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by darrenf 4y ago
Path::Tiny really is your friend here. https://metacpan.org/pod/Path::Tiny
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by darrenf 4y ago
I'm a Perl coder of almost 30 years standing and I find the defence of its readability a bit of a stretch, tbh. Even though I don't personally struggle with it, I've worked with enough very good software engineers who have be
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by darrenf 4y ago
> I know for a fact everybody else absolutely hated having to go in and decipher decades old Perl code. There's genuinely nothing I enjoy more at work than deciphering, debugging, documenting, and ultimately refactoring Perl code.
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by darrenf 4y ago
The BBC is a statutory corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_corporation#United_K... It typically has no shareholders and its powers are defined by the Act of Parliament which creates it, and may be mod
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by darrenf 4y ago
It's down from the peak, but 40 billion SMSes were sent in the UK in 2021. I would be staggered if this number was majority B2C/2FA. https://www.statista.com/statistics/271561/number-of-sent-sm...
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by darrenf 4y ago
In no circumstance ever will I substitute "very thirsty" with "cottonmouthed".
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by darrenf 4y ago
In all my time as a Perl dev (since 1996) I don't think I've ever heard the term "associative array" except at the start of `perldoc perldata` - which says they're known as hashes and then never uses the term again.
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by darrenf 4y ago
I don't think I'd agree that two simultaneous keypresses is equivalent to two in sequence. But besides which, `^` and `$` are so ingrained with meaning to this grumpy old Perl coder that abandoning them is an extremely hard sell
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by darrenf 4y ago
> https://github.com/LGUG2Z/helix-vim/blob/master/config.toml Thanks, I may give Helix another spin with that config. I saw the note about it being necessary to recompile, which I can't be bother
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> I fully expect Helix to replace Vim, Neovim, and Kakoune for most users in the long run. I feel like I am definitely not in the "most users" group here. > syntax highlighting ... IDE-like functionality > Those a
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by darrenf 4y ago
> > And yes, if you're ill but can't be arsed to call your NHS GP, then you're clearly not sick and shouldn't be tying up already strained public resources > Doesn't the NHS provide an app to do this ex
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by darrenf 4y ago
> all the characters after the first double quote and until the last double quote Until the next double quote, not necessarily the last one.
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by darrenf 4y ago
I was tangentially affected by Pakistan deciding to extend DST in 2008 with very little notice. It was originally going to end on August 31, but I believe they decided on August 28 or so to extend it to October. https://en.m.wiki
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by darrenf 4y ago
There are several, highly configurable (of course) and usable REPLs. https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::REPL https://metacpan.org/pod/Reply Not to mention the Jupyter kernel: https://metac
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by darrenf 4y ago
> and are still considered experimental No, 5.36 stabilised them. https://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta#Core-Enhancements > The 5.36 bundle enables the signatures feature. Introduced in Perl version 5.20.0, and modified
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by darrenf 4y ago
> Possibly some kind of laser beam thing that sweeps the ground in front of you might work? That's what the TFL bikes in London do[0]: "The Blaze Laserlight is fixed to the cycle frame and projects a green cycle-shaped image
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by darrenf 4y ago
I don't disagree. I think negligence happens.
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by darrenf 4y ago
Command line switches like that won't, IMO and IME, make developers think "wow, I'm so glad this exists to guard against footguns". Rather they'll just set an alias to get around it. Likewise confirmation prompts al
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by darrenf 4y ago
I haven't counted them, but the corresponding electronic music page has a lot : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_music_genre...
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by darrenf 4y ago
Do you have a source for this? Like other folk who have replied, this is the opposite to my understanding, at least from the perspective of BA (I know nothing about AF). heritageconcorde.com[0] talk about almost 20 straight years of profita
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by darrenf 4y ago
There is on the Boom site, and it certainly doesn't look like regular cattle class https://boomsupersonic.com/static/images/overture-experience...
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by darrenf 4y ago
> Just think of the web as a giant database with URLs as table names and CSS selectors as column names Is this a reinvention of YQL? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Query_Language
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by darrenf 4y ago
The CLI ways I already have installed: man HTTP::Status # courtesy of Perl and HTTP::Status pydoc requests.status_codes # because Python and requests
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by darrenf 4y ago
Actually Apple announced a deprecation in 2019, so in some ways it’s surprising to still find Perl installed by default in macOS. From the Catalina release notes[0]: Scripting Language Runtimes Deprecations Scripting language runtimes su
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by darrenf 4y ago
Similarly, since a couple of weeks ago Starlabs Systems offer their Starbook with Ryzen 7 5800U: https://starlabs.systems/blogs/news/the-starbook-now-comes-w...
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by darrenf 4y ago
> They might choose to do so with a special version of iPhone that only works in the EU with EU languages and EU carrier bands (no English language strictly necessary because the UK left, remember?)... I think Ireland (and Malta) would
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by darrenf 4y ago
There are shelves and shelves of it in UK supermarkets, it's very popular here. I live a walk away from a dairy that produces it (including kefir soap bars) https://www.instagram.com/wildcroftdairy/
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by darrenf 4y ago
Over the past few years I've gone from despising Confluence to really, genuinely enjoying authoring in it. I find the syntax and shortcuts easy to remember and the UI pleasant. Hell, I even like the iOS app. Jira and Bitbucket, OTOH, t
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by darrenf 4y ago
I've slept with some kind of audio going for as long as I've had the ability to (i.e. since getting my first tape deck as a kid in the 80s). Certainly my parents found it hilarious that I'd put on a thrash metal tape and be a
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by darrenf 4y ago
irccloud.com has worked wonderfully for me, for many years now.

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