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by galdosdi 5y ago
It is true the time when it might have been sane to write CGI in C was very brief. Perl took over almost immediately (and to my chagrin, eventually PHP ate Perl's lunch). I remember reading CGI books that would explain how to do it in
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Funny to reflect that there was a time not so long ago when writing web apps (CGI usually) in C wasn't at all unusual (shortly before Perl became much more popular for this). And today, it is indeed kind of crazy.
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by galdosdi 5y ago
If you try using a vintage typewriter you will reconsider. It was a ton more work than now. (1) Typewriter keyboards were actually physically strenuous... find an old manual typewriter and type a couple pages on it and see how whether you f
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by galdosdi 5y ago
They might as well be. Making a rule and enforcing it are very different things, and in many schools, enforcing cell phone rules is so impractical that teachers and administrators don't even try very hard anymore. It partly comes back
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by galdosdi 5y ago
I'm suspicious of the evasive vagueness too, and therefore suspect the OP is not talking about what I'm thinking of (though no idea what). Nevertheless: I do think a lot of common cultural how-to knowledge was destroyed around the
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by galdosdi 5y ago
One more terrible factor in addition to the ones you named (and I agree with): ubiquitous smartphones in kids' pockets, filled with intentionally addictive entertainment apps, ruining their attention spans, destroying their ability to
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Give it a shot; I think you'll be pleasantly surprised! The key is to be practical and lean into making it easy instead of trying to go for the linux martyr merit badge. Your two issues you mention are hardware (driver issues) and soft
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Heh, sorry, I forgot that always fetch/rebasing instead of fetch/merging is a personal "quirk" of mine. It's much better IMHO because then when I finally merge my work from a long running feature branch, my colleagu
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by galdosdi 5y ago
PS: I read TFA after writing this comment (ha) and it sounds like this tool is a great way to detect areas of code that could most use the kinds of refactors I just discussed. Just following the pain would work too though, albeit with a s
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Yes, just `git fetch` first, then you can take a look at what the merge would look like before actually applying it. `git pull` is approximately a synonym for `git fetch && git rebase origin/master` (if origin/master is yo
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Fair, haha. But I think the distinction intended lies in that the old CISC ISAs were complex out of a desire to provide the assembly programmer ergonomic creature comforts, backwards compatibility, etc. Today's instruction sets are des
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Your mistake was acting sneaky.
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Yes, in fact the gas chain Sheetz sells subz, shakez, and fryz already.
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Many chains (QuikTrip in the midsouth and Wawa and Sheetz in the Mid-Atlantic for example) are clearly preparing for this future by emphasizing the convenience store/deli/coffee shop/fast food aspect above the gas. They want
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Maybe there's been a little inflation then, we've had a lot of that lately. I bought my moto Gs years ago. I think you're losing the forest for the trees here.
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Nice restaurants were also a good place to go because they had good customer service habits. Any bar or places that serves alcohol has to have a bathroom. In NYC iirc, 20 seats or more and built before 1970 or so also required it. I looked
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by galdosdi 5y ago
This must be a nerd Manhattanite rite of passage, perhaps because the bathroom situation sucks there. My personal NYC bathroom database name idea was "WikiPeedia" or just "the 'Peedia"
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by galdosdi 5y ago
I mean the risk the banks take today offering a fixed 30 year note at a very low rate, if there is significant inflation or rate increases anytime soon. It seems like a very good deal for the buyer right now and for the last decade.
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Well when you put it that way I feel silly thinking otherwise haha
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Dude. I literally bought the aforementioned moto G twice, new, a least a year apart (cracked the screen and it was cheaper to replace than fix). I bought it at the Verizon or TMobile store (I forget which) both or at least one of the times.
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Yes, definitely. I hadn't remembered that one. You could have much longer chains with the 3 fold repetition rule alone though. I guess both together potentially make it easier on the players and arbiters It seems the 50 move rule is pr
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Ah, makes sense. Low rates, you want fixed. High rates, you want variable. I just don't understand how the bank puts up with it.
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Great question. This was foreseen long ago (1500s?); the turn wasting thing is limited by the fifty move rule. A game ends in a draw if no pawn is moved or piece captured for 50 moves. Since pieces can only be removed not added and pawns ca
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Perhaps it has to do with the fact that a $50 smartphone introduced in 2021 is in no way anything special or novel. Cheaper usable smartphones have been around for years. The billions are not getting anything they haven't had for years
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by galdosdi 5y ago
The moto G is or was $40 several years ago. In my cheapskate days I relied on it for a while. Slow but perfectly acceptable. Probably would have performed better if I'd bothered with a custom ROM... I am confused as to what exactly the
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Usually mortgages are a fixed rate for the life of the loan (usually 30 years) -- at least here in the USA. Variable rate (eg "ARM") mortgages are also available but are less common and mostly used for short term flipping and the
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Well, actually, you can safely lose 2 lbs per week of body weight. The pandemic has been going on long enough that that works out to 150 lbs for someone who started slowly losing weight as soon as the pandemic began (the obesity connection
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Yeah, everyone has a backlog like that. A lot of them have very little or negative business value in retrospect, but we can't know that now, so we prioritize, and it's a good thing, because if we ever actually got most of that bac
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Well, real debts don't have to be paid off either. Debt IMHO is a fantastic metaphor if we look at it in more detail, from both the financial and software side... SUMMARY: tech debt is just like financial debt, but with a clock whose s
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by galdosdi 5y ago
This reminds me of recently learning more about ancient Rome. Since most stuff except for some monuments was built with wood, it's all gone now. Most people lived in 3 or 4 IIRC story rowhouses. The richest were at the bottom nearest t

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