There has been an open source successor to REBOL called Red[1] for years but progress seems to have been pretty sporadic.

[1] https://www.red-lang.org/

Well, I would say that any physical implementation of a Turing machine will eventually halt because you cannot guarantee an infinite energy supply. So if we're willing to ignore physical limitations then humans can be Turing complete - if not, then no machine be either.

I would much rather see something like this:

  string longString =
                    `This
                    `  allows
                    `    differentiation
                    `  of
                    `formatting
                    `  indention
                    `    from
                    `  leading
                    `    string
                    `       spaces
                    `  using
                    `  back-ticks (\`)

Hi there, I'm the lang designer and implementor here.

That would violate a core goal of the feature which is that the content itself doesn't need escaping. This sort of approach would require all users to have tooling that would make that pleasant, instead of providing a feature that was easy to use across any editor.

Thanks!

You can still observe a related effect to this in Windows 10. Open up any large(ish) file in NotePad++ or most any other editor and place the cursor in the text and drag to the bottom of the screen so it starts scrolling. If you hold the mouse still at that point it will scroll through a couple dozen every half second or so, but if you wag the mouse side to side it will scroll through hundreds at a time in the same span.

I always assume that it's because the apps simply scroll on both timer events and mouse move events. Wiggle the mouse to raise a bunch of mouse move events and you get faster scrolling.

every time I use this trick, I think of how running diagonally in some games is faster than running in one direction...

I think that's just because those games are written poorly and don't account for the differences in moving diagonally. If you are moving on a grid, moving forward one tile moves you the length of a tile. Moving diagonally one tile moves you sqrt(2) ~1.4 tile lengths.

More often it is because both inputs apply some speed. Like in doom.

https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Straferunning

always normalize your input vectors!

Yeah people always look at me like I'm crazy when I do that, but it really does work

One of my favorites in this vein is the channel below. This guy really knows how to "do what you can with what you have available".

https://www.youtube.com/c/K%C3%AAnhs%C3%A1ngt%E1%BA%A1oVN-tr...

Punishment via fines should be entirely replaced with something more generally equitable: time. $60 parking ticket should be replaced with 1 hour of community service, which (mostly) equally "inconveniences" a blue collar worker and CEO alike. Same scheme should apply to corporate crimes as well... when everybody's least favorite mega-bank gets caught defrauding customers, don't fine them, sentence the company to 1000 hours of community service, meaning every employee on the payroll has to do 1000 hours of community service and the company has to pay them their standard wages while doing it. That kind of loss would definitely change some board room attitudes.

Evil plan: Create a network distributed system (kind of like Seti@Home) specifically for doing this. If there was enough participation to make a difference the advertisers would have to invest in countermeasures which could lead to an arms-race that ultimately erodes all profit from it.

I use a FireFox plugin that applies CSS for colorizing visited links on HN:

  a:link{
    color: orange !important;
  }
  
  /* visited link */
  a:visited {
    color: green !important;
  }

https://mybrowseraddon.com/custom-style-script.html

they are already distinguishable by color without any change. this is about comments although it marks only comments as new it hasn't seen before regardless if you read them or not.

This gave me the idea that I would like that standard everywhere. This convention is just so helpful. Maybe replacing with an outline on more heavily styled links, so as not to break layouts too much.

It is standard everywhere unless a site explicitly overrides it.

For example, do a Google search and click one of the links. Now do the same search again. The link you followed last time is now purple instead of blue. On Hacker News the links go a lighter grey.

Yes I know, but a lot of websites override it, I'd just like a unified style everywhere. To be honest I'd like consistent styling in a lot more places and I know of some add-ons that get pretty close but not quite.

Sorry, yeah, so you meant it'd be nice to have a feature/add-on that overrides the link colouring to be the same on every site. Absolutely. We had that once, in those distant days before CSS...

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Edit:

This works on Firefox:

- Install Stylus[0].

- Click the toolbar icon and choose Manage.

- Click "Write new style"

- Enter and save this:

    a:link {
        color: #0000EE;
    }

    a:visited {
        color: #551A8B;
    }

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/

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Edit 2:

In Firefox WITHOUT installing any add-ons:

- Go to about:config

- Set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true

- Press Alt, click Help -> More Troubleshooting Information

- Next to "Profile Folder", click Open Folder

- Create a new folder there called "chrome"

- Make a file in that folder called userContent.css

- Enter the following CSS:

    a:link {
        color: #0000EE !important;
    }

    a:visited {
        color: #551A8B !important;
    }

- Restart Firefox

Turns out you can do what the top comment by chhickman is doing without any addon as well. Follow my steps above in "Edit 2", and add this to your CSS file:

    @-moz-document domain(news.ycombinator.com) {
      a:link {
        color: orange !important;
      }
      
      /* visited link */
      a:visited {
        color: green !important;
      }
    }

Per-domain custom CSS supported out of the box!

Is it not the standard everywhere? All my links, on every page, are lighter when visited. I suppose some sites might override this, but I've rarely seen it.

This one has been very influential to me:

Big Ball of Mud

Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder

http://www.laputan.org/mud/

Oh hey, another BBOM fan :-)

There's no shortage of very striking counter-examples to what you're saying in recent events. I think it's far more accurate to say that the educated can be led astray by complex ideas that are difficult to prove and the uneducated equally likely to be led astray by ideas that are laughably easy to disprove.