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by gbjcantab 1mo ago
This looks reasonably interesting, and Evan is extremely thoughtful about design; I know he’s put a huge amount of work into this. Personally, I’d be very cautious about adopting closed-source software with such a restrictive license as par
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by gbjcantab 1mo ago
This is a nice idea (prettier Perseus) but it really falls down on the substance, which is the morphological tagging. At least in what I read this morning (the beginning of book 13 of the Odyssey) it had no answer or was wrong on maybe 40%
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by gbjcantab 1mo ago
What’s missing here is an understanding of the negative effect the rise of AI has had on programming communities overall: both the decrease in positive engagement as people have moved from discussing things and helping one another online to
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by gbjcantab 2mo ago
It’s especially grating in this case because Dominic Gannaway, the creator of Octane, is the real deal (creator of Inferno, former React core team member, former Svelte core team member); so the project landing page looks like generic 2026
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by gbjcantab 2mo ago
I’m not quite who you asked; I’m a native English speaker but I’ve read much more Homer in Greek than in English. (Say, I’ve read a little more than half the Odyssey in Greek.) Honestly none of the English translations really capture the ma
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by gbjcantab 2mo ago
There are at least two possible meanings of “faithful,” which are “translates the literal meaning most accurately” and “evokes the same feeling most poetically.” Given that it’s Homer and not Aristotle, the vibes-based approach is probably
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by gbjcantab 3mo ago
This is one of my favorite phenomena: again in again, across various fields of study, breakthroughs in discovery allow us to go from relative ignorance to a level of knowledge and understanding that enables clear and clean conceptual models
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by gbjcantab 3mo ago
The link submitted is to the front page of their website, which reads: “Cross-platform - One spec renders natively to React, React Native, Vue, and more.”