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pwpwp

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    Comment #45707843

    Light gray text on white??

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    Comment #42377324

    > The fires in HSS in Germany were determined using web crawling for the year 2023 because no other data was available. All other probabilities were calculated using researched dat…

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    Comment #41645102

    > covid I don't understand this part. The people who left X after Musk's takeover seem to be mostly people who were on the winning side of Covid, i.e. the side that used the state …

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    Comment #41538651

    You can put the actual definition on page 4, or you can make it easy for the reader and just say "hypermedia controls (like links and buttons)" the first time you mention the term …

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    Comment #41538516

    So I've read the title and the abstract, and I still have no idea what a "hypermedia control" is.

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    Comment #40492090

    Maybe address any of the issues raised in the post?

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    Comment #40246145

    Actually, I built this because I don't really understand async/await. Now that I understand generators (somewhat), I might be able to grok async/await ;-)

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    Comment #40245253

    IOW, there isn't any real stack growth, it just appears that way when running in the devtools with the "async call stacks" feature enabled.

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    Comment #40245182

    This appears to be an artefact of the "async call stacks" feature. To turn it off in Firefox, go to about:config and set "javascript.options.asyncstack" to false. In Chrome, in Dev…

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    Comment #39214297

    T: http://mumble.net/~jar/tproject/

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    Comment #39213672

    Overall I agree: yes, with fexprs you lose some code introspection ability compared to macros. I haven't found it to be a big deal in my fexpr-based hobby Lisp so far. Re your two …

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    Comment #36198284

    I find the claim about image-based development being required for macros somewhat unfounded. The most trivial counterexample is an interpreter - it can simply evaluate the macros j…

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    Comment #35265285

    Those things take time. I am convinced that the next big Lisp dialect will be a Kernel.

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    Comment #35264774

    Lack of compilation for fexprs is: A) An exciting research problem! Shutt himself says that he doesn't see any fundamental obstacles to compiling them. It's just that nobody has do…

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    Comment #35258421

    > This is all documented. Things have changed. Fexprs are coming back in a big way. You need to check out John Shutt's Kernel language https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html Ye…

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    Comment #34374465

    Good points!

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    Comment #34374118

    I don't find this convincing. > What do you return for an index into the array? An option/maybe type would solve this much better. > Yes, I know, it can be clumsy to trace it back …

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    Comment #33629781

    Does the WASM port include full-text search (FTS)?

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    Comment #33623958

    Every worker can only access a fixed set of databases?

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    Comment #33560539

    Would be useful if this had a comparison with Emacs, which also resolves the GURQ.