I worked with Perl for years, and I don't recommend it for a beginner. There are just too many idiosyncrasies that belong specifically to the language that you'd be better off with Python for learning the basics.
I'm also not really sold on that book, which from the code samples looks really old. I'd recommend two books: Modern Perl and Perl Best Practices.
Edit: I'd also recommend working in Go but potentially the way i/o intersects with interfaces makes it a bit more challenging.
I think defederation should be used as a last resort - specifically, I'm talking about an influx of tankies breaking feddit.uk's code of conduct. I think actions supporting a protest of lemmy.ml should be left to the individual, as to whether they want to continue participating in those communities. Ideally, the communities move themselves to a different instance that's less politicised, but that's not the world we currently live in.
All sounds pretty sensible. I do think it might feel annoying waiting minutes to download a model for the sake of generating a line of alt text the first time, though. It would probably be quicker to write the alt text.
Residents bemoan the 20mph speed limit, polluted waters and strain of the cost of living crisis
![‘Don’t trust any of them’: Tories face wipeout in Wales, but Labour is on shaky ground too](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/a921439c-7a0b-48ef-a1d9-ceff5026b2ef.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
From the people I've talked to, admittedly pension age, they feel reluctant to vote Labour but can't deny the damage done by the Tories over the last ten years.
Nationalise the lot of them. They had their chance.
He tackled a murderer to the ground to protect the public. But the draconian licence conditions of his ‘99-year sentence’ meant that the first person he called was his probation officer
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Maybe I woke up more cynical this morning, but...
Hoping to save her job, much?
It also didn't release as a physical copy. New digital releases in the UK at least are always pretty expensive, whereas with physical copies there's at least a chance of a small discount from a retailer.
More or less. Either Excalidraw for your quick and dirty diagrams or I've used PlantUML + C4 Plug-in for your larger, more long lived diagrams with some success.
Diagrams. Loads and loads of diagrams. One for each use-case.
Then I'd have one diagram to draw out dependencies between each service at the broadest level. Although depending on how messy your architecture is it can be very difficult to read, in my experience.
Exclusive: Concerns over effect on UK’s finances lead officials to believe utility should be renationalised before general election
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Ohhh, yay 👍👍
It's really quite bad imo, but it's surprising considering how the consoles are basically the same, hardware-wise - the Xbox on paper might even be technically more powerful.
I think that if they'd been able to get out there with a couple of great 1st party games early in the generation it might have helped swing the market in their direction but they didn't and now it doesn't matter.
Sony is also encountering similar issues in terms of the cost of games being unsustainable and Moore's Law kicking in. The difference is that they're making games that move consoles and Microsoft just aren't.
At this point, I don't know what strategy Microsoft has at this point. If you say "Xbox everywhere", what does Xbox even mean any more for the enthusiast? I don't think Xbox is done, but if they were looking to be HBO before, they are now going for the Netflix approach - high quantity content, mediocre product - and possibly alienate the existing audience they have.
I say this as an Xbox Series S owner, I'm happy with my purchase, but as a consumer I don't think I'll be upgrading my console to anything Microsoft ship any time soon.
I think if you read through this and take it at face value, there is a pretty clear picture of what happened: https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/
Ngl, I honestly thought this was a bit of satire.
I've set up my regular subscription. 👍 This was an important step towards the future sustainability of the platform, so I'm glad to see it happen. Thanks very much, @GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk and @Emperor@feddit.uk for your continued dedication.
I can imagine them carrying on making consoles this generation but long-term Microsoft is a services company and over successive generations they have failed to recapture the lead from Sony since the 360. Ultimately, they just want to make more money and struggling in the hardware business is not an exciting place for them to be in.
I say this as a Series S owner: the writing is on the wall. I will likely not be purchasing another Microsoft console after this, though I'm not sure they'd be interested in releasing one. I want to buy and own games I can play locally on a piece of hardware, which probably means I have to return to Sony or go back to the humble PC. For anyone currently on the fence seeing this news, I don't know why they'd consider buying into the Xbox platform and tying in all their gaming purchases.
A lot of it has reinforced my understanding around distributed databases and transactions. In my day-to-day, I've not really had need to use this knowledge as pretty much all our data stores are hosted in cloud platforms and we're operating on low datasets and traffic.
I hate the Tory party. I want Labour to get in.
Apart from this 28 billion pound investment, I cannot name one thing they actually stand for going into the election. This is a problem.
I've been reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications and it really is a great book, specifically for backend engineers.
Open Collective sounds like a great choice. I would be happy to donate £1 a month. 👍
Ah, I see, cut income tax just before a general election despite having literally years to do so prior, just so Labour will be forced to find extra income elsewhere or revert the tax cut in some form when they get in power. Cynical as usual.
I know it's vastly underpowered compared to even the Xbox Series S but I still think there's something magical about the way you can have these fully fledged gaming experiences in front of your TV or in your hands while on holiday using the same hardware. Of all the consoles I've owned, it's probably my favourite.
Of course Britain needs renewable energy infrastructure and more houses. But Rachel Reeves has laid out a ruinous path, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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I don't endorse this article but it is a thought-provoking take. Personally, I think instead of "densifying" cities we should be doing the opposite - incentivize building new homes and business investment in lower-populated areas of the country.
Go 1.21 shipped a preview of a change in Go 1.22 to make for loops less error-prone.
![Fixing For Loops in Go 1.22 - The Go Programming Language](https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/791d4abd-58f4-4c6f-b8ee-fe9a6c815485.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Council lays out drastic package of cuts, including to playgrounds and community schemes, in measures described as ‘horrendous’
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Baldur's Gate 3 will be coming to Xbox this year.
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Should put this whole issue to rest (for a while, at least 😉).
Earlier today I spoke with Xbox boss Phil Spencer to discuss the company's future in video games. Of course, there is t…
![The definitive Xbox Gamescom interview](https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/3b7256bd-3b40-4594-ba21-b34621890317.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Some interesting tidbits on the Series S and how it fits into MS's strategy.
I've moved from the Google Pixel 4A, which had an excellent fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone, to the 7A.
I won't sugarcoat it: in my experience the fingerprint sensor, now an optical sensor on the front of the phone, is near useless. It fails to read my finger/thumb print basically ~95% of the time, which means it can't be used for any account that may lock the user out following 'x' unsuccessful login attempts.
I really don't get why they shipped the feature with the phone given how unacceptably bad it is to use.
Is this a common opinion shared amongst 7A users? Is there something wrong with my phone, or am I missing something? I'd welcome any advice, as I would quite like to get this working reliably.
‘Regressive’ licence fee could be replaced by broadband tax or levy based on property value, Richard Sharp suggests
![Wealthy may have to pay more for BBC services in future, says former chair](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/WNcIi5A9Uk.jpg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Hi 👋
In absence of a community for greyhound owners/admirers across Lemmy I've opted to create one here on feddit.uk.
By way of a introduction, here's our boy Ziggy. He's a 4 year old ex-racer living with us in sunny, sunny Wales 🏴 😉. He likes 🧀, naps and waking us up at 6am for his morning constitutional.
I've set up an icon and banner image for the community from our own set of photos but they're more placeholders until something better comes along.
Hope everyone is having a good weekend. 🙂