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by hi-v-rocknroll 3y ago
Then we need content "reCAPTCHA" signatures such as artful inclusions of code comments containing ASCII art and poetry embedded in web page content that include multiple layers of beauty that would not be easy to replicate by an L
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by hi-v-rocknroll 3y ago
Also, Perl's history adds an additional layer of flavor. Ruby started as somewhat "Perl 2.0" where beauty and flexibility > all things and Python started as "anti-Perl" one way to rule them all(tm) where fast and
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by hi-v-rocknroll 3y ago
I think most cats secretly attend Cat University whenever their humans are away to devise new ways to be as annoying as possible. I suspect a few cats have earned triple doctorates.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 3y ago
Yes. It's a toolbox. And perhaps some people think different ways aligned with some tools over others. People come to tech from different backgrounds that are sometimes nontechnical, while some are highly academic and focused such as C
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by hi-v-rocknroll 3y ago
Different flavors for different use-cases. There was even $-terminated ones prevalent on DOS which got it from CP/M which got it from DEC OS/8. Pascal-style strings (length + data or length + pointer to data) have the nice propert
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by hi-v-rocknroll 3y ago
Similar at Meta. (AWS and Microsoft have always been moderately shitty.) Pennywise pound-foolish tactics lead to a decline of magic and cool some companies once had, now creating and becoming megacorp cliches unnecessarily. Competitive, ost
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by hi-v-rocknroll 3y ago
It's the fallacy of perpetual motion and conflation between a Turing machine that requires net external energy to operate and a passive Rube Goldberg machine. While one can create combinational "logic" out of valves or domino
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by hi-v-rocknroll 3y ago
For transmission of electrical energy, this is the way. Voltages should be as high as equipment, costs, and safety practices allow. Let me opine how expensive it was to refit my 80's van electrical system which has its 12v battery in t
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by hi-v-rocknroll 3y ago
For transmission lines, AAAC, AAC, and AACSR exist. For residential grid hookup, aluminum has been an option for a long time. While aluminum residential wiring has historical baggage of risky and bad practices, the problem with it is inhere
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by hi-v-rocknroll 3y ago
If a higher voltage were implemented, most/all of the switchgear and power lines would be retrofitted per engineering specifications. Design values change, but not as much as you think. 1 cm for every 10 kV is reasonable between parall