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You misrepresent the timeline, though. Webster popularised the simplifications in US English in 1828. But this was about six hundred years after colour was borrowed into English from French, not the Latin "color" that Webster preferred.
Yes, and big tech should similarly be regulated like traditional telecommunications, where subscribers of telco A can call subscribers of telco B without problems (unlike most chat services).
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I've had a similar idea for some time now, albeit without the unnecessary focus on American English: With the UK probably - and very unfortunately - leaving the EU the latter could adopt English as its main language without any unfair advantage to one of the larger EU countries or hurting national sentiment.

I'd even go as far as to propose adopting English as the main language for legal matters, public administration, business and education in each of the EU member countries.

The language barrier is the predominant obstacle preventing a closer integration between EU countries and collaboration between businesses across borders.

A single, unified language over time could remedy that problem.
> Seems odd, surely you could argue it was because of British imperialism (which also brought English to the US)? The British empire once covered 1/3 of the globe, it seems far more likely a cause.

If this were the reason, then English should already have been the lingua franca in 1900. But it wasn't.

But the previous spreading of the English language by the English Empire certainly helped when the US emerged as one of the main beneficiary of WW2.
> seems like medium is not the ideal solution anymore

It never was.
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Absolutely this. The time I find comments really valuable is when they remind me (or someone else) 18 months down the line that the other, obvious way to do this thing is subtly wrong, or when they justify using this particular value (perhaps with a link to some outside reference). Comments are mostly hints and metadata.

For example, in a recent file that deals with the database:

// note: the ROW() constructor below is required in Postgres 10+ if we're updating a single column

(There was a syntax change from Postgres 9 that was caught by our tests)

// these are the only meaningful values in Postgres:
// see https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-set-transaction.html

(Justifying why we don't support the whole SQL-standard range of transaction isolation types)

// on trapping the following two rollback error codes, see:
// https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1368066680.60649.YahooMailNeo@web162902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
// this is also a good read:
// https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/serializable-postgresql-11-and-beyond

(An audit trail for why we catch some error codes but not others that initially look similar)
I recall hearing this adage from a philisopher of mathematics a few years ago, and it has really stuck with me.
To me, this seems like the source of much unproductive disagreement.

It highlights on one hand the value of Baysian theory (for it can break the stalemate). On the other hand, it highlights an uncomfortable truth for science. Two reasonable people with different experiences (and hence different priors) can interpret the same evidence in wholly different ways.
Hence, there is not a clear-cut criterion for 'conclusive' evidence.
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I associate the diff colors with traffic lights: red means "after applying this commit, we STOP running this code..." and green means "...and we START running that code".

No value judgement intended, and who doesn't love to see a diff with a ton of red replaced with just a little green? Someone was cleaning house!
I was raised to use British English spelling. Honestly, without any offence intended, whenever I see words like 'color', 'organize', 'oriented' and so on my mind sees it as a lazy (for lack of a better word) interpretation of the original word's spelling that has evolved in the US. I don't think the content has any less merit because of it, the authors are following the American convention. Just saying that because I'm curious as to what American's think when they read British spelling?

Also, whenever I write CSS and type 'color', I think, this was developed in America so they have complete right to spell it however they damn well please.
There are many reasons why using English makes sense, but saving costs on translation is just not that.

Unless you are bilingual the lost productivity of having to use non native language in business context would easily dwarf any cost savings, due to misunderstandings, miscommunication, not "Punkt genau" documentation etc ...

Heck, anyone can just try to do an IQ test in non-native language and see how the score drops.
>5G-NR standard only gives a 15-20%

15-25% is _fucking_ _huge_. Even a few percent increase would be worth it for telcos.
English has the advantage of being an easy language to learn (at least up to 80% proficiency): no genders, little conjugation, no declension.
> red means bad and green means good. This association is cross-cultural, probably universal, and probably as old as the hills

