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Yep, good times!

From 'man perlop': Customary Generic Meaning Interpolates '' q{} Literal no "" qq{} Literal yes -- where {} can be any bracket pair. my $string1 = q ; my $string2 = qq ;

> anyone else still having nightmares from trying to escape quotes and meta chars in a shell? This was a major reason I downloaded Perl 1.0 off Usenet in 1987.[1] [1] https://news.…

See also The Timeline of Perl and its Culture https://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

Yes, writing shell scripts calling awk and sed was awful , just an aesthetic nightmare to work with. Properly quoting strings was always problematic, and while Usenet was available…

Exactly. To recap for folks unfamiliar with the history: Peter Thiel co-founded the electronic payments company that developed PayPal. Musk co-founded an online bank which had mass…

Board members Henry Kissinger and William Perry unwittingly admitted they were dupes ten months prior to the first Carreyrou article in a Dec. 2014 article by Ken Auletta in The Ne…

Sure, it was cool to see, but it was inevitable that someone would do it. Once Dean Kamen demonstrated self-balancing wheelchairs and Segways, anyone paying attention could foresee…

WAVE (Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool) shows numerous contrast errors[1]. (Click the contrast button on the sidebar.) [1] http://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://news.ycombinator.…

You'd think Google would get this right. Merriam-Webster's definition[1]: 3: an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer 4: a person who illegally gains access to…

I'm sorry, I think your analysis of the cause of the power disparity is wrong. It's not due to numbers. It's because power disparity is inherent in hierarchical organizations. The …

Some…yeah, where some is the 1.7 million cubic yards of rubble now clogging up the Thermalito Diversion Pool. [1] When you look at photos or drone videos of the erosion near the ma…

> like facebook did when their cheating got out I have no idea what this refers to. Care to elaborate?

> Surely there are successful terrorist plots that have succeeded that we are unaware of. No. Terrorists even take credit for things they had nothing to do with. The goal of a terr…

The Life community goes back decades! Some members recently have put together a distributed soup search project to catalog objects that appear naturally. While the c/10 spaceship w…

> With all due respect to Tim Cook and Apple, I work with a team of the best hackers on the planet. These hackers attend Defcon in Las Vegas, and they are legends in their local ha…

> Right now this is just a fancy maglev. Precisely. There are no air intakes on the nosecone. None needed, since there's no air hockey suspension. I'm surprised more people didn't …

There have been some comments, but I'm not sure I've seen this excellent take on the issue. From the linked document: > So what’s the value of getting the vibration mode shapes of …

If built on the moon or Mars it wouldn't need the tube, since the winning design uses magnetic levitation.

No the article is good because it accurately describes the winning design, which drops the air hockey for a maglev. Check the MIT site for details.

> Let me repeat that: the first serious proposal is no faster than a train and can't actually be used for transporting anything. Making it, as a suggestion for high speed transport…

Yes. Furthermore, there is no air hockey. The winning design is a maglev.

You're smearing someone while citing the notorious author that Politico dubbed a "misinformation monger." Please stop wasting our time.