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Cake day: June 29th, 2020

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  • I hate to play devils advocate but I think stopping duplicate questions has made it easier to find answers and it forces all opinions on into one place.

    I actually think it helps many developers and new people. A programming skill is learning how read other peoples code or apply their ideas to your code base.

    The biggest problem I’ve experienced is one of trust that has come about from the websites age. Now we’ve had 10 years of Stack overflow, when you visit a question you can’t necessarily be sure if the accepted answer is the modern or best solution or not.






  • The first consideration is always your internet speed. If you’re building a pc then you’re self hosting from house. In many countries the internet is ADSL meaning the upload is very slow but the download is fast. However for hosting you need fast upload. You’ll need a fibre connection to stream video from home.

    I rent a server in the cloud to do self-hosting due to the subtle difference in my definition of hosting, being that I control the services and data they hold, not that they are literal hosted at home.

    Beyond that consideration I’d say everything else is trial and error and you should experiment.




  • Only socialism and communism try to ensure everyone survives. This isn’t really an attack on capitalism. This is also the reason we have nationalism, racism etc, no?

    In any case, technology and efficiency mean we could support more people being alive and with better lives if we really did want to. Plus there’s the potential of mining and colonisation of space. We’ve barely scratched the surface. Vertical farms might be the future.