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Octal just maps onto 3 bits instead of hex's 4. I always imagined it had something to do with the size of the byte not being standardized yet.

> Also, somebody contributed reduce() to Python way back in the 90's, as well as other functional idioms. He wouldn't have added that himself -- it was never his preferred style.

> He preferred a more imperative style. But he allowed those contributions, and then slightly regretted it later.

That would explain why they're so inconvenient to chain.

It's an X from the blackboard bold range in Unicode.

Call me crazy, but for me the next stop after nitter is knitter, not the other thing.

I've always wondered what would happen if you named a kid Nominative Determinism. Some kind of paradox?

> Maybe I should look into training an AI in the audio style of Patrick O’Brian and have it read Shakespeare for me.

That's what you took away from that?!

I went down a rabbit hole a few summers ago and I ended up writing a calculator from scratch in assembly for RISC OS. Interesting experience having GUI routines at the syscall level

On the flip side, .hpp always makes me chuckle. What is that, Header++?

I've never really been a math person, either, which is why I thought I was going to hate discrete math in college. I mean, it wasn't always the easiest thing ever, but it was a lot more intuitive to me than continuous math. And that's all programming is, materialized discrete math.

And the SD card logo was originally intended for Super Density Disc

I was one of these hapless Comic Chat users. Luckily someone gently nudged me toward a real IRC client lol. I was an absolute IRC fiend for years after that.

That's odd, it always worked fine for me. I have had that issue with archive.today, though.

I'm confused. Aren't these supposed to be photos, or are we expected to be agog with 3D renderings?

Loads for me, but not particularly quickly