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by hackthemack 5mo ago
I remember reading about that a long time ago. I wonder why it never really caught on? I think part of the problem is not so much a technical one, as a coordination issue. Who are you more likely to get on board? ISP and backbone providers.
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by hackthemack 5mo ago
I went and re-read point 3B. I agree that some hypothetical ipv42 faces a translation problem. But it does not follow that address design is irrelevant. The structure of the address space directly determines whether translation can be state
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by hackthemack 5mo ago
You are right that a 32 bit ipv4 stack can not understand a 64 bit packet format. The thing I am trying to get at is not native compatibility, it is operational compatibility via translation. I know, I know, you will probably say that is wh
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by hackthemack 5mo ago
I think this is the kind of the topic that can be endlessly debated because you can not easily go back in time and test out alternate hypothesis. I will say that I do not like ipv6 because it tried to fix multiple accumulated problems. I kn
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by hackthemack 5mo ago
Yeah, but most* companies hire for just whatever X programming language they use, and do not care if you know how to program and do not care that you could pick up whatever X is in a couple of weeks. (Anecdotally for "most", I am
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by hackthemack 5mo ago
It is my understanding that the US Government set up a system, long, long ago, where the British would spy on Americans and then the British would supply the information to the NSA, thereby the NSA is not technically spying on American citi
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by hackthemack 5mo ago
I, perhaps, owe my career to DOS. As a kid, everyone relied on me to get their games, soundcard, and disk drives to work. Juggling IRQs HIMEM and CHKDSK. Soundblaster 16 forever!
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Microsoft open sources DOS 1.00 on 45th anniversary(opensource.microsoft.com)
79 points by hackthemack 5mo ago|19 comments
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by hackthemack 5mo ago
That is sort of the inferred conclusion of the podcast, it is a bit of a racket by the big players.
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by hackthemack 5mo ago
I am not sure I agree with everything stated in the post. Although it is plausible. From the places I have worked, I would say the reason there is so much bad code at big companies is nobody really cares. It is just a job. You could bust yo
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Does internet advertising work? (2020)(freakonomics.com)
24 points by hackthemack 5mo ago|35 comments
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by hackthemack 5mo ago
My memory is a bit hazy, but I thought what you are describing is very common with people who flatline and come back? I have vague memories that a new anesthetic drug was developed and used on soldiers undergoing surgery in the Vietnam war,
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by hackthemack 6mo ago
I find the topic of the morality or effectiveness of having a H-1B a little bit intractable to reason about rationally. Consider a simplified model of the system. You have 2 countries, C1 and C2. Scenario 1: C1 has enough demand for 100 tec
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Mars maybe-life clue in the form of nickel compounds(theregister.com)
6 points by hackthemack 6mo ago|0 comments
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by hackthemack 6mo ago
"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens." -- John Maynard Keynes
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by hackthemack 6mo ago
But what if your codebase has to interact with leads, customers, and another 3rd party system called Metrica with leads, customers? When you write a loop, do you now name the variable OurPerson.Age MetricaPerson.Age ? What if, 3 years from
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by hackthemack 6mo ago
Idle thought. Not an economist. What if the current tech scene is like how the u.s. capitalist class took power away from blue color workers in the 80s, 90s by leveraging cheaper labor in foreign countries? Now, programmers, sysadmins, syst
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by hackthemack 6mo ago
If the site is not responding, can always try the way back machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20220207120422/https://rachelbyt... I remember dialing up to a BBS in the area in 1990 that had 4 phone lin
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by hackthemack 7mo ago
I have not seen tests in any code base I worked on in the past 20 years. I have noticed that there is some kind of sanctimonious demeanor to quite a few people that advocate for tests (on comment boards). I find the reactions to discussions
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by hackthemack 8mo ago
I do test manually in salesforce. Mainly its because you do not control everything and I find the best test is to log in as the user and go through the screens as they do. I built up some selenium scripts to do testing. In old days, for the
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by hackthemack 8mo ago
I am fascinated by the prevalence of wanting "tests" from hacker news comments. Most of the code I have worked on in the past 20 years did not have tests. Most of it was shopping carts, custom data transformation code, orchestrati
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by hackthemack 8mo ago
Similar thoughts. One thing I notice in enterprise java software that I have to reed through and update, is that too many times, every developer just wraps everything in an exception. I do not have vast insight into all java code, everywher
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by hackthemack 8mo ago
I am just glad some thought is being put into it. Thanks for the efforts. I keep thinking about people putting secrets up in github. You can not really get rid of something that is out there, like you said. But people do make a request to g
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by hackthemack 8mo ago
I hang out with a small group of sysadmins who like to spin up the old internet stuff, like irc, gopher. And that got me to thinking about Usenet and how a ton of software (usually pirated) and images (usually pornography) were posted to it
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by hackthemack 8mo ago
Like so many things in life, there are so many variables/criteria and different ways to weigh them that I do not think one can make a claim like "text based tooling is cumbersome compare to the alternatives". What are the alt
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by hackthemack 8mo ago
I have hung on to my job for many years now because of being in a similar situation in regards to trying to do the right thing and the fear of not being hire-able. There is something wrong with the industry in chasing fads and group think.
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by hackthemack 9mo ago
Side point about this HN post "Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring" currently 3 hours and 129 points Why does it seem like it is getting pushed down relative to other posts that have le
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by hackthemack 9mo ago
Ross Perot in 1992 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRr60nmDyu4 We have shipped millions of jobs overseas, and ... a strange situation, we have a process in Washington where after you serve for a while, you can cash in, beco
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by hackthemack 9mo ago
Sort of. I think people would understand 201.20.188.24.6 And most of what they know about how it works clicks in their mind. It just has an extra octet. I also think hardware would have been upgraded faster.
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ReactOS Starts 2026 with a Major Step Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility(phoronix.com)
36 points by hackthemack 9mo ago|3 comments

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