Manx is the demonym for people from the Isle of Man. It's odd to see it written "Isle of Manx" in a list of other demonyms, but the word Manx itself is far from modern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx_people
I found this to be true, and that it perfectly dovetailed with TFA.
When I was at my absolute depth (so far…) back in 2013, I would see my counsellor at 1130 on a Saturday. I’d be able to recount the darkness of the previous 7 days in stark vivid detail, yet cheerfully and not feeling at all depressed in the moment. The counsellor asked what I did on Saturday morning except the session and my answer was, well I do Parkrun[0] of course. I always do Parkrun. It’s in my calendar, it’s not really negotiable. It might have been the only time I managed to get out of bed all week, but, I mean, how can I possibly skip Parkrun?
I never actually linked the exercise to the boost in my mental health until I had it pointed out to me at that moment. I go for a run and I feel better because of the run. I would spend the whole 5km stewing and ruminating and maybe in tears but half hour after getting home I could function! it’s stuck with me ever since, and I’ve never (yet) been so down again.
This reads like an ad. Why would you capitalize it like a product name and then even link to the website?
I still have no idea what it really is. From the name I'd think you're going for a run at a local park. The website calls it a "5k and 2k community event", what that's supposed to mean I have no clue. It insists you either "join" or "volunteer", all while being as non-specific as possible why I should even care
2/5k what? people? distance? currency? number of events? It almost reads like in-group speak of a cult I don't partake in.
I capitalise it out of muscle memory. That’s all. FWIW Wikipedia capitalises it as well.
I called it out with a link because I expect many folk to be unfamiliar with it, but the nature of parkrun itself — rather than simply going for a 5k[m] run — is intrinsic to the point I was trying to make.
5k is perfectly well understood to be a distance, especially in context, in British English and I’m a Brit. My bad I guess for not adding “m” for (some of) the HN readership. [EDIT: actually, I said 5km! Not my fault if parkrun says 5k, but they are a British organisation)
Regardless of that, you were correct that parkrun is indeed a run around a park. I won’t explain any further nor link anywhere lest it be misconstrued as advertising (something that’s proudly free, mind you). Besides which I need to get to and get my running kit on.
5k is a common distance for runs. 2k would be a shorter run/walk event, it's more common when you have kids participating. It's not confusing, just normal language. No cults involved unless you think running is a cult. The "k" is for "kilometer" in case you're still confused.
> 5k is not a distance. 5km, 5 thousand feet or yards are.
I answered that question already, try reading my earlier comment. And if you think it's weird, take it up with people from last century when they started using that abbreviation.
It's in relation to a run, though - what else could it mean but distance? Steps? Maybe, but I've genuinely never heard of that being used as a goal when running. Seconds? Again, it's a possibility, but it'd be more usual to say something like "1h23-ish" - and, besides, that'd be a really odd time to pick.
And even in the UK, where many people still measure longer distances in miles, I've never heard anyone talk about a run being however many thousand feet or yards or chains or whatever.
All of the first page results for a USA-based google search for "5k" are running-related too, so it can't really be all that ambiguous there either.
I mean I feel annoyed every time I see a new technology on hn, only to find it is another js framework after clicking the link, finding it says nothing useful, then typing it into Wikipedia. I don't typically come on and complain about it.
It's extremely common, even in the USA, although in the USA it's more limited to running communities. In the UK, NZ, Australia, road running is common enough that anyone would know what you mean, but it's a bit less of a thing in the USA.
I’m trying to understand the “In order of usage popularity” thing — this implies telemetry in CLIs, doesn’t it? Wouldn’t the order of options change/fluctuate over time?
Or if no telemetry but based on local usage, it would promote/reinforce the options you already can recall and do use, hiding the ones you can’t/don’t?
You could make it opt-in telemetry in the tool itself, that would probably be good enough.
But also, you could probably be just as accurate by asking an LLM to order the options by popularity based on their best guess based on all the tutorials they've trained on.
Or just scrape Stack Overflow for every instance of a command-line invocation for each tool and count how many times each option is used.
Ranking options by usage is the least complicated part of this, I think. (And it only matters for the popular options anyways -- below a certain threshold they can just be alphabetical.)
> But also, you could probably be just as accurate by asking an LLM to order the options by popularity based on their best guess based on all the tutorials they've trained on.
> Or just scrape Stack Overflow for every instance of a command-line invocation for each tool and count how many times each option is used.
Even trusting the developer's intuition is better than nothing, at least if you make sure the developer is prompted to think about it. (For major projects, devs might also be aware that certain features are associated with a large fraction of issue reports, for example.)
I shoved £500 down in Sept 2017 knowing full well it was a gamble, and still have a roughtly £500 balance now -- having skimmed enough off the top over the years to buy a couple of iPhones and whatever else. I 100% consider this profit to be literal dumb luck.
Unironic congratulations on being self-aware enough to take your profits without it affecting your reasoning. Anecdotally, not many seem to come out of crypto net positive with that mindset.
> [TIMTOWTDI] literally means 'there is more than one way to do it in Perl' - and you can perhaps infer from that that there's little to no reason to do it using anything else
Not my experience at all, FWIW. For me, and the vast majority of Perl devs I’ve worked with over the past 30 years, TIMTOWTDI absolutely means some of the “ways to do it” don’t involve Perl, and that’s not only OK but expected. Of course Perl isn’t the be all/end all. It’s a lot of fun though!
(I’m a majority Perl coder to this day, it’s my favourite language by far. Hell, I even find it readable and easy/fun to debug)
It is possible to do so, but it stands out in a way such that most people aren't doing it using direct language features unless necessary. If you have `strict` and `warnings` enabled, which is recommended, then the interpreter can give runtime warnings or compile-time errors if you try to manipulate the symbol table or redefine a function. If you still want to use those on a case-by-case basis, you have to turn off those pragmas within a scope. So there are built-in ways the language discourages using them arbitrarily.
In tests, you can use monkeypatching as a quick way to mock, but typically, you use modules that wrap up the functionality and make it cleaner. The mocks get cleaned up on scope exit.
There is another approach that takes advantage of the variety of scoping approaches Perl has. If one uses `local`, it indicates the use of dynamic scope rather than the standard `my` lexical scope. This can be used for things like setting an environment variable temporarily and automatically reverting it when leaving the scope. But this is not common.
Very. I use `Test::MockModule` (not just in tests) or `Sub::Override` or `Class::Method::Modifiers` a lot, according to convention/style or as I see appropriate — but there are, of course, tons more ways to do it.
Wait, what? Englishman in my 50s here and I use phrases like that all the time — “I’ll be missing standup cos I’ve a GP appointment”, “leaving at lunchtime as I’ve a train to catch”, “gotta dash, I’ve chores to do”. No one’s ever said I sound German!
Apple absolutely has data centres. Where do you think Apple TV, Apple Music, iCloud, Maps, etc compute happens?
Here's a press release straight from the horse's mouth about one in Denmark, in late 2020: https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2020/09/apple-expands-rene...
> Can people purchase compute on Apple's data centers?
Not to my knowledge, but that's not saying much.
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