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by foxylad 9y ago
> I expect to donate 99+% of my lifetime earnings Good on you.
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by foxylad 9y ago
Thanks for correcting me - after excitedly checking the docs, the "flexible" service indeed supports 3.0. The managed service is still 2.7, however. The flexible service is basically running your own instance of appengine on a VPS
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by foxylad 9y ago
You're right, it's just too hard. We'll leave it to the billionaires to solve - I know one who says he's the only one who can fix it. Sorry, my cynicism is showing. But we already have the organisation (IRS) in place to
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by foxylad 9y ago
> It would be neat if money was spread even more evenly. Change "neat" to "critical", and I'll agree with you. My gut feel is that the US is close to another revolution. All those less-educated white males with s
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by foxylad 9y ago
> yes, there are ethical reasons to accumulate so many resources: because some problems are incredibly hard to solve and need a lot of resources to even start to solve. Allowing people to become billionaires is a hideously inefficient wa
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by foxylad 9y ago
As a 2.7 user, I drool over f strings.
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by foxylad 9y ago
We use Appengine, which only supports python 2.7. As well as being a reason for us to stick with 2.7, I imagine Google prefers what is effectively a LTS release. If (hopefully "when") they provide 3.x, they will need significantly
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by foxylad 9y ago
Possible motive: perhaps Appel fell in love with Fuiava, and wanted a few months of exclusive companionship to win her over. Easy to tell a landlubber that all comms and motive power are down, and sharks are trying to kill them so they need
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by foxylad 9y ago
SQLite is used for small and embedded systems, which (if successful) can have very long lifetimes. If you were building something like an ATM for instance, you would be very sensible to sign a 35-year support contract for a crucial part of
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by foxylad 9y ago
Not sure what you need - contact me by doing a whois for vig.co.nz.
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by foxylad 9y ago
We used to use the excellent Xero for our accounts, but it couldn't handle international business (exchange rates, different tax regimes etc)well. So we rolled our own system of python scripts and Google sheets. The python scripts use
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by foxylad 9y ago
+1 for using abbreviations to fix mistakes. I use AutoKey (Linux, surely there are similar apps on OSX and Windows) to do system-wide abbreviations, including correcting "teh" and "hte". Along with abbreviating a few com
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by foxylad 9y ago
If Uber is right about it's autonomous taxis, and Tesla's cars really will be able to come when you whistle, then last mile driving and docking are surely solvable problems. I'm generally an optimistic person, but I think aut
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by foxylad 9y ago
Intersting. In NZ and Australia, "grundies" is slang for (usually male) underwear.
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by foxylad 9y ago
Linux for me, Chromebooks for everyone else. Probably like many here, I have to support several family members' personal computing needs. I switched them all from Windows first to Linux, and then Chromebooks, and each time support beca
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by foxylad 9y ago
"ChromeOS is not included for logistical reasons." It would be interesting to hear why logistics prevent reporting this. And it would be REALLY interesting to see the ChromeOS figures.
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by foxylad 9y ago
For the journey, yes. But for permanent settlement, in both cases you'll need of the order of years-worth of supplies while you become self-sufficient. Back on-topic, the discovery of water on the moon makes this more achievable there;
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by foxylad 9y ago
OT. How nice not see a single "avoid all Google services because reader" comment. Maybe we are finally moving on.
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by foxylad 9y ago
I'm sure that's true. But for 90% of organisational users, Sheets will handle everything they need. Plus do intuitive sharing, automatic backups, and all the other advantages the cloud provides... for far less TCO than a tradition
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by foxylad 9y ago
Interesting. I guess it depends on your definition of "serious amount of data". Our entire accounting system is built on Google Sheets, including about ten thousand transactions in four currencies per financial year. The system su
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by foxylad 9y ago
> It's an outrage that businesses that want to enjoy all the benefits of selling to the public can discriminate against members of that public for any spurious or bigoted reason they like. I have a problem with this, because in effe
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by foxylad 9y ago
The fact that these guys can't find anyone (out of hundreds if not thousands of options) to host them is useful feedback about how opposed our free society is to their message.
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by foxylad 9y ago
Yes I would. In fact I sided with the cake shop owners who didn't want to make a cake for a gay couple. They should have simply taken their business elsewhere, or made their own cake.
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by foxylad 9y ago
A registrar or caching provider withdrawing service to a customer is essentially sending a message, and from that perspective the action should be covered by free speech. So I would argue that yes, if GoDaddy or Cloudflare were offended by
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by foxylad 9y ago
The length of the lever. For speed, long legs. For torque, short jaws.
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by foxylad 9y ago
The exploit name certainly has sexually violent connotations to me. I imagine that anyone who has been sexually assaulted would feel very uncomfortable working in an organisation that condoned such language - something like 10% of the popul
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by foxylad 9y ago
Can I re-characterise your discomfort as being because the GOP has been subverted by people with fairly extreme racist/sexist views? I really doubt it has anything to do with liberals creating environments. From my admittedly distant v
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by foxylad 9y ago
I agree with your main thesis that colour adds information. But not with your reaction to colourblindness - it's surprisingly common. We changed a grid of clickable red/green squares to add crosses and ticks after a chance comment
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by foxylad 9y ago
U2F. Just sad support is growing so slowly.
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by foxylad 9y ago
We moved from PayPal to Stripe. Yes, integration was much easier, because of the simple and effective API and great documentation (good examples with your own data included - brilliant!). But we switched because PayPal just did not work

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