I'm incredibly grateful that Perl is dying...spending three hours on manually tracking down dependencies is no fun.
Especially when you're used to stack/cargo making it "just work".
@Siphonay If someone established "gaudesexual" as the term to describe someone who prefers cheerful partners, it'd still exist.
@Siphonay No, they're preferences about about the personality of partners, which is what the term describes.
STARTUP IDEA:
Gitcoin.
A distributed trustless proof-of-slack version-controlled currency where to gain credit you must create, and then abandon, an open source software project that ALMOST - but not entirely, and not well - solves a real world problem.
@kingu_platypus_gidora OMG, I love carrots! <(^.^)>
@tcql Also because the tech industry consists primarily of smart, open-minded people and requires intrinsic motivation and the army is a bastion of dysfunctional people with a hierarchical system based on the threat of punishment and violence.
Doing mandatory military service (instead of civil service) after working in academic security research was the worst choice of my life, as you could probably guess by now ;)
@dixongexpat @djsundog Barracuda mail filter also contains false positives which they refuse to remove, completely unresponsive to messages, so it might be good to get rid of their products too...
Bad idea of the day:
Altcoin where proof of work is dirty limericks. Must be hash-unique, contain only dictionary words, and scan. Owner of a hash owns the copyright so good ones will be more valuable.
@reaver It's real AFAIK; they also have a smaller version (Snowball), which is more reasonable for most things: https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/
I don't know anyone who's used Snowmobile, but at my former job, they used Snowball to transfer the initial backup.
@allgebrah Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. I think I had something similar a while ago, but never really stuck to it (which ruins the system). Should probably start again :)
Damnit, I might be a #datahoarder :/
I've recently downloaded ~30k classical pieces. If it were my job to listen through it, it would take 300 days of full-time work. At 2h per day, it'll take three years.
In other words: I've acquired a lifetime supply of classical music in 3 days.
Yet my impulsive question is "should I donate to the tracker to be able to grab more?", not "how the fuck will you listen to all of this?"
Fellow datahoarders: How *do* you listen/read through all of this?
Yes, images are gone, again thanks to Scaleway. It's being fixed, but just really slow.
@Burleybanana Yeah, but that's a worry for later ;) I'm pretty sure that most jobs can be easily trained within a few days to weeks given some prerequisite knowledge/skills.
@BirdMachine Considering that the `:(){ : | :& }; :` fork bomb was created as an art project, it definitely isn't. I had it printed on a sweater, it tends to intrigue people.
there's nothing like reading through production python code and finding where they use exec and eval to load in a module and run a method whose names they get at runtime.
folks, python has some pretty amazing introspection capabilities that let you do this without opening a max-max-truck-sized security hole.
*checks history on this file*
yes, even in python 2.6, you could still avoid eval/exec.
@jalefkowit *clicks mindfully*
@Burleybanana Fear of rejection? We've all stared at some girl/guy at some point and blocked ourselves from talking to them, haven't we? ;)
For those who don't know the paper, this is a must read[0]. There is also a programming language based on its main contribution[1].
[0] Zongker, D: Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken (https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf)
[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Chicken
@jk I seem to recall a script like this, but can't remember the name (ironic, no?).
A related one is thefuck, which fixes typos in commands and arguments: https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
