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I do not believe that you (or anyone) can reliably distinguish in a blind test the average $10 bottle from the average $20 bottle.
> Page caching in WordPress is usually (always?) serving up the pre-rendered HTML direct from disk

I'd be very curious how a WP plugin is managing this.

Third party hosting building in caching, normal in-line caches (like Varnish), nginx/apache caching, sure - I get those, and they behave how you say. But a WP plugin? I'm curious how that would bypass PHP & WP entirely.
That one great thing is arguably also the one horrible thing. The entry bar for plugins and themes is, well, non-existent which results in a lot of sub-par code that makes it onto sites of unsuspecting users. Configurability, while also usually a great thing, is taken to such a level with WordPress that you're often better off designing something catered specifically to your needs instead of loading half a dozen customizable themes/plugins/libraries
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What makes you’ll still have street parking then..? Cities in Europe are waking up and pushing cars out for good. Hope it’s sooner than later, especially in old towns.
Conflating the facts is very useful to ones who are trying to establish or control a narrative.
There might be a good reason for argon vs CO2; I'm not a wine guy.

But note that re: safety, if you need an inert gas, CO2 is usually your safest option. Why? Unlike other inert gases, you have a decent chance of detecting CO2 intoxication. For most people, excess CO2 is very unpleasant, giving you a chance (NOT a guarantee!) to recognize the hazard and escape. Meanwhile, if your body is short of oxygen because an inert gas leak has reduced O2 concentrations in the room you are in, there's a very good chance that won't notice and at some point will just pass out suddenly and die. Our bodies just don't have the ability to detect a lack of oxygen directly; we evolved to detect an excess of CO2 instead.

Now, I don't want to fear monger: you can certainly handle nitrogen and argon safely with some care and common sense. I myself used to work with liquid helium in large enough quantities to need an O2 alarm. But all things being equal, I'd use CO2.
> With just 50 employees, what you have is essentially a board of directors that have enormous leverage over you.

How true this is. I've seen what happens when you have a small number of very wealthy engineers in senior leadership roles in a small to midsize tech company that has gone public. They make it as difficult as possible to hire senior people from industry that's needed to fill critical skill gaps within the engineering org. Then all of the talented mid-level folks who have no internal mobility jump ship for Facebook.
why do you think uber dynamics are complex, exactly?
My experience in university was that digital was an absolute hodge podge of part timers writing things in 4 month intervals who are then replaced with other part timers writing things in 4 month intervals.

A few full time people, but for university systems, not learning materials or examples or research.
Yes. Python2 will get harder and harder to maintain as a dependency. You're fighting the whole ecosystem at this point.
Python 2 is end of life. Python 3 should be the only option for new projects. Python 3 is great.
Krugman recently came out and said almost all of his advice about globalism was wrong. The man can't be trusted.
The difference is, if they aren't being taught with up-to-date tooling, there knowledge with that tooling is worth exactly zero the moment they finish that course.

and lets not forget that with python 2 not being supported anymore, even getting it installed and running in the fist place is going to start getting harder and harder.
> You don't have to do this, you can set up sane permissions and use the wp cli[0] tool to install updates manually. I prefer to version sites with git and install updates locally, then git pull down on to the live server.

Curious as to how you manage WP with git, particularly around when new files are added by core/plugin updates, which I've always found a bit of a hassle to deal with?
Hey there, author here. We took a look at Rimworld on our podcast (https://www.pixelatedplaygrounds.com/bookclub/rimworld - gif art by me). Loved that game - it was on my top 10 games list a couple years back. Its focus on storytelling really sets it apart from some of the other base-builders.
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That's just because scientific code isn't all that important. If it were, it would be maintained, and it would be upgraded. There's no reason to maintain or upgrade any code most scientists write, so it'll molder forever, and nobody will notice when it finally becomes impossible to run.
Yes, starting something new in 2.x really doesn't make sense anymore outside very very special circumstances.
50RPS must be tuned or cached in some way, as the memory load for 50 requests to the full app should overwhelm the 1GB server and ~50-100ms is typical and the $5 instance has one core.
Looking at AIS dropping out I assume?
I had a nemesis who would steal all my ideas.

So I bought all the XP books, dog eared them, left them on my desk. My team nearly mutinied. I asked them to wait and see. Two weeks later, nemesis announced his team was all in for XP, Agile, pair programming, etc.

They never recovered, didn't make another release.

I tossed my copies, unread.
Another factor: office space is expensive. In a past job I remember seeing that the cost for our midtown office was 3000 per month per employee. A company might drastically reduce their costs by having an office that only accommodates some fraction of the staff
It is not part of the problem, it is part of the plan.

