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https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/ For the onlookers, this bunch of microbenchmarks suggests Racket is faster than Guile, but the fastest is Chez (which Racket uses as a su…

The candle that burned twice as bright was really adequacy.org, which sourced their trolls from Kuro5hin. (Archive here: https://www.inadequacy.org/ )

Another interesting implementation of literate programming with _bidirectional sync_ between documentation and source code is Entangled ( https://entangled.github.io/ ). This allow…

If you don't like Angus Reid (from last week), here are Ipsos from January and Leger from December. https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/43-percent-canadians-would-vote-... https://leger360…

https://angusreid.org/trump-carney-51st-state-canada-usa/ ~10% support overall. However, that's 21% of Conservative voters and 1-3% everyone else. So it's beyond fringe for everyon…

> So there must be an equal number of them. (Pretending to dig out my imaginary high school/freshman hat.) If you said between every two reals there's one rational (and between eve…

Please kindly write one for a jj-specific issue: "my build vomitted out a bunch of files and I used any jj command before editing my .gitignore" I've found myself using git to fix …

I have no idea what "a military conflict between what would become Western Canada and what used to be Upper Canada" refers to unless you meant the northwest and Red River rebellion…

Chinese characters being unsuitable for QWERTY typewriters and early computers' limitations didn't "almost kill character-based Chinese", it just meant Chinese computing lagged beh…

I think "countably infinite" makes no sense to you because you have a different idea of countable than a mathematician (disclaimer: not a mathematician). A mathematician compares t…

What's wrong with just wrapping UTF-8 text in lang spans? Browsers and Electron will just do the right thing, no?

> if I have a good match where I did better than expected, the system responds to that by putting me in a much harder game, where I'm expected to lose No, the system puts you in an…

But why (+ 1 2 3) and not +(1 2 3) since the head is special? Or (1 2 3 +) so nested trees are built bottom up?

>someone outside of politics [...] holds the final red line about whether or not an election must be called This seems like only a theoretical red line. If/when the GG does anythin…

Not only is it nonsense, you can look at GNOME's own wiki and various blog posts for its (publicly stated) design history: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/DesignHistory The T…

VSCode already does that as of some versions ago. https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/11/08/custom-notebo... https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/datascience/jupyter-noteb...

I'm not aware of any schools teaching multiplication tables in kindergarten, but I did memorize the 9x9 table when I was in kindergarten because my older siblings' Big Kids Noteboo…

As a long time non-contributing Debian/Ubuntu user (I hop between the two whenever one of them annoys me too much), I've had a lot of issues locating and using non-free firmware wh…

As someone that eats (maybe I should turn that into "used to eat") a lot of cereal, knowing that they're pretty unhealthy for me, I did an experiment just now: I poured a large but…