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> Right now half the country supports the IRGC Where the hell did you get that number from?

> Tehran agrees that it will neither produce nor acquire nuclear weapons. Of course they do. They have always said they don’t want nuclear weapons while pursuing them relentlessly.…

I’m an Iranian in my 40s, and the regime and Western countries have been negotiating for most of my life. I remember being in high school when the first nuclear talks began, and ev…

Richard is amazing. I briefly worked with him while volunteering on a W3C text layout requirements document. He cares deeply about writing systems, and he has been doing so much va…

I agree. Emacs and its Emacs Lisp are one of the best examples of this design. Thank you for the links.

Very cool. I really like the idea of implementing higher level features as extensions on top of a smaller core. I wish real scripting languages like this were more common and in us…

My guess is that he was consulting their lawyers during this. IANAL but it might have been a crime if he did not leave the group as soon as he was sure it was real. He keeps mentio…

Thank you a lot. Great work. I know it’s still experimental, but over time it will have a big impact on developer experience and will simplify the development workflow for a lot of…

Genuine question from iTerm users: which of its many, many features do you use most and find most valuable? I have always had it installed, but Terminal.app from macOS seems to hav…

It started for me a few minutes before the status page showed something. Which is understandable, of course. But strange that it keeps happening almost every day now.

A funny and insightful example I’ve heard is that if you assign three teams to develop a compile you will have a three-pass compiler.

I’ve been a Fastmail user for about a decade (I just checked; wow!) and am very, very happy with them. I wish more companies were like them. The service is very reliable, the produ…