Antibabelic

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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
I don't know what they teach in Russian schools, but even American ones are full of propaganda and bad history.
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
> And, of course, no one in Russia is trying to deny the contribution of the First Bulgarian Empire to the creation of the Slavic alphabet, since that would contradict historical facts. This doesn't follow. People deny historical fa
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
I guess I don't see this idea around because it wasn't good enough to survive the early 1950s? I am looking at the tables, and while I can see the resemblance in some places, it's quite a significant stretch in others. The fa
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
To be fair, the parent post was clearly talking about Slavic languages, not "all the languages USSR forced cyrillic alphabet on", which were not Slavic and which required significant modifications to the alphabet.
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
"Slav" deriving from the Slavic term for "word" is something of a false etymology that was invented in the 19th century. It is implausible on philological grounds: you'd expect a different vowel in this word if this
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
This is a novel claim to me. I don't think Glagolitic looks particularly like cursive Greek, and I haven't seen this idea in scholarship. What is your source for it?
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
Oddly, the article doesn't mention the most interesting part. Most scholars believe that Cyril and Methodius did not design Cyrillic, but instead something called Glagolitic.[0] Glagolitic very quickly got pushed out by what were essen
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
No hackers on Hacker News? Oh my oh my
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
Land of Lisp is actually a very, very bad introduction.
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
Isn't solving problems, instead of blindly implementing a high-level description of the solution, your job as a developer?
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
What kind of projects are people working on, where understanding what features the management wants is the only difficult part and the rest can just be "typed out" (or, today, offloaded to an LLM)? If that's what you do, then
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50 Years Later: There's Still No Silver Bullet(rebuildworld.net)
6 points by Antibabelic 5mo ago|0 comments
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
This book is a great introduction to Common Lisp and Lisp in general. Very no-nonsense. Happy to see it here!
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
Two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988776
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
> It used to be that writing your own editor, your own file manager, your own window manager, was a project of years. This is... Not really true? Especially if you are writing just for yourself. These are week-long projects at most to ge
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
> Well, I’ve been radicalized. I’ve learned enough performance-oriented programming to be dissatisfied with the common functional languages (Haskell, OCaml, Common Lisp/Clojure, Scheme) because each of these languages are predicated
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
I promise you, "the code that institutions had been keeping to themselves" is not nearly as special or good as you are implying here.
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by Antibabelic 5mo ago
People getting to know each and working together to genocide another group of people that's slightly different from them does indeed have many precedents in history. The problem with your idea is that you see "humans" as some
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by Antibabelic 6mo ago
Some problems don't have solutions.
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Why LLMs Can't Replace Strategic Insight(hbr.org)
5 points by Antibabelic 6mo ago|0 comments
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Rat Park – ProofOfConcept(poc.bcachefs.org)
1 points by Antibabelic 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Antibabelic 6mo ago
This is simply incorrect. Engineers can in fact be held responsible for negligence if insecure engineering results in damage from a terrorist attack that could've plausibly been prevented.
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Wikipedia's AI Policy(en.wikipedia.org)
16 points by Antibabelic 6mo ago|3 comments
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by Antibabelic 6mo ago
The data is in the linked paper. It's a direct quote from the abstract.
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by Antibabelic 6mo ago
I don't think that's quite the point that example was intended to illustrate. The idea is not the you're looking for C0 bytes or any other kinds of bytes in particular, but rather that it's easier to fish out unique and
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by Antibabelic 6mo ago
Incidents happen in the meat world too. Engineers follow established standards to prevent them to the best of their ability. If they don't, they are prosecuted. Nobody has ever suggested putting people in jail for Russia using magic to
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by Antibabelic 6mo ago
Software engineering is voodoo masquerading as science. Most of these "laws" are just things some guys said and people thought "sounds sensible". When will we have "laws" that have been extensively tested exper
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by Antibabelic 6mo ago
This is a contradiction. If most people objected to bad music, that would make popularity directly related to quality.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (but were afraid to ask)(xn--rpa.cc)
2 points by Antibabelic 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Antibabelic 6mo ago
> There is only one formula for healthy and refreshing sleep: Go to sleep only when you are very tired. Not earlier. Not later. Wake up naturally without an alarm clock. This is very easy to say when you're not suffering from insomn

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