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Perl is still in every Linux. I just checked one of my Oracle installs and there are 725 .pl files. So it seems that is it still relevant.

When I had cats, I couldn't leave the bedroom door wide open, because that would give them space to come running into the room and jump onto the bed (sometimes on my face) at early…

A characteristic of most of Latin America is that the Police and the Army were created to protect power, not the people, and there hasn't really been an effort to change the mental…

It might be a bit tough getting the permits from the EPA.

I'll take 32KB, a 6502 core, and 2400 baud of bandwidth.

Will they get targeted ads? GPUs, RAM, spacious data centers near you!

Kelly is nice if you know the odds.

You could buy a board called Integra-B to expand a model B. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT07uPRRPfU A few games required some extra RAM. Update: Actually, there were other boar…

It's impressive how fast it boots up on a Pi. I've tried all the OSs for the Pi and RISCOS is way faster than all the alternatives.

I was looking for info about connecting a Beeb to a Linux machine as a terminal, and found this guy using a modem for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QLcx2bvMbA I'm going wi…

I think programmers in general do not give much thought to the level of engineering required for a task. Mostly, there's too little, but there are many cases when there's too much.…

Some words also came into Portuguese from African slaves who were Muslim. And also from the Lebanese who immigrated to Brazil in the XX century.

Sometimes, rarely, you find a bit asphalt in Brazil where you have to drive on the left and often it is signalled as "mão inglesa", which is something like "English flow". Recently…

Voting should always be universal. The moment you exclude someone, you add the possibility of excluding more people.

I agree. There's one Da Vinci with the Vitruvian man on the back. The back should complement the front, right?

I've been tasked with justifying the renewal of software I would never choose to begin with. It has occurred to me that I could easily use AI to make up the required text. I guess …

The ones I know are completely brown. They put their four front legs together, two by two, and sort of point at you. I was told that they are aggressive because they are well fed b…

In South America there's a very aggressive spider that lives on the bananas (genus Phoneutria). Spiders usually shy away from humans but these attack and have a very nasty venom. I…

Universe #23: keep solar systems far enough that they can't make war on each other.

If you found that movie interesting, check out The Second Mother (Que Horas ela Volta?) which is a Brazilian movie about a maid and her relationship with the middle class family th…

Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.

If you pay minimum wage (about US$300) it would be about that per working day. Increasingly, cleaners are working per diem because they earn a lot more (about US$40 a day, but this…

Minimum wage is about US$300, which would make about US$220k total (you get about 13.3 salaries per year), plus fines and overtime. They'll have to pay social security too. It seem…

Its a common occurrence for families to take in poor girls to do house work in exchange for food and lodging. And with the insidious nature of Brazilian racism, they will pretend t…

There's a Portuguese saying "há mouro na costa" which is literally "there are moor at the coast" and means that there is something fishy going on.