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I love Perl. I first used it in 1994, around the time the early versions of Perl 5 were released. It’s hard to overstate what a breath of fresh air it was compared to the incumbent languages at the time, which were either very low-level (mainly C, and increasingly C++, at least in the Unix world) or else brittle and limited (various flavours of shell script, sed, awk).

Perl was a joy to use. Things that would have needed dozens of bug-prone lines of C could be done in just a few characters. Regular expressions and associative arrays were first-class language features! And, with the advent of Perl 5, there was enough scope for structuring code in a modular way that it wasn’t insane to write pretty large and serious programs.

The culture was delightful too. In those days it was centred on Usenet and mailing lists, and the general attitude was freewheeling and fun. When the first user group was set up in London, where I was living by then, I signed up immediately. That’s still the most fun I’ve ever had hanging out with programmers, and Perl was the glue that bound us together.

At some point I joined the developers’ mailing list (perl5-porters), just to see what they were up to. After a while I started to contribute: bug fixes at first, and later language features. That was fun.

So, Perl has been a big part of my programming life. But I haven’t really used it in anger for about 15 years. I still write Perl one-liners on the command line for ad hoc data processing, and actually I think Perl is still the best available tool for that, although younger coders tend not to be familiar with it any more.

But as for writing real programs? The world has moved on. There are newer languages that have taken the good ideas from Perl, but without so many confusing idiosyncrasies.

Perl 6 is another story, one that I didn’t have much part in. It’s a fun bundle of ideas, and maybe some of those ideas will spread and be useful elsewhere, but I doubt it will ever catch on itself.

I’ll always love Perl, but I doubt I’ll ever write another serious program in it – except maybe out of nostalgia.
All that's fine, and good luck to you; I wish you well.

But I guess I wasn't clear. This project is described as a TeX engine “in Rust”. Has any code been actually written in Rust—as opposed to either Rust code that wraps C code (as in the main repo), or autogenerated Rust code (as in this one you linked)—for any of the core parts (as opposed to system-dependencies like I/O or whatever) of the TeX engine?

I'm genuinely curious, and if there is any such code I'd like to read it (and compare it to the equivalent WEB code).

I completely understand that this could be done at some future date. The question is about the description of the current state of the project. The impression from a statement like “Efforts to ditch any C remnants are being made” is that the C code is only a few “remnants”, when in fact it appears to be the entire TeX engine itself.

(Also, I do not foresee any refactoring tool being able to convert, for instance, “108” into “fi_or_else”, recovering information that's already lost. The point here is that it would have been better to start with the original WEB code, not the lossy and autogenerated C code.)
Please delete your troll.
You wont find too many, as most are either contract workers or just volunteers, because “we want free software” doesn't really translate to pay for hard work and dedication.
Conspicuous consumption, no more, no less.
AI art:Art in the digital era shouldn’t just live on canvas any more
I don't think that makes you 'this guy' at all I completely missed that and it's a valid thing to point out.
This is completely false. Water does a pretty good job of preserving shipwrecks, even from thousands of years ago. We're still finding ancient Greek ships now, preserved by the oxygen-free water in the depths. Many wrecks have been found in the Black Sea, not far from where this place is, and many more surely remain to be discovered.
You can either have 15 minute quick standup or you can have a meeting to give ideas, raise questions and know my teammate's expertise.

> If it is, it might mean the standup is running at the wrong level of abstraction or perhaps you aren't really a team that has a shared goal.

Or maybe the problems other people are working on will take more than 10 minutes for any reasonable input.
I'm not sure how that dichotomy applies, especially when you are -say- a graphics artist who wants to stick with an older pre-subscription model version of -say- Photoshop that you bought in a box, instead of being forced to pay a rent for the latest version.
The use case you describe is a use case of diminishing value in an era of better IDEs and tools. Definitely a thing people can still want to do, but your average new hacker is likely going to lean towards a tool with fewer sharp edges so that they can be confident the file conversion came through correctly.

The question is whether future generations will be as familiar with it as we are.
21,000 of Tesla’s huge battery system in Australia ($91M) [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/27/south-aus...

edit: thanks for the math save!
Just wait until your own trusty government is running low on funds...

Ultimately however you have to trust some third party - to some degree - not to waste or misuse your money.
All that tells me is that there are no more pensions, not that the definition has changed. Employers are contributing money now, but have pushed any risk onto the employee, making it feel pretty worthless as a retirement strategy.
At an individual level, You can invest the same way, the problem is, you don't know how long you will live. Which was my main point.

