neilkk

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by neilkk 2y ago
I don't think you've established any factual challenge to either of my statements: > But the only real connection between 'Germanic tribes' and the modern state of Germany is that people from the latter believe the fo
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by neilkk 3y ago
I read the whole thing. It's literally a showcase of all the mental tics and obfuscations involved in the construction of artificial national histories as I described in my earlier comment. Accusations of bias, the suggestion that &#x2
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by neilkk 3y ago
Germanic tribes in the ancient world did not speak Old High German. The status of Old High German as the origin language of modern German is part of the construction of German history in exactly the manner I have described. There is very li
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by neilkk 3y ago
Modern German is no closer to the language of a randomly chosen 'Germanic Tribe' than English, Prussian, Danish, Yiddish, Swedish, Czech, etc. Most people living in what is now France would have spoken other languages than French
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by neilkk 3y ago
Thanks for proving my point!
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by neilkk 3y ago
But the only real connection between 'Germanic tribes' and the modern state of Germany is that people from the latter believe the former to be their forefathers. They are not genetically closer to them than other Europeans, nor do
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by neilkk 3y ago
> states ruled from Prague, inhabited largely by Czech speakers, extending to virtually the same territory. More like two polities which share a capital city, but barely have either a language or a geography in common. The idea that Bohe
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by neilkk 3y ago
This isn't true. The majority of countries are much younger than this. The thousand year old ones are the exceptions. Many countries have an 'origin story' which implies that they are the same thing as random countries or reg
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by neilkk 3y ago
Insert Boeing/MongoDB joke here.
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by neilkk 3y ago
> Frustrating enough since it feels like in JavaScript, you never have control over what’s going on. > In C, you can go ahead and misconfigure a makefile to output debug files, a segfault, or a bad reference, but at the end of the day
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by neilkk 3y ago
SQLite is not 'a little iffy'. It's a) one of the most resilient pieces of software ever made and b) one of the most widely adopted pieces of software ever made.
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by neilkk 3y ago
You're right, my mistake.
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by neilkk 3y ago
The minimum for federal sentences is that you have to serve 2/3.
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by neilkk 3y ago
You seal the envelope with tape and put the stamp over the tape.
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by neilkk 3y ago
> this release will break any code that uses threads. > small threaded programs had been run successfully The second obviously contradicts the first, doesn't it? > mixing asyncio with threads will not work with this particular
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by neilkk 3y ago
This isn't correct. TFA said that small threaded programs had been run successfully, but that the test suite broke in asyncio. Async I/O and threads are two different things, and either can be present in real code without the othe
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by neilkk 3y ago
You might think that making sure your children will be cared for after you are dead is an impossible desire. You might think that leaving a will specifying your intentions for unpublished work is an action with an expected outcome. The line
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by neilkk 3y ago
So the requirement is simply to come up with 'a plausible reason why it might be what [they] would want'?
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by neilkk 3y ago
We only have Otto Frank's word for it that this is what she would have wanted. And he is known not to have had respect for her legacy in every way, for example editing the diary to remove criticism of himself. Also, 'wanting to be
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by neilkk 3y ago
Should we act this way with regards to all future events? Should I for example vote for leaders whom I believe will make decisions which make things better during my lifetime only to get much worse in the far future after I'll probably
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by neilkk 3y ago
Good luck with that.
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by neilkk 3y ago
Is the remote US-only, near timezones, or worldwide?
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by neilkk 3y ago
It is a good book, but it isn't completely candid about one part of the FT's investigation. When Dan McCrum was under threat of arrest in Germany, that was because Paul Murphy, Dan's editor, did in fact give away to some of h
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by neilkk 3y ago
This makes sense, since if all the orbit numbers were even the ratio could be expressed in simpler terms.
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by neilkk 3y ago
The last ratio should be 2/3 again.
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by neilkk 3y ago
mipsytipsy also worked with scuba, and she specifically designed honeycomb, an observability tool based on wide events, around the motivating idea that a very imperfect tool like scuba could do lots of things better than much more polished
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by neilkk 3y ago
There are millions of young people who dream of working in video games and very few who dream of writing software for a bank or a Telco. It seems to make sense that there should be a pay disparity.
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by neilkk 3y ago
This is right, but it doesn't support what the GGP said. Apple have not historically created new product categories. They have turned fledgling product categories with weird and untried technology into popular and mature ones. The MP3
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by neilkk 3y ago
No, you are wrong and the GP is right.
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by neilkk 3y ago
That sounds bad, but sometimes it makes sense to optimise the process for midsize changes. The vast majority of useful work is done in midsize changes. Lots of people like to generate a flurry of tiny commits but it's not necessarily t

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