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  • I agree with you!

    Word definitions are like the lowest common denominator consensus version of those individual meaning, but they are changing slightly all the time as people change. Dictionaries are just documenting that evolution, but are constantly playing catch-up

    This is my pet peeve, and yet I know I’m wrong. I hate Miriam Webster for being a catalog of slang; it’s not a dictionary, anymore. OED is the only English dictionary. Words have meanings, despite 20% of the population misunderstanding or intentionally redefining them.

    And yet, and yet… it is not possible to argue against popular usage in natural languages. The best you can do is use a conlang that enforces strict no-evolution rules, such as the stance Esperanto has traditionally taken. Or learn Volpuk, a logic based language that strives to eliminate all ambiguity and achieves only being impossible to use outside of extremely narrow circumstances, because that’s not how humans think.

    This is one of the great internal conflicts in my world: natural language evolves and changes, and context alters meaning even further; and yet I desire reliable definitions and disambiguity, and shudder when I see MW has added “boomer: N. An older person.”




  • An indisputable fact is that static typing and compilation virtually eliminate an entire class of runtime bugs that plague dynamically typed languages, and it’s not an insignificant class.

    If you add a type checker to a dynamically typed language, you’ve re-invented a strongly typed, compiled language without adding any of the low hanging fruit gains of compiling.

    Studies are important and informative; however, it’s really hard to fight against the Monte Carlo evidence of 60-ish years of organic evolution: there’s a reason why statically typed languages are considered more reliable and fast - it’s because they are. There isn’t some conspiracy to suppress Lisp.



  • No. The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is 10 light days away. The outer edge of 100 ld away.

    The math looks like:

    • 1 AU is the distance from the Sun to Earth.
    • The Earth is 8 light minutes from Sol
    • The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is (minimum) 2,000 AU ≈ 16,000 light-minutes, or 11 day light days.
    • The outer edge is about 100,000 AU away; that’s about a year and a half to get from the inner edge to the outer edge, traveling at the speed of light.

    The Oort Cloud is not only mind bogglingly far away, it’s about 50x deeper than it is away from the sun.

    Those are minimum estimates; some estimates have the inner cloud edge 28 AU away.

    The original Superman wasn’t a god, but it got hyperbolic over the years with one-upmanship until he was indistinguishable from a god. Canonically, beings regularly travel between star systems, so FTL is not uncommon in the DC universe. Heck, in Invincible (not DC), even relatively low-power beings travel FTL all over, all the time. Spacetime doesn’t work the same in comics. So, Superman can travel FTL, and the Oort Cloud would be reachable. But he’d have to travel at least 20x the speed of light to get to the Cloud and back in a day, and thousands of times faster if he wants to explore it at all, or see the outer edge.





  • I thought briefly about editing that to say, “in this context”, but I thought it might be redundant.

    It’s like the whole fruit/vegetable debate, and there not really being a scientific category of “vegetables” that aligns with the common usage. However, in common usage, the loose, lay definition of “vegetable” is far more useful than the scientific, taxonomical one.

    Context is king.



  • Hmm. Would that be good, though? Different rules, different moderators. Wouldn’t an aggregation system based on subscription be better? Consolidating would result in a consolidation of power into the hands off a few.

    Consolidation would also encounter trouble when server admins disagree with moderators about community rules. When conflicts happen - which they inevitably would - we’d have a situation where the community would split as some moderators recreate a new community on a different server. It was hard enough when lemm.ee shut down, and that have communities no option but to switch; if the reason for a move is policy and not server shutdown, the chaos would be far worse.

    The more I think about it, the worse consolidation sounds.