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by simiones 4mo ago
Modern Hebrew is built on Biblical Hebrew, on Mishnaic Hebrew, on Medieval Hebrew, on Yiddish, and has influence from many other languages. However, there is nothing similar to how English and other native languages evolved. Between the 2nd
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by simiones 4mo ago
> It’s far more likely than not that they do experience things. I don't think this is a fair statement. I also happen to believe that there are no gods and that most animals have subjective experiences in some sense similar to our o
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by simiones 4mo ago
This is pure pseudo-science at its finest. You're using sciencey words without putting any real meaning behind them. A frequency has to be a frequency of something (e.g. an electromagnetic wave). There would also have to be a mechani
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by simiones 4mo ago
> The point is that bats do have a subjective experience of the world which is very different from a person's. It seems like you think only humans have this? This is definitely a possibility given the very basic level of understan
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by simiones 4mo ago
> And a modern Hebrew speaker can easily understand Biblical Hebrew — they're closer than even Modern English and Shakespearean. Of course, because modern Hebrew was constructed based on (the modern understanding of) Biblical Hebrew
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by simiones 4mo ago
"American" would be ambiguous in this context, right? Both the Cherokee and the English-speaking residents of the USA are American, but the specific point here was about whether Sequoyah was only a Cherokee speaker or if he had an
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by simiones 4mo ago
> qualia totally precede language; one could experience qualia without language, etc. While I do believe this as well, I don't think there is any way to prove this with current knowledge. You can introspect and separate your experie
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by simiones 4mo ago
UB has 2 very different implications: 1. It means that even if your program happens to work, it can't be portable 2. It means that even if your program happens to work today, it might stop working tomorrow when you add some new code, w
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by simiones 4mo ago
Note that, while complex, there exist GCs that can handle both soft real time and even hard real time constraints - especially for Java. Memory overhead is a problem with GC languages, though, and that one is by design.
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by simiones 4mo ago
> No - if something is UB in the spec, it's UB. A compiler is still free to ignore the spec and declare that something is not UB. However, this is very much compiler based, not platform based. Windows might guarantee that aligned DW
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by simiones 4mo ago
Light has nothing to do with this. The point is that mass bends space-time. The amount of bending is dependent on the size of the mass and on the distance from the mass. Even though the Sun is incomparably heavier than the Earth, it is also
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by simiones 4mo ago
I think these sorts of things are very commonly misleading. The Romanian school system I grew up in for example nominally had way more advanced subjects even in middle school, not to mention high school, than what is commonly taught in much
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by simiones 4mo ago
They said "Spanish/French/German/whatever should be the second foreign language they learn, gated behind Greek & Latin being their first.".
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by simiones 4mo ago
That sounds great, and very different from what GP said ("make French/Spanish/etc the second foreign language they learn after Latin&Greek"). Edit: I will still say that Greek has little relevance to common English
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by simiones 4mo ago
I am a Romanian native, so I know quite a bit about it :D . Romanian has kept the major features, but it still dropped a lot. For example, instead of 6 noun cases, Romanian only has 3, of which only 2 are commonly used (the third, vocative
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by simiones 4mo ago
The point of a fixed curriculum is that there is a minimal level of knowledge on various subjects that we should expect all of our fellow citizens to have. Maybe you find biology very boring, but that still doesn't mean you should be a
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by simiones 4mo ago
(Classical) Latin nouns have one of 3 genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), and each noun has 12 possible forms (6 cases * 2 numbers); pronouns follow similar rules; and the adjectives modifying a noun have to agree with it in case, ge
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by simiones 4mo ago
I fully agree on phonics, but teaching Greek and Latin before any modern language? That seems deeply weird as an idea. Especially since Greek (by which I assume you mean Ancient Greek) is a pretty isolated language, with relatively little
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by simiones 4mo ago
Another pretty famous example is Stalker, based on Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers. The novel is an ok sci-fi concept, but the film takes it to a whole other philosophical level.
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by simiones 4mo ago
Even for char*, it's very possible that malloc() will store more memory than strictly required. But you're right, `char x[] = "abc"` will require a minimum of 4 bytes wherever x gets allocated (stack or global segment).
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by simiones 4mo ago
> The pitch came across as very...predatory? It did not inspire confidence. They would only consider scheduling you for the surgery if you could demonstrate that you'd use other measures for a year, meaning finasteride, one of those
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by simiones 4mo ago
All are fair points, I was being a bit cavalier with the facts. I'll also add that many if not all modern malloc() implementations actually allocate somewhat larger amounts of memory than your request, to respect various alignment requ
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by simiones 4mo ago
> No, if we are using the definition of an array that is like int c[] = ..., that is always going to be on the stack. Heap continuous memory =/= array. You can use the [] operator to access it like an array, but fundamentally, as fa
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by simiones 4mo ago
> Array memory is on the stack. Array memory can sit on either the stack or the heap. > The size of that array is actually not known at run time, its only known at compile time, where any reference to that length gets resolved by the
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by simiones 4mo ago
In C, a[i][j] can mean either a[i,j] or a[i][j], depending on the type of a.
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by simiones 4mo ago
> As AI becomes capable of producing entire work products, the profession that has spent decades treating “I reviewed it myself” as the standard of care has no framework for what happens when that review becomes economically irrational.
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by simiones 5mo ago
This sounds reasonable, but it doesn't seem to reflect reality. The biggest reason that shows are region locked and/or removed from streaming sites are licensing deals, not technical reasons. Movie and TV production companies are
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by simiones 5mo ago
Transparent doesn't mean secure. The very source of this issue was a recent NPM supply-chain attack, and you can also check the sources of any NPM package that you use. NPM also relies on peer dependencies, and this is exactly why malw
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by simiones 5mo ago
Sure, but this is just an accident of Emacs being a much more niche product, not related in any way to the design of the package system. If Emacs suddenly gained VSCode's popularity, I can assure you that numerous new users would simpl
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by simiones 5mo ago
My point is, if I want to create a malicious Emacs plugin, I can do the following: 1. Create a new Emacs package, create a PR to register my GitHub repo as a new package in MELPA's repo, and wait for them to accept the PR. Ideally the

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