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As a norwegian, this is a contributing factor to me using zsh

The software developer turned woodworker keeps reading HN? :P

I’ve a feeling the HN crowd has been in a good mood recently. I wonder why.

Link!

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Those magnets are huge.

I wonder if, though possibly solving the problem of clean energy, it will also create other problems, say, something like "geomagnetic field pollution".

What is common knowledge in Norway is that ‘USA does a lot of stupid stuff;’ and there generally seems to us that there’s a certain lack of education. How much truth this carries I never thought to check.

> I can highly recommend the podcast Blueprint for Armageddon, about WWI as told by Dan Carlin.

I’ve been reading so much english lately, that I’m losing grasp of my native norwegian. (Yet I can’t seem to get my syntax quite right.) This is frightening and also the reason I’m always trying to find norwegian books on whatever subject I’m interested in — which isn’t always easy...

Ah, I suppose it seems that way, thanks.

I really had not heard of this; which was why I asked for a source, so that I could learn of it. The request was stupidly lazy, I admit; but I think asking (if done properly) for a source is one of the things that never should be met with disapproval.

Amazing! And indeed, my history teacher wasn’t much (he forgot to turn up for some classes o_O). Though I’ve had a couple of truly good teachers too; a math teacher gave me not good grades (I didn’t deserve them anyways), but he was extremely passionate about maths and such passion, it seems, easily transfers; had I been just slightly more daring, I would now dedicate my life to maths... Instead though, I just got in to the University of Oslo where I’ll study physics :D Which also is something I love, and I can keep doing maths!

May I ask why this is downvoted?

Thanks.

“Common knowledge” of history (ancient and recent) differs vastly from country to country. In Norway, we basically just learn of USA that it’s the country that turns the tide of war whenever it enters; for which we learn of two occasions: 1st and 2nd WW; not much else.

Pardon my english.

> I'm from South America where the US experimented with setting up dictatorships after WWII

Source?

> Citrine is one of the first∗ embeddable∗∗, general purpose, localized programming languages (...) designed to allow every man to write code in his mother tongue

This concentration of asterixes had me laugh out loud. Anyhow, this reminds me of so-called “auxilliary”, constructed languages of communication, which are supposed to be easy to learn all over the world for as many people as possibe all over the world. In reality though, they’re almost without exception wholly eurocentric, built mostly on germanic and romance languages, which barely covers one of the main language families just in europe... likewise, this citrine promises grossly more than it delivers.

Though we shouldn’t stop at that; if we look away from what it claims to be, what it is seems pretty neat. For education, maybe this is great.

Off-topic side remark

HN ‘markup’ diversity is always a joy for the punctuation mark enthusiast.

\Hooray for markup/

User ‘about’ checks out

I came back here in a hurry, having just read that part... where did they get this from? Why on earth would they be interested in forcing ‘confessions’ out of people, just to execute them later?

Maybe my initial comment should be that this is taken out from [a book] that both Orwell, and the Khmer Rouge has read; which book would this be?

> The Khmer Rouge believed that parents were tainted with capitalism, so they separated children from their parents, indoctrinated them in communism, and taught them torture methods with animals. Children were a “dictatorial instrument of the party” and were given leadership in torture and executions.

This sounds like it’s taken straight out of Orwells 1984.

> One final point: I expect none of you to really get what I’m talking about here, because this principle also applies to itself.

This is a bit discontenting... as the author himself notes:

> without some kind of direct experience to use as a touchstone, people don’t have the context that gives them a place in their minds to put the things you are telling then.

Generalizing from mine and friends’ experience, all who have ever tried explaining anything in depth have been exposed to this, thereby we–I expect the HN crowd have all been there–should understand this, we should “get it”.

As an ending note, both OPs post and my comment are grossly simplified; for example, even with “a touchstone” people won’t understand with mere exposure confronted with anything of slight complexity, they probably won’t get it until knowing the stone inside out; I remember after half a year with programming in high school, many people that genuinely tried to learn, still didn’t get why they should bother with getting the syntax exact...

This is very cool

Being a punctuation mark enthusiast, I’m very interested where you got that ⟨==xxx==⟩ notation from

This site is fantastic!

Maybe I’m doing it wrong then.

> “semiotics has become quite chic“

Hehe, does anyone know some good resources for semiotics self study?

Then as one without the slightest insight to the UX world, I can still happily report you can increase the distance quite a lot more!

> Practicing a musical instrument

This is not fun?

I’ve been positively suprised many times, guessing for these bangs as well, very often they tend to be exactly as one would expect, even for sites in my own native language: norwegian, there are bangs for the more niche sites as well.

When I want to look something up in the norwegian Wikipedia I do !wno, for english just !w or !wen (and if I for some reason unbeknownst would want search in another language, it would be just a language tag away), I was very happy to see bangs for both the online norwegian dictionaries I use (!naob and !norsk), and some of the nicher sites, though, maybe not quite so niche here in HN: !dfw (Dwarf Fortress Wiki), even !nhw (nethack), etc.

As one might expect, ‘Joy’ is a popular name. IIRC the Crystal language was also initially named Joy.

‘[M]ore advanced’ meaning ‘better’?