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Comment · 5 years ago
I’ve been running caddy on a FreeBSD jail proxying to another one running uwsgi+python3 and it has been a breath of fresh air.
Though, it comes with a somewhat steep learning curve.
But, in the end you can throw away that pesky search foo hat, and have some deserved peace of mind.
Comment · 5 years ago
Usually I recommend the book as my friends don’t like summaries. But thanks anyway.
Comment · 5 years ago
The OP lost me on a bunch of bad analogies. I’ll keep recommending to my friends The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo Cipolla.
[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49348225-the-basic-laws-...
Comment · 5 years ago
> Critical to this essay is Joseph and Buchenau’s interpretation of the post-1940 period vis-à-vis the other works under review. Using a term coined by Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990, they describe a “perfect dictatorship” between 1940 and 1968: a one-party system with the appearance of democracy that sustained regular elections and avoided military coups and social upheavals. In the reorganization that became the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in 1946, the party removed the army from formal political power. The state/party emphasized securing dominance with loyalty, order, and representation of PRI sectors in local elections. The latter required central government reliance on local strongmen and their minions, effective political and cultural brokers. [0]
> The public split encouraged voices from the right and left. Add to this political contention the increasingly visible contradictions: uneven benefits of economic growth, population explosion creating pressure on the land and migration to cities, growing unemployment and inflation. For Buchenau and Joseph, the students rebelling in Mexico City in 1968 represent a coming-together of these critical contradictions: they demanded the rule of law, freedom from repression, and social justice. [0]
I’m definitely not an expert in Mexican history. But that to me sounds an awful lot like a typical dictatorship, and a bad one at that. Otherwise, people wouldn’t push back.
Comment · 5 years ago
Ironically you just loosely described a dictatorship, a democratically “elected” single party government.
Comment · 5 years ago
Little humans in good shape can sustain for several seconds bursts of 1000W+ on a bike. Not so little after all.
Comment · 5 years ago
Write that method in a category of NSObject and you’ll have it now. Objetive-C is a very extensible language with lots of syntactic sugar to help us out. Also, meta programming is lots of fun, but impossible without diving into the runtime guts which is part of the fun.
Comment · 5 years ago
Imagine a society similar to the internet where people roam hiding their identities while doing whatever comes to their head. We have great times ahead, in Mars. I’m seriously starting to consider buying those tickets after all.
Comment · 5 years ago
I’ve been there. The truth is that css media print doesn’t work with anything complex. After spending a week at it back in January, it felt very much like IE6 whac-a-mole. Long story short, I ended up fixing it in python using rst2pdf. Brilliant library.
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks for your link, but I will start here -> https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02282
Comment · 5 years ago
There’s no such a thing as small price to pay attached to privacy. You either have it or you don’t.
Comment · 5 years ago
What did the trick for me was a decent chair, a trackpad with tap to click enabled, and most importantly I worked a bit on my triceps.