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by pmontra 1y ago
Maybe "ruby can't handle this" was a short form for "we can't run this in the Rails controller because the response would take too long" possibly calling 3rd party APIs, "and we would run out of threads.&q
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We were offloading to jobs every long running activity in the Elixir/Phoenix project I've been working on years ago. There is no other way. The response to a web request must complete in a short time and free the server for furthe
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by pmontra 1y ago
Counter example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empire What's important is the life expectancy at a given age. There used to be a huge infant mortality but the half of newborn that made it to
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by pmontra 1y ago
Nice app. I found a radio from the town nearby. Never heard about it. I even like the music they are playing. On the bad side, this is an app which is very difficult to use with uMatrix because it loads JS from the domain of the selected ra
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Light is always light and has always the same speed but its path in a gas is less straightforward than in a vacuum because of the interactions with atoms. It takes longer to get through. Its speed as we can measure it is c divided by the re
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by pmontra 1y ago
It reminds me of this excerpt from Coders at Work, in Chapter 13 - Fran Allen: Seibel: When do you think was the last time that you programmed? Allen: Oh, it was quite a while ago. I kind of stopped when C came out. That was a big blow. We
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by pmontra 1y ago
My quick estimate before clicking the link was: From my memory: 3 million people, 1.5 living in the capital. Let's say 1 million are living outside cities. 4 people per yurt. 250,000 yurt. Add some extra yurts because there will be peo
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by pmontra 1y ago
People instinctively or factually know that there are other apps that do basically the same thing for free. It's the case for messaging apps and for almost any other kind of app. It's hard to beat the price point of a free app, ev
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by pmontra 1y ago
This is the story from the point of view of a user: One day the app asked me to pay. It was less than 1 Euro per year, I think. I never associated a credit card to the app store (Android) so I did not pay and waited to see what would happen
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by pmontra 1y ago
I'd agree with you if I'd setup my solar panels. But if I'd ever install solar at home I'd hire a company to do all the setup. I believe that it would fulfill industry standards.
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by pmontra 1y ago
Long term as "days", yes. But all of Spain had a blackout for at least 12 hours a few weeks ago. Turin, Italy, had a 10 hours blackout yesterday.
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Yes, that must be the case because if my customers and I would care about compile time guarantees we would not be working with Ruby. In that years long Phoenix project one of the developers on the team added dialyzer type annotations to the
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by pmontra 1y ago
Ecto was literally the component I liked less in all the Phoenix stack when I worked with it after a dozen of years of Rails. I did maybe 5 years of Phoenix for a customer of mine and went back to Rails for another customer. It's good
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by pmontra 1y ago
> you are looking at people who don't exist living lives that aren't possible to sell you products that won't help you That's a description of most TV commercials.
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by pmontra 1y ago
Rails has view helpers for that. Instead of <td class="<%= teacher.colour_coded_availability %>"> there would be <td class="<%= colour_coded_availability(teacher) %>"> but no metapro
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by pmontra 1y ago
You are right. I also read other comments pointing at that. Nevertheless it's often debatable what's maintenance and what's a new feature. Hopefully nobody is looking at it in too much detail. Example: a one line change to ig
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by pmontra 1y ago
Your example was quite good actually. Even in sw the people that build the system is not necessarily the people that monitor, maintain and use it, even for systems used only inside a company. I used to work in a telco and we had 3 separate
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by pmontra 1y ago
TL;DR > The temporal match between the ejecta layer and the onset of the extinctions and the agreement of ecological patterns in the fossil record with modeled environmental perturbations (for example, darkness and cooling) lead us to co
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by pmontra 1y ago
It's got some KDE 4 vibe https://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-KDE-SC-4-4-on... which in turn had probably a Windows 7 feel. A random image at https://www.computerworld.ch/software/wi
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by pmontra 1y ago
No worries. By the way, I noticed right now that Reader Mode is available in this page for desktop Firefox but not for Android FF.
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Firefox has a reader mode. It does not work on every site, probably because on some sites it can't decide where it's the content. Examples with Firefox nightly on Android: it works on the site this thread is about, it does not wor
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by pmontra 1y ago
I have a nice view of the skyscrapers of a large city some 70 km to the North. Looking at it from my lawn chair probably won't kill me but it could make me blind.
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Is that this controversy? https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/5341/did-cauchy-forg...
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Those extensions are from the same author. I don't know the details but maybe gorhill didn't have the time to maintain uMatrix anymore and added the very minimum uMatrix functionality to uBO and settled for that. Luckily uMatrix k
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by pmontra 1y ago
This is extremely subjective but the 80% of the experience for me is cornering. What I care in a car is: does it handle corners well? Does it brake well? BTW, those are also important points for safety. Acceleration and speed are nice to ha
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by pmontra 1y ago
Well, does Windows have 80%+ coverage of Linux features? Windows is Windows and Linux is Linux. I've been using Linux as my desktop OS since 2009 because I need some of its features and Windows doesn't have them. It improved with
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by pmontra 1y ago
Well, it's the core of democracy: the right of never ever voting for a given candidate again. What you are writing about is probably denying to some people the right of candidating themselves or even the right to vote. There are exampl
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It still works very well. I'm using it on both Linux and Android. The UI is far better than its replacement inside uBO.
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The post is 504 now. Alternative link: http://archive.today/N9ZTb
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by pmontra 1y ago
I do read ebooks, even of books that I own as paperbacks or hardbacks. I never bought an ereader because I read them on my phone because in that way I always have them with me. No need to have a separate device. Of course I could read both

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