There are annuities, but my research into those has come up with very high costs with lots of fees.
I have to strongly disagree with that. 2001 is a master class of storytelling. Everything, from audio-only prologue, the triviality of the dialog, the stiffness of the acting, the awkwardness in zero G, the looooong scenes, to the breathing in the spacesuits is there for a reason. Even the Douglas Trumbull acid trip is there maybe to remind you humans are not supposed to understand everything any more than the monkeys did in the start of the movie.

The book is good, of course, but it doesn't approach the brilliance of the movie.
That’s not why New York, et al, banned them. They became horribly mismanaged and turned into scams that paid out far less than they offered.

The idea that these encourage murders only came after they were banned, and used in plot devices that required a small number of people. (e.g the Fighting Hellfish)

There is plenty of discussion about brining them back as financial instrument.

https://www.npr.org/2015/11/27/457392597/live-long-and-prosp...

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/26/560152250/a-case-for-tontines...
Almost nobody was using Python in 1989 either. Clearly it's a mistake on the part of the writer and not some deliberate attempt at judging when a language became popular.
Indeed! Originally had a few other folks on that list (Trebek, my mom) that were alive and forgot to remove RBG. Please forgive my error.
because they're unnecessary. I legitimately lose an hour a day due to them. I've started coming in late so I slide immediately into the daily standup because otherwise I fart around for the first 30-45 minutes until the standup starts.

There's just no deep work that can be done during that time, and that's every day.
Looks great! Personally I just use a markdown file and a bash script to find and log recipes. Helps keep it offline when I need it and make quick edits to recipes.
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And shares rose on the news of the pension cuts.

It's not hard to play this game, if your incentive is to make the stock price go up.

Slash and burn.
Modern IDEs make syntax addition cheap. One of the primary advantages of perl is its terseness, but that advantage diminishes in an era of IDEs converting a few keystrokes into a hundred characters of (better self-documenting) code.
It's actually based on "The Sentinel". The short story is more or less the starting point for 2001.

Rendezvous with Rama would be an AMAZING movie. I only hope SyFy doesn't get to do to it what it did with Childhood's End.
Paying out defined benefit plans aren't totally at the whim of the company. For example, there are protections through the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and you could probably arrange for your own insurance as well.

Having some savings as defined benefit does give you predictability. Even if you don't have a defined benefit plan through a company, it may make sense to convert some savings into an annuity of some sort.
This is an interesting view. For some reason I had never considered that participating in a large employer's defined-benefit pension fund might be kind of equivalent to signing up for a tontine with a bunch of your peers and all putting your cash in SPY for the duration.
> Nothing personal with Perl. Just doing stats.

Very poor stats if you're extrapolating the time a market participant will be reduced to zero by looking at relative market position without also examining absolute usage.

That is, it's possible for something to have less relative market position but be increasing or static in total usage if the total market is increasing fast enough. That doesn't indicate something is dying, but it looks the same in graphs, and extrapolating from those lines won't show you what you think it is.

Is Perl in that situation? Probably not that much (but somewhat, I would argue), but if you're going to make a case on statistics, don't do a crappy job of it...
>Can anyone do back of napkin math on what $1.9T could buy in terms of wind/solar energy? How many homes that could power?

I'm not sure this question is relevant. First, because it isn't one or the other. Second, because the renewable energy sector also has vast amount of financing, but it's a smaller industry.

I'm not sure the point of the article, outside of the fact that it demonstrates that despite our best efforts, the fossil fuel energy sector is expanding because we demand more energy, and energy is becoming more expensive.
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Stock is up 3% on this news, and no doubt will be up on future news of cuts to headcount, benefits, etc. So there's a conflict of interest here.
I think his dust up with Google re HTTPS rubbed a bunch of people the wrong way. On one level, he's of an age where good intent was assumed on the web, so security wasn't a big concern.

(On that note, ask John Siracusa how it felt to have TTYs @ BU be "world-writable" in 1993)

On the other hand, that world is largely gone and the web is much more fraught with peril these days.
That’s funny, every time I come across some piece of unsupported free software, I can usually find a $30 paid alternative that looks better, probably runs better, and someone will answer my questions about it, no matter how stupid they might be.
I have often wondered about the fact that 'outrage' and 'outage' are only off by one letter.
Native here. What most extrangers complain about is verbs. For every verb there are a hundred forms and most used verbs are irregular, so you need to learn dozens of exceptional forms. We learn all those when we're children so it's not painful, for new learners... The rest is very easy, specially pronuntiation, that is a terrible for English, with so many vowels.

