Windschatten is an exception.
Yes, "windshadow" one is more descriptive than "slipstream". (At least for me.)
Readit NewsBost commented on The Awful German Language (1880) faculty.georgetown.edu/jo... · Posted by u/nalinidash
Bost commented on Oda Ujiharu: Why the ‘weakest Samurai warlord’ is admired tokyoweekender.com/art_an... · Posted by u/cdplayer96
Man of the people:
> Ujiharu’s blind charges may actually have had a noble purpose. Japanese battles involving castles almost always turned into sieges, and those always ended the same way: with the nearby fields and peasant settlements being either destroyed to try and draw the lord out of the castle or looted to feed the occupying army. Some researchers believe that Ujiharu was trying to avoid a siege to save his subjects.
I wonder how he managed to reconquer his castle.
By, uh... besieging it, maybe? Probably?
Now repeat that eight times - and honestly, I’m struggling to see where and how exactly he tried to save his subjects.
Sorry, but losing your castle nine times isn’t what capable military leaders do.
Bost commented on CCL: Categorical Configuration Language chshersh.com/blog/2025-01... · Posted by u/SchwKatze
Have a look at "Code is Data / Data is Code" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
And then see how it's done in real life: https://guix.gnu.org/
Bost commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
As a conservative American, I'm...
Cautiously optimistic about: curbing government spending, reducing illegal immigration, protecting unborn lives, restraining Iran + proxies, continuing economic growth
Nervous about: Ukraine, additional inflation caused by tariffs, ongoing political polarization
What about "If things don't go my way, I don't mind starting civil war?"
Bost commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
Apparently that's the case.
Bost commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
The message is the same even for non-America - we need to engage with these folks and stop disparaging them. We need to talk to them, we need to understand where they're coming from, we need to help clear the air between "us and them" so that there won't be an "us and them" and so we can _together_ avoid people that tell us what we want to hear.
We need to understand that such people want to be distracted and entertained.
Give them the show they want, promise them something and they happily make you their king.
They don't ask you to fulfill the promises. They just want to hear them.
That's it.
Bost commented on Programming languages that blew my mind (2023) yoric.github.io/post/prog... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
My mind blown experience was listening to a Rich Hickey talk (maybe not [1]) that flipped upside down my accepted method of thinking about types and type system paradigms. I still love writing Haskell and Rust, but I see the warts that he is so concisely pointing out. The either type really sticks out to me now, and I see the problems with overtyping what are essentially maps, and how rigid that makes every aspect of your programs. Currently I deal with a fairly large go monolith that had some clean code practices in it, and changing a single field that is going to make it into the public API ends up being hundreds or thousands of lines of changes. Such a waste of time to CRUD what is a map of strings.
> that flipped upside down my accepted method of thinking about types and type system paradigms.
Could you please write where in the video is Rich talking about it?
Bost commented on Programming languages that blew my mind (2023) yoric.github.io/post/prog... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I started learning programming with modern dialect of BASIC and when I first tried Lua, I've had my mind blown when I discovered:
- tables (hashmap)
- regex
- pass by reference (caused a lot of confusion and frustrating bugs)
- metatables
- goto and labels
- multiple return values
- static types
- function declarations I can understand how to use without reading their code
- functional paradigm
- batteries included standard library
- compile-time functions
- generics
- templates
- macros
- exploring and manipulating AST
- const, let, var (immutability)
- pointers and references
- compiler optimizations
- move semantics
- memory management
- I can compile code to both javascript and C?!
- C, C++ and JS interop (ffi)
- I can read and understand source code of standard library procedures?!
- huh, my computer is fast, like crazy fast!!
- and probably more, but that's what I can recall now..That idea `function can return multiple values` was a bit of `Wait what? Ah I almost forgot :facepalm:` moment for me.
(The quadratic formula function for solving quadratic equations `ax^2 + bx + c = 0` returns TWO values.)
Bost commented on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/shmatt
I assure you, as a matter of fact, (A) the size of your social circle is very limited, and (B) such an attitude as yours could safely be labeled as cultural ignorance bordering on cultural arrogance.