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The derogatory and inaccurate use of “monkey patch” to describe adding methods to an open class identifies you as a Python advocate, so grains of salt applied, but: I can’t speak f…

I think it’s much simpler than that. Ruby didn’t have good documentation in English until the mid-2000’s. Python was in use by the English-speaking world before the turn of the cen…

Dissenting voice here. I did not like the book. It's dark and unpleasant and contra other people here I don't think it speaks to any particularly interesting truths about how suppo…

> In my experience people complain about Obj-C syntax when what they actually dislike are verbose Cocoa/Foundation/etc APIs If so, that’s a real shame. Foundation may be the single…

It’s really unfortunate that Apple’s blown gaming so badly. I built a mid-high range gaming PC during the first year of the pandemic. The awful software that PC gamers have to put …

Note that the precipitating event was Wallace’s Fox contract coming to an end. This wasn’t ideological ragequit. But this probably is a consequence of Fox having gone full Trumpy/f…

It’s reasonable for people with center-right, centrist, or left-leaning politics to distrust Fox affiliates. Some of them are in fact still owned by the same company as Fox News. T…

Not familiar with Raku, but that grep call seems like it would be quite a bit slower than the Ruby equivalent at runtime if it’s anything like a normal grep. Is there some magic th…

Note how much more concise and yet readable the equivalent Ruby is.

> There were analog HDTV standards before we all moved to digital 8-bit computers likely wouldn't be able to keep up with the bandwidth requirements of those systems either.

The religious channels are not PBS. "support" is not relevant if the goal is propaganda (religious or political).

> Any person who resorts to violence instantly loses all justification This is an argument for defunding the police. Police reform is sorely needed. "Defund the police" as a slogan…

I understand your concern, but you're advocating for a form of security-through-obscurity. Data harvesting of this information is already available to bad actors. If information mu…

Kind of a tangent, but Ruby-is-slow was always contextual. Ruby was always hugely faster than complex bash scripts for the same task. If you value launch time, Python (at least thr…

I use a PC as gaming console for my 4k TV. The EGS windows app is unusable on a 4k TV. Steam, GOG, and Ubisoft Connect all work fine on the same TV. On top of that, I don't like Ep…

Gershwin was always vaporware. As far as I know, no real code was written; it was all planning. Pink did exist in various forms, and it would be fascinating to have that material a…

No real need for Copland — there’s an entire book about it — search for Mac OS 8 by Tony Francis.

Not a chance.

I don’t know specifically what this person was told, but there was low confidence before the turn of the century on the classic Mac OS side that the NeXT people would developer a c…

And why should we believe this? Edit: The "space force" needs to justify its existence, and this is a way for them to do it. Why haven't we heard about this before?

There's no reason a spatial layout shouldn't be remembered (by default) per-user on a multiuser system.

“Mild” in this case means you don’t go to the hospital (and/or the morgue). It doesn’t rule out long COVID or extremely severe (from a layman’s perspective) symptoms. And that’s th…

We absolutely can. Imagine a US president outwardly Trump-like but who was also a True Believer instead of a cynical, mentally-ill real estate huckster. They would have the unilate…

This, so much. I maintain corporate, closed-source components which are central to my org’s mission and have to request radical changes on PRs submitted by other teams on a frequen…

I think you could actually justify it with something sufficiently radical, but TFA fails to do that.