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orra··on London's 850-year-old food markets to close
Why meet your legal obligations if you have a chance of deleting the obligations instead? Absolute chancers.
orra··on Prediction-Nuclear Pwr Will Be > 30% of New Installed Capacity in 10 Years in US
Perhaps the biggest issue isn't public acceptance, but simply we stuck at building fission plants, even when we intend to.

I was pro nuclear power sixteen years sixteen years ago (these days I'm more ambivalent). In that time the UK has built maybe three quarters of a nuclear power plant.

Nuclear waste sucks but carbon in the atmosphere is way worse. But we're incapable of increasing nuclear production. Meanwhile renewables have gotten way cheaper and storage is beginning to look feasible.

orra··on .NET 9
But even old .NET code needs touched. Every month, transitive dependencies need upgraded for security fixes.

And that's when you realise SDK style projects are much nicer than the old project files. The tooling has massively improved in the past decade.

orra··on .NET 9
True, for a corporation it's not that long. But as a developer it's nice for there to be momentum for platform updates.

I discovered last week that .NET Framework v3.5 is still technically supported. Shudder.

orra··on .NET 9
Not an LTS, but a tempting upgrade what with the performance fixes.

EF 9 has some good fixes, and even better, the better, works on .NET 8.

orra··on OpenID Connect specifications published as ISO standards
Thanks, although connect2id doesn't look open source.
orra··on Honda is testing a manual transmission for EVs
Thanks, I agree that's an interesting tidbit. But in the context of the article—a fake manual transmission for consumer EV cars—it's definitely a skeuomorphism!
orra··on Honda is testing a manual transmission for EVs
Precisely. Electric cars almost universally have one fixed gear, with the engine smoothly providing variable torque.
orra··on Honda is testing a manual transmission for EVs
If you like interesting words, this is skeuomorphism: incorporating features from older designs, where those features are now completely unnecessary.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

orra··on ElasticSearch and many other repos are gone
ISTM GitHub rolling back such a mistake for a Microsoft repo, but for nobody else.
orra··on Svelte 5 Released
Angular is really popular for corporate apps, in companies who use .NET. Possibly because Angular has batteries included.
orra··on MS Flight SIM 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of bandwidth in flight
Sorry, full fidelity was lax terminology. What I really meant using a modern lossy codec (e.g. AV1 or H.265) at a high bitrate, so there is no perceptible loss.

I was under the impression 50Mbps was very good, even for 10-bit HDR 4K.

orra··on MS Flight SIM 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of bandwidth in flight
I know video streamers cheap out on bandwidth, but 180Mbps is about four times larger than a full fidelity 4k encoding, no?

Also, if anybody else was pushing this bandwidth on Azure it'd bankrupt them. I presume Microsoft are giving themselves an anticompetitive advantage (instead of making their fees fairer).

orra··on Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?
cua-mode, yes, but the point is it's not the default.

Similarly, recentf-mode exists but is not the default. Or has that changed?

orra··on Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail
Well, no, it's primarily about regional travel, so it clearly helps folks near to smaller stations.

Plus: your point, caller? Investing in roads only helps folks with cars. There are plenty of people for whom public transport is the only option.

orra··on OpenAI pursues public benefit structure to fend off hostile takeovers
Indeed. Plus it's rather late in the company lifespan for them to be handing out large swathes of equity. A weird decision for a company nominally controlled by a non-profit.
orra··on Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009)
The Bank of England don't manufacture £1 notes, but the Royal Bank of Scotland still make them.

Perhaps you can help popularise them, so they make even more!

orra··on Varlink – IPC to replace D-Bus gradually in systemd
Honestly, the only thing that surprises me is you're being pedantic, and encoding int64s as strings.

I know you know JSON is nominally only 53-bit safe, because JS numbers are doubles. But in practice I'd wager most JSON libraries can handle 64-bit integers.

orra··on Varlink – IPC to replace D-Bus gradually in systemd
I read the slides, and I found it refreshing that you said at the end: don't create per-language bindings for the libraries shipped with systemd, but simply use a JSON parser for your language. That underlined that you've specified a simple protocol.

Also, there have clearly also been several attempts over the years to make a faster D-Bus implementation (kdbus, BUS1), which were never accepted into the kernel. It makes a lot of sense to instead design a simpler protocol.

There is clearly also a cautionary take about how microbenchmarks (here, for serialisation) can mask systemic flaws (lots of context switches with D-Bus, especially once polkit had to be involved).

orra··on WordPress.org bans WP Engine
This analogy came up recently when discussing Elasticsearch. It's flawed.

Free and open source software does not, and has never, required giving up trademark rights. I think the GPLv3 is even explicit about this.

In the Windows case it's fair use of the trademark because you're reselling something you previously bought. That's not applicable here.

WordPress is open source software, but a hosting service has a variety of characteristics unrelated to the nominal software. Besides, WP Engine are disabling key features of the product: of course that's misleading.

orra··on T-Mobile cites SCOTUS Chevron ruling to argue FCC can't mandate phone unlocking
IANASC but IMHO “efficient” grants power, in addition to the “adequate facilities at reasonable charges” you mentioned.

Remember, Congress can ban you from growing weed in your own garden and for your own consumption, on the basis that indirectly affects the interstate price. I think that the FCC regulating cellular modems is way less of a reach.

orra··on Tinygrad will be the next Linux and LLVM
He also claims that the cardinality of the reals is the same as the integers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36074287

You could say he had a history of using big words to talk shit.

orra··on Tbsp – treesitter-based source processing language
Not a technical comment (as cool as this is), but I love the name.

We always say naming things is one of the hard parts of programming. They avoided the default option of something like tawk.

orra··on Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian
> 2. a library that depends on dependencies A and B, both of which depend on X, can actually work properly if it needs to pass API objects created by X across between A and B, since X is of the same version

That feels like an advantage for the developer, not the distro maintainer.

I find that amusing, because you're saying it's easy if they can use one version of the library. Well, that's also true if they're writing an application, hence pinning.

orra··on Elasticsearch is open source, again
The parallel is Amazon called their offering Amazon Elasticsearch Service.
orra··on Elasticsearch is open source, again
That's splitting hairs. It's trademark statute which make trademarks enforceable.
orra··on Elasticsearch is open source, again
Thanks, I'd missed that. Anyway, congrats on doing open source again
orra··on Elasticsearch is open source, again
The service is more than the code base: it's who is offering it, who supports it.

Besides, I'd be shocked if that analogy is how the law works. Perhaps if you'd bought an individual license then sure, you could resell it with the brand name, just like the car. But wholesale is a completely different situation.

orra··on Elasticsearch is open source, again
I don't understand why they didn't treat Amazon's previous offering as a trademark infringement.
orra··on CockroachDB license change
FYI, you're right about GNU (by and large), but mistaken about Linux.
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