ago
Sustainability is part of ecology, and it shares the fundamental aspect of all ecology: it is important, very important, priority 1. But priority 0 remains quality of life. If fungi are not as liked as natural meat, what we need is sustaina

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