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by heurisko 5y ago
I was referring to security issues regarding dependency management. The git.php.net server was also not compromised, as far as I know, from a PHP vulnerability that was active at the time.
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PHP has a similarly low barrier to entry, but doesn't seem to suffer as much as JS. Perhaps because dependencies are more curated in PHP due to clusters of dominant frameworks, rather than a proliferation of smaller libraries.
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As a native speaker it made me faintly irritated, as the 'll informal contraction didn't fit the right tone for the title.
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I think trustworthiness can also apply to the code itself. There are so many times where I have thought, "I better add this test here, even though I know I will probably only be the person who knows there needs to be a test here."
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I dislike asking what acronyms mean, as even I can't always remember the letters, although I know about the necessity of transactions and how to implement them. Such as "I" - what is it again? "Isolation"? "Tra
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> I was similarly baffled when in a recent discussion someone suggested starting a sentence with “I might be wrong, but ...” is perceived as aggressive. That's a very standard phrase to signal you're not being confrontational.
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> The immigration crisis just was the last straw I think the immigration crisis and Germany's unilateral "Willkommenskultur" played a significant role in Brexit, though it's not often mentioned. I'm of the opinio
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> Something like 30,000 people died every year from the regular flu in the USA alone, before pandemic. Social distancing (and masks) would bring that number to close to 0. How many of that number are people dying with flu, as opposed to
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> But basically every government intervention leads to some abominable result. Some interventions do, some don't. Without environmental legislation, for example, companies would export their negative externalities, e.g. pumping sewa
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I've used ebook-convert [1] from the Calibre project. It is unrivalled in my opinion. [1] https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert....
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> I found it mostly went away when I worked in companies where most people treated their current job as a stepping stone to the next rather than as their final destination but in companies in 2nd/3rd tier cities where everybody is m
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Same. The Ubuntu long term support releases are quite conservative. I did find the Unity interface more polished however. It seemed like Canonical did a lot of UX research, to make things like the "power off" button adjoin the cor
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I remember using Facebook as a good way to organise meetups between friends in the realverse. I switched to communicating close friends on Whatsapp when I noticed that photos and experiences seemed to be shared to prove more that you were h
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With Hotspot, hot areas of the code are compiled, lessening the virtualisation overhead. We compile some C libraries and use them via JNA. It takes time to create the cross-compilation environment with all the correct versions of the librar
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> I found I identified as a Londoner – a city where the vote to remain in the EU hit 60% (in some areas, the remain vote was more than 70%) – but as to the rest of the country: it suddenly felt like a foreign land that I didn’t understan
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> Their review workflow, for instance, is innately structured as a dehumanizing pipeline for delivering soundbites of impersonal criticism that Must Be Attended To. If you have good relationships with your colleagues/contributors, t
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Laravel appears to me to be similar to Rails on PHP. Symfony is Spring on PHP. I'm a Symfony fan, and have never seen the need to use Laravel.
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This is really strange to read, as I think their online ordering website is great and simple to use. > and you now have to enter your card CCV for every single change you make That's only at the end. You can make a whole bunch of ch
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by heurisko 5y ago
I deploy things on the JVM running on two architectures. The "write once run anywhere" concept is still very useful, when required.
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> To me this makes synthwave perfect for the way millenials and younger people have had to manage their smooth social brand exterior in every concievable micro aspect of their lives I think the popularity of Synthwave has a lot to do wit
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by heurisko 5y ago
You've missed the rest of the sentence. > A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups, often political in motivation,[3][4] when other explanations are mo
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I don't think it was the cause of failure for the Verify project. But I do think it is the case at the GDS, as evidenced by the comment on this page: > GDS is full of mostly django based systems, some legacy ruby and that's jus
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by heurisko 5y ago
The GDS have now become what they were setup to avoid. That is, they were supposed to be an agile startup to avoid massive overspend on untenable projects like NHS digital [1]. What I've noticed is that "new style" government
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> If it is man-made, and they are keeping that from us, then it is a conspiracy. Therefore, conspiracy theory. No, it's the theory that it is a conspiracy, or more likely, a cover-up. (As I doubt there was a conspiracy to release th
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> Sex as labour is no different than any labour. If that is true, then a thought experiment would be: should refusing to enter prostitution be a grounds for losing jobseekers' welfare, eg. jobseekers allowance [1]? [1] https:/
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It could be that the relevant thing is the absolute position of the lowest rung of the hierarchy. In that case, the lowest rung of Japanese hierarchy could still be much higher than that in the US.
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> To put it bluntly, if you have enough to power baseload, you have nothing, except maybe pitchforks in your face. I don't know what you are saying here. > WRT baseload demand, I don't see how it's relevant to pretty mu
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by heurisko 5y ago
I'm the author of the comment. The definition of base load: The baseload[1] (also base load) on a grid is the minimum level of demand on an electrical grid over a span of time, for example, one week. A renewable system has to
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by heurisko 5y ago
I elided a few words from the Wikipedia article, it is: The baseload[1] (also base load) on a grid is the minimum level of demand on an electrical grid over a span of time, for example, one week. It was unintentional to reinterpret
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by heurisko 5y ago
> Yeah, so your argument assumes that retrofitting radiators with heat pumps is the only way to install It's not an argument, I'm just relaying what heat pump installers need to change in order for the pumps to work. The system

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