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by dwheeler 6y ago
> Economists are as effective as astrologists at predicting the future. That's unfair to astrologists, economists are not going to be that good. :-) To be fair, the better economists work by creating models based on reality. But we
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Yes, that is exactly the problem. People treat PYTHONPATH just like PATH, but the "easy scripting tricks" that are fine with PATH become subtle security vulnerabilities when you do the same thing with PYTHONPATH. E.g., people wi
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Treating 10KB of JavaScript as equal to 10KB of HTML is a big mistake. They transition over a network in the same amount of time, but HTML is far faster to process. Websites with large HTML sizes often display far faster than the same infor
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Hmm.. it seems that part of the problem is that Python interprets "empty entry in PYTHONPATH" as being the same as ".". That just seems wrong. If you want the current directory as one of your PYTHONPATH entries, then you
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Excellent, thanks for the pointer. I've added that to my document on the history of the Scepter of Goth. It looks like I'll be able to (eventually) post other things, too!!
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by dwheeler 6y ago
It lets you edit in place, which is very handy. It also keeps the original file permissions, which "blah bar > foo ; mv foo bar" does not do. Convenient. Frankly, I think that should be in the posix standard.
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by dwheeler 6y ago
One distinction is that ventoy is straight open source software. easy2boot is free (no cost), but appears to be a mix of open source and closed source software.
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Wow, it even includes Scepter of Goth! I maintained Scepter of Goth, but because it's no longer available it's now often forgotten. I'm very happy to see it included. I think one of the key tricks and Scepter of Goth was the
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by dwheeler 6y ago
This is no "law". It presumes that laborers cannot switch to a different employer, that there is a massive oversupply of laborers, and that laborers are completely interchangeable. I'll accept that in conditions like that, wa
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by dwheeler 6y ago
It is not just inconvenient, hiding or modifying URLs is a lie and is a security problem. Hiding part of the URL means that you don't really see what's going on, and that is the first step towards a security problem, not away from
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Actually, I don't think most people who buy iPhones have any idea what they're buying into. They're buying a phone. In some cases, they're buying an iPhone to access things like FaceTime. if they want to communicate with
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Weird. There is no information on what they are changing to, only what they are changing from. I would like to see what they plan to do instead.
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But companies are absolutely allowed to do things that cause other companies to go out of business. It happens all the time. Think of the buggy whip manufacturers. "Unfair competetion" has a specific legal meaning. As I understand
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by dwheeler 6y ago
I am almost certain you are correct, I would be shocked if genius was granted an exclusive right to lyrics. If nothing else, how could you sell the songs without rights to the lyrics? So I don't think genius ever had standing to pursue
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by dwheeler 6y ago
I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that only the copyright holder can sue for copyright infringement. I am pretty certain Genius does not hold the copyright to those lyrics. It's odd Genius brought this case at all. This is bri
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by dwheeler 6y ago
I think this is pretty clearly documented: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_validations.htm... "This [uniqueness] helper validates that the attribute's value is unique right before the object gets save
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by dwheeler 6y ago
I think the heuristic is really easy: "Is it slower than before?" If it's slower, then you require a manual override to accept the merge. That will make performance regressions a whole lot less likely. Sure, in some cases the
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by dwheeler 6y ago
> It's basically not possible, for example, to make a classic sites website mobile responsive. Huh? Did that 10 years ago. Perhaps we have a different definition of a "classic site". To me a "classic site" is ano
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by dwheeler 6y ago
No, I'm sorry, that's just not so. A website maintained with raw HTML still works just fine on modern web browsers. In fact, it works much better. Web pages built with some CMS systems often take 5-20 seconds to load, while the
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by dwheeler 6y ago
> I will say that the vast vast majority of these sites (unfortunately I can't disclose the number) have not received edits or even visits for more than two years I'm having a hard time understanding why that would justify dele
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by dwheeler 6y ago
> Each Tuesday I have been looking at the performance results of all the PRs merged in the past week I really appreciate the work described here, but it seems to me that the performance tests are in exactly the wrong place. The correct t
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I think that depends on the framework and what deviation you want. I agree that if you use Rails and constantly override its conventions, you will have a bad day. But following conventions is usually a strength, not a weakness. Most website
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> It is really interesting that major open source initiatives are now being ran by corporations. That should not be surprising, as they now all depend on OSS. I think this can be a good thing. The resources they bring can help OSS, and t
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Yes! In fact, in practically ALL applications it's better to work than not work at all. The only exception I can think of is directly-interactive software like video games and VR imaging, where minimum fps really does matter. Many situ
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Quality K&E's were never cheap :-).
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by dwheeler 6y ago
Don't be fooled, slide rules are really easy to use. It took me less than a minute to learn how to do multiplication, and I wasn't an adult yet. The A/B/C/D names are from Amédée Mannheim, who in 1851 designed the
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by dwheeler 6y ago
In general, with an abacus. Roman numerals for generally used for recording information, not for calculating with them. The article emphasizes how easy it is to add and subtract with Roman numeral notation, but everything else I've rea
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by dwheeler 6y ago
They might use a Windows PC as their client, but they can easily develop & deploy on something else. VirtualBox is free, as are Ubuntu & Fedora. Deploying Rails apps to systems like Heroku is worlds easier than a typical Windows d
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by dwheeler 6y ago
> What's great about Rails ? Serious question from someone who landed into a mature Rails app and is now decidedly running away from that ecosystem after a year working in it. Rails provides a mature system to quickly "get the
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by dwheeler 6y ago
This looks very promising! I'm currently using active job, so I will need to take a look at this. Thanks for letting me know.

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