I am french. Everydays, we use DD/MM/YYYY or DD/MM/YY. Sometimes, I encounter YYYY-MM-DD, for example at the beginning of a document reference or in a file name. For me, it feels natural and I have no issue to make this switch mentally. The only problem I encounter is in english: MM/DD/YYYY. Hopefully less and less people are using this insane order.

I still have my palm IIIxe I have used it to write my games during Go tournaments. I have a usb/serial adaptor. The software was easy to install on linux. Just to write this comment, I have tried to use it (I have not done any tournament since 7 years), but I got an error when I enter "apt-get install pilot-link". I still have my notes on how to use it:

    https://github.com/jichu4n/pilot-link/blob/master/doc/README.usb
    https://web.archive.org/web/20160226115446/http://www.pilot-link.org/
    apt-get install  pilot-link
    export PILOTPORT=/dev/ttyUSB0
    pilot-xfer --sync=/root/.pilot
    pilot-xfer -i /home/jef/Documents/Jef/old/pilotgone.prc
    pilot-dlpsh -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -i

Does anyone knows how to get back pilot-link package ?

pilot-link was removed from Debian in 2019, as some components of the project depended on Python 2, and the upstream web site disappeared.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=937292

It looks like there's a fork at https://github.com/desrod/pilot-link, but I don't know how functional that is.

It is functional. Arch's AUR uses it as a source for `pilot-link-git` package[1]; works just fine with jPilot.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pilot-link-git

Some more patches at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name/pi.... ./configure --enable-conduits && make && make install sudo export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib then it works like a charm. Thank you very much. My usb serial converter is the cheapest chinese one I found.

Tell me more about this cable. I bought a IIIxe of eBay for cheap recently for the nostalgia of it, but put it aside when I realized I couldn’t physically connect it to anything. I’d love to play with it a little more.

It is just a cheap chinese usb/serial adaptor used to plug the original serial cable of the dock. Nothing special.

I have 1 "big" xsl file in a project I maintain. I have fixed an issue this year. I have tried to use chatgpt prompt. The scope was perfect: I had the buggy xsl, the buggy result, the expected result and a clear explanation. It generated syntactically correct code (almost) that did not work because chatgpt does not understand. This was not a complete loss: a good refresher of the syntax, but I had to do the thinking fully alone and found alone how to use "node-set".

My previous change in this file was in 2017 when I replaced xalan by the xslt processor built in java. I was very surprised I had to make the following changes:

    -<xsl:if test="string(serverName)=$sName">
    +<xsl:if test="string(serverName)=string($sName)">

    -<xsl:for-each select="attributeList/attribute[self::attribute!='']">
    +<xsl:for-each select="attributeList/attribute[text()!='']">

    -<xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::Connection[featureType='Receptacle'][position() = 1]/@Name!=@Name or not(preceding-sibling::Connection[featureType='Receptacle'][position() = 1]/node()) ">
    +<xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::Connection[position() = 1]/@Name!=@Name or position()=1">

These incompatibility issues with something I considered to be standard greatly damaged my opinion on xslt.

I think that Marissa Meyer had given yahoo back a bit of its lustre. That meant cutting dividends in favour of investment. Restoring a reputation takes time. I stopped taking an interest when she was ousted by impatient shareholders. I am not an insider, maybe I am wrong.

She wasn't ousted because shareholders were impatient. She was ousted because under her leadership Yahoo had collapsed to the point that the only thing left to do was to sell it.

When a new CEO is brought in to right a sinking ship (which Yahoo very much was at the time of her hiring), their number one responsibility is to have a solid core strategy based in leveraging the company's existing strengths and then execute competently on it.

She had no solid core strategy. Her strategy at Yahoo, as she described it, was "to throw lots of spaghetti at the purple walls and see what sticks"; which is exactly what she needed to not be doing. She blew a lot of money on a lot of very varied things and ended up with lots of expensive puzzle pieces with no plan for how to fit them all together into something that would stop Yahoo's bleeding.

At the end, the company as a whole had a valuation less than the company's Alibaba investment -- she drove Yahoo not just to zero, but past zero; and that's 100% due to her not understanding how to lead a shrinking company.

This is basically correct.

IMHO, indieweb has not taken off because web hosting was dirt cheap and an internet subscription with a good upload was awfully expensive. Nowadays, the balance has changed and it is less true. Cheap web hosting has become complicated trade-offs. 8GBs symmetric (50€/month) is enough for most of uses.

My main hindrance is the fear that a hacker will hack into my home network

A linear scale is no fit for a performance graph. Can we switch to a logarithm scale ?

I sometimes need to use gdb to investigate bugs in C or Ada, but it is not my main activity. As a result I will not invest days to setup a debugging environment that I will not remember how to use 6 month later. My solution: I use emacs and have a short note with instructions: M-x gdb -i=mi exe_full_name -p 29123 M-x gdb-many-windows set follow-fork-mode child

Hello, I like it very much. I am more a backend guy. Can you please share the code (at least the front end code) ?

Found: https://github.com/KingSkyrock/sqlsandbox

https://xkcd.com/2115/ The RTGs generated about 470 W of electric power at the time of launch. In 2023, it was 260W.

Yes, yes and yes. ORM are marvelous when you do not know well SQL. With experience, you always end up needing to learn more about SQL. In the end, ORM is as much a hindrance as a help. So instead of spending energy learning the ORM of the day, it's better to invest in longer lasting technologies like SQL.

I know SQL and I like ORMs. For most simple CRUD, an ORM is fine. I don’t understand how they are “as much a hindrance as a help”; using an ORM only adds functionality, it cannot prevent you from using SQL against the data source in the same manner you would if you weren’t using an ORM.

It’s really just syntactic sugar for the subset of very basic queries that are easily expressed in the ORM. If other parts of your codebase are expecting ORM objects, it’s maybe two lines of code to re-wrap your SQL-fetched PK values back into ORM ducks.