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And not surprisingly that makes it less readable. It is a lot harder to have one-character names when you need to scroll across many pages to look up what they mean. So the more co…

I think a good introduction to this style of coding is the first "proof of concept" prototype interpreter for a small subset of J, also written by Whitney: https://code.jsoftware.c…

> Array languages are the most "obscure" of all paradigms I have looked into. Even concatenative ones have some few resources about how work. Have you tried looking at APL books? T…

> If the city was willing to sell at cost (seriously, morphine and oxy isn't expensive to make at all), it would also destroy that economy, and potentially free some back in the ha…

I would take elisp over TypeScript any day. The tooling around TypeScript is hot garbage, debugging async code is a huge time waster, and things that are trivial with dynamic bindi…

> Maybe it's the display, since I still only have the old 1600x panel. It is most likely due to poor quality batteries. The "cells" in a 9-cell battery are 18650 batteries, which v…

> 16:9 for a work machine is a bad choice, and the resolution is horrible. I found a way to turn 16:9 into an advantage: if you go for 70-character columns, you can get a 3-column …

> If you haven't touched an NMB Thinkpad keyboard, you haven't actually used a proper Thinkpad. All these years as a Thinkpad user, and I had no idea of NMB vs ALPS vs Chicony. I t…

> I don't think I've ever seen a laptop without one, and I used laptops back in the early/mid 90's. Were you using PowerBooks? Touchpads were unusual in laptops until about 2000, w…

If you are wondering "why drop support for the 386?," the diff for the removal of 386 support from the Linux kernel is a good read: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/…

> Many German cities are so overcrowded that you need to network like in socialism to get what you want, as there are things that money can't buy (or at least only a lot more money…

> Except the Wolfram Language provides access to vast information about the world. Which is mostly pulled in from public data sources, such as the CIA World Factbook, US census and…

> The products you mention are all good examples of niche products for techies. The blind person that told me about how much better Gopher was than the modern web for blind people …

Rather than throwing even more money at Wolfram, it would be even better to put up a fund (maybe a crowdsourced campaign) to buy the rights to Macsyma and PDEase to release them un…

Those are some really good examples of the opposite of what you intended to say. > * Wonky unwieldy hypertext systems instead of the WWW Which ones? Gopher wasn't hypertext, but it…