I will cocede PM is not a unit, but % is at least an honoray unit of measurement based on how it's used [1].
Time is weird. A duration has a unit associated with it, seconds, minutes, hours, but an absolute time doesn't. That is unless we're using an epoch. I could say today started at 1788652800 seconds if we're using unix epoch.
I guess that's because time is a coordinate system. 2 PM is designating a specific point in that coordinate system. There's no origin (unless epoch specified), so we can't have an absolute measurement, so we don't have units associated with it. PM just feels similar to a unit because it is part of a coordinate system.
What's the argument for having it before the number?
I actually kind of like it written that way because it follows the standard for other units. It should be quantity and then unit. 50 m. 0°C. 50%. 2:00 PM.
You yourself recognize that that's the way we say it, and even write it out long form. 50 dollars.
Sure, historically, $50 has been the correct way to write it, but language changes. Why not make a change that makes English more consistent?
This is something that really infuriates me. You are a machine. You do not have personal preferences. That is reserved for persons.
I'm pretty sure the change was deliberate, because I didn't notice the behavior until several months ago. Now it's prolific. People like anecdotes, so it probably performs better subjectively.
Thanks for the breakdown. Those are some good arguments in favor of it I hadn't heard. Nix lang can leave some things to be desired, especially in the error handling/debugging department.
As a NixOS user, what are some things I would like about Guix? The webpage mostly covers features already present in NixOS, so I'm curious how they diverge.
Not an RPG, but Cairn actually has this. Your bag items have physics, and there's a bit of squishing allowed, so you can try to fill holes with items that don't quite fit. You can also shake the bag to try and get items to settle into gaps. I spent so much time shaking my bag and trying to jam items in the smallest of gaps to squeeze everything together in hopes of fitting one more item. Great game in other aspects as well.
If your ISP supports IPv6, then yes, you can use IPv6 to get a publicly reachable address when you would otherwise be unable to due to being behind a CGNAT. If your ISP does not support IPv6, you are out of luck. There are methods to translate between IPv4 and IPv6, but they require a public IPv4 address.
My friend switched to Starlink recently and was disappointed to find out he can't host Minecraft servers and such due to CGNAT. Luckily, Starlink does support IPv6, so he was able to host his servers that way. The caveat is that we have to be IPv6 capable to join his server.
The first and biggest reason is network effects. If nobody else is using IPv6, then there's little benefit to switching. Corporations and governments are always resource constrained and there's not really a business case for switching just because it might be necessary someday. Being that corporations and governments are the ones providing the vast majority of services on the internet, that means there's not as much reason for switching for end users as well.
Part of the reason that switching didn't end up being necessary was that NAT did a really good job of solving the address problem. NAT let you have an internal network behind a single IP address which vastly reduced the amount of public IPs necessary. Even most people in tech probably wouldn't realize that the concept of public vs internal network didn't exist back in the day. Everything connected to the Internet had a publically reachable IP. When even that wasn't enough, they just did it again and had CGNAT, carrier grade NAT. Now you could have multiple households and businesses behind a single IP.
The final reason is that IPv6 is just different from IPv4. Things like router advertisements and SLAAC require you to learn new things and rethink how you do things. What doesn't help matters is that until you get everyone switched over to IPv6, you still have to support IPv4 in some way. Dual stack, where you run both IPv4 and IPv6 in parallel, is the most compatible way, but it's also the most complicated to administrate. There are ways for an IPv6-only network to communicate with IPv4 clients, such as NAT64, but they each have their own caveats. These differences can result in small annoyances to administrators that add up, such as like you mentioned that IPv6 addresses are just not as memorable as IPv4. The natural fix for this is DNS. But like I said, that requires you to rethink your network. DNS goes from being a nice to have to being essential even for small networks.
