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If you live in an area where you have a choice of ISP then at least inquire about whether they support IPv6. Chances are if you have a choice the factors other than IPv6 will make more of a difference. I.e. I'd have a hard time recommending an IPv6 enabled 6Mbit DSL connection over a 100Mbit cable one without.

I've certainly kept ISP choices in mind when choosing which community or neighborhood to live in. Ironically I find myself looking for places with Comcast because they've had solid IPv6 support for years.

If you are involved in a decision making capacity with a company that offers services over the internet, try to pick equipment, ISPs, SaaS vendors that use IPv6 where possible. With a few notable exceptions (rrrrrrr AWS) its not particularly difficult anymore. If you are at trade shows, quiz vendors about their IPv6 support.

Lots of ISPs have gotten on board recently at the cores of their networks but CPE equipment is often old (DOCSIS 2 modems, WRT54G bases). This holiday when I was visiting family I took a few minutes to swap out their ancient router for one that supports IPv6. As a result they'll also get faster and more reliable Wifi now so its often an easy sell for other reasons.

I think in this case the issue isn't binary prefixes vs decimal which in this case would amount to a ~7% error, but rather bits vs bytes which is an error of ~800%

It is a nice starting point for queries about files on the system as a whole rather than in a particular folder. i.e. Show me all of the PDF files I've used recently. Or find a file with name x but I have no idea where it is. `find / -name foo` vs `find . -name foo`

Probably the cost of delivering data particularly in regards to the resulting data churn that having less local storage might require. Not all internet connections are unlimited.

The killer feature for me at least is the ability to use remote machines (and especially their storage) as if they were on my LAN. Unfortunately, as the sibling comment mentioned some things that should be better aren't because bumping up the local connection speed is not always sufficient as the remote machine's connection speed and the intermediate protocol overhead also makes a large difference. Additionally, I've been quite disappointed in the performance of some of our quite expensive enterprise level NAS appliances (topping out at ~200Mpbs or so).

Worse are cloud storage services, especially things like Dropbox / Box.com / github / iTunes downloads that have extensive throttling, especially on uploads, sometimes as low as 10-15Mbps. (these are super irritating because they feel like they should be fast but are clearly being traffic shaped to a perfect 10.0000Mbps).

There are some cases where you get much better speeds. OS downloads tend to be unthrottled, Bittorrent stuff and downloads from some CDNs can keep up. Steam is pretty good as well.

For work purposes where you can control the remote machines and protocols used, and have the ability to upgrade the remote storage systems to handle gigabit speeds, it makes a number of actions that used to take to long to bother with actually possible.

Examples: - Grab a packet capture of a busy network interface and pull it down locally for analysis in wireshark - Download, edit, re-upload large media files in raw/intermediate working formats - In some cases work directly off of mounted network drives rather than using local scratch storage - Really anything where you want to use thick local applications to edit serious amounts of data.

For a purely residential setting (where you might be dealing with wifi, spinning hard drives/thumb drives, and only have access to slow consumer level cloud storage services) there are probably diminishing returns after ~200Mbit. All that said, while the upload difference between 100Mbit and 1000Mbit might not be that great right now, the difference between 10Mbit and 100Mbit is pretty significant and sadly, at least in the places I've lived your options are often ~10Mbit or ~1000Mbit for upload without much in between.

If consumer level hardware and cloud services pick up the pace I expect 1000Mbit connections to be a lot more useful. Those developments might not happen if there aren't enough annoyed people with 1000Mbit connections watching a 10Mbit dripbox uploads and complaining.

that 7-8% is also worldwide, in the US it is 21% now

Polonium 210 has a half life of 138 days vs 88 years for Plutonium 238. I believe Russia used it for short duration moon missions. For missions that last years or decades it is not an option.

And in the next paragraph the article explains why:

“There are tons of things NASA could use the new plutonium for, but there’s nothing on the books,” says Casey Dreier, director of advocacy at the Planetary Society. “Why is that? Because NASA isn’t sure when or if it will have the plutonium it needs!”

