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They estimate 14 million. (I would have said "over 10 million" to avoid spurious precision.) This makes me happy!

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This is an issue that should concern us all, since Finnish has a bright future: https://www.hagen-schmidt.de/suomi/worldlanguage.html

Can someone please advise me on how to donate money to help Ola? There's a relevant web site but it hasn't been updated for a long time - http://freeolabini.org/en/ Thank you!

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This is lovely. I'm having trouble working out how this differs from Factor, in which left bracket and quote are also not primitive.

https://toehider.bandcamp.com/track/died-of-dancing

Many congratulations on being formally proved right, Randall!

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Fred Hoyle, "The Black Cloud" and I wish someone cleverer than me would read Nick Harkaway's "Gnomon" and then explain it to me.

Not enough of them do, I agree, but some of the Modern Monetary Theory people do. E.g. Mark Blyth (some very entertaining talks on youtube), Stephanie Kelton. Also political econom…

TCL is kinda similar to Rebol in some ways but in other ways it's the opposite of Rebol, because in TCL everything is a string (although it can ALSO have another type, thanks to cl…

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Rockbox, which is replacement firmware that can run on many hardware players, can do this (and basically anything else). https://www.rockbox.org/

I'm the same. Fortunately for me, I don't understand Japanese, and there's some great Japanese power metal - e.g. Marge Litch and Alhambra.

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https://archive.is/20240213030908/https://www.bloomberg.com/...

I've tried it with fish and found that, for me, it didn't add much and wasn't worth the switch, but it is arguably slightly better than fish's built-in history; so I'd say only bot…

FWIW, nixpkgs packages angie

Whoa! Steel Bank CL actually is named after the metal (slightly indirectly - it's a reference to the fact that Carnegie Mellon University was founded partly on steel money).

Yes, but it costs something like $5,000, and you have to think of it in time.

> places won't hire you as a professor unless you have at least a Master's -- relevant work experience be damned I believe this is largely to make sure that professors have plenty …

Does picolisp scratch that itch for you?