Smalltalk's #(1+2) is the same as Lisp's [(+ 1 2)], neither evaluate their contents. I don't see the benefit of either.
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https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-02-27-why-we-designed-tigerbeetles-docs-from-scratch/ has an interesting distinction between "physical" and "logical" hash of a tarball.
By storing the hash of the decompressed tarball contents (i.e. the logical hash), they can verify the validity of files without needing to keep the tarball around.
Wow, GitHub shows a table of contents on https://readme.md/ files!
I did not know this until https://github.com/casey/just added a helpful icon pointing it out.
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Deliberately overclocking the Super Game Boy 2 so one instruction fails(!) and the ROM contents can be observed: