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I've seen people not know who "pg" is, so...

The one weak point of the landing page is that it didn't indicate who was not affected. I read to the bottom of the announcement and had to think a while on whether I had to update my laptop because, hey, this seems like a serious bug. Granted, I'm nontechnical... but that's kind of the point.

Edit: not sure why this was downvoted, but if it contains an error please add a comment pointing it out. If you just think it should be lower on the page, no worries.

Usually the algorithm is described in another document without several expressions & lines. "Readability" in some of these contexts means verifying that you've correctly typed in the expression.

You're right, thanks. But C-u doesn't seem to be necessary, unless I have a strange setup.

I love Vim's digraphs!

In emacs it's

    C-| tex

then

    \phi → φ

etc, which can be quite a bit more typing but can be easier to remember if you already know the TeX instructions for everything.

Now we just need to convince other editors to add something similar...

Konqueror on RHEL seems more likely than Lynx.

A reaction to the new moderation proposals, maybe?

FWIW, cryptocurrencies are far more fiat than dollars. You can pay taxes in dollars, for example, so they're not even a pure fiat currency.

It's used consistently in the core language and in well written packages but very inconsistently across the ecosystem. I certainly don't use it in packages I write for my own use and it's pretty unused in most of the packages I download.

Did you write qplot? (rhetorical question) A lot of these "quirks" of R are nice for end users when they're implemented well, but are unintuitive to program and, as a consequence, are inconsistently implemented across packages.

Hadley doesn't write everything, you know.

Yeah, I was just thinking that. About 90% of what I see on twitter I would consider spam if it were sent by email. :)

I more or less agree with your specific points, but in the larger scheme of things I'm more concerned that these hypothetical people don't understand the stats than that the tool won't scale or is badly implemented.

That said, it sure is a bitch of a language to try to develop for (since the consensus seems to be: write everything in C) and cran is a ghetto.

Nearlyfreespeech's homepage is infinitely more attractive and professional looking than tarsnap's.

And, no, the redesign in the article looks exactly like someone grabbed a $20 theme and didn't bother to swap in the image.