While yes, the way I had it structured looked like a CSV if you squinted a little, I do fully agree AWK can’t be used for just any old JSON.

jq is dope, but that language still feels pretty confusing IMO.

Would that not mean that AIs aren’t stealing either? 🤔

It would undermine the exact point OP is making, but I understand what he means, so that still stands.

Yesterday, when I had a file with a list of JSON objects, and I wanted to move the date field at the end to the beginning, so I used regex find and replace to move it. Something like \{(.*?), ("date": ".*?") in Search, and then {$2, $1 in replace (or something close to it).

Yes, I refactor code and data using regex. I can’t be arsed to learn AWK (even though I should).

You might also want to check the latest Ladybird update: https://youtu.be/cbw0KrMGHvc

Nix! Just being able to run nix-env -i git and get a newer, isolated, git installation on an older Debian is very nice. Makes it easy to remove.

I can also do nix-shell -p <application I want to try out> if I want to test stuff out.

I’ve been able to ignore the Nix language pretty well so far, so no incredibly steep learning curve quite yet. Nix OS is still too spoopy for me.

Oracle was never really innovative on a technical level

Even their RDBMS and SQL was copied from ideas that came from IBM. And I recall either E. F. Codd or one of the SQL guys making a remark about Oracle’s less-than-saviour sales tactics, even back in the 90s.

Not very RHELAIable, you say?

That’s obviously a randomly generated string.

A bot-ass username would be FirstnameLastnameFourdigitnumber. Sheesh.

What infra?

Sorry, I should’ve been explicit that I meant the power grid. You can generate all you want, but if the power grid can’t handle it, you’re shit out of luck :)

Oh wow, looks like the Haskell devs have been hauling ass! Nice!

I remember the language server being a thing already, but it was in some alpha stage back then. Good to know it’s usable now! :D

Here’s what I remember from Haskell (around 2018):

I love the language, but hate the tooling.

Used it for Uni (did a minor where I learned Haskell, recursion, parsing and regex - probably the most information dense part of school I’ve ever had. Half a year of minor also burned me out, so I never went for my masters; I’m OK with my Bachelors :D ), but never felt like picking it back up.

Question: Who do you think is paying these “negative prices”. Spoiler: It’s the TSOs. They can’t do that for long, or simply go bankrupt.

Yes, “storage of the abundant renewable power” is a key piece of the puzzle, but “The power available on the grid must always equal the power consumed” is something that can not be broken. If it does, equipment will break, people will be without power, and it’ll cost the TSO tons of money to repair.

There’s post scarcity, but only during a short time of the day, when power consumption is relatively lower (it spikes when people come home, because everyone turns their lights and machines on around the same time).

Oh, and I don’t know about the USA, but the Dutch grid is pretty much overloaded, so there is no space to move the power to the storage units (whether the storage exists or not doesn’t matter ATM). We’re working on it, but here’s we’re kinda fucked ATM.

Yes, infra can be built, but not fast enough to keep up with all the solar panels being installed. For example: In the Netherlands our network can’t keep up with the requests being put out by companies, and we’ve already been busy for the last 5-ish years to install new infra, but that shit can take over 10 (!!!) years before a large line has been added. Land needs to be bought, people need to be informed, plans need to be made or adjusted, local companies need to be hired, the materials bought in and build into new pylons, etc.

It’s a MASSIVE undertaking. Even if you talk on a local level, where “The Last Mile” is the time-consuming problem there.

Shit takes time.

Or you ask a large company to run their machines for a bit to catch up the “overgeneration” (if that’s a word).

That box story right below the original message is hilarious! 😂 It’s always good to bring up happy memories after someone passed away. Good way to mourn, IMO.

Stroustrup to congress: “You expect me to talk?”
Congress: “No, Mr Stroustup, we expect your language to DIE!”

Interesting read, but does it beat JPEGMini? Yes, it’s a paid product (not that I’ve paid, ☠🏴 yarr), but it does what it needs to do, and it does it well.

For Keepass users: KeepassXC can read your keepass file just fine, but KeepassXC can also run on Linux, whereas Keepass runs only on Windows.

rockstar

We fixed that one: https://codewithrockstar.com/

I’ve been using git for some three years now - never used Cherrypick (not consciously, anyway).