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The other article fails to mention the building vs land+building valuation. I posted it over there, but thought this was a better article on its own.

Here's a better article covering this situation: https://wolfstreet.com/2024/08/01/values-of-old-office-tower... Unsurprising that a building's value goes down over time while the …

Sadly, it's not always that simple. If one of your well-pinned packages has a build dependency which is not correctly pinned, then you're subject to the problem.

Oh yeah! Perl sure did have a bunch of ugly programs, but I believe that was because it was so easy for non-experts to program in it. There have been many companies successfully bu…

Horror is apt. You hit it on the head with the slowness of loops when the body comprises a series of program invocations. The horror really seeps in when you realize the original a…

The effortless composition of complex commands out of simple standalone programs is one of the best features of Unix. And yes, I admire and love it as well. That said, imagine a me…

When perl came out we were living in horrific times. You had the choice of either Bourne, C or Korn shell. Automation was glued together in one of these with a series of grep, awk,…

I was an innkeeper, in this crazy, little town in Vermont... https://youtu.be/OwYw2i2icNg?t=430

The claim: reduces CO₂e emissions by up to 80%* The asterisk: water boiling phase excluded When I boil pasta, I use full heat to get the water boiling, drop in the pasta, then let …

If you google your question, you literally get a set of videos showing you how to do it. "oneplus 10 pro qr": https://www.google.com/search?q=OnePlus+10+Pro+qr In 30 seconds, I fou…

After all, they're pigs on the wing. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/79160/time-pink-floyds-g...

If you read through to the bottom, you'll see the article itself is just a call to action for yet another service which the author is starting. It's an ad. Seeing it buried so deep…

The article is just an ad. > This was my motivation for starting GlacierMD: I wanted to give consumers the information they needed to make evidence-based health decisions. And alth…

Fascinating article which explains the seeming contradiction between China's crackdown on some of the most visible tech companies (Alibaba, Tencent) and it's new emphasis on tech g…

And here are the headers: # curl -i https://www.facebook.com/ HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error X-Frame-Options: DENY X-XSS-Protection: 0 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Strict-Tr…

Because ctrl-z will stop the current command, and when you run "fg" it resumes that one process. However, the loop you were in has been abandoned, and it will not continue to execu…

Let's begin at the beginning, Chapter da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709. Of course, that's tongue-in-cheek. It all began with e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290.

> Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a s…

I find it funny when satire from the past becomes the truth of the present. It's not hard to find examples such as the dystopian satire of "Network" (1976) becoming depressingly ac…

Saying that Perl was one of the first languages is silly of course. It's nowhere near as old as LISP, FORTRAN, and C. However, Perl is the first of its kind. Prior to Perl, one wou…

Not sure why we don't refer to the original reporting from which this was based: "When rides go wrong: How Uber’s investigations unit works to limit the company’s liability" https:…