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by troad 2y ago
I realise it's high drama o'clock, and therefore time for everyone to jump in and try to get in on that sweet drama traffic, but this is the epitome of an article that really could just have been a Tweet. There's not really a
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by troad 2y ago
For PIE, the most accessible recent book in English is probably The Horse, the Wheel, and Language (Anthony 2007), and I would highly recommend it. (It pulls double duty as a laymen's and as an academic publication, so if you do re
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by troad 2y ago
Yes, though that could apply to any pre-modern society, whereas the Indo-Europeans were especially caught up on contracts and hospitality, even compared to similar societies. It's all quite fascinating, and in the context of them goi
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by troad 2y ago
MSFS 2020 takes up hundreds of gigabytes and takes many hours to install, so this is likely to be an improvement.
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by troad 2y ago
Proto-Indo-European culture seems to have placed a great deal of importance on the sanctity of contracts and the notion of reciprocal hospitality, reflected in many descendant myths and etymologies surviving from Ireland through India. If t
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by troad 2y ago
In Laravel, every single feature has a name like "Vapor" or "Forge" or "Octane" or "Dusk". I toyed around with Laravel a few months back, and ended up bouncing off it pretty quickly, because I simply
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by troad 2y ago
You're conflating two different things. You have the right to say all kinds of horrible things without fear of arrest and imprisonment. This is good. The First Amendment rocks. Skokie is good precedent. There is no logical follow-on fr
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by troad 2y ago
Bull. You can't lie to me about ordinary Internet in the 2000s, because I was there. For context, this is a sampling of literal front page content from Twitter, on an new account with no cookies or follows, via a VPN, from a day in l
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by troad 2y ago
There is no site more perfectly suited to turning people off the fundamental democratic value of free speech than Elon Musk's Twitter, circa 2024. The front page is just brazen anti-Semitism and racism at this point. And no, I am not r
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by troad 2y ago
I hear you. Try to shift your thinking from statements to expressions, it will make things easier. The placement of parentheses is not arbitrary. The parentheses enclose expressions, and the nesting of expressions builds a tree. This tree,
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by troad 2y ago
We do have a native toolkit for the web. You put a <button> down, the browser will render a button. But then some people don't like the button: it's not animated enough for them, the corners aren't rounded enough, the
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by troad 2y ago
I don't think (fn x y z) is all that different to fn(x, y, z). The lack of finicky operator order or other syntax footguns is nice. You're basically looking at the AST as you work. You're one fewer layer of abstraction remove
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by troad 2y ago
> I know people are cheering Musk's breaking the law. They'll continue cheering until he's breaking their laws. The billions of people living under authoritarian regimes will be cheering doubly hard at that point. I don&#x
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by troad 2y ago
I didn't mean to imply, if I have, that C++ is always and in all circumstances the best choice for any given software project. The question was about the first compiled language someone should learn, and for that, C++ is great. It&#x27
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by troad 2y ago
Many more aren't than are. Just because Slovakia is good at manufacturing cars doesn't mean that car manufacturing is dependent on Slovakia.
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by troad 2y ago
Definitely. Use the right tool for the job. But if you're looking to learn a compiled language - presumably because you want to write applications, games, or systems - then C++ is a great one to learn.
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by troad 2y ago
C++ gives you a garage full of tools and lets you decide what to do with them. Ultimately, it does this because the years have shown that different people need different tools for different use cases. Few people need or use them all at once
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by troad 2y ago
> I am looking to branch out and really learn a compiled language Tip from a friend - just learn C++. It's not sexy, it's not new-fangled, but it's rock solid, runs half the world, and you will never struggle to find a job
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by troad 2y ago
I get frustrated when people misstate the Unix philosophy. The Unix philosophy is about function , not form. Say you have a tool to send something over a network. In 1993, that tool can get by being quite simple. In 2024, that same tool no
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by troad 2y ago
> US/EU/Israel A bit of a false bundle there. The two groups are more like US+Europe+China on one hand and 'misc' on the other. Most people get by without depending on the technology from the 'misc' group at
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by troad 2y ago
I don't recall browsers behaving all that differently in the 1990s. Per W3, re MSIE 4.0, in 1997: > The Accept-Language header defaults to the current System User Locale ID but can be overridden by user.
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by troad 2y ago
> Perhaps more importantly though, was my takeaway that it mostly wasn't fraud, it was truly innovative accounting that with hindsight was the wrong idea, but if the world worked out just a bit differently, could have led to them wi
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by troad 2y ago
That just doesn't seem to follow for me. Aren't most browsers auto-configured to request the language they were configured in? And don't most browser installs / setups default to the language of the user's system? I
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by troad 2y ago
Thank you for putting this in words; it's been rattling around in my head too. I feel like the Peter Thiel world has eaten the Moxie Marlinspike world, and this is such a huge, monstrous loss for intellectual curiosity, individual libe
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by troad 2y ago
> One distressing trend I've noticed becoming ubiquitous on HN is that any writing that is confronting to a consensus worldview becomes flooded with highly upvoted comments that are, in essence, excuses for why it's not necessa
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by troad 2y ago
> U+22E5B VOMITING MALE PLAT[Y]PUS WITH DESCENDER Speak for yourself, I need this now ! In general, I think new emoji is going to be more persuasive to the average person to update than 'bugfixes to VCard deserialisation in the Con
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by troad 2y ago
> I'm a non US citizen nor resident, never have been and probably never will be. Because of FATCA, I had to prove to my Eastern European bank (where I actually am a citizen) that I am not a "US person". That designation ha
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by troad 2y ago
> KDE is riddled with them like swiss cheese at a gun range which is why I think it's so funny people say they're happy with it as an alternative. You're clearly fine with bad design (KDE has some of the most famously terr
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by troad 2y ago
> You do realize that you can use any kind of file manager from GNOME, right? I respectfully point you to re-read my comment, particularly the phrase 'final straw'. Or do you really think I daily drive Linux while having someho
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by troad 2y ago
But surely interacting with files is a key component of what people expect from a DE? If a DE can't handle that well, a well-designed 'Videos' app offers small consolation. I can only speak for myself, but it was a Nautilus r

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