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As mentioned in other comments, "them" works fine. It has been such a convention for hundreds of years.

And I find it ironic that in this discussion of choosing words carefully, we still use the basically meaningless (because of all of the different ways to use them) words "conservat…

Love Rust, but there's room for garbage collection over borrowchecking if we're talking about replacing scripting languages. It would be hard for a decent statically-typed FP langu…

I mean, you could definitely convince me that it's not an aside worth including in the article for the sake of staying on point. I'll still take Ars at its worst over most general …

While I found your comment funny, I could stand to be a bit more charitable. I think it's an interesting side point they're trying to make about analog computation, but to be accur…

Everywhere I've lived with this "service", there's been no respect for potted plants either. They get the full violence of the wind. There was even a group of these guys who came s…

I agree it's better to let them decay in lots of cases. Also, I try to give the benefit of the doubt to the people outside doing this every week, but I'm extremely annoyed. I don't…

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Hey, non-mathematician computer science type here. If I follow correctly, the issue with randomly picking any real number in that interval is that irrational numbers would require …

Thanks for serving and glad to know someone with your passionate commitment to knowledge is helping advance medicine.

Having multiple versions of dependency libraries was a pain on DOS, Windows, ... It just is what it is. For the record, you can have multiple versions on any OS, but it's important…

I haven't had the same experience. Which distros have you tried? Perhaps another would be a better fit technically or community-wise. I'd recommend Manjaro for a rolling release (n…

I've really not had any issues finding what I need for Arch Linux. If you want to install to a different disk, you could still install the raw binary, or mount a directory in your …

Yeah, I agree. I've really taken the time to look at the pros and cons of each, but even a bundled list like that would likely not be useful to anyone else. But at least I can fix …

Ah, yes, but my package manager covers every piece of software I use. No specialized update services. It seems like a small thing, but it's more pleasant.

Exactly. I've used all 3 major OSs and when we get into these discussions, you have to look at how each has its own pain points to be fair. Overall, Linux is a clear win for me. Bu…

I switched from Windows to Linux before I had a smartphone and appreciate the package manager. I got a Macbook for work and lamented the lack of package manager (homebrew is a weak…

I'd call that a good thing, really. Not needing ever more dependencies. I think this is a solid direction to go. Let's just say I give the React devs... props.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfhZB7rQ7iA

Some do. But in those cases, you might be better served with Ryzen. If you're playing games, you'll get better performance with this i9. But if you're playing games, you're probabl…

I leave it to future readers to decide who's missing the point between the two of us.

This is disingenuous. Quoting the abstract: ``` Language design does have a significant, but modest effect on software quality. Most notably, it does appear that disallowing type c…

In spite of all the statistics that suggest I'm doing pretty well toward retirement compared to most of my generation, I feel quite a bit of anxiety about how much I'm saving. I'm …

Designing patterns on shirts is high-skilled work?

Some amount of military is good. I will not deny ours is quite large. Perhaps having the largest is also a good. But so much larger than everyone else's? I don't know. But that's n…