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New comment by bazoom42 in "Amateur may have cracked Linear A"

bazoom42 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:52:02 +0000

Not questioning the particular finding, just wondering in general. E.g when linear B or hieroglyphs were cracked, you could check angainst other untranslated texts and see if the translation still made sense.

New comment by bazoom42 in "Amateur may have cracked Linear A"

bazoom42 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:27:09 +0000

I wonder how you would even know if you have “cracked” it, given the corpus is so small?

New comment by bazoom42 in ""No Feigning Surprise""

bazoom42 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:11:58 +0000

Still comes off as rather condescending, honestly.

Why not just explain the thing that needs explaining.

New comment by bazoom42 in ""No Feigning Surprise""

bazoom42 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:53:04 +0000

The comic explains it better: Don’t act surprised if sombody doesn’t know something - even if you are genuinely surprised.

> I think it's generally best to be open in communicating with others

I’m pretty sure you wouldnt blurt out “you sure got fat” in a buisiness meeting, even if it genuinely was the first thought which popped into your head. Not every thought or feeling need to be communicated.

New comment by bazoom42 in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

bazoom42 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:25:45 +0000

What do you like about Java compared to C#?

New comment by bazoom42 in "CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts"

bazoom42 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:27:29 +0000

Not which works under the same constraints as the web.

But for simpler scenarios (like fixed-sized paper, desktop displays before super-wide screens), you can have both simpler and more precise layout systems.

New comment by bazoom42 in "The Cypherpunk Library"

bazoom42 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:18:55 +0000

This is fascinating. Do you enjoy music?

New comment by bazoom42 in "Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I."

bazoom42 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:42:35 +0000

There is no actor shortage.

New comment by bazoom42 in "Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele in Conversation (2018)"

bazoom42 — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:19:56 +0000

A litmus-test in what way?

New comment by bazoom42 in "Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us"

bazoom42 — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:30:34 +0000

How can it be statically typed in JavaScript?

New comment by bazoom42 in "Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us"

bazoom42 — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:41:33 +0000

So this looks like dynamically scoped callbacks. Instead of passing callbacks along as parameters they are declared as “handlers”, and any function down the call stack can invoke them. Is this a correct understanding?

New comment by bazoom42 in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

bazoom42 — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:54:31 +0000

Are you aware this is from the Roman era, more than a 1000 years after Achilles supposedly lived?

Also, this does not particularly look like Brad Pitt. If you are referring to the greyish color of the marble, be aware statues were painted in antiquity.

New comment by bazoom42 in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

bazoom42 — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:33:31 +0000

What historical monuments are you referring to?

New comment by bazoom42 in "Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'"

bazoom42 — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:01:21 +0000

If you genuinely believe every actor should be Greek or Anatolian, that would be a fair and consistent position.

New comment by bazoom42 in "Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'"

bazoom42 — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:44:23 +0000

Is it also patronizing towards Americans to have Brad Pitt play Achilles?

New comment by bazoom42 in "England Runestones"

bazoom42 — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:22:40 +0000

> But at first the politically expedient religion was just a performance, I guess, until later on they started to mean it.

Why do you think so?

New comment by bazoom42 in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

bazoom42 — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:02:56 +0000

The comment I replied to stated brackets helped them more than indentation.

New comment by bazoom42 in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

bazoom42 — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:25:45 +0000

So you would find bracketed code without any use of indentation easier to read than python?

New comment by bazoom42 in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

bazoom42 — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:23:45 +0000

> if overly shortened are hard to decipher especially if you don't use or read python on a regular basis.

Sure, but this is the case for any language.

New comment by bazoom42 in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

bazoom42 — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:03:01 +0000

For larger systems you create your own modules and abstractions, so comprehensibility at higher level does not depend so much on the language.