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New comment by argentier in "Pharo 14"

argentier — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:37:48 +0000

C-f Smalltalk

Nothing found. Weird.

New comment by argentier in "The two Christian saints who are the Buddha"

argentier — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:20:34 +0000

America's too.

New comment by argentier in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

argentier — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:46:50 +0000

the phallusy fallacy

New comment by argentier in "Beyond Greece and Rome"

argentier — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:36:22 +0000

Look at the volume of quotations of Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Averroes (Ibn Rushd) by medieval philosophers as a counterpoint.

New comment by argentier in "Beyond Greece and Rome"

argentier — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:34:21 +0000

you could more accurately relate it to the Greek war with the Persians. That's where many of the tropes about Western freedoms vs Eastern tyranny originate. Long before the Latin church was heard of.

See Aeschylus' The Persians

New comment by argentier in "Beyond Greece and Rome"

argentier — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:29:52 +0000

That's more of a statement of the 'Plato to NATO' Western civilization meme than anything real.

New comment by argentier in "Beyond Greece and Rome"

argentier — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:28:09 +0000

Newgrange has nothing to do with the Celts: it predates their arrival by several thousand years.

New comment by argentier in "I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not"

argentier — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:26:41 +0000

humans are not designed

New comment by argentier in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

argentier — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:57:13 +0000

In Ireland at least local calls were a fixed price, no matter how long the call was. Long-distance calls were billed by the minute.

New comment by argentier in "DeepSeek v4"

argentier — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:30:31 +0000

is that you. Adrian Zenz?

New comment by argentier in "Well being in times of algorithms"

argentier — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:24:52 +0000

> "The future has lost it's appeal to me"

culture is stuck in endless remakes of optimistic 70s futurism

it's an important point: we don't have a future, a telos, that doesn't fill us with foreboding

New comment by argentier in "UK, Canada and Australia formally recognise Palestinian state"

argentier — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:05:58 +0000

Untrue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Jews

There are between 300 and 350 thousand Jews living in Iran. I presume the other numbers are similarly nonsensical.

New comment by argentier in "The Ghosts of Gaelic"

argentier — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:11:23 +0000

The Irish spoken in the North West of Ireland (Tir Conaill) is pretty much indistinguishable from Scots Gaedhlig.

The real division is between Gaelic (Irish and Scottish) and Brythonic (Welsh, British and Cornish)

New comment by argentier in "Why I Program in Lisp"

argentier — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:33:19 +0000

"properly working lambda expressions were available only in lisp until recently."

New comment by argentier in "Thomas Aquinas' skull reveals appearance and cause of death"

argentier — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:12:44 +0000

Chesterton described Aquinas as looking quite like Chesterton. Judging by the name at least half a millenium separates Myron Shibley from Aquinas.

Can't it just be a myth, as it seems to hang on a single anecdote?

For comparison, the medievals thought that Ovid's name, Publius Ovidius Naso, was because he had a good nose for sniffing out the truth.

New comment by argentier in "Is Tor still safe to use?"

argentier — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:04:11 +0000

you have the truth - it was cooked up by US Naval Intelligence - why would you think it was safe?

New comment by argentier in "Is Tor still safe to use?"

argentier — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:03:36 +0000

safe as it ever was

New comment by argentier in "The Insecurity of Debian"

argentier — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 07:14:02 +0000

The NSA is about insecurity, not security. They're a SIGINT shop

New comment by argentier in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now"

argentier — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:46:02 +0000

Thanks for that Germany.

Won't you take her back and make her Minister for Castles or something,

New comment by argentier in "EU aims to shift European arms industry to 'war economy mode'"

argentier — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:32:58 +0000

These are simply US talking points, and not very good ones.