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Leslie Lamport is also the original creator of LaTeX.

i had a salesman say he noticed i had a lot of spiders around outside. he asked who i currently use for pest control. i said, "the spiders." he excused himself and left. maybe they…

awesome, thank you! i'm not surprised there are more of these. i may be a little surprised i don't see them more often ;)

i came across a manuscript once that had a bunch of inky paw prints across a page. the scribe clearly tried to blot one of them, merely smudging it, then decided to let the rest be…

"deck" is the fairly normal word throughout the EDA industry. i reckon it's because such things used to be literal decks of punchcards, but i know less about EDA history than progr…

"Good prices, no rats! That's the Fairsley Difference™!"

i liked this a lot. real Gene Wolfe vibes.

as a writer, i have found AI editing tools to be woefully unhelpful. they tend to focus on specific usage guidelines (think Strunk & White) and have little to offer for other, far …

the anxiety that i might fry my monitor by setting the wrong scan rate haunts me to this day

cf. yak shaving :)

i'm very sorry to hear that. if you care to elaborate, i am curious. if you don't care to elaborate, that's fine too.

persistence of symptoms after discontinuation is the big one. after hormone levels return to baseline, there's no more pharmaceutical effect. thus the cause of those symptoms is un…

The Lua-C API is also really consistent and straightforward. Bindings can be generated mechanically, of course, but it's really easy to embed by hand, and the documentation is supe…

Lua has lambdas. They too suffer from verbosity, of course, but they're there. function(x) return x; end

i've had people mistake "ð" for an "o" with a diacritic, but presumably that's a typeface problem. whatever we choose, i insist that we drop the names and call them "eþþ" and "ðee"…

the two drugs are complimentary and often prescribed together. finasteride is overwhelmingly well-tolerated, and i suspect that many reports of serious and lasting adverse reaction…

indeed, finasteride raised my T levels slightly, from 18 ng/dL to 30 ng/dL. the same enzyme that converts T to DHT (5α reductase) can also to convert progesterone to DHT via the ba…

i am inclined to agree on all points, and while the second parenthetical would be useful in Contemporary English, i cannot help but note that "þ" and "ð" in Old English both repres…

> the rather chaotic and unprofessional (and potentially insecure) nature of the way Cargo project dependencies explode into a hard-to-reason-about mess. this is one of my biggest …

> Maybe the whole DEI thing is a blessing in disguise because it points all the arbitrary rage on an abstract concept rather than specific groups of people. They're still raging ag…

Poe's Law strikes again.

Not true. Scheme has `do`. See R7RS section 4.2.4 "Iteration".

Erasing someone's dysphoria would also fundamentally change their identity and personality. If I were to suffer a head injury today that so altered my personality, the result would…

What do you mean? It says it right there on the FAQ: > 高德纳 is my Chinese name, given to me in 1977 by Frances Yao. A quick search indicates that Frances Yao is a colleague of Knuth…

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