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by perlgeek 2y ago
Similar experience here. The kids used the kick scooters to get school (faster than walking, so they were motivated, and not yet allowed to ride a bike, "insurance reasons", whatever), so they used them a lot. After that, switchin
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by perlgeek 2y ago
If you don't act against disinformation, you get a world that is spammed with so many statements that it's impossible for the average consumer to assess the truth of any of them. Is that what you want? If yes, why? If not, what&#x
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> While I agree, I think even legislation will not fix this, because what is a computing device, and who decides what is and what is not ? If there is legislation, it will contain a definition of what is a computing device and what isn&#
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I really wish more languages would "steal" grammars from raku (formerly Perl 6). A grammar is basically a class (or role/trait), and they can contain regexes (and regular methods). Those regexes have backtracking control (for
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Preference for specific sports is highly cultural. Example: In China, table tennis is king. Germany has the strongest table tennis league in Europe, and yet mainstream media mostly ignores it. Even the second and third soccer leagues get mo
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> Can't do nothing, as his account was being treated as a shrine. So what. He gets a few upvotes. What's the harm for the users, or the platform?
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> I don’t know what SO should have done Well, nothing. Unless they have a general policy of scrubbing records of everybody indicted for (but not yet proven guilty of) violent crimes, why do anything at all?
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by perlgeek 2y ago
A charitable interpretation of OP's statement would be: You cannot really use lawfulness as a measure of morality, and this is true now just as much as it was back then. Or a different take could be: moral progress happens all the time
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I don't think it's too complicated, especially if you start in a culture where people don't job-hop all the time. But, you have to make it your priority, which means: * pay them more than competitors, pay them more than if th
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by perlgeek 2y ago
The original piece was on developing with a long-scale time horizon (10 years), so you could go with software that has been very stable over comparable time scales. For example, there are corners of the Perl ecosystem that have been really
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Even when you have reproducible builds and local copies of all recursive dependencies, you have to be able to react when e.g. a security vulnerability is found in one of them. If you have 1600 of them, you probably don't know them all
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Just imagine how many poorly-written shell scripts will break when we suddenly allow dollars, quotes, backticks and the likes in username. Heck, even allowing spaces sound like horror to me. On the display side, I'm sure most tools tha
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by perlgeek 2y ago
A natural third dimension is language. If your user base is very international, you might need most of these documents in multiple languages.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
If the action of a company doesn't seem to make sense, ask yourself: could you imagine an incentive structure within the company that could lead to such actions?
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I work at an IT outsourcing company that also has some VMWare farms (though not sure if we reach 20k VMs). What I picked up is that before the acquisition, price was mostly determined by CPUs on the hypervisor, now it's mostly by RAM.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
If it were a planned, age-related retirement, it would've been announced half a year to a year ahead, no?
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Any consortium that includes Deutsche Telekom is doomed to failure. We've seen that when Germany introduced the Autobahn toll, it was a complete disaster. If I had to guess who's going to have a Starlink competitor up next, I&#x27
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by perlgeek 2y ago
... unless the "meat" being grass-fed is actually cows, which produce lots of methane. Not so good for climate change, at least if done at scale. It's never that easy as "Meat is great".
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by perlgeek 2y ago
For regular releases without semver, I'd slightly prefer a version number that contained the year (and possibly month), like Ubuntu does it. Gives immediate feeling for how old (or young) a version is.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
The "feeling good" podcast by David Burns: https://feelinggood.com/list-of-feeling-good-podcasts/ I came across it in this remarkable interview in the "Clearer Thinking" podcast https://p
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I've been listening to a psychology podcast, and they label every "should"-statement as a cognitive distortion. > While I do read articles here and there, it’s far less than I should. Formulating it as a "should"
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Where does it say on that page that the hardening is not making them world-readable? > If a compiler is found, execution should be limited to authorized users only (e.g. root user).
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by perlgeek 2y ago
One way it's a disaster is that file names (on Linux at least, haven't used Windows in a long time) are byte strings that can contain directory paths from different/multiple file systems. So if you have non-ASCII characters i
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Mars days are longer than Earth days, so a time zone alone won't do. I think I actually heard on a podcast that some Mars rover mission team had to operate in shifts that were synchronized with Mars days.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Some years ago, I had the (mostly subconscious) thought that fat people simply didn't have much self-control, or didn't really want to lose weight. And then I listed to a few. The stories are horrific. Most have tried 10+ differen
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by perlgeek 2y ago
To the point about temperature-dependent efficiencies, I've searched a bit and found this: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Engin-Gedik/publication... (PDF warning) They go as low as 10°C as the ambient t
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> Come up or adapt a format, that can defer certain styling decisions to the consumer of the document. Stuff like, font, font size, line spacing, citation style, double or single column, numeration style, etc. We have that, it's cal
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Thanks! Are you using the json loading feature in typst at all?
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by perlgeek 2y ago
During/before the water landing of Ship, the telemetry indication for the rocket motors stayed off. Does that mean the landing burn was unsuccessful? Or was that just a glitch in the telemetry?
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In the near future, I'll have to program the document generation part of an invoicing system. In the past, I've done generated PDF documents through latex, and didn't really like the process (for one, escaping is just so weir

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