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Using brew, I got "Apple could not verify `whosthere' is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy." [Move to Trash] [Done]

I just bought your book. Thanks for writing it. I look forward to reading it!

Looks like an interesting book. I wonder why I saw no references to Donald Knuth in the bibliography. He is mentioned once in the text.

The proteins that exist today have developed into their present forms over the course of billions of years of natural evolution, passing through a vast evolutionary sieve.

My son went to Northeastern ('19) and now designs programming languages and can program skillfully in ANY language. I'm glad he went to Northeastern before this announced change. I…

BCPL--hadn't had my first coffee before I read this, I thought it was going to be SBCL.

No, that is not true. I got treated for cancer two years ago (surgery and radiation), it was contained (not metastatic), I have twice since passed a Class 2 Medical. I talked to my…

I'm imagining someone in the US saying, "I've always wanted to go to Austria!", hopping on a plane, and arriving the next day.

I wonder if there's an accurate record (time series) of what got canceled when, why, in what order, along with an accurate starting state for the whole SWA system. Then, for Monday…

I just set up scsh again (64 bit macos). First re-installed scheme48, then re-installed scsh. Took 5 minutes. Now I have to re-learn scsh.

No, I'm not especially knowledgeable, not more than others here. As a pilot, I have 42 years of experience flying through weather and helping get the word out w/r/t hurricanes, e.g…

From talking with meteorologists, it seems forecasting actual rain is not very hard if you have enough current data on the state of the atmosphere. What can be difficult is mistine…

Thanks. I think the new app coming out next month has a better UX. As for comparison with the default Weather app, I think the underlying forecast is more accurate. [Note, I work n…

I think you will like the new app coming out next month better, especially with your use case.

I like that Kirill Dubovikov built a weather station and showed others how. The more people who do this, the better, not just for education and skills, but in terms of gathering we…

I had the opposite reaction. I thought Fridman was a very good interviewer. I've talked with Donald Knuth a half dozen times over the last thirty years. I really enjoyed this inter…

Another way to learn about all this stuff from the experts themselves is Racket School: https://school.racket-lang.org/

I also think the list is OK, not quite the list I would have picked, but close. But I'm puzzled how you would know it's a legit list if you have read none of the books?

How many Africans does China let in? How many Southeast Asians does China let in? I.e., what kinds of quotas does China have for non-Chinese?

In rural America, we have been importing doctors from other parts of the world because we don't have enough American doctors who want to serve outside the big cities and high-paid …

Racket is now integrating the best parts of Chez Scheme, for a future release.

Racket also has a package manager and central repository.

This is one of my favorite books ever. I've read it in Russian and English. I have the DVDs of the TV series made in Russia about 10 years ago. Is there a Russian audiobook version…