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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 on the male list, I've never needed to do anything with a thermistor or servo so I can only assume I recognise those words from SF.

"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 risk. Another poster countered that that argument as stated applies not just for N + 1 but for (N + 1) + 1 etc and therefore the slippery slope principle applies.

Of course if you add in "you could decide that you've already tested the odds one too many times" then it's a fallacy to invoke slippery slope because an off-ramp is explicitly specified. In this case slippery slope was mentioned only because N was dismissed as irrelevant.

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 justify every subsequent climb on the same basis.

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 output.
  
  G.snd.init @ (index):98
  init @ (index):464

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 it as CGI as it would have seemed far too ambitious for a beginner, but that looks surprisingly straightforward.

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 whenever a change is made. Your mentioning vim (of which I'm not exactly a power user) actually prompted me to check if it had the ability to run a command on writing a buffer or to automatically reload a file when it changes. Turns out it does indeed have ways to do both these things, so that might be another way to achieve what I'm after.

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 experimenting with it is having to save the script, rerun TXR and refresh the output file each time I make a change. Do you have any tips for quickly and interactively building complex scripts?

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?