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I wouldn't be surprised if it's not already in the Municipal Code for the city, since they need a way to maintain consistency. For example, here's the divisions in Renton, which are oddly complicated relative to the size of the city: https://www.codepublishing.com/WA/Renton/#!/Renton09/Renton0...


Oh this is fun. I'm in the process of building something similar, but I'm splitting it into two parts: the first part is a static site generator and the second is a CGI that implements the micropub spec, which can run the static site generator when it receives new content.


What makes you choose CGI as the language of choice? Just curious.


CGI is serverless without all the cloud-specific tooling.

CGI scripts can work locally, they can work on traditional shared hosts that cost peanuts to use, they even work on AWS Lambda.

What's not to like?


It's even weirder with people: blood sugar level change with how you perceive time to be passing, not the actual amount of time: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1603444113


That comparison would depend heavily on what you're storing.

Ion has the option of using symbol tables to replace strings (e.g. in struct/map keys or in values). So, if you benchmark had a large number of records with similar structures, I would expect Ion to pull ahead. On the other hand, if each record had nothing in common, I'd expect them to perform similarly.

One feature of the Ion libraries that I've liked is the parser will take any of the formats and figure out what to do with it (text, binary, compressed binary). It's one less thing to worry about. You can switch encodings later without breaking consumers, you can write plain text Ion when you're testing, etc.


Symbol tables, compression, etc seem one level of abstraction above what msgpack provides. Such features could be implemented on top of vanilla msgpack as long as all parties agree on the msgpack schema.


Ion is heavily used on the retail side of Amazon, but it's only recently started to appear in AWS products.

AWS is starting support PartiQL (https://partiql.org/) queries in some places and PartiQL uses Ion's type system internally.


> and the OS installed takes up well under 500MB

Fast-forward to 2023 and many individual Android apps are 100-500 MB each.


I don't use my google account for much anymore, but I love the idea. I tried very hard to use it and... it didn't work.

I went to my google account and clicked "Create a passkey", but apparent my "device doesn't support creating passkeys" (Linux, Firefox).

The page said my Pixel 2 has an automatically created passkey, so maybe I could experience the "use another device to sign in" flow. Opened a private window and my only option was a password (but there was a feedback prompt asking why I still wanted to use a password).

I tried again with Firefox on Android, but the "Create a passkey" button doesn't even appear. Same story with Chrome on Android.

Is it just me, or does the future look a lot like Internet Explorer in the early 2000s?


Sometimes. Sometimes the fast thing is just heavily parallelized.


RA (Router Advertisement) handles announcing the prefix for SLAAC addresses and DNS.


But not other services like NTP, so DHCPv6 is still needed.


Create a DNS name ntp.yourdomain.example.org that points at your internal ntp servers.

Configure your ntp clients to use the name, and maybe add a pool.ntp.org entry or two into your configs.


> Configure your ntp clients to use the name

So how do you do this hands-off, ie without manually changing things on the clients, without DHCPv6?


For NTP, an alternative is letting the LAN devices connect to whatever NTP server they want to, and just NAT'ing outgoing udp/123 to your NTP server.


Well yes, but that's a suboptimal hack.


yes, but RDNSS is a relatively new option (only since 2007 ;) ), so some implementations ignore it.


I suspect the lock is more about keeping other people's trash out than keeping theirs in.


In Chicago, it's done to keep the alleys clean. There's a long history of people digging through dumpsters and making messes, providing homes and hospitality for rats. A previous mayor had a real phobia about rats, and made locking up dumpsters a pretty serious rule.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5244/5362943269_f1d08c480c_b.j...


> I suspect the lock is more about keeping other people's trash out than keeping theirs in.

There are stories about stores/restaurants calling cops when they catch you "stealing" "their" food from a dumpster. Essentially people taking food from dumpsters are treated like overgrown rats... Because https://youtu.be/P7J384IMuMM


> There are stories about stores/restaurants calling cops when they catch you "stealing" "their" food from a dumpster

Can be it be "stolen" if it's in a trashcan meaning it's no longer someone property?


While I agree with you, it's pretty easy to claim ownership of an item from your store that you put into your trashcan on your property that you then hire someone to come get.


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