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> * "It's so hard to initiate a connection to something behind a ipv4 NAT firewall!! "

> Is that going to change with ipv6?

Yes, because stateful firewalls are much easier to consistently traverse than NAPTs. This alone is a huge advantage for P2P applications.

Behind a (usually symmetric) CG-NAT, I have no way to directly connect to anybody else behind one without a relaying server (which are expensive and add needless latency).

> Are you _really_ just going to allow random traffic into your network?

No, but nobody is suggesting that.

> ipv6 is a distraction from the really problem of control and privacy

IPv6 is also doing nothing to combat pollution by microplastics and overfishing.
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I wonder if there is some kind of industry policy against things like this. One airline or plane owner tries to make a quick buck with a plane, that results in a new FAA restriction in perpetuity for all US flights, causing exponentially more cost to all carriers.
They even posted a picture an ssd with the wrong form factor.

Its as if an LLM wrote it, even though I know its probably human.
"Roman is having an okay day and got a coke zero at the gas station. Raise the roof"

https://youtu.be/58VhB4R-4XY?t=100
It's not about allowing random traffic in, it's about having a unitary address space. The two are orthogonal.
I have enough PI IPv4 space that I don't have a horse in this race but here we go:

> ok, but why?

Because it makes things easier.

> Is that going to change with ipv6?

It already has.

> Are you _really_ just going to allow random traffic into your network?

Doesn't mater if I _am_ or not. I want the option. (And before you say port forwarding: try forwarding ports when its your ISP doing the NAT)
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The Pi 5's PCIe implementation has a lot of fixes—to the point where after only a few days of work, Coreforge over on GitHub has Minecraft rendering through the GPU (only at x1 speed so far).

The CM4 uses the silicon from Pi 4, which was never really a fully-baked PCIe implementation, so I'll forgive them a little there. But it opened up a huge number of possibilities that I think will be realized on Pi 5 (and hopefully a CM5 eventually).

And regarding power consumption / efficiency, don't forget about the usefulness of a full Linux computer running at less than a watt (like the Zero 2 W); or with the Pi 5 you can use the watchdog timer to boot and shut down now, going from idle at 2-3W to power off at 0.01W if you need a remote 'edge' device.

But the hardware and efficiency were never the primary drivers for Pi. It's the fact you can buy one (well, sometimes...) and use it. You don't have to spend a few hours getting the right OS, figuring out the right tools to flash it reading sparse forum-based documentation...
If you're also having some image loading issues, this archive.org link seems to have the images cached:
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Strangely funny, that was the fate of the De Havilland Comet.

https://www.baesystems.com/en/heritage/de-havilland-comet-1-...
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> Since its first beta release in April of 1993, the Slackware Linux Project has aimed at producing the most "UNIX-like" Linux distribution out there.

- http://www.slackware.com/info/

A person could reasonably argue that Slackware was always a BSD that happened to use the Linux kernel:)
"none of us is as dumb as all of us"
Salmon are vanishing from the Yukon River – and so is a way of life
If you believe any significant numbers of humans can congregate anywhere in physical reality without forming recognizable government structures, you're in for a real disappointment.
Searching for the site of the time capsule on Google Maps makes me wonder -- has anyone created an archive of time capsule locations? I can think of at least three or four at my university alone, and a couple more in the surrounding community, but few people remember them and there is no central archive of info on them.

I'm afraid many will simply be lost to time.
Chimera Linux?
This is a tangent, but in the first question post the OP mentions considering implementing helper circuitry with quote "a GAL16V8 or something but I don't think I understand them well enough, programmers are very expensive and the programming software is closed source & Windows-only as far as I know."

I went down this path on a project a few years ago and I just wanted to point out that you can burn the fuse file for the Lattice GAL16v8 or GAL22v10 chips these days using a cheap TL866 Plus programmer...

And there is a very cool way to write the JEDEC fuse files- you can draw out the circuitry you want using the [0] Digital simulation package (it is similar to Logisim) and export a compatible bitstream to burn from there. Thus skipping the need to find a way to run the old WinCUPL or the even older DOS program that was used to do the synthesis back in the day.

