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Comment Perl always draws you back... (Score 2) 85

I've found myself using more Perl for day-to-day tasks lately too. The sheer practicality of the toolset wins in nearly every situation against all other players - established and incumbent - and the relatively static nature of what was once considered fairly bizarre syntax just doesn't struggle to compete against modern meme languages that are a constant moving target of trying to make everything "better."

Comment Re:MKV. Of course. (Score 3, Interesting) 48

It's a video container format, like MP4 or MOV or AVI or WMV, but conspicuously lacking any of their limitations, so naturally only Linux programs support it and commercial entities won't touch it with a 10' pole... until now, when Firefox decided to finally add support while also adding back in several key limitations to their own implementation. Hmmm...

Comment Re:More expensive? (Score 1) 75

The other danger I presume is replacing a snake infestation with a rabbit infestation.

Ding ding ding! We have a winner! The last thing you want to do is replace a snake infestation with a rabbit infestation - as the Australians discovered the hard way in the late 1800's to early 1900's. The winning feature of robot rabbits is that you can turn them off when you're done with them, or at the very least they'll run out of batteries, despite what certain commercial battery brands might want you to believe.

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