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> also many of the characters in the language are believed to be derived from hieroglyphs This is true insofar as all Western writing systems are ultimately descended from Egyptian…

Hah, I had the same thought on seeing the title!

Personally I’ve found this article a much more approachable overview to the question in the title: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2019/09/the_riemann_hyp...

It’s presumably named after Henry Bigelow (like several other things in oceanography), so my guess would be /bɪɡəˈlə͡ʊwi.a͡ɪ/.

Reminds me of Haskell’s monad-bayes: https://monad-bayes.netlify.app/

> lots of unexplained grandiose thinking like “ k and q made the vector the unit of thought.” That much makes sense in context: K is an array language, like APL, J, etc. From what …

This point in the comments made me think twice: > People in Western countries don't realize how bad the situation on the ground actually is; random Ukrainian flags showing up on yo…

Yep, that’s what I meant; thanks for clarifying the point. (Though that said, a sibling post linked this interesting talk on limitations in OpenType itself: https://www.tiro.com/Jo…

In Naskh, each letter has only four forms (for the most part — there are a few ligatures etc. but I think ‘only four forms’ remains basically true). The choice between forms is det…

Just reread the post — it’s much more pleasant to read now! Thank you! (For what it’s worth, I think your own writing style is quite nice, now that I can see it.)

I like wl-kbptr myself: https://github.com/moverest/wl-kbptr

Yes, that would help considerably. (Also, I suggest clearly acknowledging where AI was/wasn’t used. I like CuriosityC’s suggestion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411968 )

It’s slightly confusingly phrased, but the full sentence is: > The trombone is the only brass instrument in a classical orchestra […] where the main mode of pitch control is by mov…

Or, as Terry Pratchett so eloquently put it in The Fifth Elephant : > “Not natural, in my view, sah. Not in favor of unnatural things.” > Vetinari looked perplexed. “You mean, you …

Typotheque’s Dash has a very similar variable axis, though they call it ‘Speed’: https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/dash-casual . (For some reason you need to click on the ‘Variable’…

Odd, I’ve had the opposite experience… back home in Australia the boxes came with metal edges, but here in the UK (Scotland) they all seem to be plain cardboard. If the metal ones …

It looks like that never occurs for Helvetica (A316600) due to the absence of kerning. However, with Arial (A316599) the description notes: > a(29368) = 111111 is a first notable a…

I am immediately reminded of my favourite quote from the Jewish book Pirkei Avot (‘Ethics of the Fathers’): > It is not your duty to finish the work [of perfecting the world], but …

Or, for that matter, what if you happened to be in a spot which had been occupied by a person at the time at which it resets?

I found this comment pretty convincing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247413

Also known as ‘boolean blindness‘: e.g. https://cs-syd.eu/posts/2016-07-24-overcoming-boolean-blindn...

> Part of me feels like direct numeric array indexing is one of the last holdouts of a low-level operation screaming for some standardized higher-level abstraction. This paragraph …

Persian mersi is actually a direct borrowing from the French [1]. Not sure about the other one, but I guess it’s just a coincidence, as happens so often in language [2]. [1] https:…

The linked paper has some pictures: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193087