Emacs discusses web-based development workflows

Posted Sep 2, 2021 11:48 UTC (Thu) by aragilar (subscriber, #122569)
In reply to: Emacs discusses web-based development workflows by dvdeug
Parent article: Emacs discusses web-based development workflows

Maybe it depend where you live, but I'd say internet is less reliable here than power (rain seems to take out the former, not the latter). Especially around travel (assuming we all get back to doing that...), it usually easier to find somewhere to charge a laptop, rather than getting internet (especially reliable internet).

As an aside, one of the features that sold me on git/hg (compared with SVN) was the ability to work without an internet connection. While it would be entirely possible to use the various forges offline (e.g. github wikis are git repositories, there's some ability to respond via email), I suspect the fact that most of the data are in non-standard formats (as opposed to e.g. mbox) means that you're basically duplicating the forge's web interface/data system locally, which doesn't scale across forges.

Emacs discusses web-based development workflows

Posted Sep 4, 2021 18:34 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (2 responses)

> Maybe it depend where you live, but I'd say internet is less reliable here than power (rain seems to take out the former, not the latter). Especially around travel (assuming we all get back to doing that...), it usually easier to find somewhere to charge a laptop, rather than getting internet (especially reliable internet).

It does depend on where you live, but maybe surprisingly, someone (Nix?) pointed out to me that often you get BETTER internet in the sticks than in the smoke! Living in a city of 10M, my internet was pretty naff. It's improved a bit since we've gone FTTP, but the problem is too little infrastructure for too many people ...

Cheers,
Wol

Emacs discusses web-based development workflows

Posted Sep 8, 2021 7:09 UTC (Wed) by RobertBrockway (guest, #48927) [Link] (1 responses)

That just sounds like your ISP has over-subscribed for their available capacity. Consider changing ISP. If they are all doing it in your area consider (a) leaving or (b) starting an ISP that doesn't over-subscribe.

Emacs discusses web-based development workflows

Posted Sep 8, 2021 7:47 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Nah. WHICH other ISP?

Most of our ISPs buy "last mile" off of OpenReach. If I started my own ISP, I would have to do the same.

OpenReach just don't have the capacity. If the physical infrastructure is over-subscribed, then you're stuffed. Where do you turn? It's getting better with the move from copper to fibre, but that brings other problems ...

Cheers,
Wol