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For sure. I was thinking more of "normal" applications, as opposed to things like SQL databases. It looks like the SQL standard explicitly calls for the use of the Gregorian calend…

Who writes computer programs that deal with pre-1582 _dates_ at all? In science-related code, I can image a case for calculating things like seconds elapsed across a very long time…

I'm the author of the Perl DateTime library. It works correctly as _documented_. Here's the first two paragraphs of the docs: > DateTime is a class for the representation of date/t…

I've been using an old iPad as a clock for a while. The "Clocks" app I installed lets me configured 5 different alarms (quite handy since my week varies a lot).

I love both the Murderbot books and Piranesi. I think they're excellent for _very_ different reasons. With Murderbot, the "corpos control everything" scifi future setting is nothin…

I was just referring to Network Effect in 2021 and looking at what other novels won in nearby years.

Murderbot won the Hugo for best novel in 2021. This is the first _novel_ in the series. The previous publications were novellas, and so not in the same category. I suspect that the…

Murderbot was 2021. I would defend it as a winner, but take a look at other recent years: * 2020 - A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine - a science fiction story set in a futur…

We've done the same thing in my job. I think what they're saying is that rather than passing/returning ` SomeStruct` and having it maybe be optional, they either pass ` SomeStruct`…

Except Altered Carbon mostly waves the real difficulty away by talking about something like "downloading" a mind into a body. I don't remember there being anything about growing re…

Imagine that you are a consultant. You get a call that starts with, "Hi, this is Joe Schmoe and Schmoe Law Firm. I need a new billing system. Can you build me one?" And you respond…

Nice. I think my new climbing routine will be to just look at the 5.13 and mime moves from the ground for an hour, then go home.

Yeah, it's quite difficult to walk for any length of time without encountering one, usually a 7-11. They're everywhere. And they actually have some decent food. It's a bizarre thin…

I'd love to see this for Taiwan. I'm here now (on my Nth trip where N >= 11), and my impression is that 7-11 is the clear winner in all the cities I've been to, followed by Family …

I was wondering about this myself. My guess is no, since AFAIK the only way to do this sort manual memory management is to use unsafe code. But there's also things like the (bumpal…

The website seems fine to me. I'm using Chrome on Linux with an X1 Carbon (so integrated graphics, no fancy GPU).

If you think the engineer interview process is painful, try interviewing to be CEO of any company. I guarantee it will be _much_ more involved.

Just go to your local shop and buy some time brakes. That's the safest course of action until this is repaired.

Well, that's _this_ timeline. Other timelines never had an outage.

Time travel is extremely dangerous right now. I highly recommend deferring time travel plans except for extreme temporal emergencies.

> What's an example of a language that's as bad as Perl, that's used as widely as Perl was, that's still in use today? PHP? I don't know how widely it's still used, but I'd guess i…

My main complaints about Go are not that it needs more obscure syntax. The biggest problem with Go is basically that the core of the language's syntax is special, and only accessib…

I was just saying that they were confused about what was going on with Perl because if the Perl 6 effort. I don't think that they were confused or wrong in their decision making.

True. For whatever reason, these never displaced XS. For wrapping C libraries in particular, it's not clear to me how much Inline::C helps with this. You're still stuck using a lot…

> The point where I disagree is I think Perl 6/Raku played a significant role in Perl's decline. It really gave me the perception that they were rudderless and that Perl probably h…