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Great! Now we can disrespect our customers at scale!

Is this for the runtime of the compiled code or for the compiling machine? Do they generate slow code if the compiler is running on non-intel?

I'm sorry if I touched you on an ouchie. > Its still homoiconic > they can still, and in the case of the linked project, probably are turned into the exact same data structure. Wha…

What the author did is cool in a social sense; lispers go on and on about homoiconicity, which here means that the original lisp code is data. The author uses this property by read…

As a dvorak typist HJKL as a concept is dead to me.

OP will be sleeping in, eating at the pub nextdoor, looking at Table Mountain on the way back home and playing Dave the Diver in the afternoon.

One of my users apologised for having an AZERTY keyboard. The people out there suffer us.

Emacs or vi?

If i knew my post would do well on hn I would have posted it here myself. Well played.

lol yeah - before posting I was trying to convince myself not to post, and what yous dais was exactly my counter "narrative". But still; Between 10^3 and 10^77, that 77 OWNS

> That is more than 10^77, pretty close to the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe, 10^80 Ugh. My pedant-bone is itching... That's not "pretty close" at all. There…

Welcome to life. Don't worry though. Everything will be OK. (The things I'm about to say is/are true for me. So is most of what everyone else here is saying. While it's good that y…

This sounds very much like something the SA Air Force did with their mirages in the Bush war of the 70's and 80's. BTW - There is a book written about the history of the Mirage in …

no! please elaborate! :)

Well, I don't have any material on it but you can see that it makes sense from a mechanical physics point of view. Load up a craft to maximum possible weight (with ballast even) Th…

There is a rumor going around in the South African Air Force that the South Africans with the help of the Israeli Air Force (who had big ties in the bad old days) figured out a way…