Lady Bird Johnson, first lady of President Lyndon B. Johnson was adamant about trying to beautiful our national highways as Texas had been doing since the 30s. It seems like a small price to pay (actively seeding native wildflowers along our highways, and not mowing in the spring) to cover up some of the ugly that is our "pave earth" highway plan.

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No one is going to abandon IPv4 because an IP address costs $4 a month. That's peanuts compared to the cost of trying to migrate your application stack to IPv6.

What has happened, as IPv4 addresses have become more valuable, is that cloud customers no longer ask for a bunch of IP addresses they're not going to use. You don't have to deal with IP justification forms. You want an IP address? Okay, that'll be $4/mo.

Also, Supabase must be a special kind of stupid if they're putting SQL databases on a public IP.

You have no idea what you're talking about. You have no idea what you would do if you had kids, because it's one of the most life altering experiences you can have. All your preconceived notions about what you would and would not do go out the window the moment to strap the kid into the car seat and drive them home wondering why those idiots at the hospital just gave you a baby when you have no idea what you're doing.

While your armchair parenting might be fascinating to you, you seem to forget you grew up in a world with ubiquitous access to pay phones. Where schools were within reasonable walking distance. Where kids would ride their bikes over to their friends' house to see what was going on. Since that era, we got rid of all the pay phones. Middle schools and high schools are now 5 to 12 miles away with limited or no bus service. The majority of social planning happens via group chat.

Good luck coordinating with your kid when their after school club is cancelled and they need to be picked up earlier than expected. Good luck having your teenager stay at home by themselves when no one has a land line anymore and you just carried the only telephone out of the house in your pocket. Good luck having a kid with severe social issues because they're cut off from the other 99% of kids who do have cell phones and coordinate all their social activities through group chat.

It's the most annoying to block VPN protocol out there:

https://www.softether.org/

Thanks for this post. I was a huge fan of Moxy Fruvous back in the 90s and was disappointed by the accusations against Jian. I'm relieved that Jian was able to refute the accusations--I wish he could be fully exonerated.

Texas has incentive programs like this as well. And it's being taken advantage of by crypto-miners (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/Tomlinson-Cryptocurrency-miners-profit-from-17369941.php).

1. Squander limited resources.
2. ???
3. Profit from incentive pay that asks you to use a more reasonable share of the scarce resources.

On the other hand, the upside is you're relying on the reliability of a third party who likely has better processes, more robust facilities, skilled staff, and access to hardware and software through multiple distributors.

So, to the Red Hat employees reading this: thank you! Red Hat does great work for the world. We as a community also tend to undervalue a $1B/year publicly traded company with a large sales force out explaining to every potential enterprise customer that will listen the virtues of free software.

The Dev Suite thing is kinda cool. Not that I'd buy it :-), but interesting to know that option exists.

Any changes to the infrastructure need to get reviewed by someone in the Wikimedia Operations staff prior to actually going live, and they tend to be pretty careful about letting things through. Here's the list of changes awaiting review, along with discussion of each proposed change in many cases.

From TFA: "The company has more than 180 patents, both issued and pending, covering its solutions, software and differentiated intellectual property."

Even though Kodak saw digital photography coming, the problem was Kodak's whole financial structure was tied to film, and digital technology was disruptive technology. They might have been able to sustain the brand by merging with or buying the right company at the right time (e.g. Canon), but most companies have a hard time dealing with technology shifts that vaporize their main profit center. It's not as simple as just knowing what the next trend is; it's figuring out how to gracefully wind down the existing cash cow while giving the new technology the management attention and resources it needs to thrive. Even then, there still ends up being a lot of pain because you can just put all of the same people you had producing film to work in a digital camera business.

Agreed, though I wouldn't go so far as to say that Google would be upset if Chrome marginalized Firefox through merit-based competition.

The main thing I would add is that it was only a matter of time before someone created a competitive Webkit-based browser for Windows, and there's no guarantee that whoever that was was going to be friendly to Google.

Hi there, I'm on the team that deployed Pending Changes. We picked 2000 rather arbitrarily, but it actually was a technical limitation driven by our need to limit possible load on the system rather than an editorial decision. Based on rough community consensus, it's actually in effect on far fewer articles as of this writing. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Pending_changes/Queue#Using_pending_changes for the community discussion of how and where to apply it.