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The point is that the ability to extend the syntax of R leads to chaos and mess (in general) but when used correctly and effectively in the tidyverse, improves the experience of writing and reading code.

Python: easy things are easy, hard things are hard.

R: easy things are hard, hard things are easy.

Those are minutes not seconds.

The reason you see a lot of scratches on Duralex glasses in cafés and canteens is because they are so old, having lasted an order of magnitude longer than other glassware.

Right, yes, exactly.

Your answer proves my point.

You explained why 70kb is bad by pointing out that 3000kb isn't particularly outlandish.

This is exactly the point.

There was a fifteen year period where the best way of finding out what something meant in a programming language was to Google it. Pre-AI, post the predominance of newsgroups and offline documentation.

Try googling "$|++". It just doesn't work. Never has.

Now Google "file.flush". First hit is the answer you need on SO.

Unless you're part of the demoscene or your webpage is being loaded by Voyager II, why is 70kb of source code a problem?

Not wanting to use well constructed, well tested, well distributed libraries to make code simpler and more robust is not motivated by any practical engineering concern. It's just nostalgia and fetishism.

Why should I change my name? He's the one that sucks.

I mean another theory is that those people are misguided and vexatious, and that this correlates with them not actually checking which Mark Zuckerberg they are sending their urgent complaint email to.

I just go by Ad Bad. Yeah I know about the other guy. E7 123 and the other college friends call me Ad Bad 3 and him Ad 88

Bro's only experience of New York City is watching The Wire.

Don't forget:

Eric Adams born 1960

Andrew Cuomo born 1957

Curtis Sliwa born 1954

Mamdani born 1991

On policing, on New York's relationship to Israel, on public transit, the so-called 'mainstream' is actually 'the average view of people over 60'.

No, that's literally socialism. Communism is something different.

Why would you expect fries to cost the same in California as in much poorer states (most of them)?