DynamoDB is consistent and scalable, not fast and cheap.
DDB is great for storing data that is required to be scalable and never needs to be joined. Add in DAX, developer time necessary to orchestrate transactions, calculate the scaling costs and...that's how AWS gets you.
Plus, local development requires half-complete emulators or a hosted database you're charged for.
No, maybe people should think twice about DynanoDB.
Dokuwiki is fast and bloat free and works great on mobile browsers since 2012. I've been running it on the same single board computer since 2013 (good luck running Wordpress or Nextcloud on that hardware!).
Install is super easy - linux-apache-php and no DB so it runs everywhere - and it hardly needs maintenance(all I do is upgrade every now and then when a new version is released).
It's theme/template may be dull but it's simple, clean and not outdated yet. Moreover it's a wiki, not a blog so... who cares? Content is all that matters!
That said I like choice be it for themes or wiki apps!
Hardly needs maintenance at all was not my experience.
My primary driver for seeking out a new wiki was because of how difficult testing and managing Dokuwiki can be. Updates to the main wiki are infrequent, plugins are often abandoned, and the setup, running, and maintained of the wiki is non-trivial.
I recommended wiki.js is easier to run, uses markdown by default, backs up data as flat files in a git repository, and does not require many resources either. Plus, there's a supported Docker image that works out of the box.
There's no problem with choice. Dokuwiki is frequently recommended to new users and wonder if that wiki is an appropriate recommendation. I explicitly would suggest wiki.js or something similar to someone not already running Dokuwiki.
I've never had an issue in 7 years while upgrading (unpack a tgz file and minor cleaning) so my experience is different. Backup is not an issue because all pages are just text files I can rsync anywhere. Plugins can be updated clicking a button in the admin panel and infrequent updates to the main wiki is a feature to me while all is working fine. In the end it depends of what you use it for and right now I trust this solution and I'm confident it will keep working in the future.
I've looked into wiki.js and its really nice but I doubt I could run it on my hardware and I'd have to install node and Postgres (docker is not my thing, I'm old school!). Anyway the real deal breaker to me is that mathjax support is not there yet and I need formulas.
Dokuwiki will function perfectly for some specific use-cases. The file format and plugins are not something that should be glossed over with Dokuwiki though.
Yes, it's possible to rsync flat files from Dokuwiki to somewhere else, but Dokuwiki files are stored in a unique format. Moving files from one machine to another does not make the format more ubiquitous or easier to parse. The amount of work required to migrate data out of Dokuwiki may be trivial to some very experienced developers but would be neigh impossible for greener developers.
The plugin ecosystem of Dokuwiki is reminiscent of Jenkins. Dokuwiki plugins can do anything, but few seem to do them well or without quirks. Some require updating the CSS and HTML template for a theme. Others require modifying the host system. Few plugins are active, modern, and useful to more than a subset of specialized scenarios. The mobile editors are truly an exercise in frustration for even tech-savvy users.
Dokuwiki is great if you have specialized needs and accept the file format costs. The specialized markup language and plugin ecosystem are a type lock-in that should really be stated more up-front to new and perspective Dokuwiki users. I do recommend Dokuwiki for very particular and specific needs, but not as a general purpose wiki for "most people".
Only time will tell for certain but the preemptive measures places like Seattle have taken appear to be paying dividends. Living in rural Texas is much more concerning than living in Seattle during COVID19.
As for space, cities have lacked space for as long as cities have existed but people continue to migrate for the opportunity. I wouldn't be surprised if housing prices drop from short-term rentals reentering the market as single-family homes or long-term rentals.
>Living in rural Texas is much more concerning than living in Seattle during COVID19.
That may be true but living in a suburban/exurban area outside of the Seattle core might well be better than either for many. I'm not sure how many will ultimately make a change because of this though. It will depend on people's job/commuting situation and how diminished city living seems when lease renewal time comes around.
> Why risk living in close quarters if this may be a recurring pattern and pay a premium for doing so.
Your original assertion was renters will move because the city is unsafe during COVID and that suburan areas are worth the price to commute trade-off.
Two suburban areas around Seattle are Snohomish and Pierce counties. Those "safer" suburbs are doing an objectively worse job of following Washington State's "Stay at Home" order [1]. Prior to COVID, hospitals were closing in rural and exurban areas, which reduced capacity during this pandemic [2]. Disregarding SAH/SIP orders and reduced capacity sounds dangerous, not safer and worth saving money.
As for cost, when enough housing capacity was built in Seattle then the rent stabilized. After short-term rentals are converted back into single-family homes or long-term leases then rent should continue to stabilize or decrease. When I last looked, increasing my commute from 25m to over 1h was not worth the savings in rent and would have required purchasing a car.
It's great you prefer the suburbs and there are absolutely people the 'burbs are better suited. Unless you have a valid reason to suggest people are going to move in-mass from cities to the burbs then I find "diminished city living" mistaken and comical.
