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Did you read the article? It was a real world practice, but long gone already at that time (in the mentioned parts of Europe at least).

But does provide services the entire world depends on.

Can't help but thinking how handy PowerShell is out of the box for tasks like this.

Translating the examples from the ReadMe, having read the file with:

  $medias = Get-Content .\medias.csv | ConvertFrom-Csv

Previewing the file in the terminal

  xan view medias.csv
  $medias | Format-Table

Reading a flattened representation of the first row

  xan flatten -c medias.csv
  $medias | Format-List

Searching for rows

  xan search -s outreach internationale medias.csv | xan view
  $medias | Where-Object { $_.outreach -eq "internationale" } | Format-Table

Selecting some columns

  xan select foundation_year,name medias.csv | xan view
  $medias | Select-Object -Property foundation_year, name | Format-Table

Sorting the file

  xan sort -s foundation_year medias.csv | xan view -s name,foundation_year
  $medias | Sort-Object -Property foundation_year | Select-Object -Property name, foundation_year | Format-Table

Deduplicating the file on some column

  # Some medias of our corpus have the same ids on mediacloud.org
  xan dedup -s mediacloud_ids medias.csv | xan count && xan count medias.csv
  $medias | Select-Object -ExpandProperty mediacloud_ids -Unique | Measure-Object; $medias | Measure-Object -Property mediacloud_ids

Computing frequency tables

  xan frequency -s edito medias.csv | xan view
  $medias | Group-Object -Property edito | Sort-Object -Property Count -Descending

It's probably orders of magnitude slower, and of course, plotting graphs and so on gets tricky. But for the simple type of analysis I typically do, it's fast enough, I don't need to learn an extra tool, and the auto-completion of column/property names is very convenient.

Just as a quick usability feedback: As long as Deepl translates asynchronously as I type, while Kagi requires a full form send & page refresh, I am not inclined to switch (translation quality is also already too good for my language pairs to consider switching for minor improvements, but the usability/ speed is the real feature here).

This is coming from a user with existing Kagi Ultimate subscription, so I'm generally very open to adopt another tool if it fits my needs).

Slightly offtopic, slight related: As already mentioned the last time Kagi hit the HN front page when I saw it: the best improvement I could envision for kagi is improved search performance (page speed). I still encounter multiple second page loads far too frequently that I didn't notice with other search engines.

I also found that very frustrating. It's probably the method required to stretch the skin over a tailor's dummy like in that one photo.

I can't even do this at home, let alone in a semi-public place around strangers. Being blind and deaf makes me feel uneasy.

Is this really a problem people have? I personally just use some free mail account for all low-priority stuff without push notifications enabled in my client apps.

We cannot, okay, I see the point. Up to now, I considered the inability to express modifications on existing resources a limitation of the declarative model but I can see how adding state can help here.

With Bicep, we mostly deploy only the initial state and then we either re-deploy the whole thing or, if this isn't possible due to the interruptions this causes, add migration scripts in an imperative language (az cli/ pwsh). Which is admittedly the much less elegant approach.

Interesting example. For context, I have only experience with Azure Bicep so "no state" is my default assumption on IAC languages.

Do you in practice really use random names? In my experience, I'd just use a loop vm01...vm10 for the names and the passwords aren't needed to identify an instance after the deployment so here randomness isn't an issue.

That sounds almost impossible to me. I feel like half of everything I purchase which has a manual doesn't ship with a physical manual, but instead comes with a printed QR code to "get instructions". If it's a gadget that comes with an App, there will be a QR code linking to that app. I know multiple bars/ restaurants which won't send waiters to your table but expect you to scan the QR code on the table and order with your phone.

Yes we can say "no", no matter the billions of dollars some companies may invest in their product.

I can relate to this kind of excuse in case of fat children who don't fully control their eating habits and rely on whatever food their parents make available to them. For self—sufficient adults, it's a pathetic opinion to have about your own level of control.

