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He's writing from a certain time, place, and culture, in reference to the teas that were available to him at that time. I'm not sure what you're arguing - that black tea didn't sub…

I've climbed routes in ichinokura a few times. It is impressive, and some of them are quite poorly protected. But 800 climbers seems like an exceedingly high number, and that repor…

This is a creepy station, green filters notwithstanding. The article repeats this statement that I've seen elsewhere and always found pretty questionable - that 800 people have die…

I've been wondering about this for some time. My initial assumption was that would be that LLMs will ultimately be the death of typed languages, because type systems are there to h…

How should they be funded, for you to consider them impartial?

I agree. If Helix had a client/server model like Kakoune, I'd move to it right away.

I agree. I think that these fancy visuals are not the right way to appeal to the target user base. I just want to read some text.

I think that this does fill a niche. You can still compile to bash outside of this austere environment, and run the scripts within it. And python isn't very ergonomic for running e…

The people directly managing the investment are unlikely to also be holding REITs, so your assumption is valid. I think it's basically that: - The people who care about company pro…

I'm using a System76 Lemur pro. I've had it more than two years and I only have good things to say about it, some of which are: - The battery life started off as spectacular and is…

I think this is exactly right. Function names actually fulfil the role of documentation really well. I personally tend to make them long and quite verbose, like `def start_the_car_…

I'm sure that somebody has thought this through more fully than myself, but the impression I have is that for software, the benevolent dictator model works best. Python and Javascr…

These are still pretty rare, and there's always a member of staff present, usually at the counter right next to the self-checkout till.

I also am quite neurotic about version control, updates etc and if you're prepared to climb up a fairly steep learning curve, I'd recommend Nix/NixOS. It's a much more robust and c…

Most of the time with configuration files, you want to be able to do at least basic validation on the config without having to run the whole piece of software. Python has no native…

I thought the birth rate was very low? Did I get that wrong?

Dhall is in some ways actually harder (at least, stricter) than Haskell, I think. The fact that there's guaranteed completion means the code has to have complete integrity. If you'…

Not if it works as planned, no.

It is assumed that the wages you earn are a proxy for your productivity. This may sound dubious on the individual level but on the aggregate level it is not, an economy can only di…

You could see the shift to a four-day week as increasing aggregate demand while decreasing aggregate supply. Prima facie it might seem like fewer hours worked = lower total output …

It's... it's not at all short.

I partly agree but this can too easily become an argument in favour of the lowest common denominator. I can hardly imagine a language that's easier to learn than Python, and for th…

Well, those providing credit ratings (the rating agencies) were not the same as those selling the debt (investment banks). But more than that I think it's unwise to be so certain a…

I don't disagree with the general sentiment that the GFC was a total disaster, and I'd certainly not argue against the idea that a system had developed that had poor incentives, wi…

I can see that you mean well but I really cannot agree with this statement.