an hour ago
How exciting, I get to be the pedant: it’s “stream-of-consciousness,” not “stream-of-conscious.” Conscious is an adjective; there can’t be a stream of it.
an hour ago
It's a noun too
32 minutes ago
I was about to object that the latter is not in fact a noun but was surprised to see that wiktionary lists it as such. However it provides no usage examples and I strongly suspect it is in error.
2 hours ago
In my country, we call that an interactive shell.
Fun fact, if you run Python from a command line, with no options, it defaults to such a shell.
2 hours ago
Most scripting languages are designed to present a REPL (read-eval-print loop) in such a scenario.
2 hours ago
This is intriguing.
On another note, I do not understand how posts make it to the top of the front page with essentially no comments.
2 hours ago
How do they get comments without being on the front page? :)
A post just needs to get a handful of organic upvotes soon after submission, to get near the top of the front page. And submissions can easily stay on the front page for hours without much discussion. They just have to be interesting enough that people consider them worthy of an upvote.