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> Bun has no REPL Bun has a really nice REPL, can recommend https://bun.com/docs/runtime/repl

You’re in good company. Tom Standage makes the same argument in his book A History of the World in Six Glasses. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3872.A_History_of_the_Wo...

Nathan Mayer Rothschild probably died of staphylococcal or streptococcal septicaemia, either from the abscess or secondary contamination from the surgeon’s knife. Today that infect…

Apple has an active team editing OpenStreetMap and their maps use OSM data in many countries. I see them making edits in my country regularly (they tag changesets with “#adt” so th…

I came here to say the same thing. Opening a new issue of The New York Review of Books or the London Review of Books are two of the great pleasures in life. https://lrb.co.uk/ http…

The Digital Antiquarian had a thoroughly interesting article on Chris Sawyer and his work not too long ago: https://www.filfre.net/2020/10/transport-tycoon/

“Coming from a country where mapmakers tend to exclude any landscape feature smaller than, say, Pike’s Peak, I am constantly impressed by the richness of detail on the OS 1:25,000 …

It’s happened in politics for a long time. Two decades ago, a political advisor in the British government sent an email on 11th Sept 2001 saying the day was “a very good day to get…

I know what you mean, but I think it’s more down to the fact that it’s broadcast live on BBC radio, and they have 45 minutes to cover as much as they can of the week’s topic. The h…

> Plus you’ll be able to see the Eiffel Tower A story about Guy de Maupassant always makes me smile. He hated the Eiffel Tower (“I left Paris and even France because in the end, th…

At the end of the original article: > It is not the case that these oaks were kept for the express purpose of replacing the Hall ceiling. It is standard woodland management to grow…

It’s location-dependent. Crimea is shown as within Russia’s boundaries only “when viewed from Russia”. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50573069

There's also an important difference between recess and progrogation . Recess is just a quick break for the conference season, and is normal at this time of year. Progrogation brin…

It's hidden in the article but I think this originates from a fascinating episode of the BBC's More or Less: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001y9p Apologies for blowing my own …

At the end of the article csvkit is given an honourable mention. I’m a big fan and I’ve used it a lot in the past, but these days I’d say that xsv > csvkit for working with CSV fil…

> I got a trainer for winter riding, and it ate my tires. A tip I got from someone is to switch your rear road tyre for a special trainer tyre so you don’t have to worry about wear…

The article says it traces the “oldest intact building in each US state”. Wikipedia says that only a “portion of the structure [the Pirates’ House] was built in 1734”. It sounds li…

Iceland passed an opt-out organ donation law recently. It comes into force from 1 January 2019. http://icelandreview.com/news/2018/06/07/all-icelanders-are-...

Beware of adding that to your .RProfile though. The author makes a good argument for why that's a bad idea: your code will execute differently on someone else's machine. http://arr…

In the UK, at least, there are rules against this. A government bill’s short title > must describe the content of the bill in a straightforwardly factual manner. An argumentative t…