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Emacs is not terminal based, though you can run emacs in a terminal if you want to.

Bug: If you put a space as the title, you can't edit the note later because the post is not clickable.

First version of Redis was written in Tcl.

To me, the funniest part of why Principica was bankrolled by Edmund Halley is that is was supposed to be funded by the Royal Academy. Only, their previous publishing project "The h…

The wavelengths used in satelite communication are entirely absorbed by water. I think the sub would have to surface to use the antenna.

Fire! https://tixy.land/?code=Math.sin%28%28y%2F3%5Ex%7Ci%29%2Bt%2...

In YAML (the gift that keeps on giving, see the False/Norway debacle) the last name of Null would have to be quoted, otherwise it would signify the null value.

Was the first version of Redis not in fact written in TCL?

> Plastics that can metabolize in oceans are highly sought for a sustainable future. Really? I think that putting more nutrients in the water is almost as bad as having plastics fl…

The french gentry very deliberately wanted a American style liberal revolution. But by the time the guillotine was rolled out, the revolution had turned into something they had 0 c…

I love that smell. I wish there where WD-40 smelling deodorant.

Niklaus Wirth didn't get one

Which would rule out any cooling channels inside the bell.

I think there is no expectation of objectivity on a personal homepage

If you use VS Code REST Client is awesome https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient

Nice! Here is my own take on the same idea (single file PHP api) https://github.com/prog-re/ugly/blob/main/docs/manual.md Edit: I added links to Oink and Zaap from my readme.md. We…

They got me through some pretty bleak times, try track 4 "Coffin fodder".

Nice. But Cranktown did this 2 years ago, in his garage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7sv3HkDyok

Good choice if you like intestinal worms

Humor is not banned and nor should it be. But maybe, to avoid confusion we could make humourus posts have a * or someting? And maybe humor can live in a separate section of the sit…

No black bar? I think he deserves it.

Nice swipe at C# (and Java). It's not true anymore for .Net Core though (that you need the bloated editor). All of the tooling is command line now

> It somehow sounds like the author is upset that someone forked his project. I didn't get that at all. It reads like he is slightly annoyed that he is getting detail requests for …

It's still there in the powershell 5 witch is still the default in Windows 10