All, There are only 24 Time Zones that Encompass the Earth. Is 780 files overboard?
I think Yes. Robert Tonkavich On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 1:00 PM Charlie Gibbs <cgi...@surfnaked.ca> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:10:02 +0100 "Martin McCormick" > <marti...@suddenlink.net> wrote: > > > If you aren't in to trying to modify some sort of > > embedded system to do something it wasn't originally designed to > > do then ram and storage are getting cheaper by the day and some > > things just aren't worth worrying about. > > To a great extent that's true, although there is the danger > of falling into the attitude that abundance justifies waste. > (This can once again make things worth worrying about, > well before it might be necessary if you do things efficiently.) > > However, there's another consideration: the KISS principle. > A system that needs 780 files is going to be a lot more complex > and difficult to understand than one that gets by with one or two. > This can have serious impacts on reliability and maintainability. > > I'm seeing more and more cases of systems falling apart because > they're becoming too complex to administer. Some of this is because > they "just grew", without proper planning and pruning. Some of it > is due to that effect described by Blaise Pascal, who once apologized > for the length of the letter he was writing because he didn't have > time to make it shorter. And some, I'm sad to say, are a deliberate > effort at obfuscation: an old trick long used by politicians to keep > the electorate blissfully ignorant of their shenanigans, and now > adopted by some equally nefarious system designers. > > -- > /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictatorship. > \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | Apple is a cult. > X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | Linux is anarchy. > / \ if you read it the right way. | Pick your poison. > > -- Thank You Robert M Tonkavich 989-205-2683