How else are we going to get bi-partisan support for the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021
There is not much wrong with reinventing the wheel. It is a less efficient use of time that often results in a beneficial serendipity. The opinion that reinventing the wheel is somehow a supremely evil satanic ritual is what prevents original solutions and allow expert beginners to become shitty decisions makers.
Just be evil™

There. Google can thank me later.
I also host a Wordpress site for some non-technical people that are part of the legal community.

I chose it because they just need to publish basic info, much like most govt places, and all the non-tech people find it easy to add content.

It's been up and running for 8 years using the same webhost. Easy to keep up to date, and easy to use, and it solves their business problem.

Nothing wrong with WP when you just want to post simple information.
Let’s be honest, stand ups are there so we can get together as a team. Otherwise, engineers would be heads down working on their own things.

Benefits of “Oh I yea I’ve worked on the same thing before” are usually realized outside of stand ups in over the shoulder chats or slack.

Stands ups are a waste of time. There, I said it. But, I like them, especially if you have a fun team.
Inflation has many measures. Household inflation is one of them, but there are many others, and using one measure (e.g. CPI) for measuring all inflation is problematic.
I've experienced that, even with IT faculty. For the most part, faculty don't code. They are too busy with teaching, research, and all the overhead and university politics that goes with it. Their students code, and the stuff they develop hangs around forever because it's in a publication and might be cited, but there's no funding to maintain it after the research grant ends. You're absolutely right about that.
From limited exposure, these codebases are often in truly awful shape. They've endured years or decades of having been hacked up just enough to finish someone's thesis or dissertation with no concern at all towards maintenance.

It should be no surprise that such a poorly engineered process produces awful results.
The majority of mining power signalled support for several attempts to do a hard fork to raise the block size limit:

https://twitter.com/btcinchina/status/804163370043588608

"3rd largest #bitcon #mining pool BW signal support for 8M blocksize, following the consensus from scaling conference."

And another initiative:

https://www.coindesk.com/btcchina-support-gives-bip-100-bitc...

"BTCChina Support Gives BIP 100 Bitcoin Hashrate Majority"

>>there were futures on each of these fork attempts and they traded at a tiny fraction of the price of Bitcoin.

The futures predicted the likelihood of the fork happening, not what percentage of miners supported them.
I'm in an awkward chain of dependencies. You see, in my industry there are very few players, and the current version of their software depends on much functionality and rather exacting specifications from products which are made using ArcGIS 10.2.1. Not 10.2. Not 10.2.2.

This is a very conservative hunk of software because this is not a "move fast and break things" industry. This is a "people die when we screw up" industry. So they haven't moved from ArcGIS 10.2.1 for our version. Change is coming but they have to be careful.

So ArcGIS 10.2.1 comes with a python install of 2.7.2 (I am pretty sure it is .2). And you are very strongly advised NOT TO UPGRADE THAT in big bold letters on the relevant help pages. So I need to use 2.7.2 to manipulate some stuff out of ArcGIS 10.2.1 to do "stuff."

And there I sit.
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I realize that it's really written for end users instead of developers, but that means scares me every time I see something as high profile as the White House using it. For the exact reason as you say here: "it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot and get your site hacked".

WP is absolutely NOT secure by design; it's a hot mess that has helped normalize ignoring security in our web applications. That we encourage its use, that we haven't replaced it with something better, is a damned travesty.
Yeah, but would grad students come to write code all the time?

The low pay is in exchange for the ability to do research, not to be a discount software engineer.
Native Firefox is really good at this, in addition to bookmark and password sync. It also allows sending tabs from device to device and syncs plugins and configuration options.
I find discoverability a problem totally apart from supporting/contributing/funding. Just even finding projects is awful. Google (and other general purpose search engines) is a disaster. They serve up obviously hacked websites before a GitHub page. GitHub's search is better, but it's hard to use. I highly recommend doing a really braindead naive search on github.com, then choosing the code tab, then filtering for Markdown. Now you're searching READMEs. I've found a ton of amazing projects this way that I had no other path to without knowing their specific README language beforehand.

Edit: also if you're using a regular ass search engine (or GH), just type "awesome [whatever topic/language/platform]" and unless your area of interest is insanely esoteric you're probably gonna find some stuff you wish you knew about, because some nerd maintains an "awesome" list for basically everything used by more than 3 people.
> Why argon instead of CO2

Argon is a bit less soluble in wine. But both are used by professionals.
Many of these debates about work from home remind me of the arguments about “online banking” or “e-commerce” in the early internet days. One side argues that the interpersonal relationships are critical and can never be replicated fully online. The other points at the convenience factor and claims a higher productivity for all involved.