[0] https://github.com/hneemann/Digital
If you want a general overview of cursorless, along with seeing what it looks like in practice, the talk from Strange Loop this year was great: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NcUJnmBqHTY
For what it’s worth, much of the cyberpunk skeleton is in place - good and bad - but it’s not clearly visible from a thematic perspective, because human life isn’t as cheap as in genuine cyberpunk environments.

We’re also, frankly, moving towards larger levels of human commoditization. Cyberpunk might make people disposable but it doesn’t make them totally irrelevant, certainly not the way the modern world does, because otherwise the story doesn’t have main characters anymore.
Okay, so how did you figure it out with such certainty?
If there was a magic pot of gold, it would be technically possible to precompile every crate version with every rustc version on every supported platform and distrivute those prebuilt rlibs to users through cargo. That would help with first compile times when using the standard tooling, and not just for proc-macros.
"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg allegedly halted proposals aimed at improving Facebook and Instagram’s impact on teen mental health, according to internal communications revealed as part of unsealed court documents.

Zuckerberg allegedly vetoed plans to ban filters that simulate plastic surgery on Meta-owned platforms, according to the unredacted lawsuit filed by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell (D), and ignored requests from top executives to boost investments in teens’ well-being."
A lot of the coolest places are, in my experience :)
Insufficient? An 8gb ram MacBook crushes word, YouTube and browsing Facebook. That’s most people, I think your “almost no-one” is “most people”.
Washington produces 67% of its power with hydroelectric and wind is another 8ish percent with wind.

I suppose you can argue with how "green" hydroelectric is, but in terms of CO2, it's pretty good.
>Like the Roli Seaboard

more like nanokey with additional control surfaces
One can fix that by deploying software with the VM pause functionality removed and / or remove disks the bare-metal servers and only PXE-boot them. That way there is nothing to pause.
I dunno, I think it’s somewhat understandable for a tech crowd. When your relative buys an expensive 8GB laptop who are they going to complain to when it doesn’t do what they want? Their techie relative of course!

I could, of course, handhold every family member buying hardware to make sure they get the right thing. I’d just rather not.
I’ve been using an 8gb M1 Air for 3 years now. It’s fine for personal use, and there have been stretches where I needed to use it as a dev machine in a pinch.

Not optimal but to say 16 is a necessity is an overstatement t
you are not the customer - the management of you, is the customer. The management of you, does want this in many cases.
>> The biggest one is people seem to equate NAT = router/firewall. This is absolutely not the case,

I dont think anyone equate that, but IPv6 proponents refuse to recognize that decades and decades, especially in home users, and SMB space, NAT was a layer of the security model, often times one of the biggest

Right or wrong is irrelevant, that is/was the reality

Just tossing IPv6 as a replacement for ipv4 with out factoring that in while simply screaming into the void "NAT IS NOT A FIREWALL" will be of little comfort to the elderly retiree that has their home computer ransomwared, or the small business that is put under due to a cyber attack because the ipv6 address was strait on the public internet
Reminds me of the classic Forgotten Employee[1] story.

1: https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/
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Things that I'd normally write a userscript for.

There are sites that I visit on a somewhat regular basis and always perform the same actions, or get specific information from. My hope was that I could quickly create automa workflows faster than writing a userscript.

A very basic example is that when I visit TheBloke on huggingface, I want to click the expand models button, filter the list to just GGUF models, and highlight the ones I haven't seen before with one color and another color for ones that have been updated.
Making money by selling RAM is baked in to Apple's DNA. Apple charged a premium for the original Mac to go from the entry level 128 Kbytes to 512 Kbytes of RAM. Here we are almost 40 years later and that business model is still in place.
Heh, few remember the very early days when I ran a forum on midwesternmac.com — I actually started out doing IT services and web hosting (mostly Drupal, some Wordpress) for local places.

