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by bradrn 3y ago
Haven’t read the full article, but I note with interest that this is by Peter Turchin, the same person who wrote Secular Cycles . I haven’t read it myself, but I’ve always liked Scott Alexander’s review of that book [0] and its sequel [1].
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Those are a little different, though. As far as I’m aware, for the languages you listed, the orthography still corresponds fairly closely to the spoken language, even if there are some phonological and grammatical differences. (To add to yo
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I‘m disappointed to see no mention of Tibetan orthography, which was formalised approximately 1000 years ago and has not changed since then — despite Old Tibetan having split into around 50 different Tibetic languages during that time. Th
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> For example, searching "ā" on chrome or firefox finds all "a"s, which is extremely annoying if there's one "ā" on a page you want to find, and thousands of "a"s everywhere. For reference, th
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Fascinating! But that just pushes the question back: where did they get them from?
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I do wonder where they got a lot of these alphabets from. To take one example I’m familiar with, of the eleven alphabets labelled ‘Hebrew’, only 7, 8 and 10 resemble anything I would call Hebrew; 11 is a weird romanisation, while the rest l
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It’s in the paper: > The standard model of coin flipping was extended by Persi Diaconis [12] who proposed that when people flip a ordinary coin, they introduce a small degree of ‘precession’ or wobble—a change in the direction of the axi
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GP is correct. I was mentioning this as a common proposal for syntax change (or, this being Haskell, a new extension). I did not mean to imply that this is current syntax, since of course it isn’t!
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> the (IMO old-fashioned) lack of an optional trailing comma I’ll note that in Haskell circles, the usual proposal is a leading comma, which would look like this: data Profile = Profile { , name :: T.Text ,
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As I recall, the issue in my case involved a default copy-constructor which destructed an object wrongly. I’ve since learnt to delete the implicit methods of a class, but I still find reasoning about copy and move semantics to be thoroughly
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Since first reading it, I’ve come to disagree with this post. For personal projects, my main language is Haskell, which Hague counts as a ‘puzzle language’. But that doesn’t match my experience: if I know the problem domain, I can write a s
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Also commented on at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37749891 .
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That’s not actually a great analogy, since many musicians get along perfectly well without being able to read music notation.
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As well as the Blue Mountains, in Australia.
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That isn’t the appropriate term for this post, though: most humanist sans-serifs don’t have the flared ends which he highlights for Optima.
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> Conversations are intimate, contextual, and should be far more directly under the local control of the speakers. Fair enough… but what about people who use Facebook as a way of broadcasting information? (Such as Ashin Wirathu in the li
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> "An array language is a programming language that supports the manipulation of entire arrays – or portions of arrays – as a basic unit of operation." I agree with this definition. In neither Haskell nor Python does this count
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> He put Haskell outside of array languages subset And as a Haskell programmer I’d argue that’s quite correct. For me, the key distinguishing feature of the array paradigm is that all operations are systematically broadcast over array op
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This reminds me of the Dhall configuration language: https://dhall-lang.org/
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It’s hard to read on desktop, too: > ps. By design, this website is as usable as YAML.
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> Tenses are not distinguished by their semantics, but by their grammatical form. Annoyingly, people don’t always keep these two definitions as separate as they should be. This means there are language-specific grammatical structures cal
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> Are there any other languages that use glyphs so heavily? This is the case with most of the languages in the APL family, but especially APL [1] and BQN [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_langua
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> that glyph should have a small bar on the left It depends on the typeface. My browser’s fixed-width font, for instance, doesn’t display a bar.
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Me too!
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The small change you made to the front page already makes it easier to understand! Thank you!
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From the code samples it looks like it might be Ruby, but the documentation doesn’t seem to confirm or deny it either way. EDIT: I accidentally clicked on the ‘past submissions’ link on HN, and if the titles of its other submissions are to
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It’s actually surprisingly common. For instance, butterflies and peacocks also use this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_coloration (In fact, I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that only a handful of blue pigmen
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> I guess comparing it to something like Nigerian where all friends/family of an equal level are "brother"/"sister" or higher level "aunty"/"uncle", it seems weird to see English fla
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Yes, English is considered to have an Eskimo kinship system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_kinship
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GHC’s WASM backend is already really useful! I also used it to port one of my own programs to the browser [0], albeit not using the DOM as this person did. Documentation is still sparse, but it’s a very similar process to creating a shared

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