> Can't use Python because it's too slow? Show a proof of concept that is fast.

The burden of proof is on the other side. Prove that Python is too slow for the intended usecase.

Congratulations on the launch. It looks quite useful and well made.

I urge you to rewrite the landing page copy. Right now it has very strong LLM generated smell which is off putting and detracts from the product.

It is indeed LLM generated. I am certainly trying to change the landing page and make it more human. Thank you for you input though.

> and if everyone actually listened, much of the Internet (and economy) as we know it would disappear.

Would it really? It seems to me that most normal users spend most of their time and attention on apps, not in browsers.

> reporting requirements around taxation for foreign-owned businesses are so severe.

What exactly are you referring to? This doesn't match my experience at all.

It depends on which direction you are referring to the ownership flowing.

Butterick introduced me to Bitstream Charter for which I'm very greatful. However, I would very strongly urge people to disregard his recommendations for representing hyperlinks.

Instead of just underlining hyperlinks, he has this demented nonsense:

> Cross-references, denoted with small caps, are clickable.

> Links to outside material are denoted with a red circle, like so.

Hyperlinks are almost universally distinguished by underlining them. There is no rational reason to invent a new design language and expect people to learn it. And for what benefit? The seemingly random capitalisation of words and weird circles in the middle of the text makes it much more jarring than simple underlining.

...why? I'm thinking about it and don't have the slightest idea. And it's not a difficulty I ever came across with my students when I taught ESL.

All-uppercase distorts the shapes, making them unfamiliar to ESL readers who have less practice. You must know that famous meme about how you can read English perfectly fine if the letters (besides first and last) of each word are scrambled: "Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy..."

Granted, I'm not an expert in this area. I'm actually just relaying what an ESL ex of mine told me. She hated whenever she had to read things like "Calvin and Hobbes" which use all-caps, for this exact reason. Come to think of it, she was Japanese, I wonder if it has to do with growing up with a logographic writing system.

Uppercase doesn't distort shapes, they're just the uppercase shapes. Reading in all-uppercase is a basic skill that you quickly learn, since it's extremely common in signs, titles, etc.

I can understand that learning separate letters for lowercase and uppercase is something that students coming from other writing systems have to learn, the same way I had to learn both uppercase and lowercase in Greek.

But it's just a year-one skill you have to learn. You learn it, fairly quickly, and then you're fine. It's not a reason to avoid using small caps. Generally speaking, by the time your English skills are good enough to read an average paragraph, text in all-uppercase has not been a problem for you for a long time. Vocabulary is the thing that takes a long time to learn, not recognizing words in uppercase.

So while I don't doubt that your ex was telling the truth about Calvin and Hobbes, I think that was just a personal annoyance of hers. It's not a widespread problem. But everybody winds up having their own idiosyncratic annoyances with foreign languages.

> Uppercase doesn't distort shapes

It distorts the shape of the words. Many people recognize many words as a whole, not by checking each letter in (eg) "the".

Distortion is the wrong term to use.

Yes, all-caps and lowercase have different word shapes. This is something that slightly slows down native or highly experienced speakers (readers), because they have so much exposure to reading the language that they use the word shape to help.

This is not something ESL students are doing to any appreciable degree. They have not put in the 1000's of hours of reading in the target language to read even faster by identifying word shapes. That is a level of optimization they are nowhere near.

> He smoked a bit of cannabis some evenings to “chill”, but had done so for years with no ill effects.

Long term cannabis use might be a bigger factor.

This leapt out at me as well. Given the quote "some evenings", I'd put some money on him actually doing this near enough every day. And given the man was still doing this approaching 50, I'd put a bit more money on him having been doing this for, like, 25+ years.

If you want to maximize the chances of your weed habit causing you problems, this is exactly the sort of weed habit you should develop.

eh, that's a leap of faith assumption without knowing one's own dosage and personal effects.

someone who has 5 drinks a week and 5 drinks a day are going to have radically different longterm health consequences. but here we do not have said info.

light or microdose cannabis is way safer than alcohol.

> Is that a thing?

There must be literally dozens of people who do this.

> on the verge of obtaining nuclear weapons.

WMD 2.0 The Electric Boogaloo.

I don't see any actual context, just vacuous slop.