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For what it is worth, I have found that the STUN protocol is also an option for discovering this sort of information. There are lists of public stun servers out there [0]. Finding a client is a little more difficult than just using curl, I grant, but not impossible.
Awesome to see what other people have been doing. I have been getting more familiar with common-lisp and emacs / slime. Specifically using those tools to build a website to track the books that I have read, with the reviews and ratings that I've given them, so my sister and I can keep track of each other's reading lists.
Sort of like goodreads minus the blatant marketing.
I've tried the IntelliJ vim plugin and it was lacking some features that I use regularly (I forget exactly what at the moment. Registers? the 'q:' menu? folds? quite a few plugins I now can't live without? (surround)).
Another key thing is the responsiveness. Vim is just more responsive (or it feels that way to me, you may have different experiences).
I am developing Java using vim + tmux at work and it for certain took a lot of time to get tweaked how I want it to be, and there are some things I've had to give up: debugging is a big one (but that's what log messages are for!), but I 've managed to cover quite some ground: I wrote a plugin to automatically add import statements based on dependencies you have listed in your build.gradle
Yeah I know the image (ooo that guy thinks he's sooo l33t because he uses vim and the command-line all the time... doesn't even need intellij installed!), but I know my setup works for me and it allows me to work as fast, if not faster than my peers and get. crap. done.
To each their own - I make sure that new engineers I'm on-boarding have tools they need to get work done and don't fall prey to some tool-cult.
I really like perl. I started writing it in my university for sys/admin stuff and then went down the rabbit hole and investigated most of the nooks and crannies of the language. I like all the special symbols. I have no issue with reading code that I wrote five months previously. I like that it does not limit what I want to do programmatically.
In fact I recently snuck some perl code into production at my company a month or so ago: we needed an android app to post data to a backend where it could later be analyzed. Super simple. I wanted to get it out the door as fast as possible and due to the fact that it will be retired before the end of this year, I choose to write the backend in perl using MongoDB and Mojolicious. Then I saw that MongoDB is retiring their driver for perl[1]. I still went forward, but it was yet another reminder of the state the language is in.
It saddens me that perl does not get more love. It is a fantastic language but I can not justify teaching others it, or encouraging them to learn about it.
[1] https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/the-mongodb-perl-driver-is...
http://lpn.swi-prolog.org/lpnpage.php?pageid=online
^^ I found to be very helpful in learning enough of Prolog to make a bracket for the 2018 World Cup
my understanding is your politeness would be interpreted in essence as saying that the issues are subjective rather then objective. when later in the process this is revealed to not be the case, this will lead to friction: hence fighting and resentment
You can also use M-? to list all the files.
So typing 'rm foo* ' and pressing Alt-? (on non-OSX computers) will give you a list of what your wildcard would expand to.
M-* does the same thing but actually expands the wildcards, instead of just showing what that expansion would be.
I think this is right on. I listen to quite a bit of music and I have said several times to friends something like "I could spend the rest of my life listening to music released before 2000". Hyperbole, perhaps to some, but that is pretty accurate. I am now able to go and "discover" bands from the 70s.
Film is another form of media that behaves in a similar manner. Why would I need to watch the new remake of movie X when the original is so readily available, and likely better.
I think the internet has worked to make media and culture diffuse much faster. Something new and interesting is suddenly everywhere and certain kinds of surprises, or hype or suspense similar to say, the Beatles landing in the US in the 60s, would be extraordinarily hard to replicate.
I would though, take a less dour attitude in regards to the future than you seem to have hinted at. I think society is adjusting to the this bombardment of entertainment, a more more people live fulfilling lives mostly detached from social media, you just won't find them on facebook :-).
Carter had a background in engineering if I recall.
The Once and Future King by T H White is likely my favorite fictional book. A modern (1940s) retelling of Arthurian legend, it really struck me in how it was able to captivate my imagination and my emotions. In that story I found White was masterfully able to discern when to be serious and when to be playful - by which he reanimated, for me, the legend of Arthur - parts of which I started to find stale, or outright did not enjoy.
Wouldn't that make insurance cheaper for autonomous cars and more expensive for human-driven cars since humans would be more of a liability behind the wheel?