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Really great effort!!! A uber-nerdy anecdote to be appreciated by knowledgeable people. I'm feeling pretty envious :)

Yes, strings appear like an afterthought, and sadly the Octave version has slight incompatibilities which may be a PITA for any non trivial script which aims to be compatible.

For my thesis I did something similar: bash scripts to extract raw data from a Subversion repository, to be preprocessed with PHP scripts (now I would prefer Python but had more ex…

In my experience, it is from technical management in medium/big companies you'll listen some good things about Oracle as a database product (regardless of its actual merits), like …

Of course almost all startups expect a long live, but strategically it may be better (for the founders) to close when the fundamental assumptions are no longer valid, in order to d…

Same here. I've read the author's braintrust.dev as "brain - Rust - Dev", so I was expecting a discussion on Rust Async development.

Hope some day Muslims (in all Arab countries) just accept the right of Israel to exist. Else, this attack/retaliation dynamic will continue for ever, with people taking sides from …

I believe even today there's no way to control/isolate memory leaks on a per-war basis.

At least on TV I occasionally catch randomly interesting ads... sometimes. On YT, I'm stuck with the same obnoxious commercial from a company whose service I strongly dislike, play…

Applets died because of many reasons, like absurd startup time for the JRE (often just for silly animations), absurd memory requirements (for the time) and associated crashes, weir…

> What's I find more interesting, is methods that have worked for someone for years. From 2020 I use a three column worksheet (Libreoffice in Debian): one row per day. One thin col…

Right, epiphenols. And despite some BPA-free options there are many alerts about the risks of the replacements. Maybe is time for a cool old style matrix receipt printer using regu…

Hibernate... a real PITA every time the application needed something beyond basic single-table CRUD queries; sadly for me it happened 99% of the times. After some months of torture…

Writing from a country with dysfunctional judiciary, I think this is a logical way to overcome crime, at least temporarily. There isn't a "hygienic" alternative when judges are con…

The #38 is controversial as noted. To me it represents the branching of Unix flavors, mostly derived from the AT&T and BSD versions (represented by the glasses.)

> to distribute applications in the form of what are essentially tarballs of entire Linux systems. No so bad when Linux ran from a floppy with 2Mb of RAM. Sadly every library just …

> Most utilities do not have to face the network True, but code from those utilities may eventually be used in the network (for example, through copied functionality and shared lib…

Beginner here. A takeaway I got from the Andrew Ng's Coursera course (specifically for neural networks) is that adding more neurons and layers than the "minimum needed" is usually …

Sad world where people expects successful people to hire a PR team just to be liked.

> the response from leadership was "yes, something like that would be better in the long run, but we want to ship this now." Sounds like the Rust's async story.

> it shows that you should never give up your nuclear weapons for any agreement or treaty This is something every related country already knows, think of Pakistan and North Korea. …

Great for you! Could you give the name of such drug in order to ask some feedback from my doctor? Some years ago she prescribed one which got me sleeping but I woke up awfully tire…

I agree with your sentiment. I was kind of "forced" to use (and eventually fully migrate to) git because the IDE integration to SVN became more quirky every year. Instead, git is a…

Some months ago I was trying to learn a bit on this subject (using Debian); from my notes I made a sort of beginner's "self-tutorial"[1]. [1]: https://americati.com/dat/assembler.h…

> I'm no expert but I have to believe it would be far cheaper and easier to solve Earth's problems. Nor I, but maybe the Earth's problems can't be solved at all, so -at least some …