When I want to quickly query a csv file (usually log files), I like to use lnav which also supports running SQL queries and supports pretty much any log file format I happened to deal with.

https://lnav.org/

I'd argue yes. I remember times where I was puzzled that some config file had been deleted (in a commit touching lots of files) only to find out after some analysis that is was simply moved/ renamed.

If you had to start over, would you still recommend to yourself to learn F# in 2022?

I am asking this as someone who has dabbled in functional languages (F#/ Haskell) multiple times over the years but, despite liking the elegance of functional code, never reached a level of productivity that came close to what I am used to from imperative languages. Specifically for C#, given the trend of baking more and more of the cool functional stuff into the language (e.g. [1]), I am wondering whether F# still has enough unique features to justify the effort.

[1] see e.g. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/early-peek-at-csharp-1...

I use hetzner, their smallest VPS is around 2,xx Euro. Has been very reliable for me in the last couple of years. I'm not sure whether they support arch, though.

Coincidentally, a couple days ago I stumbled upon Bruce Gilley's "The case for German colonialism', which, as the name suggests, draws a completelybdifferent picture. He does focus on other colonies, though.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338555799_The_Case_...

What's your concept of time and its extension then?

>Less children means that 100 years from now there will be less strain on the environment

Population growth is influenced by other factors than reproduction, namely immigration. I don't think it makes much sense to consider the environnmental aspect of population growth on a national level.

Does the caching reliably work in common webservers by now? I remember having read a couple years ago that Apache would simply clear its cache if the connection to the ocsp provider breaks (or did something similar unhelpful, resulting in an error to the enduser).

I don't get what makes it so hard to understand that avoiding content like that and keeping a positive mindset will always be the better option for your life, independent of what will actually happen.

You're getting a lot of negative feedback so I just want to say I can relate a lot to the model you're proposing (and practicing).

I interview fairly often with potential employers, sometimes just for the experience and insights. Never once did I consider taking a job for other reasons than the type of work and its pay (commuting time and factors not directly in control of the company aside).

I'm not even the type of person who hates team events and the like, at least at the companies I have been working at these usually were a lot of fun. It's just nothing that keeps me from moving on from or motivates me to take some job.

I recently ripped a Bluray after years of not using optical media at all and found MakeMKV to be a quick and effectively free way of doing so.

One has to take the perspective of the author into account here. He's a psychology MD and seems to have a lot of experience with people with major eating disorders such as bulimia.

I find it quite convincing that for this type of patient, regular eating patterns can help to restore a healthy approach to food as they are starting with extremely unhealthy eating habits to begin with.

The conclusion, as formulated in the title, does seem to generalize these findings a bit too much. At least it lacks evidence on how generally healthy (maybe somewhat overweight) people who attempt IF as a dieting measure tend to develop unhealthy longterm eating habits.

It doesn't. That's why "Hungerast", i.e. sudden loose of energy due to all carbohydrates being used up is a thing in all endurance focused sports.

Same story for me, also went keto for approx. six months and experienced the same benefits but once I started carbs again, those seemingly great benefits loose against the ease of just being able to eat "normally".

Still works perfectly. Even if they'd stop, there are projects like RSS Hub to solve this problem.

What do you mean? RSS is standardized, every RSS reader should be able to handle youtube feeds. Just substitute the channel id and paste it in your reader of choice:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UChqrDOw...

I use Tiny Tiny RSS as a self-hosted solution, very quick to setup and offers lot's of features. The UI is a bit hard to use from a smartphone, though, at least with my font sizes.

I've only started using RSS for a couple weeks and have just added blogs organically as I found them mostly from HN and lobste.rs. You don't need a big list of blogs to start with to profit from RSS, just add the HN feed and go from there.

And oh, I also migrated my youtube subscriptions to RSS, it's much more convenient imho.

Increasing interest rates.

I don't know enough to estimate the likelihood of that happening but it seems like the obvious danger.