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something that does meaningfully affect readability is WRITING IN ALL CAPS. you're almost guaranteed to have encountered the visually distinct shapes of lowercased words thousands more times than you've encountered the shapes of their uppercased counterparts

i highly recommend asking for terse or concise responses in whatever your chosen LLM calls its system prompt. you can give a brief explanation of your areas of expertise and say that you don't need those things explained to you. there are limits to how much this stuff works, but it's worth a shot

more or less, but a lot of people have been doing this for decades. to do it sanely on a phone requires adding lowercased words to your dictionary like i'm, i'd, i'll, and i've. a lot of us also leave off the trailing period

instead of iterating over an array and if-branching to one of two paths for each item, conceive of your conditionals as logic operations which test for set membership (i.e. "is this array item a member of the set i care about?") and with this array mask of "do the thing or don't do the thing" flags, you can mutate your data 0 or 1 times.

the key for me is thinking in terms of sets—much of your conditional logic is probably about sorting things into sets anyway.

yes, it bears repeating that text editors didn't keep entire documents resident in memory, they maybe buffered a page ahead and behind.

when it appeared as a feature, spell checking was impressive for the technical feat of compressing word lists with tens of thousands of entries into representations suitable for tiny memories.

>pretty much none of which were actually brought into daily life by AT&T...

i don't care about facts, tom selleck convinced me it was at&t

five minutes? it took me two minutes to come up with a threat:

someone will serve an innocuous page to adults, and some malicious honeypot trickery to children, all based on an http header.

"you've won five billion robux! click allow [to a webcam permission] to be able to receive them into your account!"

nice dotfile

there are some early unix tapes floating around, and in those early shells, i'm fairly certain the colon was one of only two special-cased code paths after the command line was parsed. does anyone recall more specifically?

as a matter of ux, users probably don't need to know that a session is being instantiated, and probably expect a simple play button

fun

this is a dense comment (there's a lot here to unpack). it sounds like you're saying:

once it became clear that conquest with an explicit intended return of large numbers of enslaved people would allow caesar to pay debts and fund further expansion, the pyramid was capped and required exponential expansion to perpetuate its economic aims. and this was the beginning of the end. a model which required autocratic steering to operate.

wouldn't that be a hash of the image signed by a trusted entity and stored on a chain? maybe i'm overlooking why this doesn't work

i can barely accept this is possible