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Perl's Decline Was Cultural

beatworm.co.uk
11 points·by gerikson·8 bulan yang lalu·6 comments

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gerikson
·bulan lalu·discuss
the project is licensed under the EPL

> 5. No Warranty

> EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, AND TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Each Recipient is solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using and distributing the Program and assumes all risks associated with its exercise of rights under this Agreement, including but not limited to the risks and costs of program errors, compliance with applicable laws, damage to or loss of data, programs or equipment, and unavailability or interruption of operations.
gerikson
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
This is Søren, not Emil.
gerikson
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Maybe the drunken sysadmin had a more classical or historical education than most.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope
gerikson
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Past results is no guarantee of future performance.
gerikson
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The creators of this app either didn't watch Evangelion or are huge fans. Hard to say which.
gerikson
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Dubai's brand (before the war) was "you're welcome to come here to make money, but criticize the government and you're out". I'm sure there's a ton of young influencers who don't know the first thing about the place to not have internalized it, but I remember a spate of articles and books about 15 years ago of Westerners falling afoul of the local laws and losing everything.
gerikson
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Finally someone taking AGI x-risk seriously.

cf. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5CfBDiQNg9upfipWk/only-law-c...
gerikson
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
GNU has its own documentation format called 'info'.
gerikson
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> (... less common section numbers)

One very important section number is 5 - it's for file formats. So if you forget the crontab format, you need to invoke `man 5 crontab` to read about it.
gerikson
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The "cathedral" in ESR's essay wasn't proprietary closed source, it was the GNU project.
gerikson
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
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gerikson
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> The computer contained about 18,000 vacuum tubes, which were cooled by 80 air blowers. More than 30 meters long, it filled a 9 m by 15 m room and weighed about 30 kilograms. It consumed as much electricity as a small town.

Surprisingly light though...
gerikson
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
There's also the possibility that we, as consumers, demand that the political system solves this issue with robust privacy legilsation that prohibits any entity from tracking our phones.
gerikson
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Argh the liberal admixture of different units (mpg, kg, L, hr) in the first table really brings home that this is a UK piece.
gerikson
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Would Teller have had to mail Hoover though? Or just let the concerned people know that Feynman was unsuitable.
gerikson
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The swatch.com website still shows @beats in the upper left corner.

I am unsure whether Swatch still markets watches with digital displays.
gerikson
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I have read a lot of Asimov. That's why I said there's better stuff out there.

Even his contempories were better - Bester and Simak run rings around him.
gerikson
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Or don't. There's so much more better SF out there.
gerikson
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
And live in a country where they use these in their alphabets.
gerikson
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
They also, in many camps, used the inmates as slave labor.