rbanffy

โœจย Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.

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> My bank doesn't even support it.

It's not like it's that difficult to implement. Most Brazilian banks implemented a similar protocol in months.

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I'm pretty sure European governments know that and are prepared to deal with the temper tantrum.
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Some I would love to see:

- Convergent Technologies CTOS

- Whatever the Rational R1000 ran (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_R1000)

- OS/400 (emulating an AS/400 or IBMi is problematic - not enough information available)

- Tandem's NonStop

- Stratus' VOS

- Nixdorf's NIROS/TAMOS

- Data General's RDOS and AOS. DG/UX is also kind of rare (the 88000 was a flop, but it ran on the Eclipse platform)

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> I had never seen a mouse move as buttery-smooth as it did on the Amiga

I remember the contrast between a SPARCStation and an SGI O2 and how the O2 mouse was smoother than the Sun's. Same between Windows and Macs at the time.

Design priorities...

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I don't see a list in there.
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Most large companies wonโ€™t allow direct access to Docker hub or PyPI, and now theyโ€™ll have to restrict access to VSCode extensions. How did the extension get poisoned?
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I think the funniest part is the purity. I wouldnโ€™t expect a natural material would be purer than something made in a lab with the explicit goal of making it pure and regular. Structure being regular could be an effect of conditions that we donโ€™t want to pay for in the lab, but the purity is weird. I am sure the explanation (and there is a natural one) is very interesting and might open up some avenues for simpler manufacturing of the material.
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Itโ€™d need to be really ancient in this case. To the point only mineral traces and no structure would remain.
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Theyโ€™ll last thousands of years, but not millions.
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From their individual perspectives, it has been there since the beginning of time and will remain there long after they are gone.
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It all depends on how long. Eventually all the current surface will be sucked under tectonic plates and come out after passing some time in the mantle. We can plan for that by planting evidence in places that arenโ€™t likely to go through that, but, give enough time, most of the crust will be recycled.
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In a couple million years, what youโ€™ll see are the mineral deposits where dumpsters are today, with all the materials that are not economically viable to recycle, but that will remain as they were for very long times - metal alloys, rocks that shouldnโ€™t have formed at that time and place, oil deposits where plastics were that appear much older than the adjacent substrate in carbon dating, and so on.

The shape is erased, but the chemical composition mostly remains.

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