stevula

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by stevula 1mo ago
Possibly because there’s such scant linguistic evidence for the (undoubtedly many) pre-PIE languages in Europe? It’s hard to study something that didn’t leave behind much writing, if any. Basque being a notable exception to that, of course.
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by stevula 1mo ago
Greek has several things in favor of it being conservative: 1. It’s been a written language for longer than most other languages 2. It’s been the language of empires 3. It’s been a liturgical language With that said, I find Modern Greek sp
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by stevula 1mo ago
People noticed. They just didn’t come up with a theory of a common ancestor language. Or, in some cases, they assumed other European languages were originally heavily debased forms of Latin/Greek.
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by stevula 3mo ago
An LLM can absolutely center a div and then use a browser MCP or playwright to visually validate that it was centered.
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by stevula 4mo ago
I think that is how the smarter agents do things? Just like Claude/ChatGPT sometimes does a web search they can do other tool calls instead of just making a statistical guess. Of course it doesn’t always make the bright choice between
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by stevula 5mo ago
Whereas modern English only distinguishes grammatical number by singular/plural (and Old English had dual), some languages even have trial (three). Russian distinguishes paucal (few) from plural (many). It’s not super common but there
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by stevula 5mo ago
I thought courts martial and secretaries general (and Knights Templar/Hospitaller, et al) were Anglo-Norman/French borrowings. Do you have any examples of native English phrases following that pattern?
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by stevula 6mo ago
Most tools do, yes.
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by stevula 6mo ago
Probably “more”
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by stevula 7mo ago
There are plenty of unvaccinated people this side of the border and it seems to be a growing trend. If the government is going to intern people in close quarters then they should probably make sure to vaccinate them. I would not be optimist
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by stevula 7mo ago
If they paid for themselves then the DoT wouldn’t have a multibillion dollar highway budget, and that’s not even including all the state funding.
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by stevula 8mo ago
To preserve backwards compatibility and not require all those old sites to update, the legacy behavior would have to be the default, with opt-in for the new behavior.
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by stevula 9mo ago
I seem to recall a scene from the book where a man is smoking a cigar in an office and prints out his computer output rather than reading from a screen. It was delightfully retrofuturist (or whatever the opposite of anachronistic is).
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by stevula 10mo ago
Why stop there? It’s in meat, water, mother’s milk, and newborns are even born with microplastics already in them.
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by stevula 11mo ago
The problem is other people/teams making PRs to your code that you then have to maintain or fix later. It’s in your interest not to half-ass the review, creating an asymmetric amount of work for you vs them.
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by stevula 11mo ago
What is the use case? It’s hard for me to think of a reason you’d want to wrap a link in a button. If you want to navigate, use an anchor. If you want to trigger JS logic, use a button with onclick handler. If you want to navigate while do
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by stevula 11mo ago
Hey, leave us humanities majors out of it. Most of us have studied critical thinking skills and ethics, which could have easily been used to avoid the various geopolitical messes we’re in right now.
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by stevula 1y ago
The Stack Exchange link is incorrect about -ite being etymologically derived from lithos, as one of the commenters there noted. Maybe a misunderstanding of this wiktionary note or similar: > But by the Hellenistic period, both the mascul
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by stevula 1y ago
“Developed countries have reduced population growth” is a far cry from “looming human extinction”.
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by stevula 1y ago
Originally there was no minuscule/majuscule (uppercase/lowercase) distinction in Greek writing (or Latin for that matter). They did have handwritten forms designed to be written faster, which is what the ω is in this case. Of cour
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by stevula 1y ago
This is, I think, a learned distinction and not universally observed. I only learned this distinction in university.
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by stevula 1y ago
Of course, if your relatives uploaded their data then a lot of info about your DNA is exposed regardless of whether you uploaded yours personally.
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by stevula 2y ago
Homeless are not common at any of these places. They’re mostly downtown or close to public transit and tourist spots (Downtown, Castro, Mission). They aren’t known for climbing big hills (Coit Tower) or frequenting museums. I suspect there
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by stevula 2y ago
Technically the British Iron and Bronze Ages are prehistoric since British recorded history begins with the Roman conquest in 43 AC.
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by stevula 2y ago
Supposedly it was very finicky and could only be grown in a small region of eastern Libya.
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by stevula 2y ago
This reminds me of a story of my friend who had two cats who were brother and sister. One time when my friend went on a trip and left his roommate in charge of catsitting, the male cat was tragically killed by a car. The roommate found the
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by stevula 2y ago
This might be a regional thing, but I have done probably around 100 technical interviews in my career (both enterprise and startups) mostly in the Bay Area and the vast majority of these involved algorithm questions that had no relation wit
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by stevula 2y ago
It isn’t exactly intuitive that when the sun’s light appears to be blocked it is nevertheless dangerous to stare at the eclipse because of invisible UV rays. This is something you specifically have to learn and is only relevant for a very r
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by stevula 2y ago
> So in short, they're just making every single project out there that relies on ESLint go and either add a flag or rename one file Not every project. Many people switched to the .js format a long time ago since it’s more powerful.
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by stevula 2y ago
Even aside from business incentives, there are plenty of people in the workplace who act cruelly due to prejudices, perceived threat, spite/vengeance, a need for control, perceived threat, general emotional unhealthiness, or just plain

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