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I don't think that a documented, reproducible very high blood sugar spike is nitpicking. I personally think it is reason for concern.

But you are absolutely correct, a sandwich is more than that. The author acknowledges this as well. It would be a fun thing to measure your blood glucose against (as I intend to). From an armchair perspective, the other ingredients in the sandwich may slow down the glucose dump into your bloodstream, but it will likely still dump the same amount, because the bread is still present. Along with the fat storage mechanism that glucose > insulin turns on, the extra ingredients may be more likely to be stored as fat.

I'll respond to this as soon as I complete the experiment!

What is this blog and why is it getting popular? The articles are very long and dense with no clear point.

"In some respects, there is nothing to be said; in other respects, there is much to be said" Please edit your blog posts to remove phrases like this which damage reading comprehension. Your opening sentence "Mathematical error has been rarely examined except as a possibility and motivating reason for research into formal methods" is long winded, vague, boring, and tells me nothing about what this post is about.

I think you can write much shorter, clearer articles that are not dense, rambling and inaccessible if you put some time into organization and structure and read your blog critically from a layman's perspective.

Let's look up help on how to write a function

:h function

Ok, that's wrong.

Let's look up vimscript then, that probably has function information

:h vimscript

Nope, that's not what we want. But obviously function is further down the list

/function

Oh dear.

Let's say we want to do something on opening a python file, and we see someone else using Bufenter

:h bufenter

Ok, no usage examples. What to do?

Eventually we find out about autocmd, by luck. What if we want to include multiple statements in an autocmd?

:h autocmd

Nothing

/multiple

Nothing

Let's say (when you get lucky, again) and find out about :cmd1 | cmd2, you want to learn about |

:h |

nope

:h pipe

not even close!

Ooooooooooh maybe we have to escape it?

:h \|

what?

ooooh wait, we're in command mode, DUH

:h :pipe

aw, shit.

Maybe we want to split an array in vimscript.

:h split

Nope.

:h arary

Nothing. Maybe it's a list?

:h list

Nope. No splitting today, I guess.

If you think :h i_ctrl-w is intuitive, then, well. Have you ever been treated for schizophrenia or psychosis?

Let's say on entering a ruby file we want to press enter.

:au bufenter *.rb <cr>

open rb file..

trailing characters: <cr>

Oh god what the shit?

:h bufenter

nothing

:h ... it's now impossible to look up help on this problem. It's also impossible to google for it

We want to change the background color

:h background

Uhhhhh

:h color

Ok, I get it, I'm not going to find help on this. Time to give up.

I want to figure out how to set guicursor

:h guicursor

Are you 98% serious right now? Why are the examples using :highlight Cursor? Jesus.

Vim has horrible help. I will wait patiently for you to upvote my answer as opposed to downvote it, and I'll consider us even.

This is an ironic project because the Vim docs are one of the worst places to go for Vim help, partly due to their size and unsearchability.