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Agree in the ideal, but in practice fiber is often still unavailable in suburban areas and even urban ones too, in the US.
I’m no expert, but it seems much more efficient to prioritize those areas over rural ones.
Agree in the ideal, but in practice fiber is often still unavailable in suburban areas and even urban ones too, in the US.
I’m no expert, but it seems much more efficient to prioritize those areas over rural ones.
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That example doesn’t sound particularly difficult. I’m not saying it’d be trivial, but it should be approximately as difficult as writing a compiler. Seems like the real problem is not a technical one.
Wonder what makes it so difficult. “Cobol to Java” doesn’t sound like an impossible task since transpilers exist. Maybe they can’t get similar performance characteristics in the auto-transpiled code?
If talking about a closed source app, their whole goal is to move off of hosting closed source systems.
Article says the decision follows a successful pilot project, so they’re willing to absorb the short term costs. Optimistically in the long run, the symbiotic benefits of having a government entity using and supporting a full FOSS system will be huge.