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Enk1du
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- 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 understand it, having never written Perl before.
- > 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 choice passed on as "this language is better because of blah..."
A lot of the justifications don't stack up against serious scrutiny, but are accepted as gospel.
- 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 --installdeps --notest .'"
- 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 turn, whereas the local teams reported what was actually happening in their communities, to the point where you were getting more real news from a smaller, underfunded news service.
They each have their own agendas.
- > 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 warriors. Oh, how times have changed.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Further_and_Higher_Education_A...
- I play with the timers to layer different sounds in and out. It's the best pomodoro timer out there, for me.
- I suppose it's because very soon people got tired of writing
which is equivalent and also works, but suffers from the explosion of punctuation that Perl often gets criticised for. There's an element of Do What I Mean where the first arrow says this is a reference and work the rest out for me.$a->[2]->{"bar"} - 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" flag or check your files with Perl::Critic[2] policies based on PBP.
It's dear to me because it came along at a time when I needed short breaks from thesis writing.
[0] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/perl-best-practices/0596001738/ [1] https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Tidy/view/bin/perltidy [2] https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic - 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 astronomy.
Allowing this to proceed will affect _all_ future astronomy projects in Chile. No one is going to splash out on a shiny, new 100m optical telescope (OWL) if anyone can come along and park a city's worth of light just down the road.
- 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/language/nativecall [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::ParallelCPU
- 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.
- 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.
- and more advents...
- 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.
- 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 people who are demonstrably incompetent.
You could depress yourself further by thinking that we get the government we deserve or you could re-assess your role in making good progress.
"A community is like a ship, everyone should be prepared to take the helm." - Henrik Ibsen
- 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 couple that get their thrills from the adrenaline buzz of swooping in and fixing the big problem ... and walking away. They don't put the work into documentation or making systems resilient because that's boring. I like boring. Boring means I can clock off at the regular time and not think about work until the next day.
- 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 to Grand Prairie - which is the same distance as Barcelona to Seville, a train journey of 5.5 hours including the changing of trains in Madrid.
- 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 on the motherboard, 7th image down)
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 _really sure_ you want to be doing that?"