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by daotoad 7y ago
You are ignoring several facts: 1. Pregnancy is very hard on women's bodies. It is not uncommon for health effects like high blood pressure, joint inflammation, and gestational diabetes to become temporarily disabling for expectant mo
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by daotoad 7y ago
I read a lot of comics, but I also read a lot of regular books. For now, I read using a 10" Chuwi tablet because it gives me a decent, color screen, at a decent size and weight, at a reasonable price. I would LOVE to have an eink read
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by daotoad 7y ago
Define optimally. Seriously, there is always going to be some easily measurable value(s) that will operate as a proxy for "optimal". Even if the model perfectly maximizes the goodness of the proxy values for every customer, the
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by daotoad 7y ago
I don't care if people sell clean, safe, reasonable things that are gleaned from a dumpster. That's waste reduction and a net good. What I hate are all the low quality and fraudulent items on Amazon (It's not quite as bad as
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by daotoad 7y ago
Just Plain Wrong: Reason 1: Generative Design is a horrible basis for building UIs. GD requires a well understood model of how the design needs to operate and be built (ie, physics + specifications + machine tool kinematics). We don't
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by daotoad 7y ago
Automatically changing interfaces are terrible. Static menus are faster that magically changing menus. People want to know where to click to do a thing. User customizable menus can be faster (when used well) than static menus. Here's
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by daotoad 7y ago
The real driver of health benefits tied to employment was that businesses were not allowed to give huge wage hikes during World War II. In order to compete for very scarce workers, businesses added a variety of benefits, including health i
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by daotoad 7y ago
Because the way the American social safety net works, you often wind up losing more than $5/hour worth of benefits to get that $5/hour job. Many low wage jobs are physically demanding, have terrible (or no dependable) schedules, a
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by daotoad 7y ago
It's not just the rendering that makes a website slow.
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All that and his code examples are bizarre trash. Despite the way he tries to crap on Perl (5) by referring to a Perl 6 (now Raku) example, I find a Raku FizzBuzz far easier to read than his mess: multi sub fb( Int $n where * %% none(
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by daotoad 7y ago
That's what we thought about abalone, dodos, passenger pigeons and buffalo. Fugu isn't exactly easy to process for eating, but people are willing to pay a LOT of money for the privilege of eating it. All you need is the right mark
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by daotoad 7y ago
Ignoring everything else about the article, the graph of price over time is total crap. If you want to show a change in the real price of something, 1. show the full price range in the Y axis. I'll have none of this clipping off the
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by daotoad 7y ago
Spread this information to any sushi chefs you know. The opportunity to help sustainable fisheries by eating puple urchins into obscurity is huge. It's what our economic system is best at.
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by daotoad 7y ago
Perl 6 started out as a plan for the next version of Perl. Over the years (announced in 2000, delivered in 2015) it evolved into a distinct language. In the meantime, Perl5 suffered from the Osbourne Effect. Meanwhile a rift developed in
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by daotoad 7y ago
I don't know about UK jurisprudence, but in the US, it should have been easy to file a continuance on the hearing, so it could be rescheduled to a later date. If it's the same, then she just needed to send a letter to the court ou
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The changes aren't random and generally small. It's closer to Lamarck than Darwin. Remember that successful products aren't necessarily good or beneficial. Tetraethyl lead in gasoline is one example. The Late nineteenth, e
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So the story goes. Care to relate some examples that show how it is worse than any other language? I’ve seen mind-curdlingly horrible Perl of several varieties (novice, mad genius, and the biggest ugliest balls of mud you’ve ever seen), ye
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by daotoad 7y ago
Cooperative multitasking => Node
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by daotoad 7y ago
I had an HP28c ( https://www.hpmuseum.org/hp28c.htm ) that saw me through high-school calculus and undergraduate work. In it's day, it was a revolutionary product. I never got to play with the data sharing stuff, sinc
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by daotoad 7y ago
Let me clear that up for you, if you are still in doubt. Perl5 had a period of slow releases in the 2000s, this changed in 2010 with the release of version 5.12. Since then, Perl 5 has been on a yearly release cycle. The current release i
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by daotoad 7y ago
If you like OOP you should check out Moose and Moo in Perl 5. https://metacpan.org/pod/Moo If you want regular Perl5 for Windows, Strawberry Perl is quite nice. http://strawberryperl.com/ Perl6, OTOH,
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by daotoad 7y ago
The type system and multiple get rid of so much “if this then do that” code. multi sub eat-pie( Pie slice where *.is-custard ) { ... } multi sub eat-pie( Pie slice where *.is-fruit ) { ... } multi sub eat-pie( Pie slice ) { ...
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by daotoad 7y ago
Perl5 has linters (Perl::Critic, Perl::Lint). And warnings to keep you from using ugly features (if you assert compatibility with the 2010 release 5.12, strict mode is automatically turned on). JavaScript actually copied its `‘use strict’`
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by daotoad 7y ago
As I said elsewhere in this thread, check out my article for the 2018 Perl6 Advent Calendar. https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2018/12/16/day-17-checking... I walk through the development of a utility for aud
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by daotoad 7y ago
You can also call Python from both languages. It doesn't mean they are the same. https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Inline-Python/Python.p... https://github.com/niner/Inline-Pyth
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_5_version_history New features have been coming out with yearly releases since 2010's release of version 5.12. But by 2010, many people already thought Perl5 was dead because Per
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Add to these multiple dispatch and support for literate programming. There's also a nice interface for writing command line utilities that takes advantage of the above. See my Christmas themed 2018 Perl6 Advent Calendar article on the
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by daotoad 7y ago
1. Absolutely my experience. NPM is pain. 2. Whether you go positional or use an options hash, you still need to carefully unpack your args at the top of the subroutine. And do it consistently. There are a ton of libraries to help with
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The key thing is that you filter out anyone you aren't willing to risk paying $800 or more to do the testing before asking them to commit to the extra time. This is pretty onerous, but it should be pretty damn good at rejecting bad can
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by daotoad 7y ago
Every company really, really, really....really needs someone like that. Imagine how much better the Star Wars prequels could have been if only Lucasfilm had a strong No Person to stop them from doing stupid shit.

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