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We used Z a lot when dealing with modular arithmetic and complex roots of unity, mostly just to quantify our variables. I can't recall ever using N or Q in high school, though. Als…

I don't think so - I can't imagine Apple caring much about Hackintoshes, which are already a pain to install, when the main draws of Apple laptops are their trackpads and cases, an…

Re representative democracies, why are opinions on disparate issues like the economy, abortion, climate change, etc. all packaged into one party? At least 99% of people won't find …

This. Subsampling is kind-of the most primitive method of "lossy compression" there is.

I assume you can't just do that since GitHub might offer to give donors regular activity updates.

Yeah, it's a shame the GitHub is starting to actually take advantage of their hosting monopoly, to the detriment of solutions like OpenCollective and Liberapay. On the other hand, …

> Maybe that is good. How is that good?

That's a good point, but it's not implied by "JavaScript is functional and oh boy!" at all.

What does "functional" mean to you? If "OO" has a hundred different meanings, then "functional" must have at least a thousand. To me, JavaScript is definitely not functional - it l…

That problem already exists with tables, doesn't it?

This is all standard HTML5.

You could try looking at what Fabrice Bellard (creator of QEMU and FFmpeg, among many other things) did for [JSLinux]( https://bellard.org/jslinux/ ). Edit: Although, it's a low-le…

Out of curiosity, why'd you decide not to use LLVM?

That is exactly the same way Haskell does "parametrized enumerants", and in C terms, str is like any pointer to a string, while String is like a heap-allocated string. What's "new"…