Despite all these issues, IPv6 adoption is still marching along. France, India, and Germany have some of the highest rates of IPv6 capable devices, at 83.97%, 78.81%, and 74.30%. (IPv6 Adoption) Globally, we're sitting around just under 50%. (Google IPv6 Tracker) Some sectors also have higher adoption rates. Mobile carriers are mostly IPv6-only these days. A lot of residential routers also ship with IPv6 enabled.
I'm somewhat glad I'm not the only one getting phantom notifications. I got one last week for a deleted event. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on.
I've been debating leaving Tuta and switching to mailbox.org. I'm annoyed by the lack of support for standard protocols like S/MIME and SMTP. As far as I understand with encryption, I can only send encrypted emails to other Tuta users in practice. Yes, I can send emails encrypted with a password. But it kind of defeats the point if the password has to be sent unprotected where an attacker could just use the password to unencrypt the email themselves. The lack of SMTP support also means none of my self-hosted services can send emails.
There were a couple times it helped me figure out something I was struggling with if I remember. Either that or I mixed it up with something else entirely. I think it was either when I was learning to use Quickshell to make widgets, or it was something with NixOS. For Nix it wouldn't surprise me since the documentation lives in ten different places.
The more I used it, the more I realized that it actually wasn't that good. Realizing that it was AI made my experience make more sense. Since there's an element of randomness to AI output, once in a while it actually does a decent job just by chance. The more you use it, the more you realize that the average is much worse than those few lucky times. I guess I got lucky with the first couple pages I read.
This is how I felt discovering that DeepWiki is AI generated. I just thought some group was just working towards improving the state of more niche software documentation.
I didn't even think about it until you mentioned it, but I've had several college assignments where I'm tasked with asking an LLM a question regarding the course, and then I have to write about what I learned from it. I still have to find sources supporting or refuting the output, so we're not expected to take the output as truth at least. And these aren't CompSci courses either. It's common core cultural intelligence stuff.
When they talk about AI taking over the world, it's always about taking over the Internet and connected industrial machines. No one told me that AI was going to take over the collective consciousness first.
That's still an option, thankfully. Providing your password is just the new default that they recommend as the fastest.
It's even better because instead of using the password themselves directly, they use a third party for verification. Yodlee is the example I found for PayPal, so if they ever got breached the financial sector would be in for a fun time. Hopefully they wouldn't be storing the credentials long term, but again, it's the financial sector, and they don't have a good track record with security.
I get that working with legacy systems often makes it hard to implement newer security measures, but at the same time I wonder if the finance sector just doesn't understand or care about cybersecurity.
The last couple of times I've had to link accounts between different institutions, the fast recommended way is to provide my username and password to the external account to verify my account. You know, the thing that almost any decent site will tell you to never ever do under ANY circumstances when signing up.
Agreed. I feel like I can spot and identify a save icon faster than I can process the word "Save". They're a nice way to landmark buttons.
I agree with the author that there's merit in asking what value an icon is providing. I thought I would be in favor of always having icons, but the Safari menu shows the value in limiting them. Since they're only used for the most common actions, it helps those buttons stand out more than if everything had an icon. Contrast this with the Apple menu where sleep and restart have meaningless shapes. It makes them blend together more and the icon is useless if you're not already familiar with the menu. Just having the shutdown icon is enough to landmark that group of buttons without adding visual noise.
This is excellent satire. I'm surprised people are missing it. To anyone thinking it's real, look at how self reflective it is. No Republican is justifying that brown people are bad because "grainy video footage" told them so. The choice to include the word grainy is hinting that the people with that mindset are often poor. Those people are typically too busy trying to survive to consider that their media sources may be misleading them. Same thing with the radio told me when I was young example. They're calling out that this story has been told their whole lives, and we typically just accept what we learn in our youth as true.
Honestly, I could write an essay on how many things this satire is alluding to and how well it does it, but my lunch break is over.
I will cocede PM is not a unit, but % is at least an honoray unit of measurement based on how it's used [1].
