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by bigiain 2y ago
There's also the fact that hard drive capacities keep increasing and increasing significantly faster that the power required, and sooner or later for very long term storage it'd become cheaper to migrate all your data from those 5
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by bigiain 2y ago
If this is a backup, you don't need it to be powered up and available 24x7. So the question becomes more like "how long does an average hard drive last while powered down and still reliably be able to power back up and be read?&qu
903.
by bigiain 2y ago
The problem though, for people who want to use WordPress, is that WP sites fundamentally rely on wordpress.org for downloading and installing plugins and themes, and critically for security updates to plugins and themes. (You can install&#x
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by bigiain 2y ago
Some of their argument: " ... owners focus on aggressive cost-cutting and “streamlining” operations to boost short-term profitability. This is extremely destructive, leading to mass layoffs, reduced benefits, and wholesale outsourcing.
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by bigiain 2y ago
Security will never be a "largely solved problem", when there are humans involved (and probably even when humans are not involved). There is no technical solution to people uploading high res photos with location metadata to socia
906.
by bigiain 2y ago
"Ralfi was sitting at his usual table. Owing me a lot of money. I had hundreds of megabytes stashed in my head on an idiot savant basis, information I had no conscious access to. Ralfi had left it there. He hadn't, however, came b
907.
by bigiain 2y ago
Oh yeah, definitely a life improvement, but it's not an "OMG! You won't believe this life hack! It's totally changed my life!!! Don't forget to like and subscribe, smash that bell to be sure to see my next amazing v
908.
by bigiain 2y ago
The ABC News website (the Australian one) has been doing A/B testing on headlines for years. It's super common to see two or three different versions of the headline in the first hour or so after an article's publication, and
909.
by bigiain 2y ago
Back when I was playing with DIY Drones, there were a bunch of projects using optical mouse sensors to do visual position hold at low altitudes. There was a fairly well known way to swap out the lens, then you'd get a 16x16 or 32x32 pi
910.
by bigiain 2y ago
> A robot vacuum will literally change your life. For me at least, my robot vac stops well short of that. But the feeling of smugness I get while I sit on the couch doomscrolling or watching Netflix, while being able to tell myself &quot
911.
by bigiain 2y ago
Suggestion, you've probably fairly easily got access to how long the most recently completed task took? Perhaps on the submission form include a low-resolution indication of that, so people's expectations are set before they enter
912.
by bigiain 2y ago
We need to immediately block Nike (the Goddess) from wordpress.org until she commits to paying 8% of her gross revenue to Matt's personal bank account.
913.
by bigiain 2y ago
Lots of Burningman groups and theme camps pay for storage for the 50 weeks a year their camp stuff isn't needed.
914.
by bigiain 2y ago
I think there's a scale/complexity thing to be considered. If your web app is simple, then frameworks and "safe" languages are unnecessary. At some stage though, that flips around. There's no way I'd choose to
915.
by bigiain 2y ago
Larry Wall (the Perl guy) had "The three virtues of a great programmer", in which the "Laziness" virtue wasn't putting minima<l effort into _building_, instead it was about building stuff that created minimal eff
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by bigiain 2y ago
But surely "making silly things" in Rust counts as learning Rust? I remember writing a 2.5D "Doom style" renderer thing that let you move around in a bunch of rooms/corridors in real time in MacPerl/Quickdraw b
917.
by bigiain 2y ago
> Worrying about lifetimes is memory management that is unnecessary with GC languages and directly increases cognitive load. As soon as you start writing large enough programs to start to learn/worry about variable scoping you are k
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by bigiain 2y ago
Also, without claiming that experienced c/c++ developers never write memory safety bugs, I don't think it's at all controversial to say inexperienced c/c++ developers write a lot of them (and hopefully experienced ones w
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by bigiain 2y ago
I reckon "Rust on Rails" would be a great idea. It'd be cool to have an out of the box "90% of what a website needs" toolkit that means writing your 10% custom code/secret-sauce in a modern code security obsess
920.
by bigiain 2y ago
I found it to be hilariously uninformative. I have this old school expectation that I should be able to understand what your website/product/project is about but reading the first few sentences in the "above the fold" se
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by bigiain 2y ago
They can do that here in Australia. I've had 6 SMS messages from the Police in the last 12 months, all for missing persons, every singe one of which is in my suburb or an adjacent one. But cops are gonna cop. I'd bet if they were
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by bigiain 2y ago
So is there any actual innovating technical talent left at OpenAI? Or is it now all just money people and "line goes up" AI self promoting grifters?
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by bigiain 2y ago
Yeah, but according to the filing, Matt had Automattic transfer the ownership of the trademarks to the foundation, they had the foundation grant the exclusive licence back to Automattic. If those trademarks are asserted to be worth billions
924.
by bigiain 2y ago
Same. Work hosts a bunch of client sites on WPEngine. We only ever had one problematic client who uploaded a heap of high bandwidth video and blew out their disk and bandwidth allocations by over 10x - WPEngine didn't cut them off, an
925.
by bigiain 2y ago
Yeah. I foresee a possible hilarious outcome here. Matt wins this case, having the court determine the trademarks are "worth" so much that WPEngine - one out of thousands of WP hosting companies - owes licence fees of 10mil per ye
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by bigiain 2y ago
As I see things, WPE's legal _responses_ to being attacked by you are what's going to grind your ability to provide "free services" into the ground. All of WordPress's reputation and goodwill transformed into luxury
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by bigiain 2y ago
Yep. We no all know not to trust anything that Matt or any of his businesses or non-profits are involved with. Unless WordPress, both the open source codebase and the plugin/theme publishing/distribution channels, are completely f
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by bigiain 2y ago
Work has about 25 clients who use WordPress. Not a single one of them "blogs". WordPress is a decent-enough CMS, all those clients are just running websites they can edit themselves. The big advantage of offering them WordPress if
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by bigiain 2y ago
You do realise just how guilty people sound when complaining about preservation requests for discovery during lawsuits? If you're "right" and "on the side of good and freedom", what are you worried about in Slack&#x
930.
by bigiain 2y ago
So they're "cherry picking" things that you said which make you look bad, which are true and accurate - and that's a "smear campaign". While you are telling lies about trademark violations and extorting money s

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