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by mkovach 6mo ago
The prevailing narrative here is that the team was actively looking to lose to acquire draft picks. Hugh Jackson was extremely good at losing, so he stayed. The owner of the Cleveland Browns uses the team to generate more revenue. For NFL t
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by mkovach 6mo ago
> This would be like an NFL team drafting a quarterback based on how many instagram followers I believe that is how they made the final decision on Watson over Mayfield. Oh, wait, I don't think anything can explain that decision. Al
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by mkovach 6mo ago
I've written a few small projects in Ada, and it's a better language than it gets credit for. Yes, it's verbose. I like verbosity; it forces clarity. Once you adjust, the code becomes easier to read, not harder. You spend les
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by mkovach 6mo ago
’ve been following Adrian's Afga system series, great dive into the unknown. Realistically, I would've stopped the moment BASIC worked, called it "good enough," and then gotten distracted attempting to write a Forth for
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by mkovach 6mo ago
This is also very true, and while I consider it part of the authority to say no, this is a significant point.
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by mkovach 6mo ago
This isn't new. It's been the same problem for decades, not what gets built, but what gets accepted. Weak ownership, unclear direction, and "sure, I guess" reviews were survivable when output was slow. When changes came
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by mkovach 7mo ago
As fellow Ohioan Chrissie Hine and The Pretenders said, "Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio." Yeah, it was from "My City Was Gone," which isn't a pleasant song about the state, but pfft, it works here.
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by mkovach 7mo ago
What hurts the most is that the em dash used to be a small, rebellious literary act that I truly enjoyed employing. A simple, useful hinge in a sentence where it could change its mind. Now? It indicates when an LLM got too frisky with claus
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by mkovach 7mo ago
This year, I decided to start opening up the tarball of random utilities that's been accumulating on my machine for years: stuff42.tar.gz . The first thing I cleaned up was TCL-Edit < https://gitlab.com/siddfinch&#x2
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Show HN: A Tcl/TK Clone of the Rust Clone of Microsoft Edit(gitlab.com)
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by mkovach 8mo ago
There's a more uncomfortable angle. Open source communities have long dealt with waves of inexperienced contributors. Students. Hobbyists. People who didn't read the contributing guide. Now the wave is automated. The maintainers a
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by mkovach 9mo ago
https://half-fast-devops.com where bourbon and keyboard collide.
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by mkovach 1y ago
Been toiling with a new client, ingesting their documentation, and improving it with a Hitchhiker's Guide twist, so the next person needs less caffeine and weeps less. It is bleeding into other aspects, but it's my pleasure to hel
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by mkovach 1y ago
Awesome! Yy usual 5-to-7-day output scramble will now look vastly more competent, ah, well, complete. Not actually be smarter, mind you, but radiate the comforting glow of effort by someone who has their temporal ducks in a suspiciously pho
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by mkovach 1y ago
I first encountered Forth on a TI-99/4A, complete with that magnificent expansion box that looked like industrial HVAC equipment. Hearing me complain about TI Extended BASIC's glacial pace, my parents saw in one of my magazines th
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by mkovach 1y ago
I really enjoyed this take. Awesome!
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by mkovach 1y ago
Very cool! You lived down the street! And yes, Kerouac's turn toward health mainly counteracted the booze. Oh, and another fun fact: Kerouac once befriended a former minor league baseball player who'd also played college football.
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by mkovach 1y ago
Ah, how wonderful, to stumble upon lost Kerouac like this, tucked away not in some Yale archive but in the collection of Paul Castellano of all people, as if the road had detoured briefly through the Five Families. That it reads like a miss
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by mkovach 1y ago
Most days, you’ll find me in sam, regexing my way to bliss like some monastic scribe with a terminal fetish. When I feel the urge to let AI stroke my curiosity or scaffold a long template like magic, I cut, paste, and drop it into a local o
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by mkovach 1y ago
Vim was never a steep learning curve for me; more of a gentle slope. But then again, I cut my teeth on ed, and when I met sed, it felt like a revelation. On DOS, I even used edlin, a kind of ed junior with training wheels and a sadistic sen
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by mkovach 1y ago
Ah, Borland’s IDE! An absolute delight. I’ve yet to find anything modern that matches it. Sure, nostalgia turns everything syrupy, but I actively hunt for excuses to use Free Pascal just to fire up that interface. Okay, fine—I like Pascal t
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by mkovach 1y ago
TCL 9 brought some welcome string improvements, and things run faster overall. But in my case, it's hard to say how well that's actually played out, partly because I haven't done the work to find out. My TCL scripts and apps
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by mkovach 1y ago
While I enjoy Lua, clean, elegant, and entirely too reasonable, Tcl is undoubtedly the SQLite of programming languages. https://www.tcl-lang.org/community/tcl2017/assets/talk93/Pap... It's because
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by mkovach 1y ago
Thank you! I truly appreciate it. Baseball fans supporting each other is one of the best part of the game!
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by mkovach 1y ago
Kind and humbling words, thank you. As a Cleveland Guardians fan, I need a boost!
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by mkovach 1y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, seriously. For a while, I was inflicting baseball history on the unsuspecting readers of Pitcher List[1], until the twin boulders of professional and personal life demanded I focus on pushing them. One persiste
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by mkovach 1y ago
Not for no-hitters, perfect games. The pitcher has to complete nine innings.
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by mkovach 1y ago
You are correct. I should have clarified that for this game, Cleveland was visiting Chicago, so they got to bat in the ninth.
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by mkovach 1y ago
Yes, the pitch clock and the relievers' requirement to face at least three batters in an inning have done a very good job of handling game times. At some point, as the game continues to evolve, I think we'll see an upward swing in
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by mkovach 1y ago
The time between half-innings increases, so the radio and TV could play commercials on the broadcast. Pitching changes are longer, etc. You don't see it much at the game, but if you are one of the folks who used to listen to the game o

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