Currently Spanish is the second most spoken language, after Chinese. But English is still first second laguage for most people.
Can Apple surprise us? Smartphone iPhone 11 is powered by the new A13 processor
While growing up much of my access to English was through written words (literature, newspapers, magazines etc.) so my English vocabulary grew primarily due to my readings. I do have run into a few minor troubles when I use some of the words I learnt so in my speech. Despite that, I think learning via reading has been a net gain for me. So I don't necessarily agree that one should never learn a word without learning how it sounds.
DX12 is older than 5 years so I'm still a bit surprised on that part. Porting to DX12 is not easy. it's like OpenGL vs Vulkan. Very different APIs
Considering they have their own hardware and software (well, not exactly their own, but they customize both and work on both before release), is System 76 as problem-free and solid as Mac OS X was during the Snow Leopard times?
>There are annuities, but my research into those has come up with very high costs with lots of fees.

Yes, as most non taxpayer funded employers have found out, and reduced their offering of defined benefit pensions accordingly.

My point is that no one has the ability to protect and afford against the kind of long term risk that you are talking about, and the best model I've seen to address it is when children and grandchildren take care of their elders.
Recipes alone are not good for that, you need a systematic course. That, and the fact that most recipe sources try to be interesting, not just "basic pancakes".
Because it's a chicken and egg problem.
Paving roads is super cheap. Repaving part of the six lane freeway near my house (US-50 in Maryland) recently cost less than one million per mile.
Perl has a well-deserved reputation as a "write-only language".
Although not AWK! Apple has to keep it to still adhere to POSIX (which is still a relevant classification to many big buyers in government and enterprise). Maybe this will cause an AWK renaissance...
If you bought in Q1 2019 the federal income tax rebate for buying a Tesla went from $7500 -> $3750. It halffed again in Q2->Q3 and will be $0 after Q4.
Actually there's only a period in time where we're vulnerable to such things. Eventually we'll know of all the potential threats with enough advanced warning and have the capabilities to deflect them. Maybe we're vulnerable for another hundred years, but not likely still vulnerable in a thousand. Given the rarity of such events, we should be fine.
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I dont quite understand. Could you explain further?
Was just about to link the same article. It's sickening how much these CEO's make.

For those who want the stats from the SEC[0]:

(1) a base salary of $2,500,000 per year.

(2) a target annual bonus opportunity at 150% of base salary ($3,750,000).

(3) annual equity awards in the form of performance share units (“PSUs”)
that will have grant date fair values of $15,000,000, beginning in 2019.

(4) a one-time inducement award of PSUs that will pay out [...] as a number of
GE shares ranging from 2.5 million to 7.5 million shares, based on a GE stock
price appreciation target ranging from 50% to 150% using the highest average
closing price over 30 consecutive trading days during the four-year period from
October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2022, with no payout for stock price appreciation
of less than 50% (This could net him $47,000,000 - $233,000,000!).

(5) cash severance in an amount equal to two times the sum of Mr. Culp’s base salary
and target annual bonus opportunity, in the event that his employment is terminated
by the Company without cause or by Mr. Culp for good reason.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40545/00000405451800...
M3 in this context means Tesla Model 3
What model iphone are you using?

Maybe it's not possible to hide on "x" type phones - here's an 11-pro: https://imgur.com/UPrpSOc
Well said. I am not english but I get by but I struggled when recently used the word "chasm". I pronounced the 'cha' as in chat. Oh boy, was I wrong. So eventually, after spelling it out my listener got me.
She is my wife and she smiled. She knew I had learnt it through reading.
I spent four years in Italy and during my time there I found that I could speak very simple, yet passable Italian just by substituting English words for Italian ones - from an eastern-European perspective up to a certain level the grammar was pretty much the same.

Which makes it all the more surprising that Italians in general were hesitant to speak English, with the notable exception of my 74 year old neighbour, who picked up some phrases specifically to communicate with me.

Some of my friends back in Poland often express frustration with the fact that they had to learn English, since they don't see it as something strictly related to their work.
I think the key quote here is

"This opens interesting data leak vector for attacker and also includes some privacy concerns. It is quite common that even in isolated environments, many of the Microsoft IP address ranges are whitelisted to make sure systems will stay up to date. This enables adversary to leak data via Microsoft services which is extremely juicy covert channel."

As a user, you can just disable automatic sample submission. In fact I'm pretty sure you can set it during installation, as I've never had to go through the settings to disable it, but it's still disabled on all my installations.

But the question is, from an adversary perspective, does your victim have it disabled?

Most likely they won't, so you can use Microsoft as a mule to exfiltrate data from otherwise firewalled victims.
Review: iPhone 11 Pro looks like the next generation of the device
Imagine $1.9T investment into fusion?
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I'm not sure using a very outdated CGI example as an illustration of why Perl is dying is all that convincing.

It says in the source article "you probably don’t want to use CGI for modern web development", then explains all the reasons why not, pointing you to modern frameworks such as Catalyst, Mojolicious and Dancer.