This is strongly and patently not true. Here in Japan the available taxi is in Red while the taken one is in Green, and there are many more similar examples. Admitedly it's mixed, because traffic lights are still red to stop and blue to cross. Wait blue? There was no distinction in Japan between green and blue back in the day and that still remains. Colors are very much culture-dependent, and saying otherwise is ingenuous at least and misleading at best.
You say that like you jest, but with the UK out the chances of having a common language have improved.
But people clearly want to see what's popular in their own bubble. Facebook just gives people what they want.
Not OP,
but I will answer with the second option and ask him what I should do?
English is only the smallest common denominator really, and it hurts to hear Germans speak English imprecisely, stereotypically, or plain incorrectly. I'm far from being a language nationalist or something, but I think the EU (parliament, comission) should take the opportunity to move away from English, and begin to speak and publish in the "Common Tongue" (German, French, etc.) instead.
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> With the UK probably and very unfortunately - leaving the EU the latter could adopt English as its main language without any unfair advantage to one of the larger EU countries or hurting national sentiment.

This is exactly the point the article makes.
Well, I have no objection on english being the de-facto lingua franca. But my position on english being the only official language is certainly not as simple. And the same is true for german, french or any of the other official languages of the EU - neither of them are or should be the only official language in such a multilingual construct as the EU. So I share the ambassadors rejection of the notion to only use english and I do not regard that as pettiness harmful to the EU. Sure, translation costs money, but it also makes records more accessible to the citizens, and I regard that as a good thing.
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Pretty much every PaaS provider does that. If you're exceeding the number of queries a node can process you either need a bigger node or more nodes, therefore the amount you have to pay is directly related to the number of queries you send. The only difference is that firebase automatically adds more nodes behind the scenes which makes surprise bills possible. If you're not adding more nodes, your application simply stops serving requests reliably because your DB is overloaded. Therefore the actual problem is not the billing model, it's the fact that the code is crap.
About 1 in 4000 people has problems with blue and yellow. If you try to accommodate everyone, you just can't use color for information. I think using blue and yellow is a reasonable compromise.
Arguing with economic laws makes as much sense as arguing with gravity. The only reason you get as far as you do is that the level of econ education approaches zero in the general population. What you said is not even wrong, it's not well defined, it's not supported by any evidence and it betrays that you have absolutely no clue about how markets work at all. It's a lot like if you had said "falling down hurts as long as we don't abolish gravity".
Living in working in the Berlin tech world, English is already the official working language in most companies. Even as I german i have no problem with this, my only gripe is that it makes it very hard for my non-german colleagues to learn german.
The cultural, scientific, and commercial works that have been created in English in the past 100 years dwarf anything created in French or Latin by a gigantic order of magnitude.

Why would we possibly switch to anything else, and lose 'access' to all that? All of the greatest movies and TV shows, the millions of scientific articles, the music, the computer code... English will never lose its position because of the amount of value that has been created with it.

How could English ever possibly change (in the way that Latin morphed into the various European languages after the fall of the Roman Empire), when we have access to perfect digital copies of how it is spoken and written?
Just because it's spoken by more native speakers than any other language that doesn't automatically make Mandarin more relevant in a global context.

English is a global language due to its history (largely grounded in the British Empire's colonial history). Mandarin on the other hand in a global context as of today is still largely irrelevant because it's only spoken in one country, even as that country is as globally relevant as China.

That might change in the future but unless you specifically deal with China and Chinese businesses Mandarin is no more relevant on a global level than - say - Russian or German.
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Did you just make an argument against PC review sites publishing any benchmarks at all because readers can't be trusted to interpret them correctly?

That would kind of defeat the point.

If they published a benchmark in the past and don't bother to correct the benchmark when it becomes out of sync with reality - that is just bad journalism.

Nobody is saying you should go and cherry-pick benchmarks after the mitigations hit, but you should definitely check the benchmarks you already published once.

These sites can and should expect an informed reader.

In any case: Leaving wrong information up uncontested helps neither "experts" nor laymen.
Sounds like a dystopian future to me.
Interesting - I've heard this, but always as a joke. It never occurred to me that anyone could actually believe it. I am not saying that you did that but I can imagine how someone explaining to the laughing audience that this event did not really happen would be kind of anti-social.
They couldn't maintain quality when they went to 5 episodes a year, which is why they've gone back down to 3 episodes.
Yeah, but a personal Wordpress website also is 1-to-many. Where will this end?
This video [1] goes into more detail as to what exactly they did wrong and how to fix it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb-Pnytoi-8
Renato Constantino, Filipino historian, argues persuasively that children should be educated in their natal tongue. Largely a political essay, also discusses language issues like a child having to learn a language not spoken in the home before they can begin to learn.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7735/865e2ea8fd8d9662f3916f...
I am right now at work, struggling to understand other peoples code. Simple google search led me there.
100% this. For a team of good developers this is by far the best model to get things done. SCRUM only serves to prevent a very bad team from doing even worse then they would do otherwise. However for a team of competent developers SCRUM is painfully stifling.
(While Zamenhof tried hard, unfortunately,) False.

