And I'm _still_ laughing. LOL

Since when was there ever a plan to disable IPv4 on the Internet? Just because IPv6 is around doesn't mean that IPv4 is going to go away.

That was always the plan for "the future". That is get everyone to IPv6 and then get rid of IPv4. IPv4's days are numbered - but the number looks really big.

Why would we keep around a whole separate Internet? Dual stack was always only intended for the transition period.

It's very hard to get rid of old standards.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past"

Of course there's an incredibly long tail here, but in the big picture, "nobody except some people maintaining a few legacy systems ever need to learn to work with this protocol anymore" is practically the same thing.

What a gorgeous sight to behold!

Where was that coal coming from?

I feel dumb. I've never heard of Antigravity until now.

Good for you :)

Welcome to the singularity, now in progress. One of its defining features is that things move too fast for people to keep up.

By this logic though JavaScript frameworks were the singularity

lol. True. I guess the difference is “things that matter to technological progress” move too fast to keep up.

BatMUD is the one I played a long time ago, and has been around for 35 years now. I honestly don't know how active it is these days.

https://www.bat.org

During the Summer of 1997, I stayed at my university and had a job at the computer lab in the basement of the library. We had four Windows 95 PCs, four Mac Quadras, and then tons of VT terminals. I specifically remember the one at the lab assistants desk being a VT-320. Anyway, it was enough for me to telnet to BatMUD. I got all the way up to level 32 or so (and made some friends!) before I stopped playing. Man, that was a great Summer. Well ... it was great until I got cheated on but that's a whole other story. :-p

I just went to the site and started watching a video -- seems to be working for me, at least. YMMV

Except this one is not on the windshield.

Looks like a bug that I hope someone will have a fun time fixing.

You wouldn't imagine ...

I have seen API calls you people wouldn’t believe.

Requests hanging off the edge of the load balancer, Ethernet tubes glittering in the dark.

Latency logs reporting some API calls that took longer than the age of the universe.

Their means and percentiles burning on the shoulders of weekly reports.

Plot points dying at the edge of y axis

... like tears in the rain.

Time to reboot

Indeed and Voigt-Kampf the signed from the unsigned, dynamic types from static.

Fixing bugs. At Apple. OK.