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lilSebastianon Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans

> It's easy to hate on Magic Leap and its self aggrandizing marketing

You mean the fake video demos they distributed?

lilSebastianon AMD Ryzen: new low cost quad-core Zen 2 CPUs from $99

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=home

The concept of perl 6, at some stage shifted from being the next incremental release of the Perl language, sure. For around 10 or so years the Perl 6 crew knew this was going to be a different language, yet held onto the name for this period of time and even made arguments in public that Perl 6 should remain the name, given all the facts, as recently as last year. This sort of thing can cause problems in communities, and nobody on the outside of the inner clan really cares, beyond the point that all the slight of hand and infighting pushes good folk away.

Bullying Isn't Effective Advocacy: https://perlmonks.com/?node_id=1221390

Also, when it was known Perl 6 was going to be a different language, they were several year away from a release

lilSebastianon Raku vs. Perl

> Now after the rename, I guess every HN discussion will have a subthread discussing how the rename was terrible, and it should've stayed Perl 6.

I don't see any evidence for this claim. Besides those on the inside, I have yet to see any support for naming a different language as logical next version of another.

lilSebastianon Raku vs. Perl

That is my point. "Perl" didn't try to change genres, something different came along and called itself "Perl 6". No disrespect to either language, but linguistically this is has a negative impact for both Perl 5 and "Perl 6". Maintaining that certain people got "used to" the idea proves that it was never a wise move.

Also, note what chromatic has to say:

https://perlmonks.com/?node_id=1220578

https://perlmonks.com/?node_id=11105180

And so on.

lilSebastianon Raku vs. Perl

> I thought the point of the rename was Perl 5 can now release Perl 6

I think that would only add to the confusion, since Perl 6 was already a thing, albeit totally different from Perl 5

lilSebastianon Raku vs. Perl

As yet there seems to be no solid plan. Context:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-ren...

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/10/larry-has-approved-...

lilSebastianon Raku vs. Perl

> Giving three different things the same name would be much more confusing.

No different than "Perl 6" being a different thing from "Perl 5".

lilSebastianon Raku vs. Perl

Had viewers of Police academy 6 been treated to a brutal crime drama, rather than a continuation of the farce found in the series to date, you'd expect them to just get used to it, rather than accept that naming as the next version of something vastly different is a dumb idea.

Edit* I make no criticism of the language, simply the argument that a different language should have been named as the incremental release of another.

lilSebastianon Raku vs. Perl

> Everyone knows it's a completely different language, that's not in question.

Working in the perl sphere, I assure you clients do not know this. Also http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-ren...

lilSebastianon Hacking my arm prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into my synth [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22342314

lilSebastianon Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

Thanks very much

lilSebastianon Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

> How about visiting a store that sells macbooks?

After lockdown of course...

lilSebastianon Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?

What is "the Stevens book" mentioned here? TIA

lilSebastianon Reiki can’t possibly work, so why does it?

Thanks, headspace looks like a decent starting point.

lilSebastianon The 1k-Bed Comfort Was Supposed to Aid New York. It Has 20 Patients

> non skippable register prompt

Trivial to skip, had you bothered to look into it, or understand how it works. Why even reply if you hadn't read TFA? What value does that have? The very definition of 'off topic'

lilSebastianon The 1k-Bed Comfort Was Supposed to Aid New York. It Has 20 Patients

Clicking 'read full article' worked without issue or payment

lilSebastianon Reiki can’t possibly work, so why does it?

Genuinely interested, how did you get started with meditation?

lilSebastianon Jitsi Meet, the open source Zoom alternative, was downloaded 1.4M times in March

Under clear Linux, Firefox WebEx works for me simply by clicking the meeting links I'm sent.

lilSebastianon Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi

I didn't lecture anyone. What did you find inconvenient about the existing methods of contact?

lilSebastianon The 1k-Bed Comfort Was Supposed to Aid New York. It Has 20 Patients

Did you read the article or just the headline?

lilSebastianon Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi

> just to let the developers know if they read here.

Or, raise the issue with them for investigation, since a comment on an unrelated site isn't a reasonable way to provide feedback

lilSebastianon '42 Knees in One Day': Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shooting Gaza Protesters

That's the spirit....

lilSebastianon If your cipher were secure, this image wouldn't have repeating patterns (2015)

> The authors inability to take any criticism is stunning

Unfortunately I find that this is all too common.

lilSebastianon Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes killed in rocket crash outside Barstow

He demonstrably got funds for a 'rocket' of sorts....

lilSebastianon Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes killed in rocket crash outside Barstow

> You should check out the facebook groups

In addition, search for flat earth on a the popular crowd/fundraising sites. The lies they tell to separate the gullible from their money. It's a nice little earner.

lilSebastianon Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes killed in rocket crash outside Barstow

Or buy a weather balloon and stick a camera on it...

lilSebastianon Waterfox sold to System1, an ad company that bought a majority of Startpage

> So, anyone care to make a new fork of FF with all commercial elements ripped out? Lots of fame in it for you.

Sounds like you're volunteering ;)

lilSebastianon Paperd.Ink – A hackable e-paper display

Please stop spamming this same sentence in response to comments.

lilSebastianon The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history

Worthy of donation https://archive.org/donate/