The first project I did as an independent LLC was built out a network with a bunch of eMacs and a central G4 server for a law firm :P
Well, this is actually part of the (horribly, unnecessarily complicated) problem. You'll have to base your own conclusions on what feels right to you.

That being said, this machine seems obviously intended to fill the gap the 13" MBP would inevitably leave. It just... doesn't feel like a compelling base-model. The M1 refresh of the Macbook Pro set a decently high watermark for the "Pro" experience, and this model feels like a compromise in many ways. It's $300 more expensive than the model it replaced, and while the chassis is certainly better, the internals on the base model are undeniably gimped. It's hard for me to understand why someone would get the 14" base model when the other M3 options are practically identical. I struggle to imagine a class of user that needs Pro Motion and active cooling, but not 16gb of memory.

It's subjective, but I much prefer the old pricing model. The 13" Pro felt more like a holdout from a bygone age, not a trend that needed to be revived. Now we're here, and everyone is kinda asking why this machine exists.
VoIP.

Two peers, each behind a CG-NAT (or other symmetric NAT), depend on somebody running a relay in order to be able to communicate.

This makes it very expensive (and sometimes risky, since unrestricted relays can be used for all kinds of nefarious things too) to deploy any new VoIP service.

I'd call that "broken by NAT".

> everything works right now.

Yes, everything that works right now works right now, but that's a tautology, not proof of anything. The things that don't exist because they wouldn't work in a predominately NATted world don't work, because we live in a predominately NATted world.
1. Servers, I'm partial to openBSD because of a saner IMO /etc and works-out-of-the-box (for me). My coworker is the more freebsd kind and since he does the work, his opinion prevails.

2. I moved houses 3 days ago. Had installed MX linux prior to moving on my desktop computer. Today, no DHCP IP on my computer. Man and apropos didn't help much. Ifconfig, arp don't exist. They require an apt install. I'm clueless as to what's happening. GUI tools didn't help much. So yeah to all predictable systems including windows.

3. VSCode (which when I last checked a week ago didn't work on freebsd either) and a lot of other programs which aren't there on OpenBSD. NetBSD haven't touched, so won't comment.

4. Userland stuff. BSDs in general pitch themselves as complete OSs, but the whole getting X working is like assembling a GUI stack IMO.

5. Continuing from the previous point (yeah, I'm a hypocrite), a few hundred MBs of RAM and very little GHzs on the CPU gets you a fully functional Desktop environment. If a browser is needed, add a bit more RAM and maybe some CPU.

PS: I use really old hardware
Every time I see an unadorned "Mario" I think of the video game plumber. So I was a bit stoked to see some sort of algorithm for a special effect for Super Mario Bros. Wonder that escaped my notice, maybe a way to blur the player sprite for invincibility power-up effects by stacking multiple copies of the sprite of varying opacity on top of one another?

Well, regardless, today I learned.
Sure, but you're not really contradicting me unless you're able to get your company to pay for faster tooling. And if you can, why haven't you already?
Doctors and medical reviewers are looking at the world through two different perspectives.

Doctors have direct contact with the patient and are pursuing leads via testing and originating a treatment plan.

Ergo, "what might work"

A medical reviewer is limited to generated documentation only (though can request more) and is then comparing that to relevant regulations, standards of care, and reasonable/necessary tests.

Additionally, they are a technical expert in recognizing fraud that may be hidden in individually-reasonable, unreasonable-in-aggregate cases.

Ergo, "what can be justified"

Here's the CMS-version explainer, for context: https://www.cms.gov/data-research/monitoring-programs/medica...

Generally, criminalizing malpractice is a counter-inventive to actual system improvement. See doctors. They just add malpractice insurance, and the cost is added to everyone.

