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zonefuenfon Show HN: Monocle – bidirectional code generation library

A very popular Scala optics library is also called Monocle. I’ve been a happy user for a few years:

This[0] change is interesting for home deployments of IPv6: If your ISP changes advertised prefixes occasionally (which mine does), it was until now not practical to assign/use addresses with fixed host suffixes, e.g. for internal services, because you couldn't write firewall rules using those addresses (part of the address could just change and there's no automatic update of the rules).

The change now enables you to write firewall rules that use a placeholder for the ISP-assigned prefix. The rules should update automatically after a prefix change.

(What has always worked is using the fc00 or fd00 address spaces for local fixed assignments, but pfSense has had problems with that setup as well in my experience)

[0]: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/6626

zonefuenfon Tylenol isn't so safe, but at least it works?

Lower dosage paracetamol is OTC in pharmacies here in Germany (I think the limit is 10g per pack).

zonefuenfon UK formally leaves European Union after 48 years

All the passport categories you quoted (BOTC, BOC, BPP, BS) relate to former colonies (think the status given to inhabitants of Hong Kong after it was turned over to China).

UK citizens could move around the EU freely.

zonefuenfon Creating a Home IPv6 Network

I do exactly that and it works reasonably (I'm routing with pfSense, which does not support multiple IPs per interface very well, though).

zonefuenfon Creating a Home IPv6 Network

Sadly, depending on the ISP, the prefix is not necessarily static and may change on reconnect (for example, Deutsche Telekom will only keep the prefix static for business accounts). This is completely arbitrary and makes relying on GUAs for internal addresses problematic.

It’s too bad that we are inheriting the static IP policies from IPv4, because ISPs want to upsell.

zonefuenfon OpenVMS on x86

VMS isn’t an IBM mainframe OS, though. I think typical native VMS machines are much closer to normal enterprise servers than mainframes, so virtualization would make sense.

zonefuenfon There are more streaming choices than ever – why are prices going up?

They have added the option to switch back to 4:3 recently.

zonefuenfon International Standard Paper Sizes

The standard defines the paper sizes rounded to the nearest mm, so a certain deviation from the sqrt(2) ratio is in the standard.

zonefuenfon International Standard Paper Sizes

Right, it’s a great system! Concerning envelopes, here in Germany most mail I get is in DL envelopes, which also require the double fold. C5 is mostly used if double folding doesn’t work due to thickness.

zonefuenfon Iyashikei: Japan’s Genre of “Healing Games” (2018)

I find the energy and time mechanics of Stardew Valley to be pretty stressful, to be honest.

zonefuenfon Psychological effects of coding style (2016)

We mostly use (bad) English in programming contexts.

zonefuenfon Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors

I usually force a narrow space after titles: Dr.\,Livingstone

zonefuenfon Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams

We had the same yeast problem and finally solved it by trying our local bakery, which happily sold yeast to us. Obvious in hindsight...