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by usrnm 1y ago
Depends on your definition of a word and how it relates to writing. It's not such a simple question, actually. Let's consider "scheepskapitein", "Schiffskapitän" and "ship captain". All three are form
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by usrnm 1y ago
I learned several languages as an adult, so I compare the effort needed to learn Dutch to the effort needed to learn a much more different language, like French. 1) Yes, Dutch is even closer to German, but it doesn't change the fact th
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by usrnm 1y ago
The "y" in "day" went through the same process, so in your theory it would be something like "ghjesterdaghj". Or maybe it was still just "ghjester" back then, dunno. Unfortunately, I don't think
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by usrnm 1y ago
Dude, this is a linguistics thread. Ukrainian also uses Cyrillic, btw
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by usrnm 1y ago
I was talking about spelling. I can clearly see how these clusters of consonants characteristic of all Slavic languages can be a pain for a beginner, no matter how you spell them.
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by usrnm 1y ago
Dutch is a very easy language to learn if you already know English. The main problems are the lack of content to consume and the fact that everyone in the country would rather speak English than tolerate your bad Dutch.
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by usrnm 1y ago
Same word in Russian is "щёточка". The lengths to which Poles are willing to go instead of just using Cyrillic will never stop to amuse me :D
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by usrnm 1y ago
> At least English lacks compound words or whatever German calls those 30-character constructions. Not entirely true. English, as any other Germanic language, still likes to compound words to produce a new meaning, the main difference is
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by usrnm 1y ago
> ‘ȝ’ was used to write two completely different sounds in Middle English Was it, though? By comparing English and Dutch you can clearly see that one of the ways this harsh "gh" changed in English is it became "y" as
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by usrnm 1y ago
> and the compiler gives a warning/error about the redefinition That's if a macro conflicts with another macro, the real fun begins when a macro conflicts with something else in your code, and suddenly a piece of your code ge
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by usrnm 1y ago
There are many, many ways to have a name conflict in C++. A lot of them don't even have anything to do with symbols or linking, like macro conflicts. And yes, they do happen, and they're not fun to debug.
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by usrnm 1y ago
It doesn't really change much, name clashes are already an existing danger that can bite you at any moment you download somebody else's code from the Internet. Definitely not something unique to C++ modules and not an argument aga
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by usrnm 1y ago
> oil-rich countries are waging wars more often than oil-poor countries, and they are starting them when the oil price is high I'd really like to see some statistics backing that up
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by usrnm 1y ago
I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear. You don't have any problems with imperialism or wars, when you're not targeted by them personally or even can get some benefit out of them, which is normal human behavior. This is
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by usrnm 1y ago
And yet we're both discussing it on an American site in English, so you clearly have no problem with either imperialism or wars ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by usrnm 1y ago
That's just sad to hear for me as a Russian. Russia and the Russian culture are a lot older than the current war and will still be around long after the war, but a lot of people just cannot draw a line between the two.
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by usrnm 1y ago
I've written it, I know exactly what it says. And see no contradiction
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by usrnm 1y ago
People from the Netherlands who want to stay in the Netherlands have nothing to do with the US work visa which is being discussed in this thread
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by usrnm 1y ago
Another gentle reminder that the Netherlands has a 50% income tax (for swe salaries, at least) and a number of other non-trivial taxes like a wealth tax. I personally know people who found Dubai an interesting alternative to Amsterdam.
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by usrnm 1y ago
Why do we need to look 50 years back when China is doing the same right now? Maybe we should start learning from them?
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by usrnm 1y ago
> Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language. I thought it was common knowledge?
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by usrnm 1y ago
Seriously? The first thing that came to your mind after having read this article was racism?
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by usrnm 1y ago
AI can be a bubble and a real technological revolution at the same time, there is absolutely no reason these two things need to be mutually exclusive. The most recent example is the Internet in the late 90s-early 2000s. It was a bubble, it
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by usrnm 1y ago
abseil is not header-only, though
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by usrnm 1y ago
The thing is a huge pain to manage as a dependency, especially if you wander away from the official google-approved way of doing things. Protobuf went from a breeze to use to the single most common source of build issues in our cross-platfo
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by usrnm 1y ago
Cap'n'proto is not very nice to work with in C++, and I'd discourage anyone from using it from other programming languages, the implementations are just not there yet. We use both cnp and protobufs at work, and I vastly prefe
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by usrnm 1y ago
I feel like the money itself makes less and less sense these days. It's just numbers that are becoming increasingly detached from the real world
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by usrnm 1y ago
One of the unintended but hard to avoid consequences of a high competition education environment is a lot of broken kids. Dealing with constant pressure and failure is hard even for adults, for some children it's literally fatal. Don&
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by usrnm 1y ago
But we live in their ideal world, not yours
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by usrnm 1y ago
I had that book as a kid and it was one of my favorite books at the time. Just seing these illustrations brings back so many memories. Thank you

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