Fascinating.
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We've had one, yes. But what about second coffee?
It's interesting that, with Python, the reference implementation is the implementation
yeah there's Jython but really, Python means both the language and a particular interpreter.
Many compiled languages aren't this way at all
C compilers come from Intel, Microsoft, GNU, LLVM, among others. And even some scripting languages have this diversity
there are multiple JavaScript implementations, for example, and JS is...weird, yes, but afaik can be faster than Python in many cases.
I don't know what my point is exactly, but Python a) is sloooow, and b) doesn't really have competition of interpreters. Which is interesting, at least, to me.
Did the developer use any version control though? SCCS has been around since the early 70s, RCS and CVS since the 80s. The tools definitely existed.
Also, it was a single dev, which makes SCM significantly simpler!
California doesn't allow "use it or lose it" vacation policies. Vacation rolls over up to a reasonable amount, which apparently isn't super well defined, but my employers have generally set a limit of 2x annual.
PhDs in many fields, particularly the physical sciences, are funded. Lost wages are real of course, but you can often come out the other side without accumulating any debt.
Coming from Debian, it was...not expected. I understand how and why it happened, but the user experience was surprising.
Debian keeps the previous kernel around, which makes perfect sense to me
in the event that a kernel update borks your system you can just load the previous one. This would probably only happen due to out of tree modules (looking at you, Nvidia...).
Coming from Debian, it was...not expected. I understand how and why it happened, but the user experience was surprising.
Debian keeps the previous kernel around, which makes perfect sense to me
in the event that a kernel update borks your system you can just load the previous one. This would probably only happen due to out of tree modules (looking at you, Nvidia...).
Linux distros can still do...questionable things. In grad school I tried Arch for a bit, and I once was late to a video call because I had updated my kernel but did not reboot. Arch decided that because there was a new kernel installed, I didn't need the modules for the old
but currently running!
kernel, so it removed them. So when I plugged in a webcam, the webcam module was nowhere to be found.
But yeah...somehow, still not as bad as Windows updates.
Yeah, but do they like Huey Lewis and the News?
Hey Paulina!
When I hear the term, I think of the Rainbow cover of the Quatermass song. But that's just me.