The truth as always is somewhere in the middle. I do most of my banking online, but still visit financial institutions for important events (mortgages, large checks, etc.)

It does seem to me slightly odd that some people working in “tech”, aka an industry built on disruption, are adamant that WFH can never work. If anything,
remote employees are a goldmine of valuable data that can be tracked. Wondering if a meeting is valuable? In person you have to gauge people’s thoughts or rely on surveys. For online meetings just see (anonymously) in real time who’s firing up their slack or multitasking.

Obviously there’s a extensive employee privacy issues, but the bottom line is that we have all the fundamental technologies needed to provide as much data on remote employees as we do in the office.
The top percentage have no idea how to manage money or budget, they have people that do it for them.
> The difference is, if they aren't being taught with up-to-date tooling, there knowledge with that tooling is worth exactly zero the moment they finish that course.

So what? Students should not be paying tens of thousands of dollars to learn tooling that will be obsolete within a decade anyway.

All else being equal, sure, start kids off with the most recent tools available. But it wouldn't be near the top of my priority list.
Glad to see that noise reduction is on the roadmap! Does Filmulator support embedded lens profiles? I enjoyed using Filmulator btw, its default output are just lovely.
> Case in point, white people are more likely to be serial killers than other races

According to Wikipedia, that is false. There are more serial killers that are white in the US, but based on percentages of the U.S. population, whites are not more likely than other races to be serial killers.
That's one problem with Wordpress' default renders; it sends developers down those relatively narrow paths of customizing existing output. It's easy if requirements are flexible enough to allow that, but not the right CMS for truly customized content architecture and presentation.
I will note that you could make the system work fine without an atomic clock on the satellites. There are circuits that can keep a good enough sync to a ground-based reference. It would just be annoying.
the massive number of themes available (and plugins, if you're not a programmer)

and ease of starting with an almost-free "unlimited" shared hosting.

These are the only 2 good things about WordPress.

> I wish very much that there were 10% as many attractive themes available for static sites. Yes, you can port them, but it's a pain.

That's what I always did whenever I needed a website design.
I have two inboxes: 1) for personal, and 2) for work.

I then have multiple domains and addresses pointing to each one using Google Domain to Gmail forwarding.

Helps me organise things easily as I can easily create a new address, eg hn@kowlo.com, and then if a company I give my email to behaves badly, I can direct that address towards oblivion!

It also means I can switch to a different service in future if I need to.
According to JMS, Warner-Brothers, which owns the rights, has absolutely zero interest in remastering B5. Which really sucks.
>In any American city, especially big liberal ones (which is most of them) you can forget about societal norms. There are weird and crazy people everywhere. Nothing is “weird” to anybody who has spent any amount of time in them. Everyone walks right past a circus on their way to work.

> It’s also important not to generalize across such a diverse set of individuals and jurisdictions.

Pick one.
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Being arrested, even if never convicted, even if never charged with a crime and released with a hug and an apology, will have long-lasting negative effects on your life. For example, a citizen of a Visa Waiver Program country cannot travel to the US visa-free for the rest of his or her life if they have ever been arrested. They have to apply for a visitor visa and convince an immigration officer that they deserve a visa. Just a simple mistaken identity arrest can make the rest of your life difficult and there is nothing you can do to fix it, you just have to endure it.
Sure, the low pay is commensurate with...uh...some sort of ephemeral opportunities in the future.

But seriously, you're right. Grad students do grunt work, that's how it goes. And if an academic Python2 library is widely-used, porting it is important grunt work.

Surely, no serious researcher would let an important tool rot, right?
My go-to for creating a static website to be managed by non-tech people is Svelte + some markdown renderer. I put all the info into Markdown files so it can be easily changed, kind of like Jekyll.
Saying that it "is" 32-bit is the same as saying it's exclusively 32-bit.

It's like saying a ham sandwich "is" bread. Such a statement is flat-out false.
Do you mean “a monolith” or “the monolith?” The essential characteristic of monoliths is that you don’t get to start new ones for new projects.

The real skill of architecture is understanding everything your company has built before and finding the most graceful way to graft your new use case onto that. We get microservices proliferation because people don’t want to do this hard work.
Inflation isn’t evenly distributed, because new money isn’t evenly distributed. Those who get the new money earlier experience less inflation. This phenomena is known as the Cantillon effect.
I don't think migration was given enough serious consideration until Python 3.3 in 2012, and even then there were some baffling and massively unnecessarily migration-hostile decisions like not allowing a separate PYTHON3PATH envvar.