If the real concern is that medical reviewers aren't fairly reviewing claims (which afaik, they generally are, contingent on documentation being available), then the supply side should be addressed -- mandate a specific, minimum review time per claim, a standard appeals chain that all insurers are subject to, and staff a centralized, independent (probably under CMS) final appeal arbiter.
The higher end S22 Ultra models even have 12GB RAM which does go to show how ridiculous it is that Apple consider 8GB of RAM to be acceptable for a laptop at that price point in this day and age.
Albert Einstein makes a great Hari Seldon. (I've been watching "Foundation").
I remember having to do a lot of port forwarding to get certain things to work behind a nat. Certainly doable but beyond the competence of a non-expert.
4 to 6 gigs OS overhead is insane. Is this really a realistic value these days?

I'm probably at sub-1gig after boot if I ignore the docker containers I have running in the background.
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I was comparing color films, but sure, speciality black and white films can approach the resolution of current high resolution color cameras, with the drawback that the lack of stabilization will make these resolutions only achievable with a tripod and of course only for static subjects, in which case pixel shift is probably a better option.

And yes, you can use medium or large format film, but that comes with very serious drawbacks, and for low ISO film is literally impossible without a tripod, in which case you might be better served with sensor shift instead.
It used to be incredibly civilised and while that has drifted it still has a memory.

Plus amazing mod, who legend says can fork himself at will. Here is written the infinitely patient guidance of dang:

https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=dang

Here are the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Afaik that's in-progress, and the goal is support for other editors, but it's not there yet. Vanilla talon (what cursorless is built on) works fine everywhere though! (You just don't get the AST transforms.)
Years ago, I went to AMD and saw this demonstrated live by engineers there. They spun up a VM with it turned off and you could basically grep a string out of ram. Turning it on, grep returned nothing. It was pretty cool. Developed by a bunch of true grey beards over the course of many years.
I did not mean that. 'cstross is smart, writes very well and remains relevant. But I strongly disagree with the outlook of this essay, and the overall vibe I've been getting from his blog in the past couple years; I also find it depressing that it seems to be increasingly representative of the "tech industry counter-culture", for lack of a better name.
That's not an example.
Funny I never thought my neighbors weren't paying their fair share when I bought in. Figured the rule has been there since the 70s and applies to everyone equally (well except I'm over 55 and can now keep my current tax basis to the next house I buy)

I'll pay taxes on the appreciation when I sell so the government will get theirs.

Should I also only carry a variable rate mortgage so that I pay whatever a new home buyer pays?

Should the government spend whatever they take in even if their costs haven't increased with home values?

Sorry home ownership is not affordable. It hasn't been in California since the late 90s. I threw 20 years of savings at mine so I could have a reasonable mortgage. I actually would be better off financially if I had put that money in the stock market.

Now with remote work, you don't have to live near a work center, opening tons of location possibilities. I wish that happened before I bought.
No, brother is a neurologist up in Iowa :)

The guy who was in that Pi factory tour looks similar but is my British doppelgänger.
Which other chinese suppliers besides BOE can achieve 1000 nits HDR 2? Even BOE can barely do that being they have been canceled from the iphone 15 supply chain due to their reliability. They were having issues with iphone 14 as well which was only

>800 nits max brightness (typical); 1200 nits peak brightness (HDR)[0]

[0]https://www.apple.com/iphone-14/specs/
Is it a common practice for commercial airliners to alternate between being used on a Hollywood set and for regular commercial air travel? Given how important failure analysis is in the airline industry, wouldn't this added complexity in the usage patterns of a commercial jet be a concern?
I just send back a brand new ThinkPad with 64GB of ram to replace it with M1 Macbook pro with 32GB.

Night and day, Thinkpad was a joke with thermals, noise and battery life.

No thank you
> In my experience Apple products have much better screens

That depends on the definition of "better". Mac laptops' screens are ultra brittle. To me the first quality of a laptop's screen is how sturdy it is.

My laptop (LG Gram) has a screen which I can literally bend/deform and whose previous owner (I bought it from a friend) stepped on it when he woke up. People love to make full of "MILSPEC" (MILitary SPEC) because "that means nothing" but my LG Gram can literally be thrown down concrete stairs and it'll still work, like this dude (not me) on Youtube tried (skip at 0:35):

https://youtu.be/herYV5TJ_m8

Try that with a Mac laptop.