I don't live in a suburb and don't really like them. But I am in the orbit of a major city while being pretty rural. I don't really anticipate en-mass movement. A lot of the people already living in cities will just accept whatever restrictions and risk. But I do think some on the edge might reconsider living in places where you don't need to be in elevators or share transit with a lot of other people,
Some people will move away from a city and others will move to a city. It happens. Neither of us expects to see a sizable net movement from urban to "exurban" (rural) areas.
Why choose the exurbs where you pay a premium to drive long distances and live far away from opportunity and medical care? Plus, exurbs were some of the hardest hit during the '08 recession [1].
> But underlying today’s exurban fervor is an uncomfortable truth: The reason that homes in these communities are so affordable is that these areas were among the hardest-hit by the housing crisis and recession, and prices have only recently recovered.
Recessions are very difficult to predict. Maybe it will be some time before a reckoning in the exurbs comes due again.
It's my understanding that MacOS requires extra setup for those shortcuts regardless of Karabiner.
If you feel that extra setup is acceptable then any almost modern OS will fit your needs. There's something to be said for standardized shortcuts that work on every MS Windows instance.
The big problem with Powershell, and it makes it borderline unusable on Linux, is its crazy error handling. The equivalent of bash's `set -e` is `$ErrorActionPreference="Stop"`.
The problem is that it treats any output to stderr as an error and ignores actual posix errors (non-zero exit codes.) What's worse is in some contexts the error it throws on stderr is impossible to catch.
I really love Powershell in a lot of ways but this makes a lot of really basic scripts in bash very cumbersome to write in Powershell.
Do you have any examples of stderr errors being impossible to catch in PS, and/or a basic script that is very easy in Bash but cumbersome in PowerShell?
Recently I was trying to automate something with gsutil (Google's storage CLI) using Powershell remoting to a Windows host. gsutil is a totally well-behaved posix app, which emits status information to stderr. The bug is specifically that when using remoting (Windows equivalent of ssh) the error is uncatchable.
Ultimately I just want Powershell to handle well-behaved posix apps in a sane way, but honestly the reaction of some of the people on the thread seems like there's a huge cultural gap between Microsoft and the Posix community. (Which, Microsoft claims to be a part of but clearly is not.)
I’m writing from a bus and found giving my car up to be great for my pocketbook. Gas was more expensive for affordable vehicles and efficient vehicles were still pricy.
It’s a pain to park, doesn’t necessarily move faster than public transit, and is one of the largest safety concerns to city dwellers.
The blog post can’t be written-off by stating “Chicago”.
Are the suburbs much cheaper only in comparable housing? What if a family that would have lived in a house in the suburbs lived in an apartment in the city? Isn't there cheaper housing options in the city?
You should look into Seattle’s housing problems, as there are many.
Apartments are very expensive and most are not sized for families. The city is still zoned for single family homes, driving up the cost of the homes to near San Francisco levels.
Some people are sleeping in parks, which is a cheaper option, granted.
When I was house hunting, 4 bedroom condos in a city basically didn't exist. Most of the ones I saw were 5-10x the price of a suburban 4 bedroom home - and that's ignoring the HOA fee, which many single family residences don't have.
Cities discourage or outright prohibit anything beyond 2 bedroom MDUs being constructed. Its a great way to keep families from putting down roots in an area, or expanding much beyond 2 to 3 members.
Seattle isn't quite as bad as other cities in pushing this policy, but there isn't any extra push to incentivize construction of 3+ bedroom apartments & condos (eg: additional building height/width allowances).
IIRC our auditor wrote a report that came to the conclusion that we had way too few 3+ bedroom units in the city. If we want affordable housing (not "Affordable" housing, with heavy subsidies), set back & step back requirements need to be loosened for construction that includes valuable 3 & 4 bedroom condos and apartments.
Note: HOAs in Seattle proper are very rare outside of condos. Ditto outside the city limits, though some small single family home enclaves choose to kneecap themselves with a HOA.
I use StandardNotes and the Open Source aspect attracted me. I can run the parts if the company goes away. Today, I’ll pay SN a reasonable fee for convenience and future additions.
The competition is Evernote if the software isn’t free. I feel like SN seeks convenience now. Licensing games are just another commercial competitor.
States often allow psychological holds and extensions.
There’s little to no evidence required to keep someone for days or weeks under “observation”. Some states setup entirely separate court systems without due process, since commitment is a “civil matter”.
Some amount of blame falls with states allowing this type of behavior.
The burden is on psychologists to demonstrate the practices work and hospitals are properly equipped.
DDB is great for storing data that is required to be scalable and never needs to be joined. Add in DAX, developer time necessary to orchestrate transactions, calculate the scaling costs and...that's how AWS gets you.
Plus, local development requires half-complete emulators or a hosted database you're charged for.
No, maybe people should think twice about DynanoDB.