Anyway, how hard would it have been to have a "from __past__ import old_strings" that could have worked for the first few releases to allow the single biggest issue to be smoothed over universally and then fixed file by file under the Python 3 environment? With that in place a lot of shops could have just migrated on day 1 and then iteratively worked to finish the job rather than delaying for so long.
If I backup my WhatsApp messages in plaintext or screenshot my iMessage it’s still E2E. Once the message is delivered all bets are off.

Forwarding all my messages to some 3rd party service doesn’t break E2E anymore then forwarding them to my friends.
I don't have the experience to back my opinion, but my gut agrees.

Intuitively, it would seem to me that hiring past a certain threshold increases need to hire more engineers rather than quenching it — that is, the complexity resulting from changes made to the projects to keep such a high number of engineers productive approaches or even outstrips innate complexity and becomes unsustainable, demanding ever more engineers to keep it all afloat. Following this, a company that isn't keeping an eye out for net productive decreases as a result of hiring could end up with far more engineers than they actually need.

But I've always been an individual contributor, so my perspective may be limited.
This is exactly right. Prove your business with the bare minimum tools required and then when you have enough paying customers go out and hire lots of engineers to figure out how to make it scale.
Exactly. Even 100X larger blocks, meaning 100 MB blocks, would allow for very high levels of decentralization.
Most Europa pay something near $10 per gallon of gas. Does US taxing so little means their roads are half the cost?
Government contracting is not indicative of a free market.
I have a background in systems engineering, working on a commercial operating system. I code in several languages. To me, it’s just a given that adoption extends the lifetime of something, even if it is not under active development. There’s a strange phenomenon with Python in particular, where it is upsetting for some reason to be told that Python 2.x will still be in use after we retire. To me this is just the natural way things work. There is so much stuff out there using Python 2.x where there’s no programmer around to do porting work and because things work, there’s no reason to invest. Normally when this sort of thing has happened to say, a language like VB, it doesn’t really matter because the end result is something compiled with a runtime. As long as the environment the app runs in has consistent behavior (app compat) there’s nothing to do. But with Python that isn’t precompiled you need the toolchain and dependencies. Python 2.x isn’t going anywhere, so I think Pip will ultimately have to keep and “freeze” support for Python 2.x, rather than not supporting it. If you are reading this and infuriated, perhaps ask some old hands you know, instead of taking my word for it. Flash is perhaps the closest example I can think of. Flash was “over” ages ago but browsers have had to keep support for an awful long time.

I give their decision a week before they revert and come up with an alternative.
If only university's had some way of getting funding from, I don't know, something like teaching courses, that could be used to pay people to maintain and update the software they depend on.

I just finished a Graduate diploma at a local University, a single subject had over 100 students each paying $3500 to do that subject alone yet the Uni tried to claim they didn't have the staff/resources to update that course (that was 10 hours of face to face class time) each session. I find it hard to imagine that running that one session cost even a fraction of the $350,000 paid by students to run such that there was nothing left over to fund resourcing for updating the materials.
You can not trust the EPA and still drink tap water. Test it yourself if you want (I actually agree that their lead levels are way too generous).

In Seattle it's basically raw snowmelt with 0 metals (had mine tested for heavy metals, register 0). Lots of places in the US have perfect water even if you don't trust the EPA's warning thresholds.
> Frankly, many engineers want to use the latest trends like microservices or NoSQL because they believe that’s what’s best for their resume, even if it’s not necessarily best for the company.

Probably nobody is using NoSQL for their resume. It's because picking a relational database, while usually the correct choice, is HARD when you're operating in an environment that changes quickly and has poorly defined specifications.

When you start seeing engineers have difficulty reasoning about what the data model should be and nobody willing to commit to one, it's the clearest sign that organizationally things are sour and you need to start having very firm and precise conversations with product.
We're trying. There's still a lot of bureaucracy around USDS (which we work with to make things happen), but the org itself aims to be an excellent working environment. Happy to answer questions.
Well hey, the opinions are mostly my own, with the exception of standups. Newbies should probably have a mentor / shepherd that communicates with them directly and often.
I'm surprised. I read somewhere that Apollo etc. were at fractions of an atm.
following the dynamic part of this, it looks like they recommend DotJS.

https://sitejs.org/#dynamic-sites

I am not too familiar with DotJS, but it looks like its depreciated/unmaintained for years.

https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs
Fr. Caughlin's anti-Semitism was reprehensible, but given the pervasive atmosphere of anti-Semitism at the time, was it actually the distinguishing feature that caused him to be singled out?

On a historical note, the 'Protocols' was originally intended as racist satire, based on the unlikely premise of a leak from the key plotters in a conspiracy. It was immediately received as if it were genuine.
I also have doubts that the climate exists.