To me that's a "better screen" than my Mac M1's screen that broke after 13 months, overnight for no reason, just out of warranty (because I didn't pay the 20% additional Apple tax to have an extended warranty).
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> But then this turns into a debate about whether IQ is nature vs nurture.
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Isn't the answer always, for every metric ever considered, 'both'? The entire debate is a mystery to me.
No not conflating storage with RAM. It’s the same underlying effect. Apple can any day drop an update of an OS which increases the lowest usable line of RAM/storage above that what they have sold in the past. So as with anything Apple (happy user of their ecosystem though) you are at their mercy.
seems to be based on the past posts/comments
> and yet, can't be bothered to protest

You go to prison for making anti-war statements in Russia, you know?

https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/11/08/prosecution-requests-ei...

Eight. Fucking. Years. For some anti-war price tags. The same sentence you get if you plant drugs as a group of corrupted cops.

https://meduza.io/en/news/2021/06/07/ex-police-officers-conv...
Certainly in France there were a group of intellectual elites who supported Mao, especially since Mao's Cultural Revolution was directly inspired by France's own Paris Commune as well as the fact that many CCP leaders were educated in France.

But to generalize this to say that most of Europe's elite supported Mao, or even that American elites supported Mao, is simply unsupported.
> Yes. You no longer need NAT, so port negotiation is much easier (even when inbound is blocked)

In practice someone can still configure NAT on IPv6 same as on IPv4 at least on Linux and some vendors, even if IETF resists standardizing it.

https://blogs.infoblox.com/ipv6-coe/you-thought-there-was-no...

So you might still see CGNAT if someone is determined to configure it.
It's the most expensive one at https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/th.... I got it on sale for less than the current price.
I have been working on an essay for awhile that explores the "appeal" of supposedly dystopian cyberpunk worlds. The summary is: I don't think they're actually dystopian and in fact they have a lot of attributes that are lacking in today's world, specifically: a larger tolerance for experimentation on the body and in architecture, and an extreme urban density found almost nowhere on Earth today. It's the same reason why Kowloon Walled City was so intriguing. Calling people "dumb" just because you don't understand them isn't very insightful.
The existence of PASV mode and STUN/TURN is because the end-to-end addressibility of the IP protocol was broken with CGNAT.

Furthermore, in populous countries like India, ISPs enforce extremely aggressive timeouts on IPv4 connections in order to keep the 5-tuples on the egress side of things manageable. Trying to make a request that takes 10 seconds to process (like a user requesting a report consisting of multiple SQL queries)? You get a connection reset.

I must also must point out the HN guidelines because you bring a combative tone to this entire conversation which is not helping it.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine.
If we can continue to figure out basic needs better like housing and healthcare then it may not always be the case that one must sacrifice progeny for economic progress.

Hell just high speed rail could encourage populating less desirable areas if a 30 minute trip to the beach was a weekend event.
Here's a tweet of his from earlier this year verifying a Reddit AMA posted under the same Reddit account https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1613272185342414848
There's a Wikipedia list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_with_comm...

An ancient in-game commentary pioneer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Riddick:_Esc...
How do you take the average of two timestamps?
Mitchell Hashimoto, Hashicorps longest serving IC, has been working on his own terminal emulator as a side project: https://mitchellh.com/ghostty . It's been interesting to read through his logs and see how it develops along with the gnarly bugs he gets to work through.
We just gave this a go (pun intended) on Unikraft / kraft.cloud , Caddy runs fine on it!
Thank you for proving the parent's point. The base model is insufficient for your use case.

You know Apple's base models have a history of being insufficient for your use-case and that upgrades are pricier than you'd like.

You see the cost of the base model and are upset when you find that you will need to spend more than that base cost to get the model you want.

Apple devices and upgrades are costly, without a doubt. But there is clearly a market for whom the price and capabilities of the base model is more than enough.