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Called "generatorgas" or "gengas" for short in Sweden. Almost all cars in pictures from the early forties had a little cart behind them. That was the generator.

To work in French civil service (as a fonctionnaire) you need to be a EU/EEA citizen but not necessarily French.

That implies that you got on the bandwagon because it was a graphical web? At my department in Sweden it was an overnight adoption when we found Mosaic.

And I can see you struggle to get PPP to work over slip!

Mosaic, the first graphical browser was developed by National Center for Supercomputing Applications. They were of course not bound by dial-up or similar and probably didn't care for commercial offerings of connectivity in their priorities in development.

And before it, slip had been available and standardized for some time.

I would say what drove the adoption of commercial services was the graphical web, not the other way around.

> Once IP addressees became available to the public WWW browser became graphical.

What does that even mean?

> any database worth its salt should be able write and read back the same record

This excludes a lot of cases, like just a simple postgres where reads are done from a replica.

"utan" means "without" in Swedish, so I use the more flowery "-tulpan" as my mnemonic. It means tulip.

This sounds more like metrics than a log statement.

For me logs should complement metrics, and can in many instances be replaced by tracing if the spans are annotated sufficiently. But making metrics out of logs is both costly and a bit brittle.

The WSJ article, for future reference: https://archive.is/3WGaM

> Even if nothing changes, you can run into trouble. Norwegian PNs have your birth date (in DDMMYY format) as the first six digits. Surely that doesn't change, right?

I guess that Norway has solved it in the same or similar way as Sweden? So a person is identified by the PNR and for those systems that need to track a person over several PNR (government agencies) use PRI. And a PRI is just the first PNR assigned to a person with a 1 inserted in the middle. If that PRI is occupied, use a 2,and so on.

PRI could of course have been a UUID instead.

It seems like they have reliability issues; if I read their status page correctly, they have incidents every few minutes. Or how should one read their all green page?

Stockholm - Helsinki, for example.

I was a little taken by the state of American trains if this was true. Two days would mean at least 36h for me and that in turn would mean that the trains would have an average speed of 20mph.

But it turns out that it takes 20h, so twice that speed. Still not fast but better. With that duration it also seems unlikely that the speed is kept artificially low to allow some sleep on the train, as is very common in Europe.

Nitpick: it's flak, not flack. It's a german abbreviation of Flugzeugabwehrkanone or anti-aircraft gun

> Overall: maybe this wasn’t the right way to engage

Lex Livingroom. If you are among friends you can surly criticize a sweater, but if you come barging in uninvited and criticize the same sweater, you're in for a bad time.

> Polling domains when attached to the network Apple devices do communicate over BT even when you explicitly turn it off and put your device in flight mode.

Codeberg unfortunately have an abysmal uptime track record.

> My first PC (80286) also had iconic sounds when it started up.

    BEEP BOP. bidiedi-bop. bip.

They were contributing a lot. So Redis-the-company lost a lot of engineering expertise when they all left for valkey.

It was formulated a little different. But this was the 2002 mandate:

1. All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.

2. Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.

3. There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team’s data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.

4. It doesn’t matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols — doesn’t matter.

5. All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.

6. Anyone who doesn’t do this will be fired.

7. Thank you; have a nice day!

> To be blunt, I was using Fedora when systemd was coming out, I know how it works intimately because it was constantly broken

This was Fedora 15, in 2011. I would say using this as a baseline qualifies as living in the past?

> By the mid-19th century, literacy rates among whites were not much different than they are today

But the states does have among the lowest literacy rate in the west. Less than 80% was considered literate in 2024, compared to almost 99% in the EU (with a range from 94% to almost 100%).

The could call Sweden and see if the can have some! In 1831 the Swedish crown started an oak plantation to supply the navy.

My translation from Wikipedia[0]: In 1975 the agency in charge of the forest notified the head of the Navy that the timber was ready for harvest. The navy declined the offer since they had transitioned to new materials

0: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekplanteringarna_p%C3%A5_Visin...

With Canva having 5500 employees, I guess those numbers are substantial.

> I'm having trouble understanding how else this is supposed to be? I understand that live migration is a thing, but even in those cases, a VM is "hardwired" to some physical server, no?

You can run your workload (in this case a VM) on top of a scheduler, so if one node goes down the workload is just spun up on another available node.

You will have downtime, but it will be limited.

> Criterion[0] is one such product with outstanding content, real human curation, and a lower price than mainstream movie providers.

"Sorry. This is currently unavailable in your region."

This has been the case since before launch and is also a reason why pirates are still a thing.

@bcantrill is the CTO of Oxide.

> Vikings had offered service to the Byzantine courts presumably sailing down the rivers from the north, or round the coast. Maybe one of them brought something back north

"Väringar"[0], traded, traveled, and fought from the Baltic to the Mediterranean sea. And they most certainly brought a lot back home.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians

Isn't that link showing the opposite? That sudo is really large and systemd isn't? They even compare systemd with wpa_supplicant and it turns out they are the same size.

I thought the word looked familiar, and wiktionary says it comes from old Norse. In Swedish today it would probably be "låna"