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> One of the keys to a successful revolution is not purging all your allies by means of purity tests.

Yep, that usually happens only _after_ the successful revolution

This is bullshit. How would people know that a new cafe has opened without advertising? Those greedy baristas and bakers, trying to leave poor customers poorer for enjoying a morning coffee with croissant.

Ok, thanks for explaining

Imagine a US House of Representatives passes a law that allows higher taxes for obese people. And someone would say: “lol it’s fake news, it will never pass the senate”. Even if it doesn’t pass the Senate later, it’s huge news now that it passed the House in the first place.

As I understood, this is a completely different thing from what we had so far (herdr TUI), fully incompatible - so technically the only common thing between them is the team and the name.

It doesn't see the sessions in my already-running remote herdr server, you cannot access the Herdr App remote sessions from your mobile phone (previously you could via SSH client like Termius).

A stack can grow arbitrarily deep (in practice, assuming 64-bit address space), but it grows only in one dimension. However, you can also have arbitrarily many stacks, so you can have a separate stack for every single thing that can grow in size in your program (by statically analyzing what variables hold data structures that could grow, and how many stacks at most you will need at the peak when program runs).

It was sarcasm, I guess

You will be delighted to discover it's also a dog breed!

> But how does it do it? What tools does it use to that effect? I appreciate that this film remains relatively neutral/ambiguous, but what makes this unique from other documentaries that deal with ambiguous subject matter?

If you’re that interested in getting these answers, you probably should watch the film

> their cash register doesn't work, they can't record your purchase or calculate taxes

I say, if there's no electricity, nobody owes any taxes to this government.

Treason by citizens of what country against what country?

> Whereas you take great care of your local community by even refusing to live around anyone not as well off as you

Yes, I want to choose who I spend time with and around, and I want to choose what people influence my children in their formative years.

I fail to see what’s wrong with it, especially if it’s also done on my dime.

You forgot SQLite, but yes.

> I would expect a majority of nouns to be according to the animate / inanimate split

Well, as I understand, the actual animate/inanimate split was there at least 10 000 years ago (or more)! And the language has gradually changed over the years until it's barely recognizable. For half of the period that passed we didn't even have written languages, and can only approximately deduce the words by tracing their common origins in related languages.

See how modern English has changed in 500 years from the earlier Middle English — as a non-native English speaker, I can barely recognize a few things, and it's otherwise completely unintelligible for me. Now multiply that change by at least 20x.

So how words are split between genders in modern languages - has very little relation to how they were before. For example, in modern Spanish, masculine gender is a fusion of Latin masculine and neuter genders. So technically if we say that in Classical Latin there was still a statistically significant animate/inanimate split between masculine and neuter genders - nowadays it's the same single gender in Spanish.

For example, if I am talking about a window and a door, and a window is masculine and a door is feminine, I can use the pronoun "it" in either masculine or feminine form to clearly refer to one or the other. Or I could use a verb "opened" in a masculine or feminine form, and it will be clear which of two things I mean without explicitly repeating.

> I am really confused as to how it ever developed

Upon digging, I actually found it fascinating. As I understand how it happened for Proto-Indo-European languages (with a bit of healthy speculation because for the earlier parts there's not much reliable statistical data to confirm it exactly, and there are always some competing explanations by different linguists):

First, before PIE, the older language had no genders, but instead had cases with a twist similar to what they have in Basque language: instead of our usual nominative+accusative cases it had absolutive+ergative cases. The difference is as follows in two sentences: "cat walks" and "dog eats bone". In modern PIE descendants we have "cat" and "dog" in nominative, and "bone" is in accusative case. In modern Basque and the hypothetic language before PIE the "cat" and the "bone" are in absolutive case, and the "dog" is in ergative.

So basically, there was a word form that meant "something does action upon something else" and another word form that meant "something receives an action from another actor or performs the action by itself".

Then these word forms were reinterpreted as "people or animals that do things" and "inanimate or dumb things". So it became two genders: animate and inanimate. People started assigning new words to these genders (sometimes randomly).

Then the plural form of inanimate gender started meaning collective and abstract things. As an analogy, "cows" would also start meaning a collective "herd", not only multiple cows; "grains" would start meaning "cereal", not only multiple grains of wheat. Over time, people started conjugating the plural inanimate abstract words in a pattern similar to singular animate, thus a third gender appeared - many thousand years later we called it "feminine", the former animate gender we started calling "masculine", and the former inanimate gender we started calling "neuter" (literally means "neither").

After the word gender patterns established over time, new words and new word forms started being distributed among these genders also without strict rules, sometimes by chance, or by analogy with existing words that sounded similarly in that period.

Thus we had three genders of Proto-Indo-European languages that developed over millenia for no particular reason and without a specific goal, just naturally and due to fossilizing old speech elements being reinterpreted a little bit differently by new generations — over many generations over thousands of years.

You probably mean word genders? So you probably say it's sometimes difficult to derive the gender of a noun, hence the correct article

As I understand, the son is there not to lead the company (Greg Abel is the CEO), but to oversee their family's share in the enterprise.

So Orbs are like Grok Bots, I guess? Now every company has to copy this feature, and name it differently

But if you don’t, you don’t use Python anyway

I think Pareto principle applies here: most discussions will be shallow, only occasionally diving deep — and Twitter acknowledges that reality, and builds around it.

Network effect. Most people worth discussing with are already there, so more people join the discussion there, and so on.

> I'm not even going to criticize DHH for getting that money, good for him

He's not getting that money, he literally donated 10% of that money himself

Well, don't use it

What alternative plan are you implementing?

I agree overall, however:

> A lot of the less popular alternatives (just going with Prometheus, Victoriametrics, etc) are de-facto competing smaller standards

By all metrics (hah), Prometheus is the more popular solution and is the de-facto standard, as far as I know.

I didn’t like what the market was offering, and I didn’t like depending on other people not firing me, so I made one for myself where I can work on what I like the way I like (started a small software business).

You can, too. It’s the simplest and cheapest business to start in the entire history of humankind, and you literally just sit with your laptop at home all day pressing buttons

> It feels like my career went from upwards to a horizontal line. I have far less energy for work, for learning, and for the things I'm interested in. It's incredibly demoralising

How do you separate how much having kids affects this, and how much of it is just being 30+ and not taking care of own health?

I have a few childless friends who say the same thing word for word.

Man, re-read this comment in 10 years

> If you would just distribute it equally to all relevant citizens

Ironically, this approach would give power to an entity that decides who is relevant and who becomes a citizen, which is the government.