That’s because Perl doesn’t do operator overloading in general. Even the equality operator is different for strings (eq instead of ==). As a language, it may look pretty weird and lack some modern features, but the underlying design is surprisingly intelligent and consistent in many ways.

It’s almost enough to make me feel nostalgic for the DOS version of Borland Turbo Pascal, which wasn’t bright enough to do any of this stuff. (Well, it could freeze up, I suppose, but the only time I actually managed to do anything like that, it involved a null pointer dereference that would have triggered a segfault on any modern system.)

Some people think that only compiled languages are true programming languages. (Needless to say, they’re wrong.)

If you’re going to do that, at least ask for something useful. Y’know, like “Destroy all advertising firms.”

bash: sudo: command not found

After all, we don’t know that he has it installed, especially if he’s running a really old distro.

I’m aware that he probably meant miles, but he still used the wrong abbreviation (should have been mi). Gotta be careful about that kind of thing, although I’m not sure what the tech anecdote equivalent of the Mars Climate Orbiter would be. Someone taking it too seriously, like I’m doing here, probably. 😅

Except that 80 metres is only a few carlengths . . .

That’s kind of an insult to the parrot, isn’t it?

Between “One too many nulls” and “The tests are larger . . .” in the beginning, then moving up one notch for each day you’ve been wrestling with it.

Eh, I’m sure we can overrun it just by gluing sufficient instances of Factory to the end of the classname.

And Perl.

Pretty sure the US allows individual states to set the ages. In Canada, it’s provinces that set it. Lowest age I’ve ever heard of was 12 (for limited permits to move farm machinery along back roads in Saskatchewan, although that was decades ago and it might not still be a thing). I had a full and unrestricted license at 16, but the rules have changed since then.

I will have to remember not to use that command anymore. 'Scuse me while I clean up the hairball . . .

There are still some places with some leftover LitterRobot 3s in stock at lower prices ( here ), but they’ve always been expensive. We have a 2, and it cost $700 CAD at the time.

Odd. Do you get anything from lemmy.world at all? Maybe your ISP is blocking the server?

That’s weird. For me it has a full set of posts, most recent a day ago. Maybe it’s blocked for you for some reason?

(Looks at own screen, which is in fact set up for Times New Roman everywhere. Coughs.)

Sorry to tell you this, bot, but the URL works better for people on all but the most populous instances.

You mean you leave that enabled? 😱

They used the type of link that goes to where the community would be on your server if someone there had already subscribed. Try the absolute location on lemmy.world to decide whether you’re interested or not (and I wonder how long it will take a bot to complain about that link?)