R: easy things are hard, hard things are easy.

You explained why 70kb is bad by pointing out that 3000kb isn't particularly outlandish.

There was a fifteen year period where the best way of finding out what something meant in a programming language was to Google it. Pre-AI, post the predominance of newsgroups and offline documentation.

Try googling "$|++". It just doesn't work. Never has.

Now Google "file.flush". First hit is the answer you need on SO.

Not wanting to use well constructed, well tested, well distributed libraries to make code simpler and more robust is not motivated by any practical engineering concern. It's just nostalgia and fetishism.

Eric Adams born 1960

Andrew Cuomo born 1957

Curtis Sliwa born 1954

Mamdani born 1991

On policing, on New York's relationship to Israel, on public transit, the so-called 'mainstream' is actually 'the average view of people over 60'.

If you multiply term by term every term has coefficient 1 of course. There are n terms with exponent n+1, made from the n sums of the first exponent and the second exponent.

Eg 1+5, 2+4, 3+3, 4+2, 5+1.

So (1/9)^2 = (sum 1/10^i)^2 = 1/10 sum i/10^i

The derivative trick is more useful generally, but this method gets you the solution to 0.12345678.. in an quick way that's also easier to justify that it works.

    12345679 * 8 = 98765432

Geordie English is closer to Edinburgh 'Scots' than to RP English or US English or Indian English. Is it a dialect of Scots?

James Joyce wrote in English, no Irish person pretends that he wrote in a third language distinct from English and Irish. The fact that they do not do so does not compromise the political basis for independence, republicanism or reunification.

If a Cork taxi driver, addressed you in Irish (very unlikely), and you asked him to speak English, the request would be both coherent and reasonable. The point you missed is that the Glasgow taxi driver would look at you with consternation and say "But, I am speaking English! What's wrong with my English?' (insert dialect spelling if you like)

Rabbie Burns wrote in the same language as his compatriots Louis Stevenson and Scott.

It would be ignorant if I did not know about the meretricious claim of a minority of Scottish people to have their own language, but it is not ignorant to reject that claim. I am Scottish fwiw.