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I really value tests on projects I work on alone because the work is usually intermittent. I don't have the time or energy to deal with regressions, and I may not remember everything about the system by the next time I work on it.

I also find manually testing to be tedious, so I'd rather spend that time writing code that does it for me.

The company has this to say about synthetic leather.

Fish leather is more ecologically sound than vegan leather alternatives because it requires less energy than the creation of vegan leather, it does not include petroleum products, and it works with the circular economy using existing waste from food fisheries to create a durable finished good. Fish leather doesn’t need the extra (chemically induced) step of removing hair that mammal leather requires, either.

https://www.7leagues.com/leather

PHP 7.4 7 years ago

The praise for arrow functions is surprising. They don't enable anything new and their feature - saving a half dozen characters - comes with the cognitive cost of tracking how both types of anonymous functions work and their subtle differences in behavior. It's not worth that price.

This is a really good point. Usually we talk about protecting against a third party, but the far more ordinary use case is protecting against the adversary right on the other side of your router.

"And it's not all physics and math; the entry for the Ka/s ratio, a useful measure in evolutionary biology, assumes you already know a lot about evolutionary biology and the genetic code."

It seems to me that any information - in an encyclopedia or anywhere else - on a subtopic must assume knowledge of the parent topic.

Other gripes by the author seemed to be nitpicks about article quality, which are fair but extremely minor.

I adore SpeedCrunch. I don't have fancy large number requirements but I love the interface. It works on Linux too, though I think it's an old version in the Ubuntu repository so you might prefer to download the source instead.

Good to know. Reading definitions of concatenate and catenate, I was confused about whether there actually was a difference or not.

Edit: that wikipedia page makes it sound like the program it replaced was the one that prints a single file to the screen.