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by soneil 3y ago
I think this turns out to be a pretty good example of how stupidly big the ipv6 space is. Because it sounds like a big ask until it meets the numbers. So you want "even billions(!!1!)" of nanobots per allocation. Well I'm l
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by soneil 3y ago
So the funny thing is .. they didn't. They really didn't. The original numbering plan for IP was that each network number became a /8. Which is how we miraculously ended up with 10/8, because network 10 was ARPANET its
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by soneil 3y ago
The space currently assigned to globally routable addresses is 1/8th of the v6 address space. Over 50% of the addressable space is currently reserved. The numbers are frankly mind-bending. Even if we we make a complete pigs ear of as
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by soneil 3y ago
IPv6 not just allowing, but expecting multiple scoped addresses relieves this quite nicely. The most common setup for this is that you have a static link-local address, and a static global address. And listening processes should listen to
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by soneil 3y ago
Since we're sharing war stories .. I have an O'Name. My employer game me an email address, first.o'name@corp. This, while being technically valid, broke many things as you can imagine. I asked repeatedly to have it changed,
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by soneil 3y ago
Well, they needed /something/ to run on the BBC micro. Part of the BBC's mandate (public funding requires public benefit, the mandate is essentially the contractual definition of the BBC's "deliverables") requi
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by soneil 3y ago
That's what we've been seeing. My team were all in one corner of one room. Then "one day", we were all sent home. Someone left, and was replaced by someone in another European country. He's nominally "in the
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by soneil 3y ago
We never really left. I work with an enterprisey on-prem product, which we of-course tried to replace with a cloud offer. And in all fairness, it's generally gone well - but because we manage the platform, it sits in the cloud we chos
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by soneil 3y ago
There's a gentleman who came across my radar, who follows this kinda stuff much like a 'storm chaser' might in the US. He has a recent (Wednesday) video where he found hotspots on the surface with a thermal camera - close en
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by soneil 3y ago
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38163412 is worth reading alongside this (it's not exactly a dupe, but it's pretty meta).
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by soneil 3y ago
ah, you're right - it looks like it was part of ohmyzsh. It appears I missed the -o; without it, my alias asserts, but unaliased doesn't. With the -o they both assert. Still not what I was expecting, but the failure to cleanly r
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by soneil 3y ago
Interesting - it only appears to affect me with --color set (which is a default alias, but if you unalias grep it stops exploding.)
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by soneil 3y ago
It seems the canned deployment is the entire value-add here. It’s existing components that you can already deploy yourself if you prefer. I much prefer this over the old method of canned deployment where you ran a script and prayed it didn’
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by soneil 3y ago
I've been wondering how long until someone comes up with a drop-in logic board for the classic iPods, now that the patents are dropping off. Not only is it the only part with no new replacements, but mobile parts have come a long way.
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by soneil 3y ago
"realistically" .. I don't think it's much to ask a Belgian bank (or offering accounts in Belgium) to actually support Belgian customers? Unless they let go of every single customer with diacritics in their name, the com
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by soneil 3y ago
Every powerbank vendor I've seen gives the battery rating at 3.6/3.7V, so USB implying 5V gives us misleading values. So a 20,000mAh powerbank is 20*3.6V=72Wh, not 20*5=100Wh. I've never seen a vendor that specifies 3.6V, th
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by soneil 3y ago
You're not wrong, but the problem we're hitting is that most mobile tech has divorced product/supply voltage from battery voltage, and the result is a lot of "white lies" where the values stated don't add up to
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by soneil 3y ago
I think it's the correct terminology here. The police believe and suspect, the court try and prove. Arrests are always made 'on suspicion of'.
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by soneil 3y ago
I've seen this in other places in Europe. So incase this becomes territorial and my viewpoint needs to be discounted - I'm from the UK, but I've only been to festivals in continental Europe, primarily Czechia & Slovakia.
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by soneil 3y ago
It’s amazing how much we haven’t moved on since iloveyou.txt.vbs
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by soneil 3y ago
I assume everyone's familiar with the overpayment scam - it's probably the second most common cheque scam after simply passing bad cheques in the first place. You're accidentally paid too much, and are asked to return the re
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by soneil 3y ago
I think our setup was very particular to the UK. We didn't (and still don't?) have free local calls like the US, so we paid per minute for ISPs. Almost all ISPs went through a scheme setup by British Telecom - you could either ha
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by soneil 3y ago
Our dialup used to disconnect every 2 hours by design. wget and wvdial were the only alternative to mail-ordering CDs
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by soneil 3y ago
I’ve also noticed a huge shift in which topics it tries to suggest, but I suspect it’s natural selection rather than intent. It feels like the ‘strike’ allowed subs which didn’t participate to rank higher, and it seems those gains are self-
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by soneil 3y ago
That I've always found interesting - a proper "skate to where the puck is going to be" moment. There was a good few years there where everyone was looking for the "iPod-killer". There's even a chance the Zune
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by soneil 3y ago
Of course I'm writing this with the benefit of hindsight, but it's still an interesting position to read. They could make almost exactly the same claim for iTunes - that it's really not viable because you have no leverage ove
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by soneil 3y ago
It looks like it's trying to. On Safari ctrl+alt+f works for me.
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by soneil 3y ago
You should read up on civil asset forfeiture - it's hilariously obtuse. They arrest your money. You are not accused of a crime, your money is. Your money is not a person, and thus has no constitutional rights. Your money is not inno
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by soneil 3y ago
That'd give an upper bound of 243.8, which is far too close to 240 to be practical. As I tried to add, there is some necessary and natural deviation from nominal to account for path loss etc. 230±6% only allows 240 to deviate by 1.5%
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by soneil 3y ago
This is my favourite story about standardization. It used to be the continent used 220V, and the UK used 240V, until we standardized on 230V. The UK defines this as 230V -6% +10% (i.e. 216.2V – 253.0V), and nominal supply is 240V The contin

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