While this is perfectly cromulent Perl, it also demonstrates the misapplication of - and the misdirected anger at - an otherwise innocent tool. Sure, you *can* write code like this, but it's not required, nor recommended. Much like you can spray the neighborhood with a fully automatic rifle, but it's not required, nor recommended. In both cases, blame the person wielding the tool.

Maybe the problem is you. Sure, you can write totally shit Perl that no one else can read, but it's not required. You can also shoot yourself in the foot with a gun, but no one recommends that. I found Perl relatively simple, but I had a background in shell scripting, so much of the Perl syntax seemed familiar.

I'm from NY, where grocery stores sell groceries and beer, while liquor stores sell liquor. I went to Indianapolis a few years ago, and was gobsmacked that you could buy all sorts of liquor - beer and hard booze - at the local Kroger's, or whatever the grocery chain is, there. It's such a stark difference.

Transitive property, or trickle-down theory. Take your pick. It's never management's fault.

Ok, this sounds pretty cool, and the easy-filtering makes it way more useful.

Isn't this what Wireshark is for? Or at least one of its many purposes?

If I were making $133k/yr, while living in my rural NY area, I'd be one of the wealthiest people in town. For a while, I worked in Tarrytown, NY, and later, Chicago, IL, while living in my rural NY home, and life was good. The money rolled in nicely, while my living expenses were reasonable.

I fkn hate that pretentious asshole gweihir, but in this case, he's entirely correct: MAGA are assholes who lie about everything.

And we always seem to have an overabundance of assholes like you.

I haven't touched a Windows system in years, so are you saying it would be easier to just install new, bypassing the intervening versions, instead of upgrading from version to version?

You're still not getting it: I don't even have to say, "Chocolate is a shitty flavor"; I don't have say chocolate is anything. It's not binary in the extremes, with an automatic predisposition for the opposite of what you don't like: it's a scale centered around 0, where 0 is "meh," and all aspects are considered separately.

You can dislike one without being explicitly for another. If I don't like chocolate ice cream, it doesn't automatically mean I like any other flavor. I can dislike all ice cream flavors. (In reality, I like a lot of flavors, but that's not the point.)

The US is the biggest bully on the block, and barely constrained in its atrocities. All we needed to drop the mask was an abject asshole like Trump, and the feckless Republicans in Congress that enable him.

Was this just the final nail in the coffin of something that started earlier? It seems like Bell Labs started heading downhill long before 2017. I worked for AT&T when they split off Lucent, and even back then, Bell Labs didn't carry the R&D weight it used to.

What's your issue with BSD's license, if I may ask?