ai was also one of the ccTLDs that had an MX record for a long time, and I believe (although never had reason to confirm) actually used it. foo@ai tended to be a fun test case for e-mail validation.
Readit NewsLawnGnome commented on A collection of links that existed about Anguilla as of 2003 web.ai/... · Posted by u/kjok
LawnGnome commented on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k threads.com/@nthmonkey/po... · Posted by u/stevenhubertron
Because 92% of Americans have health insurance, and 22% have totally free everything covered health insurance. Of the uninsured, most either are eligible but don't apply, have insurance through work but forgo it, or are not US citizens.
All said and done, you end up with a very small sliver of people who are legitimately uninsured, which means the problem mostly exists as scary stories rather than people actually experiencing it.
As a non-American, I think the thing I'm hung up on in what you said is that I don't understand why a developed country should allow anyone to be "uninsured".
LawnGnome commented on KDE launches its own distribution lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
Note that it's not necessarily an "Arch distribution" in the sense you might expect:
> KDE Linux is an immutable distribution that uses Arch Linux packages as its base, but Graham notes that it is "definitely not an 'Arch-based distro!'" Pacman is not included, and Arch is used only for the base operating system. Everything else, he said, is either compiled from source using KDE Builder or installed using Flatpak.
This sounds fairly close to SteamOS in terms of structure. (Which seems to work well for its own use case, so I can see the logic.)
LawnGnome commented on RFC: PHP license update wiki.php.net/rfc/php_lice... · Posted by u/josephwegner
I believe only the rights holders need to approve of the retroactive changes, and so they really only need Perforce (presumably the rights holder as the current owner of the former Zend Technologies) to agree.
Very pedantically, because PHP doesn't require copyright assignment, it would be (almost certainly) impossible to retroactively change the licence on older versions.
However, since the PHP and Zend licences both permit the user to use PHP under the terms of whatever licence version was applied to that PHP version or any later version, the point is essentially moot, since a user can choose to use the new version of the PHP/Zend licence once published, which will give them the same rights.
LawnGnome commented on Understanding the PURL Specification (Package URL) fossa.com/blog/understand... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
How does the purl work for docker images that are not hosted on docker? Or custom npm registries?
The standard supports a repository_url "qualifier" (query parameter)[0], which can be used to override whatever the default registry is (which, for Docker, is hub.docker.com[1]).
[0]: https://github.com/package-url/purl-spec/blob/main/PURL-SPEC...
[1]: https://github.com/package-url/purl-spec/blob/main/PURL-TYPE...
LawnGnome commented on Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood supernuclear.substack.com... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Having lived most of my life in cities, I moved from London to the suburb of a smallish town about 4 years ago. Since that move, I've got to know maybe 20x more of my neighbours here than I managed in two decades in London. However, I also got a dog and I think 90% of this is down to that.
The dog part is definitely key. We moved a few blocks — so within the same neighbourhood — shortly after getting our dog, and it was amazing how much more quickly we got to know our new neighbours with our (extremely extroverted) then-puppy compared to the previous place. (And, on the flip side, I'm on a first name basis with every dog on my block, which usually implies also being on a first name basis with at least one of their humans.)
I could have word for word written almost exactly this blog post, that's how dead-on-accurate I find it, and how similar OP and I's experiences are (down to when and why we originally switched to Sway - mixed DPI long before Wayland was really "stable" for a daily driver).
Niri is incredible, and has completely eliminated the mildly infuriating bin-packing and layout-optimization problems that TWMs exhibit, without sending me back to the floating WM dark ages. I wish Niri had existed like 10 years ago, but I'll accept it existing now as plenty good enough.
I could also say the same, including the Wayland origin story. I'm pretty new to Niri — I only started playing with it about a month ago — but it's just absolutely that little bit more than Sway I didn't know I needed.
LawnGnome commented on Giving C++ std:regex a C makeover nullprogram.com/blog/2024... · Posted by u/signa11
> TBH, most of the C stdlib is quite useless anyway because the APIs are firmly stuck in the 80's (...)
This. A big reason behind Rust managing to get some traction from the onset was how Rust presented itself as an alternative to C for system's programming that offered a modern set of libraries designed with the benefit of having decades of usability research.
Completely agreed. My Rust origin story wasn't about memory safety, fearless concurrency, a modern type system, or anything else like that. Not that I didn't care about those things — I did — but none of them were what convinced me to start learning Rust.
What did convince me was being able to prototype things for the C project I was working on while having access to a standard library that included basic data structures, synchronisation primitives, and I/O handling in a way that used best practices from recent decades. Everything else was just a bonus that I got to learn and use as I went.
I’m trying to google finger and all I get is fingerprint software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)
An old, old Internet protocol that was used to get information on a user, and could be used by users to post updates from their .plan files. Essentially plaintext social media for people with Internet connections in the 80s and (early-ish) 90s.