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tenderfault··on Watch TV from the 90s and earlier
I like how the volume is lower on some channels
tenderfault··on Young people are flocking to astrology
LIFETIME series. lifetime.
tenderfault··on Young people are flocking to astrology
[...] According to Allied Market Research, the global astrology industry was valued at $12.8 billion in 2021, up considerably from $2.2 billion in 2018. By 2031, it’s expected to rise to $22.8 billion.

Same thing with tarot. These are real markets and will bloom proportionally with depression and lack of education. So when you see $22.8 billion market increase, you now know what you are actually looking at.

On the other hand, these are just 2 games, really. Think gaming industry has to produce a miriad of games to hit $300 billion. It's just they don't sell you hope, just some cheap entertainment to evade from a crappy life.

Show me 2 games worth $12 billion market share.

p.s. and co-star really took it to the next level. beautiful design, extremely well built weekly readings, and i think their backend is coded in haskell :-) Ofcourse i'll buy some hope to get me through to the end of the week.

tenderfault··on Why Perl?
>It is installed by default everywhere. I don’t need administrative privileges to deploy Perl code almost anywhere. That is extremely empowering.

Not true anymore. FreeBSD dropped it from base.

>With a great amount of discipline, Perl scripts can be successfully scaled up into large, complex systems.

History shows different. Perl was never designed for this.

>I can be confident that a Perl script I write today will run unaltered 10 years from now, modulo external collaborators.

I concur. I also have 10-ish lines perl scripts running on my systems since 10-ish years, doing exactly what it was written to do. And if the data protocol changes I will just drop 10-ish lines of code and write new 10-ish lines of weird looking, compact and efficient code. I never care understanding my code. If i ever read it again it's just to have a "wow, what does this even do" moment at my own code. For me, write-only is a feature.

>Perl can be used nearly as a shell replacement for very quick scripting.

Yet there is no generally available shell (like Bash or zsh) written in Perl. This is a weird thing I'm still trying to cope with in 2023. It may be because the term "shell replacement" is used wrong. Did you mean "shell programming"?

>Perl has a small set of core syntax and is very extensible and flexible in adopting new paradigms.

... I don't know. 27 years later, I still like to flex my reptilian brain reading perlsyn manpage. I like to think of perl syntax as a set of loose rules which you can bend to your liking. And the things you can come out with... oh, boy.

Perl is good tool for coming up with a solution really quick. And most of the times, you will just keep running that code for ten-ish years to come. Also, Perl is more of a philosophy than a programming language, like Forth is.

Its biggest disadvantage was the community itself. They just kept using it wrong, over and over, trying to serve the greed of a corporate world. The proof of this is Perl 6, the community rewrite of Perl. Looks cool. Won't use it. I think that's why it's now mostly referred to as "raku" instead of "Perl 6". It's not a Perl.

tenderfault··on Why Perl?
i am a grey beard. i confirm "the catastrophe happened when people mistook this it for a backend development language"
tenderfault··on The Hammerhead Worm
"zip the bag and throw it away" may not be the best advice for killing said entity.
tenderfault··on Updating my website from my iPad
i also feel offended by european union's take on protecting my privacy by invading it. i don't feel protected at all. i. just want to be left alone, goddammit.

i feel offended A LOT on internet these days.

member when internet was free? pepperidge farm remembers.

tenderfault··on Updating my website from my iPad
"The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country"

I feel offended by this message. I don't know why, i shouldn't care. I just click every article that makes it to nyc top

tenderfault··on If PHP Were British (2011)
indeed, now protected sounds a bit dodgy, innit? always felt lost in translation with them oop lads
tenderfault··on If PHP Were British (2011)
actually "hereditary" is more sound than "protected", innit? to some extent
tenderfault··on Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
god dammit. thank you.
tenderfault··on Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
I own an iPhone 12 mini since its inception and I am 44 years old. You described exactly my problems. Somewhere on the road something broke, either me or the user interface. Also, the most painful breaking change for me is the fact that in safari the url bar is placed at the bottom since a while but I keep looking after it at the top of the screen while I type, even if there's nothing there, just something that resembles a dynamic dropdown list based on whatever I think I type. My brain can't seem to be able to accept and memorize the fact that the url bar was moved at the bottom, just above the keyboard.
tenderfault··on Programming Burnout
44, same situation. this is not burnout. things will get even worse. you are just waking up and soon you will see things for what they really are. it’s not pretty. good luck.
tenderfault··on Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law
meantime on Christmas island:
tenderfault··on Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law
and tasty. I said it, so you won't have to.
tenderfault··on Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law
of course.
tenderfault··on Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law
you didn't get the joke because you are living it. the real question is, what would monty python say?

** The Brit who longed for lobster, beholds with pain

The tempting clusters were too high to gain;

Grieved in his heart he forced a careless smile,

And cried, ‘They’re sharp and hardly worth my while.

**

tenderfault··on Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law
so, the dispute with France over post-Brexit fishing rights didn't go too well then? innit?
tenderfault··on How many flies are in my apartment?
> The perfect question for a Sunday afternoon when you have no friends

I have one, we both read your post and we just befriended you without authorization

tenderfault··on Anatoli Bugorski stuck his head inside a particle accelerator (2020)
Everyone whispers "Dr. Manhattan"
tenderfault··on FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create
I too was about to ask the same question
tenderfault··on Hubble Space Telescope is back online after software glitch
insert your dearest meme

hubble: recovers after software glitch rustafarians:

tenderfault··on Sequoia Capital says it was hacked
I believe even dark web monitoring software don't look in there
tenderfault··on How and why I stopped buying new laptops
you are missing something. I stopped buying t430 keyboards after the second broke. the machine is still up and running but with an external keyboard.
tenderfault··on CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
Q5: Does this mean that CentOS Stream is the RHEL BETA test platform now? A: No. CentOS Stream will be getting fixes and features ahead of RHEL. Generally speaking, we expect CentOS Stream to have fewer bugs and more runtime features than RHEL until those packages make it into the RHEL release.

Q: is the sky blue? A: no. it's blue.

tenderfault··on A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life
and No college degree is a guarantee for a Bad life.

nothing hurts us more than the lack of (higher) education.

kids, stay in school.

tenderfault··on Go generics may use square brackets [] not parenthesis ()
can someone just stick this thread forever on top of HN listing
tenderfault··on PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub
what bunch, exactly?
tenderfault··on Craig Federighi‘s message to young aspirants pursuing Software Development
paulo coelho adaptation. this is actually a good advice. take it. helps you hit the ground really hard. wake up to reality after. hopefully.
tenderfault··on We moved our servers to Iceland
ok, so this was a "non-binding" resolution? the wiki page is so misleading for someone not familiar with the vocabulary. I read "adopted by parliament", I jump to conclusions. Maybe the page should be updated to clearly define the current status.
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