I bet the part where gender gets all mixed up is actually sorta interesting. Too bad people thought that needed fixing. I mean its sorta like our era.

Perl has had great support for unicode for many years. Not familiar with Slashdot code so can't comment on that

I don't think this is aimed at people like Natalie Portman so much. Age discrimination is a real problem. This is aimed to help out people that don't have her stature and her resources.

No matter what I do, even if I DIY I end up with like 10 years payoff. If it was 5 years I;d do it tomorrow!

How about clay tile roofs? That's what I have, and it looks nice but I couldn't figure if it was going to help in a fire or not.

Apple and Facebook were served with warrants that required them to turn over the information. They did not. This isn't 'help', its just following the law.

I've never owed a new car, I don't think its a very good value. Cars lose like half their value in the first few years, and the insurance kills you (and road taxes, some places charge road fees based on how old the car is.).

Hi Larry,

I'm a profession Perl5 programmer who is very worried about the future of my language. I remember when you kicked off Perl6 in the very late 1990s the talk was that it would replace Perl5. Clearly that never happened. If you could redo the project what might you do differently?

I bought my first new TV in like 20 years last Christmas and since I was splurging I wanted a great screen. I decided on a Samsug Plasma screen that was very highly rated. However to get that screen I had to buy the crappy smart TV features. If I could have bought the same screen as s dumb TV I would have.

In generally the TV companies bundle all their highest end screens with crappy 'smart' features.

"...than your living room TV."

Which part is that, the part where I pay $20 for smelly nacho's or the part where I get to enjoy my movie in crappy seats surrounded by rude louts?

I can't figure there is a single part of the movie theatre experience that I miss at all.

I would have thought this would be the case years ago, give the price disparity.

just not with my money. We could end crime by embedding a chip into everyone so we could track everyone's movements and know exactly were everyone is at every second. I don't see anyone jumping at that idea.

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This is one of those things that sounds like it could be tricky to actually get right. Still they could just do what that secret service does when choose travel options for the President; you flip a coin with one agent calling it in air and the other doing the flipping. Seems reasonable free from exploits.

FWIW I don't think this about cryptographically secure random and more about a system that by design can't be hacked and such that you'd need to bribe an entire team to get through the line you want.

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