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> People who haven't used Perl to its full power have little how idea just how magical a language it was/is. ...why would you prefer to reach for the "no true scotsman ...", rather…

> The goal of programming languages is to execute instructions on the machine. The goal of a general purpose programming language is to communicate a program from one human to anot…

3.5 years of using Perl5 for 8 hours a day every day. I'd like to take the other side on more of your bets please ;-)

> Python programmers would [...] bad mouth Perl all over the internet [...] I am one of those, and I disagree with the moral connotation of that framing. When you're in the know an…

> Perl/Raku haters don't have anything of actual meat in their complaints For a random complaint of mine (one of many) see [1]. Using Perl as my main programming language for 3.5 y…

Not everything, but languages do serve a purpose tied to how many (and which) people speak them, and that's true for general purpose programming languages in the same way as for hu…

What if it had taken Nintendo 35 years to release the next GameBoy, and they now came along and said: "Listen up, everybody! We finally did it! It has a 16 bit processor now instea…

I'm curious: What software is driving this? Is it a re-skin of the lobste.rs or HN open source software, or is it its own thing? EDIT: ...just realized that's in the FAQ. > Is it o…

SuSE/openSuSE is innovating plenty of stuff which other distros find it worth to immitate, e.g. CachyOS and omarchy as Arch-derivatives felt that openSuSE-style btrfs snapshots wer…

Always reminds me of the quote "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." by T. J. Watson Sr. The quote is usually delivered as a punchline of sorts, but we're rap…

I agree. I'm not sure about "toy", but something that gives the child zero agency definitely falls hort of the definition of "play".

The E.U. making life difficult for U.S.-based monopolists, and the U.S. making life difficult for E.U.-based monopolists? For a net effect of life being difficult for all monopolis…

Where it says "jesus", shouldn't it read "jesus [flagged]"?

I wouldn't do a take-home unless they do an interview first, to signal they value my time and are acting in good faith. (HR people don't count). Then, when they give me the take-ho…

Thanks!

Is the Mac Pro pretty much no longer a thing, going forward? -- Not trying to be a smartass, just asking out of genuine curiosity, because I know next to nothing about the Apple li…

CachyOS and openSUSE have you covered with btrfs and snapper pre-configured to take snapshots before/after doing potentially damaging things (and, of course, you can make them manu…

> [...] due to their strong nationalism. The problem IMO is politics, not nationalism (which only enters into the politics indirectly). European integration is a half-done project.…

A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#a-foolish-consistency-is-t... I wonder how a code formatting tool is going to implement tha…

Thanks a lot! I have a section on my reading list for books that are available as e-books, but not as audiobooks, and that section just keeps growing ad infinitum. I seldom find th…

Asking in good faith out of genuine curiosity: I kind of associate ClickHouse with Yandex. What's the present-day relationship and legal setup, and how does it jive with Western sa…

When I read that title, I was expecting the following story: "Academic ghostwriters", thanks to AI, are now completing online degrees by the hundreds per actual human headcount, se…

What jumps out at me is the paragraph: "Governance and leadership reforms." in the original letter sent by the government to the university. The other stuff is hard to make sense o…