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Is burning buses just dissent for you?
Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:03AM (#22177613)
cold, almost want to get the razor out and get myself some wool here.
Re:Why Are Alphabet Letters Arranged How They Are? on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:41AM (#22160277)
I recently learned Sanskrit and it was shockinh to find the order being so scientific.

Guttural palatal <x> dental labial

And in the order aspirated unaspirated

Pretty cool.

Re:Why Do American Houses Have So Many Bathrooms? on Monday January 27, 2020 @04:44AM (#22158027)
I want my bathroom to have two commode fixtures then my wife and I can bond over poop. You have your phone when eating but nothing when pooping.
which takes more memory (and is slower)? LISP interpreter or v8/node?
Re:Layoffs hit Quora on Saturday January 25, 2020 @12:30AM (#22144908)
Pretty impressive though sometimes. I wonder if those people used their heads into something actually productive
Re:My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks on Friday January 24, 2020 @03:55AM (#22136535)
I would be productive if there were an emacs that weren't a parenthesis hell and slow as molasses. I hope there's is a lumacs
SystemL L stands for lightweight and (e)lectron.
Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @02:51AM (#22115517)
I don't want to sound like an astroturfer but bing results have actually gotten much better too. Though search is a big field and something I wouldn't mind mozilla getting into too.