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On 07/26/2014 07:59 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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> On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:14:41 +1000 |
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> Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote: |
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> |
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>> On 07/23/2014 09:36 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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>>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:21:00 +1000 |
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>>> Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> What a great way to kill the distro. |
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>>>> I can already heat my house with the number of unnecessary rebuilds |
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>>> Do you upgrade @world every hour and thus have it cause excessive |
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>>> heat? |
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>>> If I upgrade every X weeks they become much more cool and |
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>>> necessary... |
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>> Shouldn't we strive to avoid the unnecessary rebuilds in the first |
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>> place? Doing updates on your schedule only avoids the symptom, not the |
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>> problem. |
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> We should strive to do both; cause less rebuilds, update less often. |
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> It is comparable to flooding on IRC channels; if you send much more |
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> messages, you are much more likely to experience a kick and/or a ban. |
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> It is easier not to flood than to convince people there is no problem |
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> with you flooding the channel; out of all the IRC channels I know of, |
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> I've only come across one where they don't mind pasted long code blocks |
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> but that's mostly because of the lack of active moderation and people. |
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> (With "flooding" as "updating" and "kick/ban" as "rebuilds") |
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Each person should update at a frequency that suits them. Recommending |
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to update every $period is not a valid solution to unnecessary rebuilds. |
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