Time is weird. A duration has a unit associated with it, seconds, minutes, hours, but an absolute time doesn't. That is unless we're using an epoch. I could say today started at 1788652800 seconds if we're using unix epoch.
I guess that's because time is a coordinate system. 2 PM is designating a specific point in that coordinate system. There's no origin (unless epoch specified), so we can't have an absolute measurement, so we don't have units associated with it. PM just feels similar to a unit because it is part of a coordinate system.
What's the argument for having it before the number?
I actually kind of like it written that way because it follows the standard for other units. It should be quantity and then unit. 50 m. 0°C. 50%. 2:00 PM.
You yourself recognize that that's the way we say it, and even write it out long form. 50 dollars.
Sure, historically, $50 has been the correct way to write it, but language changes. Why not make a change that makes English more consistent?
This is something that really infuriates me. You are a machine. You do not have personal preferences. That is reserved for persons.
I'm pretty sure the change was deliberate, because I didn't notice the behavior until several months ago. Now it's prolific. People like anecdotes, so it probably performs better subjectively.
Thanks for the breakdown. Those are some good arguments in favor of it I hadn't heard. Nix lang can leave some things to be desired, especially in the error handling/debugging department.
As a NixOS user, what are some things I would like about Guix? The webpage mostly covers features already present in NixOS, so I'm curious how they diverge.
Not an RPG, but Cairn actually has this. Your bag items have physics, and there's a bit of squishing allowed, so you can try to fill holes with items that don't quite fit. You can also shake the bag to try and get items to settle into gaps. I spent so much time shaking my bag and trying to jam items in the smallest of gaps to squeeze everything together in hopes of fitting one more item. Great game in other aspects as well.
If your ISP supports IPv6, then yes, you can use IPv6 to get a publicly reachable address when you would otherwise be unable to due to being behind a CGNAT. If your ISP does not support IPv6, you are out of luck. There are methods to translate between IPv4 and IPv6, but they require a public IPv4 address.
My friend switched to Starlink recently and was disappointed to find out he can't host Minecraft servers and such due to CGNAT. Luckily, Starlink does support IPv6, so he was able to host his servers that way. The caveat is that we have to be IPv6 capable to join his server.
The first and biggest reason is network effects. If nobody else is using IPv6, then there's little benefit to switching. Corporations and governments are always resource constrained and there's not really a business case for switching just because it might be necessary someday. Being that corporations and governments are the ones providing the vast majority of services on the internet, that means there's not as much reason for switching for end users as well.
Part of the reason that switching didn't end up being necessary was that NAT did a really good job of solving the address problem. NAT let you have an internal network behind a single IP address which vastly reduced the amount of public IPs necessary. Even most people in tech probably wouldn't realize that the concept of public vs internal network didn't exist back in the day. Everything connected to the Internet had a publically reachable IP. When even that wasn't enough, they just did it again and had CGNAT, carrier grade NAT. Now you could have multiple households and businesses behind a single IP.
The final reason is that IPv6 is just different from IPv4. Things like router advertisements and SLAAC require you to learn new things and rethink how you do things. What doesn't help matters is that until you get everyone switched over to IPv6, you still have to support IPv4 in some way. Dual stack, where you run both IPv4 and IPv6 in parallel, is the most compatible way, but it's also the most complicated to administrate. There are ways for an IPv6-only network to communicate with IPv4 clients, such as NAT64, but they each have their own caveats. These differences can result in small annoyances to administrators that add up, such as like you mentioned that IPv6 addresses are just not as memorable as IPv4. The natural fix for this is DNS. But like I said, that requires you to rethink your network. DNS goes from being a nice to have to being essential even for small networks.
Despite all these issues, IPv6 adoption is still marching along. France, India, and Germany have some of the highest rates of IPv6 capable devices, at 83.97%, 78.81%, and 74.30%. (IPv6 Adoption) Globally, we're sitting around just under 50%. (Google IPv6 Tracker) Some sectors also have higher adoption rates. Mobile carriers are mostly IPv6-only these days. A lot of residential routers also ship with IPv6 enabled.