- The vocabulary is a big part of the language learning and it is hard to even begin with when the target vocabulary resembles nothing in your original tongues. It can be probably argued that ESL learners can learn Esperanto more quickly, but it still represents only about 1/4 of the total human population.

- Rhotic consonants are particularly hard to pronounce correctly even for many ESL learners, and yet Esperanto retains them.

- Esperanto by itself does not have a word order, but it does have a preferred word order of Subject-Verb-Object which is equally probable as Subject-Object-Verb but much more familiar to Indo-Europeans.

- I think Esperanto, in spite of its original premise, has picked idioms and phrases up as well, as common in every old enough language.

It is now widely accepted that the difference between the native tongue and the target language greatly impacts the learning curve. If Esperanto does succeed, it would not be due to the easiness, because the easiness would be highly subjective.
>I have almost never seen Scrum sold as magical by developers. Executives? Yes. Consultants? Yes. But developers?

In many places, especially smaller ones, project managers are also developers (or lead developers etc), and they often drink the Scrum kool-aid.
Perhaps where you lived. I experienced this fracturing of culture in a non-white, non-western, non-Christian country. I think it is a global effect.

I agree that the centralization of culture allowed the people in power to suppress diversity and control the cultural narrative. But now there is no longer a cultural narrative at all. It is too fractures to make any holistic sense.
Fellow Dutch speaker here. Why in the world are you a big fan of our language? Just because it's your own? And German, just because it's so close? Both languages are horrible to learn compared to English.
I do not disagree, but that will not happen :] Even English won't happen before I die, and that would not be a hard switch.
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The fact that it has so lany dialects that are frequently explored in popular media too means its a language that can be spoken poorly and still be understood. The listener bears some of the cognitive load and many other languages arent as advanced in this regard.
Depends. Are we talking self-esteem/dignity points, or good doggie/loyalty points?
I'm thinking of examples like this:

https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_image.h

It's a complete image loader library in a single header. This header contains everything I need to use that library: the entire documentation, the license, public API declarations and finally the implementation source code.

I can read this file from top to bottom to know every little detail about this library, or I can stop somewhere inbetween (for instance when I only want to know how to use the library and what the API looks like, but I'm not interested in the implementation details).
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It seems we have a pretty fucked up cycle here:

* Create quality service, prioritizing user experience over money

* Grow site to significant user base

* Start running out of money, because hosting and running a site does cost money

* Try to monetize service

* Get out-competed by another service still at step 1

The presence of VC money that's all about capturing market share now, and monetizing later does not help.

In the end, we have become accustomed to a world where things that cost money are given to us for free. When there are attempts to charge us so things remain sustainable, we get angry! It's a tough problem, and I don't know the solution.
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Phoronix serves two important purposes that nobody else does. 1) It serves as a news aggregator for a lot of different open source communities. You'd think that a site called hacker news would do that, but ironically it doesn't. Most content here is either heavily web dominated, or just random drivel about being excellent in life. 2) He runs his standard battery of tests on everything. A lot of upstream projects don't seem to have that much emphasis on performance regression testing. He has uncovered a few regressions and reported them upstream on a few occasions.
That's not always possible. Thus a big no-no for SQS if that's what you need. Concluding: SQS cannot replace RabbitMQ in all usecases.
British empire was (almost) 1/4 - it was never close to 1/3 of the world.

Even at its peak, English language wasn't as widespread as now. The French language was, especially in 18th and 19th century, having substituted Latin.

After WW2, US absolutely dominated the world coming off as the only victor in WW2 (that's my personal opinion) and used their position to place English language as #1 language of the world (over time), undisputed. The end of the cold war cemented this even further.

