> The strlen($String) function will take a LONG time to complete, because the result is characters, not bytes, and the framework has to count chars from the beginning to see how many there are, and of course this isn't the bytes of storage you need to allocate on disk. That's not true in Perl, because Perl stores characters not as a simple array of bytes (as C would) but an array of *codepoints*. Perl's unicode support is very very good. I don't know why slashdot does what it does.

Perhaps you were not aware that it's possible to compile Perl into a binary executable.

classic "I don't see how it's relevant to me so it can't be relevant to anyone else". Huge parts of the internet still run on Perl. booking.com is entirely Perl. Do you use git? then you use Perl.

Intel's not lagging behind much; it just looks that way because Samsung and TSMC define their feature sizes differently.

Their 10nm process is comparable to Intel's 14nm process, etc.

Both will run out of steam at about the same point -- Intel's 5nm, and Samsung/TSMC's 3nm, will likely be the last process shrink.

There are libraries, and then there are libraries. Some libraries, like BLAS, are written by very good programmers who are expert in their domain, avoid common pitfalls (or evolved to avoid them after several development cycles) and have optimized the hell out of the implementation. Other libraries, like almost every javascript framework in existence, are poorly written, horribly slow, and full of bugs (but may provide hard-to-get capabilities). Code re-use is kind of like email implementation -- it seems like it should be straightforward, but it totally isn't. Doing it right requires care and experience.

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

The community has done a fantastic job raising that barn in no time at all

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To be fair to Ramsay, they show a completely different image of him on American vs British television.

The one on the bottom of the Gamecube was for the accessory that could play Gameboy games. The GBA itself had a special connector that went into a controller port

Being proficient in a language is much less about knowing syntax and the IDE and much more about knowing the idioms of the language.