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coandco commented on Signal is having technical difficulties status.signal.org/... · Posted by u/tonymet

earth2mars · 5 years ago

me too. just donated. please comment below if you also donated. let's keep this thing running! Its personal interest now, because I moved bunch of groups from whatsapp and its not working now! but at the same I love these guys for what they do.

coandco · 5 years ago

I donated as well. I've gotten a lot of good use out of Signal over the years.

coandco commented on A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected” twitter.com/rkoutnik/stat... · Posted by u/luu

me551ah · 6 years ago

The biggest problem with Slack for me is how slow it is. I have been using chat apps for a couple of decades now, starting from mIRC to IM chat applications. And slack is by far the slowest chat product that I have ever used. Takes a few seconds to startup, takes GBs of ram just so that I can send chat messages and the interface just isn't snappy. Earlier I would keep chat apps open in my system tray all the time since they were so lightweight and barely consumed any resources, but every now and then I need to shut slack down if I'm running out of memory.

coandco · 6 years ago

I'd recommend Ripcord [1] as a blazingly fast native app that can talk on Slack and Discord while taking a max of ~50-100MB of memory at any given time, even with lots of connections/channels open.

[1] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

coandco commented on Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Prices Grew Most zillow.com/research/birth... · Posted by u/jseliger

fooker · 8 years ago

I once attended a lecture by a well known statistics professor, who demonstrated a similar correlation between the price of a kg of apples and the rate of divorce in his country.

coandco · 8 years ago

http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations seems relevant here.

coandco commented on Safe ways to do things in bash github.com/anordal/shellh... · Posted by u/signa11

geofft · 8 years ago

By "excessive verbosity" I do mean poor readability and poor maintainability. If you're invoking 5 commands and most of your Python code is wiring up the commands to each other right, just write 5 lines of shell, don't make me pull up the subprocess docs to see if your 30 lines of Python are doing the same thing and how to make a small change without risking pipes deadlocking.

Python is readable and maintainable when it's doing the things Python is suited towards doing. Running lots of external processes is not one of those. This is not a complaint or an insult to Python as a language (which I use regularly!), it is just a statement that different languages have different strengths and you should use the right tool for the job.

If you know of a good Python library that handles things like shell pipelines, <(...), and automatic creation of process groups (so that signal handling does the right thing), I'd be extremely interested, because I would like to use Python for these use cases. But it's currently the wrong thing for maintainable code for this one use case, and there is a very good language that handles this use case very well and is extremely stable and widely deployed.

coandco · 8 years ago

I'd recommend checking out Plumbum (https://plumbum.readthedocs.io) -- at the very least, it has a solid base for easily setting up pipelines, input/output redirection, and signal handling.