mishagale

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by mishagale 1y ago
Bear in mind that in the UK, a large chunk of the populations lives in either rented accommodation, high-rise flats, or both. And also, standard housing policy in London is for new developments to have fewer parking spaces than homes (to en
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by mishagale 3y ago
winpopup was a GUI interface, `net send` was the CLI command (with which you could indeed message an entire domain)
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by mishagale 3y ago
That looks like a US version of Faster Payments* (UK) or SWIFT (Eurozone) that enables instant wire transfers between bank accounts. I doubt very much it is suitable as an alternative to credit/debit cards for retail payments. For one
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by mishagale 3y ago
I've always felt one of the main reasons for this is that we never really got true microtransactions on the web. Pretty much all payment processors charge at least $0.20-30 per transaction. My theory is that if there was a way to frict
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by mishagale 3y ago
On the same basis, most home routers are powerful enough to run a basic webserver, and they are much more likely to have a consistent internet connection. They probably aren't behind CG-NAT, and most of them have Dynamic DNS support ev
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by mishagale 3y ago
I remember that way back when, Deutschebank standardised on SuSE because they were a major shareholder in the company. DB had an IT department bigger than most entire companies, so I'm sure that had a pretty big effect on the ecosystem
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by mishagale 3y ago
Have you ever tried accessing the modern web with a Windows 95 computer using Netscape Navigator? Even if that computer had up-to-date certificates, basically nothing about it would be compatible with the modern internet. It's not just
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by mishagale 3y ago
You are right, my bad.
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by mishagale 3y ago
Based on their published user numbers and revenue, Selig estimated that reddit's revenue per user is about $0.12. They are asking for $0.24 per 1,000 API calls. Apollo averages ~345 calls per-user per-day (although some users are much
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by mishagale 4y ago
Presumably because if you are a party to a lawsuit, you generally shouldn't say anything about it without it being cleared by your legal counsel. Their lawyers might have advised them not to say anything publicly, or they might not hav
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by mishagale 5y ago
Doesn't Linux already have mature support for ARM? What's so different about the M1 that it needs all this extra work?