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by foofie 3y ago
> One would hope, but alas! Perl was notorious for being write-only back in the day. I don't agree that's a valid rebuttal, as the operative word is the weasel copout "know what they are doing". > PoSh is closer to
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by foofie 3y ago
> PowerShell actually rules for readability and maintainability when you have people who know what they're doing. Isn't that true for all programming languages ever devised by mankind? > HNers by and large don't underst
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by foofie 3y ago
> """This product does not meet California air cleaner regulation requirements, and cannot be shipped to California""" From your description, it sounds like you are referring to a product that is advertised
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by foofie 3y ago
> It's losing billions of dollars. The US's roadway network is also a money pit. What's your point?
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by foofie 3y ago
> IIRC large portions of China's high speed rail might be a boondoggle... so not sure that's the best example. I think you need to revisit China's high speed rail. There was indeed a fair share of fraud and dubious constru
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by foofie 3y ago
> Is it not time things change? No. There is absolutely no use case for misuse of any mundane service or desktop app that comes even close to match the impact on society of an apartment building collapsing and killing occupants. > How
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by foofie 3y ago
Your first example is a rosy picture of a military strategy whose only metric is "have we lost the war"? Your second example is a project with a very clear and fixed and time-bounded outcome which has no externality or had any req
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by foofie 3y ago
> An engineer "signing off" on something actually means something, with actual stakes. It's all about the social impact of a mistake. The reason "engineers" sign off stuff is not because they are engineers. It&#x
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by foofie 3y ago
> IP address reputation. Care to elaborate? We already had other comments stating it's not a problem. I would love to hear some first-hand accounts substantiating these claims.
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by foofie 3y ago
> Care to elaborate? Not op, but even if we accept the conclusions from the statistic analysis at face value, stating that guitarists work on their skills hoping to impress others is hardly ground breaking research.
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by foofie 3y ago
I think that the blog post is missing a key aspect of success: its subjective, and not bound by absolute rules. This automatically rejects 4 out of the 6 "Truths" listed in the blog post. Finishing something is not the definition
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by foofie 3y ago
> Cannot recommend: full-time work nowadays; Interesting. Care to elaborate on what makes self-hosting email such a time-consuming task? Most of the replies you're getting seem to suggest it's not that hard to pull off.
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by foofie 3y ago
I don't think it's realistic to expect a page load to not make a bunch of requests, considering that you will always have to support use cases involving downloading many small images. Either you handle that by expecting your serve
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by foofie 3y ago
> Currently IPv6 does not allow you to simply do away with public IPv4 adderesses. You make a great point, but I would stress that the problem is not posed by IPv6 but by major ISPs with a global presence, such as Vodafone, which unexpla
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by foofie 3y ago
I also check the access logs collected by my self-hosted services, and I think there's a detail that's conspicuously absent from this analysis: the bulk of these malicious requests are made by regular people running plain old secu
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by foofie 3y ago
> (...) Brexit causing the housing crisis in the Netherlands? I didn't claimed Brexit caused the dutch housing crisis. What I referred to was how more institutions and corporations have moved and are moving to the Netherlands, and w
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by foofie 3y ago
> HTTP/1 remains the one with the highest bandwidth. To be fair, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 weren't exactly aimed at maximizing bandwidth. They were focused on mitigating the performance constraints of having to spawn dozens o
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by foofie 3y ago
How awesome is that? Thank you for all your harf work. It's thanks to people such as yourself that the whole world keeps on working. Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/2347/
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by foofie 3y ago
The Netherlands is already capitalizing quite handsomely from the infamous Brexit. This would be funny if not for the impact this has on both nation's working class, the British for losing jobs and economic activity and the Netherlands
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by foofie 3y ago
> The escalation in targets is a gradual thing. The early war was intended to be a bloodless takeover. When that didn't work, Russia moved towards destruction of civilian infrastructure, demoralization and subjugation. Russia's
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by foofie 3y ago
> Why don’t other countries have huge programs to manufacture millions of drones? I don't think there was a demand for millions of drones. The little demand there was, it was well met by China's cheap drone industry.
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by foofie 3y ago
> This seems like a wunderwaffen propaganda narrative, just like the Javelins that will end the war. The columns of wrecked and burned down Russian tanks and APCs beg to differ. Some of us still recall Russia hastily retreat from the nor
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by foofie 3y ago
> Teams is probably the worst communications app I've ever been forced to use. Not to pile onto MS Teams, but it's by far the most amateur hour system I ever had the displeasure of being forced to use. I feel they even managed
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by foofie 3y ago
> What baffles me is that some people aren't willing to buy nice peripherals. Buying nice peripherals is like buying nice clothes.
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by foofie 3y ago
> Whereas "AndrewKemendo" provided first-hand testimony, which added value in the form of a datapoint, (...) So did the "In this moment I am euphoric" guy. I am with biggestbrain here. The post reads like "I&#x27
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by foofie 3y ago
> When I worked at Microsoft more than 10 years ago, they set everyone's exchange storage to a small amount and they auto-deleted old email, but the storage per person was too small, with lots of messages with embedded docs, etc. So
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by foofie 3y ago
> Even if the license said that, would you trust Musk to honour that (...) Based on the news, Elon Musk isn't even to be trusted to pay rent, severance packages, or even salaries.
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by foofie 3y ago
> The spec is a beast. Anyone who wants to implement an HTML based reader has a mammoth task in front of them. That's true for basically any non-trivial document rendering format. For example, take a look at the PDF spec. Even basic
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by foofie 3y ago
> It's almost an embarrassment that something like this does not exist already. To be fair, Epub has been largely ignored and neglected by everyone in the world. Virtually no reader supports rendering math notation, and virtually no
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by foofie 3y ago
> You know.. HTML used to be hyper text. Some links. Add some figures/images, tables. It still is. > But then we 'needed' magazine-like design/layout. Still, it was document based, so actually pretty good. Styling

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