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by bazoom42 3y ago
> Broadly speaking pop culture has a short lifespan. Because if it turns out to have a longer lifespan we stop calling it pop culture. E.g. novels, opera, Shakespeare etc.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
It is similar to what folklorists like the Grimm brothers did, or the publisher of the Arabian Nights, Antoine Galland, so not necessarily suspect.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
He claimed he had collected and recorded orally transmitted verse, just like other folklorists did at the time. It is still unclear whether he made it all up or whether some of the material was indeed based on now lost oral sources. An inte
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by bazoom42 3y ago
I’m fascinated by the Ossian affair. But I don’t get the premise of this article. The “social network” of characters in Ossian is closer to characters in Irish legends than to Homer? You would expect that even if it had been authentic ancie
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> He was not mean, evil, or a bully or anything He killed his childrens mother. If those words have any meaning it was mean and evil.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
probably the wrong way? Some of these comment are sickening.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
They are probably alluding to antisemitic conspiracy therories.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
I’m not sure “making sense” is a relevant criteria when discussing mythology. The fact remains that Jesus (or at least the author of Luke) interpreted it as Satan.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
The famous answer is wrong though, since the question is about tokenization of XHTML (not parsing into a tree) which is indeed possible using a regex. This is why none of the condescending answers suggest a better way. There isn’t one.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> Along with Christianity came fancy verb forms I think you have that backwards. Old norse had more complex grammar. The grammar have simplified over time. Icelandic still have more complex grammar than other Scandinavian languages becau
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by bazoom42 3y ago
I stopped reading your comment after “I stopped reading when…”
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Your comment is entitely unhelpful though. It is everything you accuse the SO answer of being.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
I’m referring to Luke 10:18 which does say Satan.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
It doesn’t. The narrative of Satan as a fallen angel is much older than Milton. In the gospel of Luke Jesus says “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven”.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
This is how you become a flat-earther.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
It is much easier to remember the traits of data structures if you know how they are implemented.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> You implied Wikipedia and encyclopedias used the same methods, which is incorrect. I just pointed out that Britannica (like Wikipedia) is not a primary source. “Primary source” have a specific meaning and encyclopedias are not primary
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Perhaps you misunderstand what “encyclopedia” means? Britannica itself classify Wikipedia as an encyclopedia ( https://www.britannica.com/topic/encyclopaedia/The-kinds-of-... )
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Python is low-code compared to assembler. SQL is low-code. Much discussion around low-code (and no-code) miss that it is just abstraction. The question is not if we should use abstractions or not, but what constiutes good and bad abstractio
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Brittanica is not a primary source either. Encyclopedias are considered tertiary sources. Encyclopedias are not supposed to perform original research but to aggregate and condense information from secondary sources. What sources do you thin
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by bazoom42 3y ago
It was probably the lack of structure like blocks and scopes. Everything is flat and global and GOTO means control can enter and exit at any point.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
I’m not sure Dijkstras quote had that much of an effect. Visual Basic was one of the most popular languages until Microsoft killed it. Basic evolved to have blocks, scopes, procedures, and functions. Visual Basic is probably closer to Algol
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> in the Vietnam era there were widespread (probably heavily exaggerated if not fabricated) reports of soldiers being spat on So you recognize this is a myth, but nevertheless use it as an example? Vietnam soldiers were drafted, and a lo
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by bazoom42 3y ago
They probably adhere to some crackpot theory. The focus on “independent thought” as opposed to facts point in that direction. Don’t bother.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Dijkstra was a blowhard anyway. He belived students should prove programs correct on paper before they were allowed to type them into the computer. Basic on the other hand allows a fast feedback cycle of experimenting and learning.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
You can make your own adaptions of Cinderella or The Snow Queen. Nothing is stopping you. You just can’t use the exact character design of Anna and Elsa, but why would you want that anyway? Certainly things more valuable to humanity (like l
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by bazoom42 3y ago
How about doing the same with other assets - land, real estate? After 20 years ownership reverts to the public. You can enjoy your house for 20 years.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
You mean the comment written by me? This is a very tedious way of arguing - if you have a point, why dont you make it? You think Disney IP should be free for all to use? Just remember this would go both ways - Disney could take the work of
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Probabably not - do you think they should?
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by bazoom42 3y ago
This isn’t some clever gotcha. Disney didn’t mind paying for the rights to adapt copyrighted material, like they did for Bambi, Dumbo, Peter Pan etc.

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