there's no escape! brew another cup!
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it just had less brackets and <> symbols when they were done.
Hence making the parser more inefficient than XML?
It wasn't without some advantage. The client hating it didn't bode well though
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I woulda tried them on JSON. As long as they use an editor that keeps track of nested brackets I think it's much more natural than XML.
I switched to TOML for my stuff.
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The wheel has had a number of innovations over the years. The earliest wheels were flat disks of wood that were heavy and slow turning. The Romans invented spokes and metal rims which made them faster, more durable, and gave them more traction. Questions we need answered: What is this wheel in particular designed to do? Is there any way we could make it work more efficiently at its task? Do we value performance over reliability, or vice versa? Etc. Etc.
What is this wheel in particular designed to do? Is there any way we could make it work more efficiently at its task? Do we value performance over reliability, or vice versa?
It works fine. It's a perfectly good wheel.
Hey where is Underwaterbob?
He's trapped in that Jigsaw room.
The door is unlocked though?
Yeah, but there is a wheel in there and UWB won't leave until he figures out if there is a way to improve it.
Has any one asked him to?
No
Will he get paid to improve it?
No
What does the wheel do?
You roll it out of the way so you can exit the room.
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I mean surely it could at least be optimized somewhat...
It probably could, and don't call me Shirley.
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Investor: Can the wheel be made into a subscription service?
Consumer: It say's here I can subscribe to 'Wheel Pro' for only $69.99/month and I will automatically receive all the latest features the second they come out!
Noob: I just use WIMP, it's free and does 99% of what Wheel Pro does. I don't need all those extra features.
Consumer: Psh, WIMP is ugly and you can't even adjust the tire pressure by millipascals.
Noob: They added that feature in March.
Consumer: I NEED IT FOR WORK OK!
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I'll just steal the wheel and reinvent it later
gasp! You wouldn’t download a wheel!
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What is this wheel in particular designed to do? Is there any way we could make it work more efficiently at its task? Do we value performance over reliability, or vice versa?
It works fine. It's a perfectly good wheel.
Hey where is Underwaterbob?
He's trapped in that Jigsaw room.
The door is unlocked though?
Yeah, but there is a wheel in there and UWB won't leave until he figures out if there is a way to improve it.
Has any one asked him to?
No
Will he get paid to improve it?
No
What does the wheel do?
You roll it out of the way so you can exit the room.
Will he get paid to improve it?
No
Well, now I'm clearly going to have to find a way to monetize the wheel as well.
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Now we do have computers! Think of the models of wheels that could help us improve wheels!
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This is a poorly designed horror trap. Here, let me help you!
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Will he get paid to improve it?
No
Well, now I'm clearly going to have to find a way to monetize the wheel as well.
Put a dynamo on it and sell the electricity
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Will he get paid to improve it?
No
Well, now I'm clearly going to have to find a way to monetize the wheel as well.
Put a lock on the wheel and charge people $0.99 to temporarily unlock it.
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STEP AWAY FROM THE WHEEL!!1!
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The Wheel weaves as The Wheel wills.
Wtf did not expect a Wheel of Time reference lmao
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How is it licensed, Jigsaw? Eh? What distro is it from? Is that a fucking Snap wheel?
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The wheel has had a number of innovations over the years. The earliest wheels were flat disks of wood that were heavy and slow turning. The Romans invented spokes and metal rims which made them faster, more durable, and gave them more traction. Questions we need answered: What is this wheel in particular designed to do? Is there any way we could make it work more efficiently at its task? Do we value performance over reliability, or vice versa? Etc. Etc.
Sounds like proprietary blobs.
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We'd rather re-create reality where we know everything rather than taking the time to learn how to use a system someone else wrote.
IT and DevOPS does this too.
I worked with a group once that re-invented XML so that non-technical people could create text-based rules instead of writing code. But it ended up with a somewhat rigid naming structure with control characters and delimiters. The non technical people hated it more the actual XML they had used prior.
Re: the not-XML-instead-of-code thing. Eventually, this sort of thing turns into a programming language. It's just like carcinisation. Or you wind up writing ever-more code to support the original design. The environment inevitably creates evolutionary pressure that only if/else and iteration logic can solve, forcing the design ever closer to being Turing-complete.
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I'll just steal the wheel and reinvent it later
Do you work for Apple?
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Spent months setting up my home server with Docker containers while learning Linux.
Everything worked perfectly fine.Then I realised Ubuntu Server is just a Debian-flavored landfill. Switched to EndeavourOS.
Everything worked perfectly fine.Then I made NixOS my daily driver and thought, "Hey, let’s ruin my weekend." Migrated the server.
Everything worked perfectly fine.Found out I could run containers as systemd services. Replaced Docker out of sheer spite using compose2nix.
Everything worked perfectly fine.Then I heard btrfs was the bee's knees. Reformatted my drives, migrated again, and spent a week learning why subvolumes are better than sex.
Everything worked perfectly fine.Got a free MacBook. Slight hardware bump. Migrated again. Spent hours fighting T2 drivers while deepthroating Tim Apple's cock.
Everything worked perfectly fine.Rewrote every systemd service as NixOS modules. Why? Something something George Mallory.
Everything still works perfectly fine.Did I ever notice a difference from the frontend?
Nope.Was this a good use of my time?
Fuck no.Did it need to happen?
Does the pope compile from source in the woods?Im at the compose2nix phase of this pipeline. Ive got a bunch or sevices in Docker compose files and all of my systems have been running Nix for over a year now. Ive gotten the hang of my repo and made a couple modules for my specific uses and im hooked.
What would you suggest to migrate all my compose files into a nix friendly environment? I use flakes as well.
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It wasn't without some advantage. The client hating it didn't bode well though
The client hating it just means you're smarter than them and should press on to help them outgrow their ignorance. It's a good sign.
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I feel this! When I need to do something in my computer my first impulse is usually to think about writing the code. Doesn't matter how many free tools are already around. Why? Because software design and coding is fun! It's not cost-effective in terms of time and effort, but way more fun than reading a manual for an existing thing and getting good at that thing. Example: right now I'm looking for a self-hosted wiki to organize my upcoming D&D campaign. As I look through the docs for dokowiki and wikijs I'm already thinking, how hard can it be to write one? A mind is terrible thing!
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It's like climbing a mountain. It always looks quite doable from ground level. Only when you're two thirds of the way up and exhausted, and another peak has just come into view and the sun is setting and there's a storm rolling in, do you realize why other people chose not to do this. If you survive you'll put it behind you and have the same idea again next week.