I don't think the argument is that NASA would be doing more if it had more RTGs, but rather that without more RTGs there will be new limits on the types of things it can do (no large rovers like MSL or outer solar system missions like Voyager/Cassini/New Horizons).

Intel has the Xeon/E/EX/EP lines for you.

The author mentioned that performing basic research indirectly has benefits. People can be inspired and motivated by the idea of photographing Pluto or colonizing Mars and develop the incremental technologies needed to get there with a determination that they might not have if they had been hired to perform more mundane basic research.

Same reason as you'd want an SSD for anything else? Fast loading times of lots of data? Also, some operating systems make having programs installed to volumes other than the boot volume hard.

It appears that this cable has 8 lanes of DP 1.2 connectivity. 4 DP 1.2 lanes is enough for a non-tiled 4K 60hz display. So TB3 can supply enough bandwidth for two of them. A 5K 60Hz display requires either DP1.3's higher bandwidth lanes or more than 4 DP1.2 lanes teamed in a tiled arrangement. TB3 with DP1.2 will be able to handle single tile 4K displays or double tiled 5K. It will not be able to handle single tile 5K or the other features of DP1.3 (high refresh rate/8K/alternate bit depths)

In the short term, yes, except adapters with multiple ports like apple's USB-c To HDMI adaptor that has both an HDMI port and another USB port to plug in power. Long term.. I would expect projectors/displays to supply power to their connected laptop.

`but the boost dependency is an immediate "oh hell no"`

If this were a C++11 and standalone ASIO dependency would that change your mind? If it is a specific issue with ASIO, what sort of network transport would you want to see used for something like this (there is no network library in C++11)?

As far as I can tell the website is accessible via IPv6 and you can run checks on IPv6 only servers. What is missing?

Custom ports and IPv6 support <3

Anyone know of a guide like this for a C or C++ server implemented using raw OpenSSL?

I love my magic mouse as well. I wish they made a corded one though, or made bluetooth stuff more reliable.

At some point where recovery is more routine, SpaceX could offer pricing at something like: $60 million we launch your rocket without regards to whether or not we will be able to recover the first stage. $x million, x<<60: we launch your rocket only once the weather/conditions suggests we'll be able to do both. I can see some companies with very specific launch windows (say gravity assisted missions to outer planets) going for the former.

There is probably more than one way to make a fortune. That said.. Apple's upcoming watch product appears to be employing this strategy.

Strict proof of identity requirements can be an issue. Banks can be expensive at low balances due to fees.

How would a dramatic breakthrough in longevity affect the solvency of life insurance/annuity companies?

The original iMac had more ports than the current Air (audio in/out, power, ethernet, modem, USBx2, and an expansion slot).

One port that can do power, data, or video is pretty spiffy. Using that as an excuse to only have one port on the entire machine seems a bit extreme. At least give us one on each side..

I've noticed similar stats on my own IPv6 enabled sites. Last year a non-tech conference I worked on the registration system for had a similar fraction (of the non-spam paying registrants) signing up via v6.

Comcast and Time Warner Cable both have larged wired IPv6 footprints (28% and 12% of their quite sizable customer bases respectively), as do a number of universities.

I'd put that sort of contribution in the detailed bug report category, something I'd absolutely contribute to closed source proprietary software if I thought there was a good chance it would get fixed and that I wouldn't have to deal with it being broken anymore.

the article goes on to say the lander has solar panels that will recharge the batteries for additional work (although at a slower pace) as long as it doesn't land in a shadowed area.

I end up doing much of my WebSocket app development in Chrome for this reason alone. I'd love to see WebSocket message inspection in the FF dev tools.

I'd also like to see the tools go farther with minimal formatters for messages, particularly messages in JSON format.

Apple isn't really a stranger to announcing products with already trademarked names..

The groupon trademark application (linked elsewhere in the thread) specifically mentions "non-downloadable" before every mention of "software".

It does however mention "technical support services" relating to computer software.. is that sufficiently different than consulting services?