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Comment Re:Beer is ass (Score 1) 72

You never got the chance to drink a real Belgian gueuze or lambic then?

I question the trend of modern sours, because most of them just taste like acid, lemon, lime or acetic.

Also, we don't call them sours, but spontaneous fermented. In good gueuzes or lambic the acidity should be subdued.

Comment Re: Perl is what Java wanted to be (Score 1) 80

I used Cygwin on Perl on Windows for 12 years, working at Philips, to automate builds and releases. The same code also ran for a time on Linux virtual machines. Perl has the best interface abstractions of any language, masking e.g., the ugly Windows process interface (possibly also through Cygwin :-)) with a proper POSIX process interface. And Perl is almost like (Common) Lisp, the only thing really missing is the CL macro facility.

Comment Intelligible (Score 1) 52

I suppose the AI will speak an intelligible language, not distorted by Indian accents.

I have met a whole lot of Indians, some of them much smarter than me, and most of them use correct English grammar, but the weird accents they have add a large level of noise...

Comment Re:modern music is trash anyway (Score 1) 137

Well, modern radio music (pop music).

In the last five years I discovered a whole spectrum of rock music that I didn't know even existed, from stoner rock, through space rock, then of course the whole lot from hardrock to extreme metal, and then post-metal. It helps that I like heavy guitars and complex compositions.

Comment Re:access to background information (Score 1) 85

For more background, "The Demon-Haunted World". Carl Sagan was a real visionary. I read this book recently, and it chilled me to the bone how correct he was in his predictions, 29 years ago.

However, I still think that Mark Twain, with the description of Huckleberry Finn's father, already gave out an early warning.

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