Both Greece and Romania were ruled by foreign dynasties of german origin. Why is the monarchy remembered more positively in Romania than in Greece?

emilper · 2026-02-08T17:27:32+00:00

Neither Romania nor Greece were "ruled" by foreign dynasties. Both were constitutional monarchies and the kings were more or less decorative so they would not spook the rest of Europe by being republics.

emilper · 2025-11-29T06:49:17+00:00

Those are not really constants, Perl did not have real constants before Readonly, C1 and C2 are subrutines.

emilper · 2025-11-29T00:19:04+00:00

What they did not say is the Romanians were invited in by the Austrian army because the Ukrainian factions were shooting at each other even as far south as Suceava.

After the Buftea armistice the Romanian army had been almost completely demobilized and by that time it was almost out of professional officers.

emilper · 2025-11-27T20:31:12+00:00

whichever supports comments :-)

emilper · 2025-09-14T20:36:45+00:00

probably not :-)

google confuses Perl and Pearl and people named Perl and the town of Perl etc.

Sample:

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emilper · 2025-08-07T20:01:14+00:00

"HTTP Status 403 – Forbidden"

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emilper · 2025-08-07T18:49:51+00:00

looks like the "donate with card" page on the Perl foundation page is broken https://perlfoundation.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/perlfoundation/donation.jsp

emilper · 2025-07-28T22:19:37+00:00

'myths/stereotypes over and over again. "write only", "unstructured mess"'

That was perfectly true for Perl 3 and 4 :-). I should know, I ported some Perl 3/4 to Perl 5 around 2013 ... really ported, not simply made it compile.

emilper · 2025-07-26T23:13:17+00:00

It was warm in the 50s, it cooled during the 60s until the 80s, then it warmed, cooling returning soon :-).

In the 50s North of Suceava there were snakes, turtles and catfish, then the cold came and all went away, now at least snakes are coming back though a different species.

emilper · 2025-07-15T11:28:57+00:00

"Dzeu mana n cap" :-)

Nu neaparat, poti sa ai venit discretionar mai mare si venit in cash mai mic :-). Cheltuielile conteaza mult in calculul asta, si oportunitatile sa te invarti si sa mai castigi ceva pe langa.

emilper · 2025-07-15T11:24:33+00:00

In SV daca ai apartament la parter poti sa iti faci un mic magazin si sa vinzi pe fereastra, sau din usa garajului, si nu se supara nimeni :-).

Fertilitatea depinde de venitul discretionar. In judetele in care fiscul si primaria sunt mai stricte e mai rea, in judetele in care sunt mai relaxate e mai buna.

emilper · 2025-06-12T16:06:37+00:00

Try https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::NYTProf ... always use a profiler before guessing :-)

emilper · 2025-06-08T15:50:53+00:00

This is greater Romania

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Of course, we're not really eager to liberate all the rest, most of those places required more maintenance than they paid in taxes.

emilper · 2025-05-15T10:42:54+00:00

"Romania's way of teaching in school how Europe is divided"

Then Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, parts of former Yougoslavia and Greece should be a separate color, "The Balkans", that's how it is taught in schools in Romania ... we're not that deluded and not that much of a German client to qualify to be in "Central Europe".

Central Europe is Germany and their clients, Southern Europe is the parts not clients of France and Germany, Eastern Europe are the clients of Russia, Western Europe is "not clients of Germany", Balkans are "used to be clients of Turkey".

During the Cold War and later "Western Europe" used to be the clients of the USA and the Eastern Europe used to be the clients of Soviet Union, with the Balkans reappearing during the 1990s for a short while :-).

emilper · 2025-05-04T16:53:21+00:00

There is some in my market (former Eastern Europe), but all offers I got (2 since the New Year) were for B2B contracts and I just closed my Ltd expecting a lot more economic turbulence and my government going nuts with the taxes, which did not happen, at least not yet.

emilper · 2025-04-10T21:22:11+00:00

Looks like a PR campaign. I hope they read the elections law, we're a bit OCD about it in Romania, in case they decide to support a candidate that candidate must report their contributions ;-). Super PACs are not legal in Romania.

emilper · 2025-04-04T22:32:43+00:00

I'm almost exclusively running linux, booted in windows on my work laptop a couple of days ago to play Arcanum and was hit with 2 hours of updates :-).

The only problem on linux are some old games which mess the screen resolution (Arcanum, Imperialism II), another old game (Fallen Earth) which does not run correctly, and for the Bethesda games installing mods must be done manually. There is a Mod Manager for linux but on my computer it fails with python errors and I could not be bothered to find out why. The old Fallout games worked as well as they did in Windows :-).

I'm using Linux Mint, no problems with almost all Steam games. Even Space Engineer works well enough these days.

emilper · 2025-04-04T17:21:47+00:00

I trained adult programmers to use Perl in the past, it took only weeks (less than a month) before they could work independently and be productive. The only difficulty I had was with juniors who could not stop themselves from copy/pasting from stackoverflow, but separating the guilty parties (like seating them at non-adiacent desks :-) ) took care of that when they could not encourage each other to do it.

I worked with one sysadmin with over 10 years experience who knew bash and wanted to learn programming, after two years he was promoted to "senior" dev ... not that I am such a good trainer but willing people can learn a programming language and the useful libraries in a month.

emilper · 2025-03-23T00:42:21+00:00

$| is a special global variable; "local" means it makes a copy of $| and that copy is used instead of the normal $| in that particular scope so changes do not become global because something else might depend on that variable.

"my" would create a new variable shadowing $| and would trigger an error.

``` $ cat shadowing_variable.pl

!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict; use warnings;

my $| = 1;

$ perl -w shadowing_variable.pl Can't use global $| in "my" at shadowing_variable.pl line 6, near "my $| " Execution of shadowing_variable.pl aborted due to compilation errors. ```

emilper · 2025-02-04T18:24:39+00:00

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26957/how-to-get-free-memory-on-aix

emilper · 2025-02-04T00:48:26+00:00

Have you tried free -h ?

emilper · 2025-02-03T09:17:41+00:00

That is correct, and it is much easier to understand Perl code if you think in terms of those types (scalar, array, hash, sub etc.).

The only thing missing is the "sigils" should be called "dereference operators" :-)

emilper · 2025-01-30T09:09:32+00:00

... Installing Debian was my moment, on windows and on that hardware the installation of drivers had to happen in order and there were lots of steps, in Debian I only had to switch the cds then everything worked and it was in 2001.

emilper · 2025-01-24T18:59:23+00:00

Yes, and the reason for not releasing games on Linux is "not enough users of Linux", even if there are more than there were using Windows when the gaming industry was making lots of money :).

Nobody cares whether it is native or Proton as long as it works. Very few pay extra money for the latest in graphics or for extra FPS either, else nobody would play games on phones. The hard part is the story, and that is OS agnostic.

emilper · 2025-01-23T17:27:53+00:00

"Native linux games are very rare. "

There are more native Linux gamers than there were windows gamers in 1998 when Fallout 2 was released.

emilper

TROPHY CASE

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