Not saying Perl doesn't have challenges with its popularity, but this isn't a very good case as to why it's dying.
I think it's unlikely for people to first hear (or first attach to) their favorite songs in a strong environment like a club/rave/bar. We're most likely to hear something new in a setting we control.
Not at all. A fast ferry from downtown NYC should take around 20 minutes to get to JFK. It would be easy for them to integrate a marine terminal there, just as they are going to do at LaGuardia airport. It’s a hell of a lot more practical than a helicopter service.
Not the OP, but consider the following...

Of course, you know of odd plurals such as house -> houses vs mouse -> mice.

why is womb pronounced "woom" and tomb "toom" but bomb is not "boom"?

gh: tough and laugh (as f) vs thigh (silent) vs ghost (hard g)

Why is tear (crying) pronounced the same as tier (levels) but spelled differently when tear (ripping) spelled the same as tear (crying) but pronounced differently?

The list of weird English oddities just go on and on. English is just plain weird.
This is awesome! I've been looking for an alternative to the bloated Electron mess that is Spotify's UI for a long time. It leaks memory like a sieve on Linux and is generally a pain to use.

I'll try this out later.
> And I attribute that to increasing complexity.

I attribute it to Apple focusing on iOS and letting their desktop products slide.
> I examined a cheap Android tablet's ROM dump

Can I ask how you did this? Did you have to physically remove the ROM from the board and read it with some sort of chip reader? Or is there an interface to read the ROM into a dump without any damage to the board
Saying that Perl was one of the first languages is silly of course. It's nowhere near as old as LISP, FORTRAN, and C.

However, Perl is the first of its kind. Prior to Perl, one would have to hack together in either Bourne or C-shell a series of commands all strung together, poorly. Grep, sed, awk, and a slew of utilities were strung together poorly with any specialized manipulations coded in and compiled from C.

Perl was the first popular language that gave us first class data structures (arrays and hashes) along with the programming structures we were familiar with in C. The inline regex support obviated the need for sed and awk gymnastics to the relief of many.

All of the crazy things in Perl that drive so many people nuts today were derived from the shell scripting that everyone was familiar with at the time. Error codes in "$!", that seems familiar, if you're used to /bin/sh. Perl's syntax which mapped shell script idioms directly into language features made these conversions a breeze.

Perl was the first and best at being able to convert these awful shell scripts into something which was maintainable. This was also Perl's primary downfall. Because it was so easy to use, lots of people who were not first-class programmers were able to write a lot of not-so-nice scripts which made later programmers sad and angry. It was a victim of its own success.
So that's ~$0.380 T$/y for "just" the "top banks".

To compare with IEA countries (excludes Russia, OPEC, China...) that spent 0.0189*(0.21+0.16)= 0.008 T$/y on energy efficiency and renewables...

https://www.iea.org/statistics/rdd/
It brings to mind paradox of tolerance, how knowledge includes the ability to abuse it and the morality of hammers and knives - it is fundamentally up to the user if they want to build a house, prepare a meal, remove a tumor, or murder and any attempt to limit it only sabotages the purpose.

Blame would be misplaced -
even the most zealous licensing wouldn't have made a bit of difference in the end. Linux itself was a free rederived fork of Unix. If Google had to rederive their own fork of Linux they could have easily done so with only a little more early expense and reputation damage. At the cost of another proprietary fork gaining influence and control over free software or even open source.
1,900,000,000,000 / 91,000,000 = 20,879
Yeah, that's my point. That's actually the only place I saw it reported. I checked the WP, NYT and Fox News that day after seeing it here. Nothing. Maybe there was a story hidden in the back that I couldn't find, of course.

Compare to the absolute deluge of HK stories across all media sources.
No, there are things you are forced to say in workplaces. For example, you can't act nice towards almost everyone on a team but ignore the only Black person.

That's exactly what trans people want, to be given the same respect as everyone else. If you use pronouns for everyone other than the only trans person on the team, they're quite rightly going to be upset.
Depends where you live , there is no local farmer's market here, if we drive there the affordable part of the equation disappears. Some local grown things are available , like mushrooms and they seem to be in season all year. The best and freshest tomatoes have flown a minimum of 10 hours from where they happen to be in season. So , while I agree with your proper flow , the reality is you eat whatever is available near you nevermind where it comes from.
Admin accounts on MacOS have to provide the admin password again (essentially sudo) to make any significant change to the system config. That includes installing applications, changing security, privacy and accessibility changes, etc.
Calling it "extremely revisionist" is absurdly generous even. Calling it "one of the first" programming languages is just flat-out wrong. Lots of other languages were around for many years or even decades before: COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, C, Algol, LISP, just to name a few. The idea that Perl is "one of the first" is just plain insane.
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