Me still using bigints... Which haven't given me any problems. Wouldn't use it for client generated IDs but that is not what most applications require anyway.

Does it need it?

Good point. Akin to Qt Widgets - it doesn't really need it on desktop. HW acceleration is crucial on mobile, but WinForms doesn't have a story there.

I don't understand how the mapping works. An address has 8 parts and produces 16 words, so each part consists of 2 words. If we take the example 2a02, that gets encoded to "how atop", but I don't see how that text helps me that "how atop" means 2a02? Am I suppose to memorize both? How does that help?

You are not supposed worry about the mapping. You trust the website to help decode it. You just remember the sentence. It's a little like what3words for coordinates.

The rationale being you are more likely to remember grammatical cogent sentence, than a random string of alphanumeric characters. Although I will agree that the generated sentences don't seem easy to remember. So I doubt it's utility.

Definitely in the "they didn't stop to think if they should" category.

They probably did, and just determined that it would be fun.

The other week I had a fun project to implement IPv6 support in TempleOS. I did stop to think whether I should, and determined that absolutely not.

I asked Claude to start planning on doing it. It started referencing ZealOS, which is a fork of TempleOS and already has a functioning TCP stack.

That's when I determined that it would no longer even be fun, because someone else had already done all the heavy lifting, and gave up.

wasn't a lack of networking what made it a temple, untouched by the influences of the corrupt internet or something like that? idk I'm not like a Terry Davis scholar by any means but I always figured he did that limitation with some kind of reason in mind

Me and some friends of mine thought it would simply be funny if we gave the temple just IPv6 (no v4) support.

About 15 years ago I gave some networking courses at a local education center, it was all young kids (18-20 years old). When I told them that the speed we got back in the day was 4 kilobytes per second (56k on a good day), they didn't believe me at all.

I remember using a “high-speed” 14.4 kbps modem. I mean, these were thousands of bits per second, really insane. Faster than many LLMs.

At 2400, you could watch the characters from the BBS come up on your screen, but at 14.4 practically the whole page came up at once!

Forged under blue moon light for perfect electron alignment inside the wires.

Don't forget to use the full moon to recharge the quartz crystals in that analog gear

Ah, that's why Paix Dieu is such good beer. The electrons are aligned.

I remember Technics used to advertise with amplifiers that used bamboo somewhere in the capacitors? Always wondered if there was actual bamboo in there somewhere and what the electrical effects were...

they use bamboo in the production of special carbons used in capacitors in a lot of devices.

it's sustainable, apparently. I don't know anything about it really.

Hey guess what forum flagged this story.

money is on the line

Short term gain for long term loss

Short term gain of money in exchange for for short term loss of democracy.

Wouldn't show that create vitality and more money? Or it's more of fear, I think the spineless adjective stands

I'm really missing something like Cisco DMVPN. A VPN mesh between different routers where all routers have a connection to each other, so that all traffic doesn't have to pass through the hub. And that runs on a router, because all these solutions only run on a regular computer with a complete OS.

Check https://tinc-vpn.org/ it may run on your router if you're running openwrt or similar

Out of curiosity, why? Because you dont want to run software on users devices?

points finger you son of a bitch, I'm in.