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Except the plane is going to survive. Only the passengers aren’t going to. On the other hand, there are going to be new passengers. Assuming we don’t blow up the plane with nukes.

I suspected Frege, which is why I went looking for a source, but found Peirce instead. Good catch.

> That you would deride Wittgenstein on a math/CS forum, when he is literally the person who thought up the concept of truth tables, seems quite egregious. That would be Charles Pe…

Yeah, thanks for the save, Russia: > The Uprising started when the Red Army appeared on the city's doorstep, and the Poles in Warsaw were counting on Soviet front capturing or forw…

This should be fixed, not embraced.

Around 2012 XFCE would use around 448MB. That's more than a decade ago.

Fun fact: , in C is what ; is in ML.

>> - F ing templates - for those who like them, did you ever see a C++ core file? Or tried to understand a single symbol?* > I have 20+ years of experience writing C++. > Yes, I've…

> I’m not sure how often it’s posted here but Benno Rice formerly of FreeBSD Core Team has an excellent and amusing discussion of systemd’s technical merits. IMO he makes a couple …

Although true, in most cases when people talk about dead code elimination, they refer to eliminating code inside a function, whereas tree-shaking unambiguously refers to inter-proc…

If you regularly switch languages or, even worse, use multiple languages in the same messages, autocorrect gets in the way more than it helps. In monolingual contexts it’s almost a…

I’ve been suspicious of and disconcerted by the amount of AI-related news coming out of Kagi. I unapologetically hate the current AI craze and am turned off whenever I see it appea…

As a native Polish speaker I prefer English in many ways. One of the complaints about English listed in TFA is that the words are shorter than in Slavic languages. That’s actually …

It omits some characters from its output. It also mangles some others through octal escape codes or other such stuff. Depending on flags it will also not handle filenames with spac…

Shouldn’t deflation cause people to want to spend less? Spending deflating money is throwing out an appreciating asset. Japan used to suffer from long-term deflation and I’ve heard…

In the case of Poland though only a tiny fraction of it was captured by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The largest portion was captured by Russia. Second largest by German Empire. I …

The popularisation of the concept of Central Europe stems from some people being ashamed of being from Eastern Europe and feeling inferior to Western Europe. Eastern Europe is defi…

A subset of Northern Europe is in Eastern Europe. They’re not disjoint. In particular all Baltic countries are in Eastern Europe (as is visible on the map in the article you linked…

What do you mean by that? Did Finland change location over time? Also, two Eastern European countries that I have first-hand knowledge of: Poland and Estonia are much more digitise…

Honestly I blame Ohmyzsh for zsh's reputation of having inscrutable configuration and being bloated or sometimes slow. Those configuration frameworks make people helpless when they…

I’m talking about C++. You wrote that Clang already had friendly error messages. While they were less unfriendly than GCC, calling them friendly is a stretch. Rust having traits in…

Not when you called templated functions and were greeted with compile-time template stack traces. Or you called overloaded functions and were presented with 50 alternatives you mig…