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They're not claiming bun is faster to start, only that for use cases where you might otherwise need to shell out hundreds of times bun only needs to start once.

Terse and wordy would be opposites. Dense means thick with verbiage like a forest thick with foliage.

Martian Memorandum?

Most of the words I "know" from the female list are ones I've encountered in articles or novels that I didn't need to look up to get the gist of what I was reading. Same for a few …

"You could decide that you've already tested the odds one too many times" was the original point. Someone responded that the N previous times don't matter and N + 1 has barely any …

Slippery slope arguments aren't inherently fallacious. If you can justify one more climb on the grounds that probability of injury or death is very low then you will be able to jus…

Thanks, it hadn't occurred to me that the app stores would enforce easy cancellation. I'll remember to prefer in-app sign up over website for any new subscriptions in future.

What's IAP?

I got this error the first time but worked fine on subsequent refreshes: An AudioContext in a cross origin iframe must be created or resumed from a user gesture to enable audio out…

83 days is the star's rotation period.

I actually tried running TXR from a Python web service so that I could work with it via a web interface, but running it with subprocess felt all wrong. It didn't occur to me to do …

I didn't think of calling TXR from within vim, thanks I'll try that. Watch could get me closer to the workflow I'm used to from web development where the browser auto-reloads whene…

I've used some very basic TXR for refactorings that were a bit beyond my IDE's capabilities, which gave me a taste of how powerful it could be. One thing that's slowed me down in e…

If appearing obviously fearful is enough to significantly increase the chances of people hassling you it's a pretty good indicator that you're in a bad part of town.

Money is returned to the economy via energy company profits and wages just as effectively as via bankers' salaries. It's the labour and energy itself that is wasted.

What alternative electoral system would have kept the Nazis out of power in spite of their huge lead in vote share in three successive elections?