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"badly-written Perl scripts..." You are much too kind to the monkeys who put this together. The config is nice, but Chicago? Chicago font? I thought that was buried deep, long ago.
Am I weird for liking Chicago?
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I use jsonlines on those occasions https://jsonlines.org/examples/
This is nice. But less space-efficient than CSV when its strictly tabular, since CSV has columns legend on first row allowing 'pure' rows, whereas JSON will have to key every field, on every row.
It sounded like and is kind of a joke, but there was some serious work on those retro themes! Pretty damn accurate stuff.
I don't get how a lack of Unicode support has anything to do with making an OS shell that's visually ugly and old-fashioned. There's a difference between being ugly and being broken.
My company recently issued me a mac for remote work. I'm sorely tempted to load this in a VM so I can "accidentally" share my desktop via zoom and then claim ignorance that this is not in fact MacOS.
> Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Stand, Amiga Workbench, Atari ST GEM, and Mac Classic and Aqua Horrible? Were these not the cutting edge? Do we not hark back to these UIs with fondness for their simplicity and 'it just works'?
The biggest issues with these old environments is that today we are used to much higher screen resolutions, but a modern WM with a classic look would be pretty good for me (and of course with themes you can mostly do just that).
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The United States government pigeon holes all human beings into five racial categories[0]. All of Eurasia is White, including the Middle East and India. I imagine this is policy driven but haven’t speculated much. It’s an oddity that seems to percolate culturally as well. [0] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/note/US/RHI625219 Not defending OP here, just providing some possible context for their unfortunate choi…
For what it's worth, my aim was to disavow anyone from claiming that they are "color-blind" even when they have good intentions. I should demand of myself to grant the same level of respect and courtesy to anyone else regardless of their race. The reasoning there is due to the fact that, in the US at least, race is often tied to identity, in terms of background, culture, and even experience in daily life. Ultimately,…
Then what is your definition of color-blindness? What you demand of yourself in that second sentence is pretty much the definition of color-blindness that I was taught, so to me your first and second sentence are in direct opposition: you disavow it in your first sentence, then claim to strive for it in your second.
I remember using a program called HotDog Professional a long time ago. Brings back memories.
HotDog was sweet. Back when nobody cared what the code looked like. All you needed was a WYSIWYG editor to be a powerful webmaster, and "deployment" was just FTP
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The rationale: https://hotdoglinux.com/PerlAndUseStrict/index.html " Most tutorials about Perl will tell you to always 'use strict' or something to that effect. However, the general rule for HOT DOG Linux is to not 'use strict'. The reasoning behind this is that each Perl script should be as simple as possible. It should be simple enough to not need 'use strict'. If it gets to the point where the script would be easi…
Since the smaller scripts run in separate processes, there is in fact a safety benefit to the break-up, which compensates in some way for the lack of strict. Processes are isolated; you know that a function call in one script will not misuse a function in another. Or that a global variable defined in one script can't be modified or accessed in the other. The scripts can only communicate via external mechanisms: comma…
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This is nice. But less space-efficient than CSV when its strictly tabular, since CSV has columns legend on first row allowing 'pure' rows, whereas JSON will have to key every field, on every row.
I don't understand why people keep using CSV today while SQLite is MIT-licenced and can be used everywhere, has a very portable and lightweight implementation, has a stable file format with long-term commitment, and a good compromise on the type system that gives enough flexibility to be on par with CSV if some entries happen to have a different type...