Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 12:30:14 +0100, D wrote:
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Postgres is interesting. It's old, but doesn't get mentioned a lot these
days. Would you say their engineering culture is something to study?

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Are you kidding?
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https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/postgres-most-admired-database-in-stack-
overflow-2023
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https://www.timescale.com/blog/postgres-for-everything
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What is important to me is the PostGIS add-on.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostGIS
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SQLite has a similar extension:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpatiaLite

Interesting! Clearly I live in a corner of the IT space that is way, way too fashionable. I am of course aware of postgres, but have not encountered it for many years.

I've heard that many people do not like the python 2 to 3 debacle, and
that python is becoming worse from a governance perspective. I've heard
the woke mind virus has settled deep within the python project.

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The backward incompatibility did put people off.  Up until ArcGIS 11.x
Esri's ArcPy tools were based on Python 2.7 so my scripts needed to be
updated. However 10.7 was the end of the line for the 32-bit Esri tools
along with 2.7 Python so everything changed with 11.
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https://policies.python.org/python.org/code-of-conduct/
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What isn't 'woke' these days? The language is over the top but does the
end result really differ from civilized behavior in the workplace?

I care about the language, because over the top language leads to nasty behaviour and exploiting the CoC:s as weapons.
But clearly a lot of people "had it" with the woke movement. I read today that some news ETF:s will be launched who will exclude woke companies from their assets and investments. I think similar ideas are under way in IT, so we'll see good, honest programmers who hate wokeness just avoid woke projects, or start their own. The woke projects can then die a slow death.