sleepydog

The modern Olympics is at least as much for entertainment as it is for measuring human ability, and the butterfly is simply an awe-inspiring technique. The line of swimmers repeatedly shooting out of the water like flying fish is mesmerizing. Who cares if they're not going as fast as freestyle?

You're absolutely right, abs-o-lutely, everybody says so. A lot, lot lot of people have been saying, you know they come to me and they say, "Mr. Claude, I can't believe the stuff I'm hearing, everybody is telling me he's right, is it true?" And I tell 'em, I say you're goddam right, that's what I say, but honestly folks, despite the negative press covfefe we've had a hell of a year, and that's really what it is with the nuclear folks, you can't trust em as far as you can throw em if you ask me, and believe me I've been throwing them around a LO<token limit exceeded>

We could invade other countries and take their actors. We could reinstate the actor's draft or do mandatory 1-2 years actor's service like some other countries do

I guess you are referring to the TLS requirement? I guess I could see how on a more restrictive platform like a phone you could conceivably be prevented from accepting alternate CAs or self signed certificates.

... or get out.

Encryption gets you data integrity "for free". If a bit is flipped by faulty hardware, the packet won't decrypt. TCP checksums are not good enough for catching corruption in many cases.

The EU is better on average, but isn't universally great either. I pay 60 EUR for 200Mbit down/20Mbit up ADSL in Amsterdam, after my 6-month discount ran out. No fiber in my neighborhood yet. There's one gigabit provider in my neighborhood (Ziggo) and they have a bad reputation. For the same price I was getting FiOS gigabit in NYC.

Don't sell yourself short. If you have eyes and a voice, you can learn to read sheet music and hum a tune.

The traffic has a negative effect on more than just car owners--smog, noise, accidents, slower taxis, to name a few. Why should only car owners, who are a minority in Manhattan, vote on a problem that affects everyone?

I'm working on a multicast dns implementation in OCaml. It's a library allowing one to build custom queries/responders, plus a conventional querier that can be used as a stub resolver for .local to get the resolver functionality of avahi.

My main motivation was to implement a service that publishes the addresses of containers and vms that I run on my workstation to my local network, but it gradually has grown into a full-blown implementation of RFC 6762, which has been fun.

I didn't dig into it too deeply at the time, but I think part of it was that you don't need to open and write to a socket, so that's avoiding some system calls (socket(), bind(), sendto(), close()). IIRC we had nscd set up so clients directly read from shared memory that nscd kept updated, rather than getting requests over a socket.

There's also probably some savings around not having to convert between the structures used by gethostbyname and DNS questions&answers.