My God, they've got a hammer. Somebody needs to stop them; they might start building houses for the homeless.
I hate that fable. I'm glad to see someone retold it in a better way.
Their Twitter profile has links to their Mangadex and Pixiv accounts. https://x.com/Nhim_Art
They're also on Pixiv. https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/24207001
I'm somewhat glad I'm not the only one getting phantom notifications. I got one last week for a deleted event. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on.
I've been debating leaving Tuta and switching to mailbox.org. I'm annoyed by the lack of support for standard protocols like S/MIME and SMTP. As far as I understand with encryption, I can only send encrypted emails to other Tuta users in practice. Yes, I can send emails encrypted with a password. But it kind of defeats the point if the password has to be sent unprotected where an attacker could just use the password to unencrypt the email themselves. The lack of SMTP support also means none of my self-hosted services can send emails.
There were a couple times it helped me figure out something I was struggling with if I remember. Either that or I mixed it up with something else entirely. I think it was either when I was learning to use Quickshell to make widgets, or it was something with NixOS. For Nix it wouldn't surprise me since the documentation lives in ten different places.
The more I used it, the more I realized that it actually wasn't that good. Realizing that it was AI made my experience make more sense. Since there's an element of randomness to AI output, once in a while it actually does a decent job just by chance. The more you use it, the more you realize that the average is much worse than those few lucky times. I guess I got lucky with the first couple pages I read.
This is how I felt discovering that DeepWiki is AI generated. I just thought some group was just working towards improving the state of more niche software documentation.
I didn't even think about it until you mentioned it, but I've had several college assignments where I'm tasked with asking an LLM a question regarding the course, and then I have to write about what I learned from it. I still have to find sources supporting or refuting the output, so we're not expected to take the output as truth at least. And these aren't CompSci courses either. It's common core cultural intelligence stuff.
When they talk about AI taking over the world, it's always about taking over the Internet and connected industrial machines. No one told me that AI was going to take over the collective consciousness first.
That's still an option, thankfully. Providing your password is just the new default that they recommend as the fastest.
It's even better because instead of using the password themselves directly, they use a third party for verification. Yodlee is the example I found for PayPal, so if they ever got breached the financial sector would be in for a fun time. Hopefully they wouldn't be storing the credentials long term, but again, it's the financial sector, and they don't have a good track record with security.
I get that working with legacy systems often makes it hard to implement newer security measures, but at the same time I wonder if the finance sector just doesn't understand or care about cybersecurity.
The last couple of times I've had to link accounts between different institutions, the fast recommended way is to provide my username and password to the external account to verify my account. You know, the thing that almost any decent site will tell you to never ever do under ANY circumstances when signing up.
The incompetence is infuriating.
Agreed. I feel like I can spot and identify a save icon faster than I can process the word "Save". They're a nice way to landmark buttons.
I agree with the author that there's merit in asking what value an icon is providing. I thought I would be in favor of always having icons, but the Safari menu shows the value in limiting them. Since they're only used for the most common actions, it helps those buttons stand out more than if everything had an icon. Contrast this with the Apple menu where sleep and restart have meaningless shapes. It makes them blend together more and the icon is useless if you're not already familiar with the menu. Just having the shutdown icon is enough to landmark that group of buttons without adding visual noise.
This is excellent satire. I'm surprised people are missing it. To anyone thinking it's real, look at how self reflective it is. No Republican is justifying that brown people are bad because "grainy video footage" told them so. The choice to include the word grainy is hinting that the people with that mindset are often poor. Those people are typically too busy trying to survive to consider that their media sources may be misleading them. Same thing with the radio told me when I was young example. They're calling out that this story has been told their whole lives, and we typically just accept what we learn in our youth as true.
Honestly, I could write an essay on how many things this satire is alluding to and how well it does it, but my lunch break is over.