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by krylon 3y ago
I got the impression back then that Ruby on Rails ate a lot of Perl's use cases. And the Perl 6 thing probably didn't help either. And it might have acquired a bad reputation due to the fact you can easily write really terrible
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by krylon 3y ago
It's an odd critter, but it gets the job done. There are a few pitfalls, such as list flattening, but in my experience, once you are aware of them, they are not hard to avoid. If you are new to Perl, I highly recommend reading Damien C
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by krylon 3y ago
This would be even better if you could click on the various creatures you encounter to get their Wikipedia articles. That said, this is pretty cool. It's made me think how for humans and many other animals, moving 10, 100, even thousan
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by krylon 3y ago
Magit made git usable for me. It's both intuitive to use and powerful (at least compared to my needs).
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by krylon 3y ago
To be honest, I was surprised time and again how many projects support it. Microsoft, e.g. has a repo for VS Code. But yes, there are quite a few projects without direct support for OpenSUSE, for my needs it hasn't been a big problem s
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by krylon 3y ago
The problem is that I can't (or don't know how to) separate security-relevant updates from the rest. And I have to admit, I'm the kind of person who is nearly incapable of ignoring a ringing phone; the permanent presence of t
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by krylon 3y ago
(Context: I run Tumbleweed on two desktop machines) With Tumbleweed you have much more up-to-date packages than with Debian stable. Probably even more than Debian testing a lot of the time. I initially tried it because I had bought a laptop
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by krylon 3y ago
Thank you! I'll get to it right away. :)
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by krylon 3y ago
How did I miss that?! I was sure it was July 6... Thank you very much, I'll get right on it! :-)
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by krylon 3y ago
For those who do not know, Leap has a yearly release schedule. The most recent release is 15.4 with 15.5 scheduled for early July, i.e. ~2 weeks from now.
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by krylon 3y ago
I really like OpenSUSE. I run Leap on one laptop and Tumbleweed on another as well as my desktop. The Leap system I installed at 42.1 and have since upgraded all the way to 15.4 without anything breaking or the need to reinstall from scratc
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by krylon 3y ago
The slightly, but not too much, sad part is that if they had played their cards right, IBM could be a lot more relevant today than it is. Some aspects of their tech still are quite impressive and unmatched by offerings in the open systems s
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by krylon 3y ago
I thought that was well known, it's not like they were secretive about it, in fact they openly advertised it. Their sales pitch, I think was, that many customers ran Oracle software on RHEL, and this way they would have a single provid
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by krylon 3y ago
One size does not fit all. FWIW, I also wake up from naps feeling slightly zombified, but I bounce back relatively quickly.
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by krylon 3y ago
Semi-OT, but it's funny how as a kid I found it very annoying when adults tried to get me to take a nap, but as an adult I love them.
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by krylon 3y ago
I remember running OpenWrt on an Asus router back around 2004 or 2005, it was very interesting. I ran an IPv6 tunnel broker with SixXs, network services (I remember DHCP and DNS, which I learned quite a bit about in the process). It was a g
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by krylon 3y ago
May I humbly suggest PostPostgres, or Post²gres?
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by krylon 3y ago
I read The Road while doing a lengthy daily commute via train, leading through a kind of lush rural area in western Germany. I vividly remember the stark contrast between the bleak world described in the novel and the vibrant, colorful abun
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by krylon 3y ago
It depends. I use Debian on a few machines at home, if something were to break, it wouldn't be a huge deal. If I had dozens of desktops and/or servers to take care, I would probably take the time and upgrade a few non-critical mac
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by krylon 3y ago
That's the catch, isn't it? Every country wants the EU to be a unified actor on the world stage, but none are willing to give up sovereignty over their foreign policy. That is why it's not going to happen. A loose alliance su
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by krylon 3y ago
I learned Perl just as my shell scripts grew into more than ten-liners, and I switched happily. I never learned awk or sed, Perl is just far too convenient. And I think it is possible to write very readable, maintainable Perl, but one has t
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by krylon 3y ago
On the one hand, that does make a lot of sense. Some European politicians want a more unified foreign policy, and a unified military force would give more weight to this desire. On the other hand, it could get very awkward if we had another
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by krylon 3y ago
It's been a long time since I have used Ubuntu. In the ~2009-2013 era, my desktop ran Ubuntu, and I repeatedly upgraded it from 2008.04 -> 2010.04 -> 2012.04. There were a few issues, but nothing that made the system unusable. Bu
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by krylon 3y ago
One thing I really appreciate about Debian is that when a new stable release comes around, I can just upgrade and be reasonably sure nothing bad will happen. It's not exciting, but a fair amount of the time, this is what people expect
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by krylon 3y ago
They could sell it as a contraceptive for men. (SCNR)
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by krylon 3y ago
I meant that aesthetically, I find 0-based indexing more appealing.
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by krylon 3y ago
From an aesthetic perspective, I agree. In practice, it wasn't a problem, though. I rarely accessed arrays with a constant index anyway.
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by krylon 3y ago
Every time I could not find and answer to a question in a man page and consulted info, it was a waste of time. I like info, really, but the remark at the end of most GNU man pages to look at the info pages is misleading at best. For emacs s
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by krylon 3y ago
I vaguely recall reading about Microsoft's x86/amd64 emulation on ARM, that allegedly performed pretty well. So moving to ARM would not necessarily mean giving up on backwards compatibility.
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by krylon 3y ago
Thanks!

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