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by creer 11mo ago
> getting the same question repeatedly may suggest something should be redesigned Yes! There was a lesson in that and we all missed it. That was probably one of the failings of perl. It ran into a generation of people who never knew abou
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by creer 11mo ago
The man pages were broken into competent sections over multiple man pages. About 260 of them on this machine (not really: there is a change-tracking man page per release recently.) The 1st man page is a very compact index to them. After tha
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by creer 11mo ago
You did not need to google anything. The complete documentation was right there, next to the interpreter, on your machine. Ready for scanning and reading from top to bottom; and broken in sections that were actually relevant; and ready to s
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by creer 11mo ago
A professional medium might have been gate-kept being paying coursework. Perl was not: the super-complete documentation was right there, in the distribution; the remarkably intelligently written course book was right there on everyone'
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by creer 11mo ago
To be fair, you still have a choice to start new projects in (still progressing) perl 5 or in perl 6. Perl 5 is not abandonned. I second your perplexity on perl 6 vs CPAN. I still don't get it. It's still a problem.
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by creer 11mo ago
Perl was not and still is not suitable for people who refuse to read the manual or tutorial. Perl had and still has truly AMAZING documentation (and far better in perl 5 than Perl 6 - where the documentation's search function is regula
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by creer 11mo ago
Simply python being pushed / sponsored by google? Was python all that popular before that? It had fans, of course - but was it an automatic go-to? Python claimed to be simple - which fit well with the "line noise", erm... pro
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by creer 11mo ago
> mod_perl which required a lot of tinkering [...] Here we used mod_perl all over the place and it was glorious. It did take understanding how to use it - well, yes - same as the rest of perl (or apache for that matters). But it was so w
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by creer 11mo ago
In my past few rentals, the dial still acts on the driver's gauges - but not on the "entertainment / navigation" screen which remains too bright no matter what! In one, the automatic "night mode" was still craz
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by creer 11mo ago
Plus speed bumps. Even if most cars had their headlights pointed correctly, the million speed bumps littering my city means constantly blinded drivers.
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by creer 11mo ago
Mental health-saving mental rewiring methods are readily accessible as a simple cookbook. Life-saving and literally so for once. See "DBT".
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by creer 11mo ago
Civilian airports can "shut down" by telling all traffic to (glibly) find other things to do. The traffic is still around. How resistant is all this traffic to jamming? and what kind of jamming? You can probably experiment with th
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by creer 11mo ago
Laptop and desktops switch to ARM CPUs in 2020 (Cook)? Previous switches were to Intel around 2006 (Jobs), with last one in 2023 (Cook). And to PowerPC around 1994 to 2006 (Jobs)? Seems to me the 2020 switch went mostly seamlessly thanks to
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by creer 11mo ago
The Olimex web site. But yeah, the board may not yet be available in the US. And the distributors usually don't carry everything.
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by creer 11mo ago
> left easy money on the table by not competing against NVIDIA What!? Seems to me the timelines do not support this. Apple has already been diligent in using their chip design effort (for multiple generations of CPUs) - would they have h
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by creer 11mo ago
I sure hope Cook and teams have been actively working on this for a decade already. The book is interesting in showing both a lack of early awareness of this weakness, AND some people clearly noticing, AND Apple being very powerful and reso
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by creer 11mo ago
As to succession, Cook is an operations maniac. Hopefully that carries to preparing and planning potential successors.
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by creer 11mo ago
"Put them on the path" is nothing compared to the plan and decision to switch CPUs. Any CPU family switch is a giant bet with massive implementations issues. Exactly like the other CPU family switches were massive bets (although t
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by creer 11mo ago
> The key diagram is the one that shows the signal path [...] Everything else is supporting circuitry. This is also very misleading in that all this supporting circuitry AND the stuff not even shown, such as wires routing with respect to
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by creer 11mo ago
> So how are you supposed to find anything? They don't mean the photos can't have names. They just observe that usually in-camera photos don't have particularly useful names like IMG_4321.JPG, same as all the other IMG_432
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by creer 11mo ago
Yeah the graph shown does not even cover one full year!
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by creer 11mo ago
Isn't really the main problem, the Waymo "let's just stop right here" current failure mode? Which really is not ideal on city streets either. Hopefully they have been working on solving that.
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by creer 11mo ago
Oh cool! Yeah it made me think of these internet challenges "I'll draw and post 1 portrait a day for the next year" or whatever. And art classes "give me 20 sheep". Where it's fine to start "literal"
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by creer 11mo ago
> Distributors, USA: Digi-Key Corporation, Mouser
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by creer 11mo ago
As usual also "sold its entire stake" can be written as "investors eagerly bought SoftBank's entire stake of nvidia".
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by creer 11mo ago
> Selling the _entire_ stake sounds really aggressive though? Is that normal? They did not. They sold MOST of their stake in Nvidia long ago before anyone paid attention to Nvidia vs AI. It's one decision as part of a complex cloud
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by creer 11mo ago
The article includes actual numbers of the filtering funnel! Excellent! "Late applications" though: Wouldn't it be very wasteful though, to dismiss a third of candidates simply because late application when the posting was li
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by creer 11mo ago
> always asking the candidate upfront for their expected salary [etc - to respect and save everyone time] Isn't that a dark pattern (in addition to being a time saver for everyone)? It's a damned if you do and damned if you don
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by creer 11mo ago
> companies are in some sense bluffing with the "Didn't Qualify" category. This is to the point that it's not "bluffing" but simply "how the world works." What's unfortunate is that many new g
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by creer 11mo ago
> Processor ultra-low-power ARM® Cortex-M33®, at max. 160 MHz > Battery type 1 × CR2032 3V lithium coin cell Very nice. Impressive.

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