I paid for a car that I could drive halfway across the country in and be comfortable,not spend a fortune on fuel, and not worry too much about it stranding me on the side of the road. The smart screen just happened to come with it. So it seems to have worked out fine for me.

Are you naturally an asshole or are you making a special effort here?

Or just don’t connect your phone to it. That’s what I do. I’ve never touched the “smart” screen in my car except to adjust the air conditioner.

Oh, I’ve got no complaints about the article or even its title. Few people learn Perl or Raku these days so it would be surprising for most people.

I thought it was interesting myself - Perl’s my go-to scripting language but I never used Raku. I might consider it next time I have a non-trivial scripting project.

I’m not sure why that’s surprising. Raku started out as Perl 6. Perl was designed primarily for use in a shell environment. Convenience features like the arguments to MAIN bit are in line with Perl philosophy.

A lot smaller?

I don’t believe so - the docs mention several ways to boot a pi but most only work for newer models.

An option might be to boot an SD card read-only and run everything over NFS. It’s trivial to do that sort of thing with some UNIX clones (OpenBSD, for instance), but I don’t know about a modern Linux.

It might be too outdated to do major services, but it’s still fine for its original use - interfacing with electronic components.

You could build a weather station, monitor temperature and humidity in your attic and crawlspace, automatically water plants, etc. You don’t need much electronics knowledge for that sort of thing.

A lot of interesting stuff happened during his four years. The Mexican-American war, the US and UK coming to a settlement over Oregon Territory, Texas joining the union, the forced purchase of New Mexico and California, the political unrest between the north and south… The guy wore himself out and died shortly after returning to Tennessee.

I’m really surprised he wasn’t more prominent in the history books I read in school.

I’d recommend A Country of Vast Designs, which you can find as an audio book. It’s about the Polk administration. Most people don’t know anything about Polk, even though the US tripled in size and had a war during his four years.

It’s also a peek into the politics leading up to the Civil War.

Oh, you know he’ll try to find a way to be president for life. And half the media will support it.

I’m not sure I understand. I’m working, so I’m charging for it.

There are a lot of different flavors of being on call.

I’m on call all the time. That just means I might get a phone call at any time and have to help one of our techs on a site. I don’t have to be near the office for that - it’s the knowledge in my head they want.

I charge regular time for it.

Uranus and Neptune both have a significant amount of methane, as does Titan.

Thought about it, was browsing their site, then the page turned dark and a popup asked for my email address to sign up for their newsletter.

So I won’t be buying one.

Imagine what life was like when people used typewriters.

Those IBM Selectrics, especially. Hit keys (mostly) silently, hit Return, and that little ball goes BBBRRRAAAPPP! across the page all at once.

That said, I’ve been in offices where they used all IBM equipment (including Type-M keyboards) and after a while you don’t hear the typing. That might be because you’re going deaf, though.