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Mandarin as in Mandarinate, not as in the language.

No, it isn't. There's a difference between McCarthy's "Maxwell's equations of software" and the full-blown Common Lisp standard, which was designed by and aimed at industry.

>The problem was that the Chavista regime bungled the state-owned oil company so badly that it didn't have enough money even when crude prices were high, and really doesn't now that they're low.

Naturally, the problem is but a mere implementation detail.

>You see a lot of mixed-income neighborhoods in Houston - places where people are building $700,000 homes where 80% of the same street are 1000 square foot shacks with people living in them making $20k a year. Luckily for them, their lots are worth half a million dollars. I don't know if this is the result of the lack of zoning, but I don't see this happening in other cities in Texas, so I have to think it's somehow related.

This is a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of thing. If neighborhoods are income-segregated, there is no end to opinion pieces about this awful late-capitalist crypto-apartheid. If neighborhoods are mixed-income, then the hand-wringing is about rich people living behind walls next to a shanty town.

The included header file uses the macro system, among other things, to bring C99 up-to-date with more modern programming techniques, using what we've learnt in the past decades since C was conceived.

In fairness however the short POD type names are purely cosmetic.

Actually, cubicles are a good thing.

The frequency illusion is indeed real but there has been a definite uptick in posts about Gopher here.

Yes, that's the point. But it's very hard to point to the effective engineering limit.

For example: the ultimate limit to computing power is Bremermann's limit, but that's only reached in the surface of a black hole. The effective limit of computation – how much you can compute in Baryonic matter – is going to be far lower. How low is a hard question to answer.

Probably not.

The only context where Argentina can be in the same sentence as Australia is in a list of countries in the Southern Hemisphere, or countries whose names start with an 'A'.

A better way to read this map: countries in the deep red are places where people have tamed this inhuman, unforgiving Earth, and people can lead happy and self-defined lives.

Countries in the deep green are where people are at the mercy of nature and die of 20th century causes.

People in the former complain that it is too "antiseptic" or "artificial", occasionally gawk at the latter and chastise everyone for not living in misery, always from the comfort of a city where the vast infrastructure that supports their lives is perfectly out of sight and out of mind.