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Personally nearly every nice thing in my life either is a human or was made by one

Reinventing polari is certainly one way to make yourself less understood...

Well you're on a website called ycombinator.com so maybe the fixed point combinator Y = λf.(λx.f(xx))(λx.f(xx)) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator

>There’s a well-established effect, common enough at this point to where some academic has probably given it a name like “The Twitter Dilemma” or something, that describes how a li…

In New Jersey the Midtown Direct line famously paid for itself multiple times over by increasing nearby property values so much the state collected millions more in property taxes …

>A safe alternative is to use indexes instead of references. struct ParsedFile { contents: Vec , words: Vec } >This works well, and you can make it ergonomic by wrapping the index …

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.34...

GHC is nearly impossible to bootstrap if you don't consider the vendored transpiled C code to be source. Versions of GHC not dependent on GHC were never public AFAIK. https://eleph…

https://tildeverse.org/

Writefreely? https://writefreely.org/

Closer to pi zero than pi 4 but you can order it right now https://aliexpress.com/item/1005003741287162.html

Well, you didn't just find a cave, it was made for you by other people. Interdependence is a hallmark of social species such as Homo Sapiens. Even your caveman ancestors were proba…

http://www.coboloncogs.org/

>It really clued me into how the language got such a following in HR/Finance applications. You got an array of everyones hours per day. Weekly total hours, pay, tax, medicare, etc,…

>I was at a talk that had something to do with Unix. Fortunately, I’ve succeeded in repressing all but the speaker’s opening remark: >I’m rather surprised that the author of sendma…

I'm guessing this is referring to the fact that early versions of Fortran stored return addresses in specific memory locations (at the end of the function definition IIRC) instead …

> Perhaps it relates to using 36-bit words? Yep, before ASCII was standardized it was common for machines to be built with word-addressable memory and words that were multiples of …

This is how both TeX and m4 do quoting by default so presumably common when they were created (mid-eighties and early seventies respectively IIRC)

>My guess is that Microsoft has a secret new OS (written from scratch) that's super modern and efficient and they're just waiting for the market opportunity to finally ditch Window…

https://github.com/munificent/vigil