autarch

10 ms·

1.
by autarch 1mo ago
For sure. I was thinking more of "normal" applications, as opposed to things like SQL databases. It looks like the SQL standard explicitly calls for the use of the Gregorian calendar for dates, so I think that answers the previous
2.
by autarch 1mo ago
Who writes computer programs that deal with pre-1582 _dates_ at all? In science-related code, I can image a case for calculating things like seconds elapsed across a very long time period. But in that case you're not really dealing wit
3.
by autarch 1mo ago
I'm the author of the Perl DateTime library. It works correctly as _documented_. Here's the first two paragraphs of the docs: > DateTime is a class for the representation of date/time combinations, and is part of the Perl
4.
by autarch 2mo ago
I've been using an old iPad as a clock for a while. The "Clocks" app I installed lets me configured 5 different alarms (quite handy since my week varies a lot).
5.
by autarch 2mo ago
I love both the Murderbot books and Piranesi. I think they're excellent for _very_ different reasons. With Murderbot, the "corpos control everything" scifi future setting is nothing new. I think the brilliance is in its portr
6.
by autarch 2mo ago
I was just referring to Network Effect in 2021 and looking at what other novels won in nearby years.
7.
by autarch 2mo ago
Murderbot won the Hugo for best novel in 2021. This is the first _novel_ in the series. The previous publications were novellas, and so not in the same category. I suspect that the award may have been in part for the series and not this boo
8.
by autarch 2mo ago
Murderbot was 2021. I would defend it as a winner, but take a look at other recent years: * 2020 - A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine - a science fiction story set in a future Aztec space empire - quite inventive and odd. The sequel w
9.
by autarch 3mo ago
We've done the same thing in my job. I think what they're saying is that rather than passing/returning ` SomeStruct` and having it maybe be optional, they either pass ` SomeStruct`, with a rule that it's never nil, _or_
10.
by autarch 6mo ago
Except Altered Carbon mostly waves the real difficulty away by talking about something like "downloading" a mind into a body. I don't remember there being anything about growing replacement clones, but it would make sense giv
11.
by autarch 6mo ago
Imagine that you are a consultant. You get a call that starts with, "Hi, this is Joe Schmoe and Schmoe Law Firm. I need a new billing system. Can you build me one?" And you respond by saying that you can, but you need to do a _lot
12.
by autarch 8mo ago
Nice. I think my new climbing routine will be to just look at the 5.13 and mime moves from the ground for an hour, then go home.
13.
by autarch 8mo ago
Yeah, it's quite difficult to walk for any length of time without encountering one, usually a 7-11. They're everywhere. And they actually have some decent food. It's a bizarre thing to experience for an American like myself.
14.
by autarch 8mo ago
I'd love to see this for Taiwan. I'm here now (on my Nth trip where N >= 11), and my impression is that 7-11 is the clear winner in all the cities I've been to, followed by Family Mart and then some stragglers like Hilife
15.
by autarch 8mo ago
I was wondering about this myself. My guess is no, since AFAIK the only way to do this sort manual memory management is to use unsafe code. But there's also things like the (bumpalo)[ https://docs.rs/bumpalo/latest&
16.
by autarch 9mo ago
The website seems fine to me. I'm using Chrome on Linux with an X1 Carbon (so integrated graphics, no fancy GPU).
17.
by autarch 9mo ago
If you think the engineer interview process is painful, try interviewing to be CEO of any company. I guarantee it will be _much_ more involved.
18.
by autarch 9mo ago
Just go to your local shop and buy some time brakes. That's the safest course of action until this is repaired.
19.
by autarch 9mo ago
Well, that's _this_ timeline. Other timelines never had an outage.
20.
by autarch 9mo ago
Time travel is extremely dangerous right now. I highly recommend deferring time travel plans except for extreme temporal emergencies.
21.
by autarch 10mo ago
> What's an example of a language that's as bad as Perl, that's used as widely as Perl was, that's still in use today? PHP? I don't know how widely it's still used, but I'd guess it's more widely u
22.
by autarch 10mo ago
My main complaints about Go are not that it needs more obscure syntax. The biggest problem with Go is basically that the core of the language's syntax is special, and only accessible to the compiler. This goes hand in hand with the lan
23.
by autarch 10mo ago
I was just saying that they were confused about what was going on with Perl because if the Perl 6 effort. I don't think that they were confused or wrong in their decision making.
24.
by autarch 10mo ago
True. For whatever reason, these never displaced XS. For wrapping C libraries in particular, it's not clear to me how much Inline::C helps with this. You're still stuck using a lot of Perl C API calls, AFAICT, which I think is the
25.
by autarch 10mo ago
> The point where I disagree is I think Perl 6/Raku played a significant role in Perl's decline. It really gave me the perception that they were rudderless and that Perl probably had no future. I assume you disagree with the bl
26.
by autarch 10mo ago
I was writing a comment asking if it was really easier. Then I took a look at Cython. Yes, this looks easier than Perl's XS, which I have some experience with! There are ways to do something similar in Perl these days, notably https:&
27.
by autarch 10mo ago
As a very long-time Perl developer and FOSS contributor, I think this blog post is incorrect about whether Perl 6/Raku was a factor in Perl's decline. I think Perl 6/Raku did a few things that hurt Perl 5: 1. It pulled away f
28.
by autarch 10mo ago
I can't tell if this is a joke or not. Is this a real email that someone received?
29.
by autarch 11mo ago
FWIW, I don't think he wanted to hide his identity. He talked about just not wanting patients to google his full name and find his blog, as opposed to preventing people who read his blog from finding out his name.
30.
by autarch 1y ago
I don't think most airlines allow two suitcases. Generally it's one "bag" (a suitcase or duffel) and one "personal item" (purse, backpack, etc.).

More ›