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Sep 28, 2017 at 21:24
I'm at Strange Loop conference! Do say hello if you're around.

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It's so strange that we talk about languages being slow, and have done for years. Computer performance has increased so much in this time. https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/is-python-slow/ (shared on HN in 2009) discusses Python being slow. My underpowered Thinkpad has 20x the single-threaded perf!
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Nov 2, 2022 at 05:52
I write a lot of markdown, so I'm comfortable with the format, but *asterisks* for *italics* still seems strange to me. I mentally read it as bold, and some mailing list web frontends to the same thing.