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Is that a one of those airplanes with the dangerous cargo doors?
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I know what a computer is, but what's a "disk storage unit"?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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It's similar to one of these[^] - but bigger and smaller, both at the same time!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes, I remember how excited my friends and I were when we bought a 10MB 14 inch hard disc unit from a PDP-11 at auction for just $75.00! Took me a month to wire-wrap a board for our IMSAI-8080 to interface with it, then another couple of weeks of assembly to get a working file system for the CP/M
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Hah! We designed/built a 3MB ramdisk back in the early/mid 1980s.
It used 8 Mbit dram chips - the biggest that were available back then.
It was the size of a small suitcase and cost £30,000.
Yes, we sold a few...
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Would you please repeat that speech when one of the youngsters starts ranting about how to write code again?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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One of these youngsters could be the one that builds an AI to write code and puts us all out of a job.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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I doubt that. Up to now only Darwin (in proxy) was able to write something of this complexity. It took him a few million years.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I would tend to agree with you there but when super computers can process in the exaflop and zettaflop range, simulating digital evolution from inception to intelligence might only take a few months.
Then the machines take over 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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No. The proof for fitness is a successful life. Where will that take place? You can hardly use World of Warcraft to train AIs. This way you may eventually get the perfect WoW AI, but nothing that can face reality. What computer can run the Matrix? And how many millions of individuals must it keep going to the bitter end in this simulation? How long will it take until evolution finally goes down the intelligence path? And after that, how long will it take to get an acceptable AI?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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At least there wasn't too much risk back then of losing your 64GB thumbdrive simply because it's so (physically) small.
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Yeah ... I think Dij the Cat has decided mine is a cat toy. No idea where it is ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I know how you feel there. Thumb drives, dongles, phone charger cords, the USB cord to $140 headphones all become play toys for my cat. She is really spoiled. I even bought her a new house (it's her house, I just sleep there  ).
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Only one way to go: Build your own.[^]
This is the Zwölf master processor with
- 32k extra RAM to run alone for now, will be replaced by an 8 meg banked RAM
- ROM for its BIOS
- 8k RAM for the stack and everything else that's better not switched away
- logic to interface to up to 8 processor cards
- Interrupt controller, just in case one of the subprocessors has some results
- software 'bit banged' RS232 for testing, will disappear later
I will (once again) check everything and may finally come to the point where I can have boards made and a (hopfully) working prototype. Most work now will go into finishing the BIOS.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Ah those were the days, sales commissions were 40% and the clients had very little choice but to use your stuff.
IBM and Wang and NCR and ... really knew how to fleece the clientele.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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A couple of years ago, I hosted a WordPress site and I kept up with the updates, but at one point a script file got slipped in (posted nefariously) to the site and it was corrupted by hackers.
I deleted the entire site.
It annoyed me so much I vowed to never darken the WP doorstep again. 
But, WP has such great quick and easy way to post new entries that yesterday I crawled back over to it because I just want to get some content up _quickly_. 
However, now the web site is sooooooo slooooooooowwwww.... 
Ugh. PHP. 
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Never had the misfortune but +1 for the thread title!
Slogans aren't solutions.
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PeejayAdams wrote: Never had the misfortune
You are a happy dev then. 
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WordPress is for when you're too lazy to build a real website.
My personal site runs on WP. And my host does periodic backups for me, so if it gets defaced, I'll just restore from a backup and not care. My host also does this nifty/annoying thing where if someone tries to brute force the login script, they detect it and automatically chmod 700 it until I SSH in and change it back.
If I actually cared about the site, though, I'd use something more secure.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: WordPress is for when you're too lazy to build a real website.
Ian Shlasko wrote: If I actually cared about the site, though, I'd use something more secure.
Both are great points. I agree 100%.
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raddevus wrote: Ugh. PHP.
No - just php written by WordPress gnomes instead of making a real website.
WordPress is made to be one-size-fits-all. Like pantyhose of that type, it's rather easy for it to get runs.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: just php written by WordPress gnomes
Good points. 
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I've found that for WP performance, if you have some control over your hosting environment there are a few things you can do that should improve things significantly:
- If you're not running PHP 7 yet, it make a huge difference. You'll get a 2-3x performance bump in WP when moving from PHP 5.6 -> PHP 7. If you're running 5.3 you'll see an even bigger jump.
- Enable PHP's opcache if it's not enabled right now. For an application like Wordpress that runs the same files over and over again, the opcache gives a significant performance boost.
- Install a WP caching plugin if you don't use one already. This won't make the admin pages load any faster, but it'll make the user facing part of your site much faster.
- If you're running MySQL 5.5 or older, consider upgrading to 5.7 (or switching to MariaDB, which is a drop in MySQL replacement). This won't help you as much as the PHP updates, but it'll get you a bit of extra performance.
I realize you may very well be aware of all of those already, but I figured I'd share the information in case it's useful to anyone who comes across this post. Of course, if you're running on shared hosting or in an environment where you aren't able to make these changes easily (or at all), none of this advice will be very useful.
FWIW, on a $5 Digital Ocean VPS with 512MB of RAM, I'm seeing a total page load time of <500ms for a low traffic Wordpress site. It feels faster than that, though; the page and its content are visible almost immediately; a large chunk of that 500ms is from images and scripts loading asynchronously. The downside is that if you go this route, you now have to worry about administering a Linux or BSD server and keeping it secure. 
modified 21-Nov-16 11:44am.
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This was really great. Thanks for all the tips. I will look into these and see what I can do on my host.
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Worth a bookmark. Nice one.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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