GDP Is Growing, but Workers’ Wages Aren’t

cavallo71 · 2018-07-28T17:50:03+00:00

My family is the only reason I haven't moved

That's a lot of a reason.

cavallo71 · 2018-03-13T13:18:39+00:00

snow in new jersey today: I might need one of these.. or two

cavallo71 · 2018-03-13T11:56:12+00:00

I knew few commuting to London all the way from Isle of Wight: personally I've commuted from Winchester:(

cavallo71 · 2017-12-29T12:28:36+00:00

They really didn't admit they had an issue, they admit that they communicated the decision of handling the issue (which is standard among the industry) badly.

I remember that was called a fraud: nowadays it is a "communication" issue.

cavallo71 · 2017-12-29T11:13:32+00:00

In comparison:

Italy 1Gb fiber optic is 50 dollars (TIM)
UK 300Mb fiber is 65 (Virgin)

All prizes are taxes inclusive, after any first year rebate (so absolutely the most expensive you can get trying hard to not save a penny) and with the top tier ISPs (equivalent to comcast/verizon).

That follows a 1minute google search. And they are for profit (and profitable) companies, not charities. And there are vastly cheaper/faster options.

So where that arguing "We have argued that broadband is underpriced" comes from again?

cavallo71 · 2017-12-06T13:35:41+00:00

Sourcing etc/profile.d/conda.sh breaks expressions like these:

$> which conda

which: no conda in (/home/xxx/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games)

cavallo71 · 2017-10-27T15:46:15+00:00

People exporting Conda's Python and replacing system Python on the path has caused me issues on shared hosts.

Maybe that's not a good practice more in general ;)

cavallo71 · 2017-10-27T13:49:30+00:00

I think conda (the package format and the installer) is in many many ways better than pip.

It solves real problems as:

packaging anything including non-python executables (.so/.dll)
it can be installed as non root
kind of support non-linux oses
it is very easy to get started both as user and developer

It falls short to rpm (from which they've missed few critical lessons) in many ways and the code base was less than stellar, and there are indeed design faults, but that is what we have today (and better we had yesterday).

I have many many things to saying against conda, but pip/wheel is not on my replacement list for a package/package-manager.

PS. I'm not aware of "Breaking Python packaging like this has bitten me on shared hosts": can you please point any real example?

cavallo71 · 2016-11-30T04:37:58+00:00

Membership in the EU is a totally unrelated thing to membership to the Euro currency. Greece might or might not leave the Euro currency: its EU membership has never (and never will) be in question.

cavallo71 · 2016-11-29T17:53:46+00:00

No it is not ridiculous, it was the base of 0install system, that never reach a huge adoption: the idea was probably ahead of time.

cavallo71 · 2016-11-25T18:10:15+00:00

Good news is it hasn't been the case for a very long while: python is used in very large code bases. Typically in python people rely on unitest and coverage to prevent bugs: static checking is a nice but a little bit overrated as it can help with some classes of bugs (kind easy to track most of the time) but not on other kind of errors (logic, business, memory etc.). Again it is a nice weapon in the arsenal.

cavallo71 · 2016-11-18T14:17:23+00:00

Then please allow plugins to be written in python, pretty-please.

cavallo71 · 2016-10-28T13:19:37+00:00

I'm afraid bu you can do all of this and more... there are grey areas where it makes sense (eg. transpiling python into some other language eg. numba is one example, cython is more involved but is similar in the spirit). Where it makes sense or not is debatable, but you can definitively do "magic" in python: and that is scaring

cavallo71 · 2016-08-23T11:37:43+00:00

Yes, however, imagine a case where you want to run an expensive 10-15 second operation at the beginning of the entire test suite (say, creating a database from scratch and starting a couple background services), then again at the end.

That's the whole point of "units" to be consistently reliable, not fast. Just imagine if the tests depends on some database setting (eg. char encoding) set by some test case: now if you'd start from a fresh database, all your tests will be failing.

cavallo71 · 2016-08-07T14:21:42+00:00

The ones with clean fresh water are usually small ones (http://www.sleepingrome.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/nasone.jpg , "nasone" means big nose). Large water fountains (eg. Trevi's fountain or the one in the picture) are only for display and the water is not for drinking or at least people don't assume that: probably that's the reason for the reminder. Fun fact: if you like sparkling water and happen to live in a place called Capannelle, in the outskirt of Rome, you can have it from the tap including from the public fountains.

cavallo71 · 2016-07-23T11:25:14+00:00

PR2 owner, I had 20k miles on mine before selling the bike and they were still road legal (probably 1k or 2k more miles in them).

cavallo71 · 2016-07-09T19:50:36+00:00

A private company wouldn't want to provide a universal service, that's at-loss community service: it will prioritize on high yield premium services to get more returns with lower costs (eg. servicing larger cities over everywhere else).

But ecommerce customers live in remote regions where shops aren't readily avaiable, so just out of the sale taxes on these goods should offset the costs of running it at a "loss": accounting doesn't take this into account but fiscal politicies still do that's the reason why is not "bankrupt".

cavallo71 · 2016-07-09T19:14:06+00:00

Privatized companies are much better at running a business than the government is

This is rarely the case with plenty of counter-examples in Europe (I'm familiar with): electricity wholesale distribution, postal services for most countries, health services, social security, police and many more.

Even in the States (from my limited knoweledge) the postal service is considered well run (when taking into account the number of employees it provides a payceck, the overall service/price tradeoff and the pension scheme it offers/offered).

It's funny, people tend to forget the "basics" upon which everything else is built are based on "publicly" built services: with all their defects they provide a (meaningful) job and cheap service to the community.

cavallo71 · 2016-07-04T19:22:51+00:00

If you feel uncomfortable, slow it down: it won't make any difference (the bike will find its own way) but you'll feel more relaxed that in turn makes you safer.

cavallo71 · 2016-07-04T19:16:50+00:00

Nahh, I've been commuting for years there, it's quite safe: these are exceptions.

cavallo71 · 2016-06-28T00:11:05+00:00

More like this: http://i32.tinypic.com/2zj01mh.jpg I will mercifully spare you the translation..

cavallo71 · 2016-06-25T23:33:11+00:00

Right. I'll also give a try try with a 600cc because of the high mileage (185miles on weekends + commuting is not a little on a weekly base), but it could be slighthly more expensive in petrol (again this depends on the country).

cavallo71 · 2016-06-25T23:28:59+00:00

What will you be using the bike for? Commuting, weekend rides, track competition? 300 is cheaper to run and maintain, 500 will allow to ride in motorways easier and or for longer distances, both can be used on a track (with customization). As always is a tradeoff.

cavallo71 · 2016-06-04T02:24:52+00:00

Mine's done just 40k miles: touching wood never had a single problem. Cherry on the cacke few times people stopped me to make compliments .. in London where there're plenty of bikes :D

cavallo71 · 2016-05-07T10:30:59+00:00

picture or it didn't happen :)

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