nomorecommas

I mean ... the article says we should care about our neighbors, food/water/energy sources, and potential financial/political instability. Seems like pretty sensible advice to me, even in the best of times.

> I’m going to go ahead and save you all some time, this is exactly the conspiratorial garbage you would expect from Tucker Max and his “Special Forces buddies”

I'll read that as "this guy is getting too close to the truth."

> trans

Oh, if that's the case:

https://github.com/tulip-lang/tulip

> I need your help! Especially if you are queer/trans, disabled, a woman, and/or a person of color, and in that case especially if you think you don't know anything about compilers.

So there are niche languages for everyone. I had hoped Tulip would go somewhere, but after so long I lost interest.

It's too soon to start eating people. I'm just not that hungry yet.

"email privacy"

lol

Everything will get worse.

Never, apparently.

https://mises.org/library/inflation-and-price-control

According to BMI I'm overweight, but no longer obese. I know I could lose another 20-30 pounds if I wanted to. I don't want to.

And they vote. Go figure. Maybe schools should teach literacy skills and other useful subjects. Just a thought.

Well ... awk is great, but only up to a certain level of complexity. The standard language has only global variables. It's got no real support for functional style. There's no standardized library system. Oh, and it can't reliably distinguish STDERR from STDOUT. So there are a bunch of kludges to get around all the deficiencies, which results in awk programs which look like a retarded dialect of C.

IMHO the best parts of awk are regex literals, natural pipeline participation, and familiar/simple syntax. Sitting down to write a complete program in awk start to finish though ... no thanks.

I agree it's very quick and easy to just get shit done in Bash. When I go back to my code after a few weeks I can't stand looking at it.

I haven't found one yet that doesn't suck in some way.

Sure does. In my own code I prefer `NTH` for anything beyond the cadr. Or just use arrays for random access.

This is how I know crypto is wonderful. I'm gonna buy more.

R5RS scheme can be quick to pick up because it's very small. What is it, 50 pages or so? Doing anything useful requires extended study and practice, but that's true of practically any language.

Of the popular languages I'd say python or ruby, where python is probably easier to pick up. I hate saying that because I'm very partial to ruby.

I wouldn't say javascript is fast to learn. It's a popular language and will be with us for many years to come. The hard part is avoiding the many traps, a skill which requires time to learn.

Bah humbug!

There are more than two alternatives. Each has their own strengths and weaknesses. None are ideal.

    encrypted password vault
    hash-based password generation
    paper-grid password generation
    paper password pocketbooks
    post-it notes on the monitor

I don't see anything on this list I can't already do in Emacs with support from a few external tools. I would not pay for your text editor.

Yep, floats should be considered dangerous.

    $ python3 -c 'print(.1 + .2)'
    0.30000000000000004

I used to think like that too. See you in 20 years or so, if the "union" lasts that long.

> I'm not suggesting the fed gov be dissolved.

Why not though?

Did you intend these to be read as arguments in favor of secession? Because that's how I read them.

I think that's probably true for some. It's a kind of perverse power fantasy. Fills the void of knowing deep down that you've never done anything worthwhile, and never will.

Okay HP Lovecraft. Hey you should write a story about that!

Butter definitely makes everything better. I'm so grateful for cows!

> Does being a “bug” justify being boiled alive?

Depends on how hungry I am. I'd have to be pretty damn hungry to eat lobster or bugs anyway.

I'd like to believe this.

Some people cherish human life more than they fear suffering.

Okay. Winamp really was the shit back in the day. Nowadays there's plenty of competition.

Let them go the way of tumblr.