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Re:Heslington Brain on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:41AM (#38024261)
"Jim cleaned it up and recorded it but had a dentist's appointment that afternoon (for a filling) [...]" Sometimes Wikipedia really tries to relay all of the most important information.
Re:Ain't It Funny How the Knight Moves? on Friday January 20, 2023 @06:38PM (#34461767)
The history is irrelevant here as well, you just need to know the next goal, which is always indicated.
I think they might mean most-frequently used of that user (I think the "suggested languages" already are supposed to work like that.) But that presumably requires an account.
The extra click is an inconvenience that they also noted themselves. But it definitely was designed with multilingual use in mind, see here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme...
Because filling the space with overly long lines, as it used to do, makes for a horrible reading experience.
Re:The Problem with Macros on Monday January 09, 2023 @02:33AM (#34307784)
Fascinating read.

I would have loked to see a quotation from the parts of the standard that are referred to here: "Although few implementations support its full generality in file compilation, a strict reading of the Common Lisp specification seems to imply that writing the following should be acceptable".

Re:Read this post ‘unless’ you’re not a Ruby developer on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @04:45AM (#33966619)
I think the author would probably be fine with an if-not. It doesn't hide the double negation like unless.