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Should we then destroy all legal documents, for example The Magna Carta?

Museums aren't just a store of "art", museums are a way to preserve our heritage, preferably in its original form.

> working on tickets while they are on-call

That's why they call it "on-call", you only work if you get the call. If you're on-call and being expected to work on unrelated tickets then you're now adding many hours/days to your working week, and somewhere near and just over the horizon is burnout town.

> I think it’s different if someone is waiting on the immediate output of your work.

I partially agree, something needs to be on fire or a complete showstopper for that to happen. My only other reason would be helping out a colleague who's trapped in a gravity well of fail and needs a bit of help and support.

> getting started is the HARDEST part of the day for me.

For you, yes. But remember not everyone is a night owl, nor is everyone an early bird. I start work at 930am, we have our stand up, then I warm up with 30-45 mins of coffee, reading some techy stuff etc, and then I'm ready to roll.

> why wait until tomorrow?

Because it's the end of the "working day"() and my mind isn't at its peak performance.

> I'm imagining the HR person saying, "It will only take a few minutes to fix this for you, so I'm going to wait until tomorrow". Examples are endless.

A whole heap of things aren't that time critical at the end of the working day. If I've had a problem with my salary or some revision to my contract it can wait until the morning.

But if you want to go ahead and knock yourself out with another 2-4 hours of work on top of your working day (and contractually obligated hours) then beware of burnout. Pace yourself.

depending on when you start your working day, which doesn't need to be 9am. Personally I used to start at 10am because of flexitime and work on until maybe 7pm or until there's at natural cut off

> as a blogger you should probably always own or create your own tools.

That's all fine and dandy if you're a developer (or have some developer skills). But my mate who wants to blog about wood working isn't a developer and has no interest in building his own blogging tools.

I'm a developer and even I don't want to build and maintain my own blogging tools, I just want to write about the stuff I find interesting (most of which isn't necessarily development related).

The thing you're thinking about is http.sys and it was introduced in Windows 2008/IIS7 to support the new "Integrated Mode" request pipeline.

WinHTTP doesn't have anything to do with http.sys it just listens for HTTP requests and then hands them off to the right bits inside IIS.

WinHTTP is essentially a HTTP stack for client services running on Windows Server to allow them to make HTTP requests. It has a sibling API named WinINet which is aimed at use in desktop environments. I think the threading models are main differentiator (I been a while since I looked at this).

WinHTTP is fairly well documented:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winhttp/abou...

This might be useful to review:

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

"Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)"

From the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

It's not really about being "newsworthy", but what tickles your grey matter's fancy.

But no-one is shipping content with these long gone formats any more. My almost 20 year old receiver supports formats that have long since fallen by the wayside as well, why put any effort into them for test and diagnostics?

If you're alluding to COPY.TXT meaning COPYRIGHT.TXT and therefore it would/should contain a license then I hate to disappoint you. Copyrights and Licenses are different things. So maybe put a dampener on your expressions of incredulity, it's not a great way to engage here.

To add to the sibling comments. My first hint at getting COVID was that my local takeaway curry didn't taste of anything, but the usual fiery heat was still there. I almost phoned up the shop to have a moan about them sending out this tasteless dish but realised that I might have gotten the plague. I took a rapid test and lo and behold I was positive for COVID. It took me weeks to get my sense of taste back again.

> where a bearded man both poured water from one jug to another and taught me how to code.

Thank you for this image :D

Apologies. I also meant to say that the BBC was just as approachable as the Spectrum then lost my train of thought after the phone rang :) I found the Spectrum super frustrating to use, especially with that dead-flesh membrane keyboard.

I wasn't permitted to have a computer until I'd passed my 'O' levels, so instead typed out my code on a clonky 1960's office typewriter in the evenings and weekends. I did have rudimentary syntax highlighting because it used a black/red ribbon :)

> The simpler hardware of the Spectrum was much more approachable.

I'd contest that assertion. I was 15 when when my folks bought my BBC Model B. It was a far more interesting machine to hack around on than the Spectrum. The BBC was set up my future as a software developer.

I'm genuinely not seeing any latency. It feels pretty snappy to me. This is Chrome 116 on Windows 10 Pro.

Seem to work for me. What's broken for you and how can I reproduce?

It's an inside joke. Byte at its peak had some issues that were nearly an inch thick and could easily be used as a murder weapon.

The new King has no powers to do anything like that. It'd be up to the British government to stick their noses in, if at all possible.

> Interesting, you can purchase support for 1.1.1x between 15,000 -- 50,000 USD per year.

Nitpick, from the announcement, only the Premium contract ($50K per year) provides for extended 1.1.1 support:

Another option is to purchase a premium support contract which offers extended support (i.e. ongoing access to security fixes) for 1.1.1 beyond its public EOL date. There is no defined end date for this extended support and we intend to continue to provide it for as long as it remains commercially viable for us to do so (i.e. for the foreseeable future).

Look up "hot tenting" on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hot+tent+winter...

One of the co-producers of Theaters of War, Tom Secker, has a podcast called ClandesTime where he explores FOIA'd documents from the various entertainment liasion offices run by the DoD, FBI etc. Well worth a follow and listen if this is your kind of thing:

https://www.spyculture.com/podcasts/

I watched these a few years back and agree they're a really interesting set of talks.

Your comment about your pal just reminded me of "The Integral Principles of the Structural Dynamics of Flow", an fictional technical book used as a plot device in the Patriot TV series.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4687882

They even created a one season podcast read by the fictional author, Leslie G Claret, who's played by the actor Kurtwood Smith.

Does your pal really work as a chemical engineer ;)

I'm of that vintage of credit card user that remembers this. I used to keep my counterfoils (I think that's what they were called) to reconcile what was remaining on my available credit. I seem to remember there was a printed list of that some merchants used to look up invalidated cards before electronic terminals replaced mechanical card swipe machines.

How odd, my first attempt with archive.org didn't work (I got a blank page).

Seems to work now, thank you.

I think you got the wrong end of the stick with that guideline. It's intended for folks who accuse others of not having read the article, not for self admission that one didn't read the article. Also the article is behind a paywall and even with all my own usual tricks I can't get at it to read in any sensible way (even archive.is).

In this case the article's topic is fairly obvious that you could legitimately comment here.

Kodak are still in business making photographic film:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak

The Smarter Every Day YouTuber did a three part series about their factory in Rochester, NY:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjHf9jaFs8XXcmtNSUxoa...

Sizable discussions from the last time around:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35856820

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520483

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24459997

Back in the day (the 80's) when I was a young broth-of-a-boy junior engineer we used both Kermit and BLAST[0] to move files between Data General mini's and a bunch of destinations running CP/M, PC/MS-DOS, CP/N, BBC Micros and all sorts. Good times.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAST_(protocol)