The AP refusing to call Alaska all night is deeply embarrassing. I respect their right to present an angle but come on, Jack

It's only at 72% right now.

Maybe there's some mistake–looks like you accidentally linked to a heavily styled subreddit for IT staff role-playing as scientists?

Will you please explain why you attempted to conceal your involvement in this article? Furthermore, why did you do that so poorly? Domain blunder aside, I'm sure I'm not alone in having immediately recognized the thesis, specific political lexicon, and structural outline from your earlier blog post.

Do you see yourself as a viable leader of this community?

According to the "Hypocrite Commits" paper by Qiushi Wu, UMN specifically approved this research, granting IRB exemption.

https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/pap...

See section VI-A (page 8).

That doesn't conflict with the statement. If the IRB looks at something and exempts it, it has no reason to report that to the hierarchy in any way, because that's a routine process.

Namespaces are an interesting addition, and I appreciate GNU trying to modernize such a ubiquitous tool, but I wish they would put more effort into expanding the built-in utilities. There's still no `join`, for example. No high-level date mechanics. Also, no Oniguruma! I'm tired of looping over `match` and `sub` statements because you can't specify non-greedy regex.

The @include and @load directives are extremely useful for shipping your own customizations, but I prefer the maintenance priorities of the JQ maintainers [1], who understand that powerful builtins are what burn into user's minds, making a tool mentally indispensable.

1. https://github.com/stedolan/jq

It is fairly straightforward to extend gawk since they added the gawkextlib functionality to regular gawk (vs xgawk).

Here's the readfile extension, for example: https://github.com/gvlx/gawk/blob/master/extension/readfile....

But, you're right...there aren't many extensions, and little activity around adding new ones.