curiousmindz

Thanks for the info.

> I think the mis-measures agree so much, it can't be a mistake.

What do you mean?

Edit: That they all independently measure and reach the same 14%?

It might be that Korea invested a lot, early on, to have great Internet coverage and speed (which is the case), but now they have a lot of hardware that is incomptable with IPv6. And it isn't worth it to replace all that just for that feature.

That seems odd. Does anyone know why?

Also, France and Germany are around 50%...

HTTP/1.1 also "works", yet we are moving to v2 (edit: more smoothly). Same for many other (low level) techs.

But maybe IPv6 is so low level that it has a lot more inertia...

It boggles my mind that IPv6 has such a slow roll out (it's been a thing since the early 2000s = twenty years ago).

I would have thought that all the major tech companies supported it years ago on all their infrastructures, websites and apps. But there are still a lot of hold outs.

What about IPv6 makes it such a chore to become widespread?

I can't find how much revenue Apple is generating from iAd, but all hints point to a fairly small number. I'm guessing that Apple keeps it around to "help" small app developers who build free apps.

And more importantly, iAd seems to focus on advertising apps themselves (like a game ad inside another game). This is a far less intrusive model than a general-purpose search engine (where you find all kinds of advertisers).

I think that Apple would only consider building their own search engine if they had the ability to generate (close to) these $15B per year in value.

Since Apple wants to keep its privacy-friendly brand, these $15B would have to come from something other than ads; and I can't think of another realistic source of revenue. But who knows, the whole "vertical integration" aspect could unlock new scenarios...

GitHub's announcement:

https://github.blog/2021-07-27-github-developer-rights-fello...

"GitHub’s Developer Defense Fund will enable independent legal support from the Stanford Juelsgaard Clinic to review and handle appropriate DMCA cases for developers on GitHub and across the software ecosystem." (at no cost to the developers)

Actually, people hold that against companies all the time, most notably pharmaceutical companies.

The devil is in the details. People don't like when they feel like you are "milking" your cure "too much". And "too much" is relative.

It has been debunked that this was never an official statement from Microsoft.

Instead, it was made by an employee making an off-the-cuff comment without context.

This issue is way overblown here on HN.

In day-to-day usage, I have rarely been annoyed by these "inconsistencies".

The best example to illustrate this article is: Installing a driver with the Windows XP layer. That's probably something that will only happen to people installing very old hardware with drivers from over 10 years ago. I consider that a backward compatibility win: It is great that it even works in Windows 10.

It is pretty funny how things are described when lawyers get involved.

Apple is trying to deflect all the edge cases that show the "stores within a store" they allowed.

In South Africa too. They even have two Azure Data Centers, there.

Interestingly, this type of perspective is only gained in hindsight.

For example, I could see a future, say in 10 years, where we have a vastly better way to browse the web and then we will look back on today and think that Chrome(ium) was coasting on its past success and only providing minor new features (while ensuring that ads continue to be as profitable as possible).

Microsoft Flight Simulator is really a simulator, not just of flying, but also of the entire world.

It would be amazing if they could turn Flight Simulator into a "game engine", so that other developers can build specific scenarios/games on top of it!

Imagine Flight Simulator with all the creativity of Minecraft. That would be awesome.

Sadly, it is not as simple as that:

Imagine a society of squirrels and hamsters where squirrels have been oppressing hamsters for centuries. Then, one day, they decide to stop doing that and treat everyone the same.

On average, a young squirrel will come from a family that is vastly richer and better educated than a young hamster. So, if they have to compete "fairly", the hamsters will remain much poorer for centuries more.

This leads to a need to rebalance those two groups, and that rebalance means artificially propping up hamsters. Ideally, we would want to get to a world where the young squirrel and hamster can, on average, compete "fairly"... I have no idea how to achieve that while minimizing the negative side effects.

Another project is ShaderGen [0] which enables writing C# that can run on the GPU as well as on the CPU.

And there is a practical example implementing raytracing [1].

[0] https://github.com/mellinoe/shadergen

[1] https://github.com/mellinoe/veldrid-raytracer

An important reminder is to use the right tool for the job. SQLite is indeed amazing at what it does, and fits with many scenarios where it isn't often considered, but it isn't a silver bullet.

If you have a scenario where you must have multiple machines (for redundancy or resiliency), then SQLite may not be the "best" choice. However, if these machines were needed for performance reason, you may find that a single well-written SQLite-based solution can be performant enough to run on a single machine (while reaping all the benefits of its simpler approach).

I would suggest being a bit patient with them. I wish they were better prepared for this surge in popularity, but now that we are here, it will probably take weeks for them to iron out all the core issues to achieve proper scalability.

If they are still having issues a month from now, then I would be concerned.

We rarely get to see an app have to grow suddenly like that. And with Signal being open source, it must be very educational to follow.

Has anyone found a publication around what they had to do on the technical side (code)?

Edit: Their server's repo hasn't been updated since April 2020. Why?

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

I am not sure if this qualifies, but I found the discussion between Scott Hanselman and Dr. David Kellermann on "Effective Remote Teaching with intention and creativity" fascinating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LaTamAIinc

They mix a number of fairly simple technologies to achieve some really cool new ways to teach remotely.

Also, Scott Hanselman makes a series of well-made videos on "Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You". His presentation style is down-to-earth, low tech and surprisingly relatable. Check it out!

Of course I like "pure black dark mode" because it feels best on my eyes. I have tried many themes to confirm that.

We can discuss the blue light aspect in its own merit.

I think this is a matter of taste. I like pure black in dark mode. It is especially beautiful on OLED screens.

I'm not sure why that is "annoying". Of course, French-centered topics would be in French.

Also, your browser probably has an integrated translation feature. If not, you can copy'n'paste the url on a translation website.

If this move is successful, it could also open the door for Facebook Libra.

Why do you think Nvidia cares about Arm? Probably the "access" into a lot of industries?

Let's forget about this current case, and think in general:

Do you think that the Apple ecosystem could get better? Surely, there are improvements that would be a net positive for you?

Now, what if what Epic is doing results in an improvement in the Apple ecosystem?

Ultimately, you can only say that this case has no value to you if you can reason that there is no way that it will make things better for you, and that's a very tough thing to prove without a crystal ball :)

Still, you certainly don't have to put all that much thought into this. At the end of the day, there are far more important things in life.

Very detailed list of recommandations.

Do they apply to other Garbage-collection-based languages?

I think the motivation is rather mundane: Software gets updated regularly (even if only for security fixes), so Microsoft prefers that people move to the "current" version as much as possible. Still, they also supported Windows 7 for over ten years...

Yahoo! Mail has one really cool feature: It supports actual browser-like tabs. So, it is possible to open multiple email conversations in parallel, as well as run some searches, and look at various folders.

And with the xCloud integration, you won't even need to download the game. You can hit play and be in the game right away.