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Smaller trucks don't have the suspension etc. for mounting a snow plow, or heavy towing. Those are applications where a bigger heavy duty truck make sense.

Unironically, tcl is great as an upgrade from shell.

Bit rot alert: Linux doesn't even have mandatory file locks these days.

Linux-specific open file description locks could be brought up in a modern version of TFA though.


My money's on "all of the above"

Turboprops have no meaningful thrust component from the exhaust.

Almost. Wikipedia says 10%, which is kinda meaningful but really not much. Even some piston engines (like in WW2 fighters) get 2% or so from exhaust.


The only things I do with a new copy of Firefox is install uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger and it works quite nicely.

(Oh, and an extension that redirects reddit links to old reddit, and RES)


If I'm not mistaken, no need to use Privacy Badger if you're already using uBlock Origin and Firefox Total Cookie Protection. https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1d3so6g/should_i_u...

Nah, Privacy Badger is different. PB doesn't use ad blocker lists and comes with its own special features like replacing tweets with click-to-activate placeholders. And if you want to block all ads, PB works well in combination with ad blockers.

As for Firefox’s Total Cookie Protection, cookies are not the only tracking vector: https://privacybadger.org/#Is-Privacy-Badger-compatible-with...


privacy badger is still alive??

i think what keeps it alive is that it shows up on the default "extensions you might especially like" screen inside the "install extensions" menu

Um, yes? Last update in December. Did someone prematurely call it dead?

Probably Austin and Seattle.


I lived in an apartment with extremely thin floors. One night I needed to move the bed 5 inches away from the wall at 3am. In my room it made almost no noise and took 1 second. But, the next morning the woman below came up and complained.

I told her I heard her masturbating often and would just put my headphones on and check in 20 minutes. She said she didn't do that. I said "well, maybe you're listening to porn. All I know is I hear something".

She moved out the next day.


Oh I had one of those neighbors too, but I don't even count them in my bad noisy neighbors list.

>... under control of a company I don't use.

You left out an important part of the GP's comment.

>By your logic we should be programming in Common Lisp.

I wish. (Scheme is acceptable too)


I was talking about this at a party this afternoon (yes, I do go to the most interesting parties, thanks) and while Scheme is acceptable the Common Lisp is not because it's not OK to go without boolean primitives. Types are a good idea, if you have types the simplest is clearly the boolean, so start there.

I believe firmly that there should be a single true value, which we might reasonably name true, and a single false value, false, other values aren't booleans, so it's no more reasonable to ask whether an empty string is false, than to just forget to close the quote marks on a string. What we wrote isn't a correct program.


Scheme has a single false value (#f) but everything else is considered true...

Any Lisp w/o image support is no true Lisp in my book. That leaves us with only Common Lisp and Janet.

The others (Scheme, Clojure, etc.) are just Lispy syntax but lack the true "soul" of Lisp-style development.


Racket?

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