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by jrumbut 4y ago
I'm not defending the sigils because they are terrible, but the reason you can't just get rid of them is that they are actually used. For instance: my @arr = ("Larry", "Moe", "Curly"); my $len = @arr;
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by jrumbut 4y ago
That is the perfect programming language landing page. The Hello World example introduces one of their concepts that you might not see every day, then they show a little algorithm, then a practical "stuff you need to get work done&quot
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Then that flips it back to being very cool that he is putting his energy into carrying a few batons far enough for others to pick them up.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Yeah "color service" was very confusing. I even tried Googling, could anyone explain the source of that phrase?
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Although it wasn't vaccine related, my wife had a similar bill for a similar reason and I learned a couple things: They may be saying the hospital or some provider within it was out of network, challenge this on the grounds it was an e
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by jrumbut 4y ago
You're right, though as someone with basic hand tool skills but poor instincts it isn't always easy to tell which projects are that complex before I make a mess of it.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
This is where the prudence that led you not to be in a hurry pays off. I've seen decent people gave difficult searches every year for the last 12, there is a randomness to this and a specificity to any individual's job search. But
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by jrumbut 4y ago
This idea of auctioning off someone's wife seemed (seems) unlikely to me in a medieval European context (since divorce was hard to come by). What I found was actually weirder: > In medieval Italy and southern France, it was common f
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by jrumbut 4y ago
In vim there are a lot of emacs-like plug-ins that reimplement functionality found elsewhere. You can still use the vi style workflow though.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Exactly, because of bad habits developed elsewhere I sometimes find myself puzzling (as an example) "how do I remove HTML tags in vim?" rather than "how do I remove HTML tags? OK, now do that in vim."
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by jrumbut 4y ago
This is a terrifying definition of democracy, "you don't get a vote but there is an informal and non-binding channel to lodge complaints." That's not democratic at all!
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by jrumbut 4y ago
The post I replied to brought up a very narrow set of features that had been available in vim for a long time.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Code completion, search, cross referencing, and all sorts of other features in vim, emacs, and all kinds of other editors (including Visual Studio) predate LSP by decades. LSP is cool though, an advancement certainly, but it is not a comple
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Whether it is malicious or lazy, it shows where "free speech" ranks among their values. You have time for the things you really care about.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I really like your writeup and I like how you shared some lessons learned and other stuff that didn't quite work out. Buying hardware can be a real adventure and it's a skill that for some of us is underdeveloped. I'd encoura
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by jrumbut 4y ago
In my brief introduction to it, there seems to be an impedance mismatch between snaps and the entire philosophy of Linux (and Unix more generally). When a program tries to build it's own little world without consideration for the conve
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Switching distros is pretty easy. Debian is a classic that will support KDE and will be familiar in some other ways. If you're writing software, the switch will be a great way to see that your code is robust and not too closely coupled
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I haven't used Ubuntu recently, hadn't heard of snaps, and this entire thread has been a horrifying introduction.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
It's not just about what GDP doesn't measure, it is about what it does measure. If everybody buys guns and ammo to prepare for civil war it would be great for GDP but terrible by any other measure.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
It's funny, I'm a big PKD fan and I didn't care for Ubik . I enjoyed the first half or so of VALIS immensely but my favorite of his is A Scanner Darkly . I think, in 2022, people will understand Scanner better than they
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Space and car companies are highly dependent on the government, so maybe less a tech jewel than a political one.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
In recent years we've seen what it's like when politicians stop being boring on Twitter. There are worse things in life than polite artifice. Maintaining it is, itself, an achievement.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
My memory of him is always going to be Mickey Ward's corner, I'm not old enough to remember his own career but he had some legendary moments as a second.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
To date I've enjoyed playful activities like swatting at glowing targets, boxing, or virtual light saber fighting. Assuming you aren't serious about becoming a jedi and don't do it enough to give yourself RSI it should be OK.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I said that for a long time but honestly it's getting cooler. The exercise applications alone are a huge market (in theory almost everyone).
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by jrumbut 4y ago
It's also possible that the ship was already aware of a lot of context, or perhaps after seeing the plane they called to another ship and got the story.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Wow you two really understand each other! I was thinking "what movie did I miss where they discussed Dicky Eklund and George Chuvalo?" I was wondering if it was from that old Showtime documentary about Dicky's darker times.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Where is the quote from? Sounds familiar.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
It's also a generic compliment, a way of saying that whatever you've created is nice enough that a stranger would pay for it.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I don't have data at hand but if you choose the right value it's meaningfully better and can also lead to more efficient patterns in bash scripts that are more complicated than `cat in > out` Unfortunately dd has not just foot

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