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Any sort of self-referential data structure, e.g. doubly linked lists.

> Seems odd, but is a result of socialist influence What compels americans to make these idiotic claims?

> how come math notation relies heavily on infix operators and even subscripts, superscripts and more? "Mathematical notation" is an ad-hoc compilation of a huge number of historic…

It's written in Guile, which is a variant of Scheme. #: is used as the keyword indicator, not an uninterned symbol like in CL. > Why does gnu-build-system use %standard-phases (a s…

> If Google wanted to get rid of ad blockers they would make them against the rules in their extension store. You fail to understand the grand strategy. Outright banning ad blocker…

That's not true. I've never subscribed to the mailing list and all patches I've sent were applied.

> While ublock origin may be trustworthy there are many extensions that are not. It would be better to find a more privacy preserving replacement compared to having to trust extens…

I want uBlock to get access to the full contents of requests. It actually helps my privacy, as it can perform tracker blocking. > The second is that it ensures that poorly optimize…

Guix has a mechanism called search-paths which is defined for any package like Python that searches for things based on envars; it exports the relevant search paths into the enviro…

Well, all it says that you shouldn't promote it on the "official channels" (i.e. the mailing list and the #guix libera.chat channel). Guix, the package manager itself, does not mak…

Guix does not make non-free software "intentionally more difficult", it just excludes it from the main repository. There is a nonfree repo that you can add to your guix channels.

It's based on Chromium, so no.

Why even pretend like MV3 isn't meant to cripple adblockers so Google can extract more revenue from their advertisement business?

Is it really? I haven't read many papers where new algorithms or techniques were demonstrated using Scheme. > Being easy to implement from scratch is a must for both uses cases. If…

Simple languages tend to be very unportable. This has been a plague on Scheme since the beginning, and which the R6RS / R7RS standards have tried to rectify (it's debatable how suc…

> I'd argue that the brightest minds in computer science understand what makes lisp great perfectly. That is your personal opinion. Personally, I consider the design of Common Lisp…

The GUI situation in Common Lisp is pretty pitiful. AFAIK the best you get is ECL+QT5 or cffi-cl-gtk (which is GTK 3). I don't see a very favorable comparison for Racket at all in …

No, there is absolutely nothing broken about symbolic links. What is the issue here is accessing user files as root. That is inherently unsafe in POSIX and also affects hardlinks a…

Being sued for copyright infringement.

Busybox is not a rewrite of coreutils, it serves a completely different purpose.

SUSE is another one I'm aware of. Some projects also fund themselves off support, I believe cURL does it.