Enk1du

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by Enk1du 4mo ago
Now I know the only place that Allman style indentation looks good is on a wall.
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by Enk1du 4mo ago
For those who want the comparison, CPAN is Perl's npm or PyPI and is having to deal with the same issues of security and verification. Hope they get it right.
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by Enk1du 4mo ago
That recent?!? Most criticism of Perl comes from people listening to second-hand rants of someone who hasn't looked at Perl since 2001. Yes, the article could be improved by the Make magazine advice on submissions that you should write
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by Enk1du 5mo ago
After reading the Disclosure in the second paragraph (the motivation for the post), you can skip down to the Comparison and Prologue where you get to the real heart of the post, that in the author's opinion a Federal contractor is usin
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by Enk1du 7mo ago
I tried to remember the study that put the usefulness of a CEO at 10% of the success of the company and found this Science Direct paper from 2023 on "The CEO effect and performance variation over time" which discusses many studies
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by Enk1du 9mo ago
Pfft. Spelling differences is minor league stuff. Try code-switching on silence. Pointed out to me by a Kiwi, that Americans take silence after a statement to mean general agreement, but in Britain silence implicitly asks, "Are you _re
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by Enk1du 10mo ago
I remember the "Aha" moment on the face of a python-flavoured data scientist when I showed her my Perl scripts for managing LDAP groups. One look at the class files (written in Moose) and she was stunned that she could immediately
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by Enk1du 10mo ago
> Python is backed by Google For me, this is why python took off. People wanted that lucrative job or receive the reflected glory of a winner, so y'gotta learn python. The rest is just post-hoc justification for why you made that ch
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by Enk1du 10mo ago
This combined with a cpanfile is how I rescued someone else's workshop from being an "Install these missing dependencies" session to being back on track in 3 minutes with "Here's this file, run 'cpanm --install
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by Enk1du 10mo ago
Not mentioned is that there are _many_ BBC's which became clear when watching the difference in coverage between the local and national broadcasts during Covid. The national editorial team spared the government's blushes at every
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by Enk1du 10mo ago
> The Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13) made changes in the funding and administration of further education and higher education [0] It was more about reducing budgets. That Conservative government was not filled with class w
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by Enk1du 11mo ago
I play with the timers to layer different sounds in and out. It's the best pomodoro timer out there, for me.
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by Enk1du 1y ago
I suppose it's because very soon people got tired of writing $a->[2]->{"bar"} which is equivalent and also works, but suffers from the explosion of punctuation that Perl often gets criticised for. There's an
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by Enk1du 1y ago
I quite enjoyed Perl Best Practices[0] for the rationales behind every decision, most of which I could get on board with. Plus, if you really like it you can auto-reformat code with perltidy[1] using the "--perl-best-practices"
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by Enk1du 2y ago
At Las Campanas, most of the staff from the cooks to the techs and a number of the researchers were all local. I found quite a bit of interest in the country as a whole as it's a source of national pride being the best location for ast
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by Enk1du 2y ago
Nothing stopping anyone from using Inline::Perl or NativeCall [0]. I'd like to see Raku's concurrency model working on these data structures. Otherwise there's always PDL::ParallelCPU [1] [0] https://docs.raku.org&
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by Enk1du 2y ago
For me, it's the acceleration of development in the last 5 years as seen in the Changes file. It's now releasing new versions almost every month. https://github.com/PDLPorters/pdl/blob/master/Ch
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Perl Data Language Advent Calendar(pdl.perl.org)
2 points by Enk1du 2y ago|6 comments
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by Enk1du 2y ago
What could be described as Numpy for Perl, PDL was released in 1996 and is now seeing a resurgence of interest. The Advent Calendar showcases some of its features in a festive mood.
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by Enk1du 2y ago
and more advents... https://pdl.perl.org/advent/index.html
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by Enk1du 2y ago
Ah, now the Natural Born Heroes heroism and the virtue of Xenia (ξενία) I can get behind. It's the ego-inflating ""heroes" in scare quotes" that crave validation that I find so exasperating.
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by Enk1du 2y ago
Some more reading on cognitive errors and expertise for you https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Spot-Solution-Right-Front/dp/00... >Depressingly, this means that we consistently put public policy in the hands of peopl
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by Enk1du 2y ago
The best advice I've seen on the issue is "Don't scar on the first cut", as in you shouldn't try to add a new rule every time you have an outage. That being said, I absolutely hate heroes. I've worked with a co
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by Enk1du 2y ago
North America is very car-focused. Transit in Europe is also much better, although your experience will vary from country to country. Even with all that oil money gushing through Alberta, it still takes 9.5 hours to drive from Medicine Hat
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by Enk1du 2y ago
Wait ... a _speech synthesizer_?!?!?! How did we never hear about that? Well, I suppose for the same reason the "talk" command (which wrote a message to all networked terminals) was removed after the first day. (it's shown o
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by Enk1du 2y ago
I think this is a function of hours of practice. I remember the point when I started hearing the silent "h" in Spanish and also when I stopped understanding what native speakers were saying after 3 months because I'd progress
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by Enk1du 3y ago
It was kind of a thing at the time. In the Afterword of Æleen Frisch's Essential System Administration (also 1991) subtitled "Don't Forget to Have Fun", there are listed _seven_ virtues of a system administrator: * Flexi
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by Enk1du 3y ago
A quick explanation of the Three Virtues by Larry and then an impromptu explanation of why Hobbits would make good programmers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G49RUPv5-NU
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by Enk1du 3y ago
Hubris was really about building the community. It encouraged you to build things that you would want to share, so that we could all benefit from your Laziness and Impatience.
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by Enk1du 3y ago
For me, it's code review that makes me write in a maintainable style. It's the team that's responsible for a code base and objections are raised whenever anyone thinks that they'll struggle to understand this or that lin

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