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Comment If it works, leave it the way it is. (Score 1) 112

vi is just an editor. I actually use vim as my day to day editor. It really is vi improved. If it's the vi part you don't like, you can switch to using an IDE like VS code and add various things to support PHP if you don't like vi. I even have my VS code set up to act like vim. If you have some vi settings for code formatting, then you'd have to set up the IDE to do the same thing like spaces instead of tabs and indentation size. I've also maintained lots of custom php. If it's well written, easy to understand, and stable, I wouldn't bother moving it to a framework. It's actually nice to edit PHP without a framework in the way sometimes. On the other hand, if every change being made feels like you're using duct-tape to hold it together, then it's probably a good idea for a rewrite. A framework might help you rewrite it better. I would consider switching off of PHP for the rewrite though.
The Almighty Buck

Boom In Home Electronics Sales Shows Signs of Peaking (theinformation.com) 7

Posted by BeauHD from the what-goes-up-must-come-down dept.
According to an analysis of credit card receipts provided to The Information, a boom in home electronics sales due to the coronavirus shut down shows signs of peaking. From the report: The research by e-commerce company Rakuten, which looked at data for over 1 million U.S. consumers, shows online sales of electronics rose 33% the week of March 9 versus the same week the year earlier, then surged 141% in the last week of March. By the following week, starting April 6, growth had started to wane, to 131%. For the month of March, online sales of electronics rose 61% compared to the year-earlier, according to Rakuten's data, which does not include Amazon sales. Total U.S. retail sales fell more than 6% in March, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. "With a lot of workers going into remote office situations, it's created an immediate-term opportunity for tech sales," said Steve Koenig, vice president of research for the Consumer Technology Association. "But we fully expect this to taper."
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Robotic Surgery On a Beating Heart 54

Posted by kdawson from the got-a-good-beat-you-can-dance-to-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Serious heart surgery usually involves stopping the organ and keeping the patient alive with a cardiopulmonary bypass machine. But this risks brain damage and requires a long recuperation. Scientists at Harvard University and Children's Hospital Boston have now developed a device that lets surgeons operate on a beating heart with a steady hand. The 'robotic' device uses 3-D ultrasound images to predict and compensate for the motion of the heart so that the surgeon can work on a faulty valve as it moves. The approach should improve recovery times and give a surgeon instant feedback on the success of the procedure, the researchers say. Here's a (slightly gory) video of the device in action."

Comment Re:deja vu (Score 1) 170

by Wrenzo (#21995560) Attached to: Current Recommendations For a Home File Server?
Count me in as another NSLU2 fan. If all you need is a home file server, the NSLU2 is perfect. It consumes very little power and as some have already mentioned, you can turn it into a "slug" and have a mini linux box. I use my slug as a samba server to Windows and a rsync server to Linux (for backups). The slug can also be used for NFS if you need that.

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