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Or, perhaps, them not being in power, it wasn't them who shut them down?

I'm sure they influenced the policy and were happy (and wrong) about it, but they were in the opposition, and had been for several years.

Conspiracy theorists can also be really into their stuff. Someone who believes the moon landings never happened and who is enthusiastic about that can probably recall a huge number of facts, whereas I can't even recall the years the flights happened, or the names of more than two of the astronauts. That stuff is just pretty irrelevant to a random member of the general public.

The one place where I find parenthesis really jarring is in the middle of quotes. I just can't wrap my head around something like

> "I'm sending (via email) an encrypted message", Alice said to Bob

Especially in a book that's been supposedly copy edited. Em dashes or commas or just a plain run-on sentences feel much more appropriate for the general lack of structure in real speech.

I believe Google's Safari payments are a significant chunk of services revenue too (around $20 billion a year.) Then there's Apple TV and Apple Music, which are not nothing.

And in many cases, multiple times. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of SQLite DBs on my phone was in the hundreds and the number of separately compiled copies of the library is in double digits.

Is the syntax really the stumbling block for most languages? Would Rust's lifetimes or Swift's isolation rules be easier if they used more parens? Are the scoping rule differences between Emacs Lisp and Scheme easier to comprehend because the syntax is similar?

The two leads, Rob Morrow and Janine Turner, are doing a rewatch podcast called Northern Disclosure. They seem to be in season 3 right now. No endorsement, haven't tried it myself.

Yeah, agreed. I liked the idea of Mercurial branches better than git's — in principle I prefer more rather than less metadata in history — but they genuinely had a scaling problem. I can't recall the numbers, this being more than a decade ago, but I tested with a realistic number of branches for a team of developers using short-lived branches for a while and you could easily see Mercurial slowing down.

Back when I was testing bookmarks were available, but Bitbucket was pretty much the only forge that supported Mercurial and their tooling didn't support bookmarks, so that made them a non-starter for many users.