We can argue that British imperialism helped somewhat, that I agree with.
This is brilliant! Finally there's the opportunity to adopt an equalizing language that will also help free us from national culture isolationism:

- a language that is nobody's mother tongue: YEEEY!

- language that is not attached to any one culture: 10x YEEY!

Think about it! This could help global not just European unity: all the people of Asian and African origin who already speak fluent English could instantly embrace and join in and start building the new pan-European culture that will grow into a new and rich global culture. Freed from the tyranny of national-language-culture, this could be the first truly global culture Humanity has the chance to produce!

One thing Globalism 1.0 did wrong was trying to destroy culture. We know now that this leaves a void that attracts trash like racism, xenophobia and isolationism to get filled by these - culture too abhors vacuum! Now Globalism 2.0 can start right in the EU by constructing a new culture around a language that is nobody's own, at least on the cultural front. If this would ever work it will coagulate around it a new literature, then media etc. And finally we'd have a non-trash global culture that will be able to keep us united enough to properly address global issues like pollution and climate change!

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It's vital small languages are preserved and that the world doesn't become monolingual. Communication is a funny word -- we often mean it to commuincate with others but often we communicate with ourselves in the present -- and to our furture selves -- e.g. code comments are often for your future self as well as other programmers.

People who speak different lanaguges litteraly "think differently" and diversity of thought is absolutely essential to humanity progressing.

It's been positied that "Asians are better at math" because their languages have a more logical naming system for numbers giving many a small early advantage that accumulates over time. Other languges possess other attributes that impart such advantages or disadvanges giving us diversity of thought so that we can have new ideas about things and new perspectives.
> This is one of many, many reasons why spaced-repetition systems should support dependencies - as in, "delay card X until after cards A, B, C have been solidly learned.

I half agree, but I think it works as is. You just manage the dependencies yourself. It's kind of an art, but you get a feel for how to do it. I find in practice it works without having to have the delay, though perhaps a delay would eek out marginally better performance. It's mostly just up to you figuring out the total set of things you need to be able to recall and whether to include any bi-directional facts or any meta-facts to aid the recall.

As for the L1 -> L2 vs. L2 -> L1 debate:

L2 -> L1 all day, every day.
So what's the definition of EU-en, compared to US-en or UK-en? I know the differences between US-en and UK-en, but I'm lacking facts about EU-en.
> AMD just aren't selling many CPUs to business desktop system integrators, partly due to dubious tactics by Intel to keep them out of the market. If you sell most of your CPUs to enthusiasts, it just doesn't make sense to squander die area on a crappy iGPU.

I'm a developer, and I want fast build times. I don't need a dedicated GPU for that.

Right now I'm squandering money and power on a dedicated GPU which is probably idling at 0.0000001% rendering a composited 2D desktop in its sleep.
Chinese is tonal and cannot be typed into a computer without going through the Pinyin intermediary stage. It is fundamentally ill-suited to being a modern global language.
I don't see anything particularly mean about that quote and it's definitely not the first time I've heard this argument brought up (that EU can continue with further integration without UK obstructionism).
I am a fan because I like them in a literary sense. I enjoy reading Flemish writers (Hubert Lampo, Hugo Raes) and German writers; I like the way sentences are built up and how they sound. I like Dutch less than Flemish, especially A.B.N. I find quite horrible these days. We bastardized our language too much in my opinion and our Belgian neighbors have always tried to prevent that.

But my point was (typing on mobile so maybe I skipped a beat there) that although I like these languages, I think they are indeed impractical and we should just adopt English or Mandarin.

Edit: also, where does that statement 'horrible to learn' come from? Honest question; I'm not sure how it works; not trolling here. We (the Dutch) are quite lenient with languages and I know why I am anyway; my German is as good as my English and my French and it did not take much effort learning these. I was not a very smart or particularly hard working student but when I grew up there was UK television, German television (the best of the bunch), Dutch television, Belgian television (was very good and original compared to Dutch tv as well, and with shows like Undercover very much back in the game) and French television; I learned most of my practical languages from watching scifi and horror when I was a kid.
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Android 4.1-3 are from 2012, early 2013. So 6-7 years old. Those old devices are barely functional to view modern webpages, anyway.
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> One thing Globalism 1.0 did wrong was trying to destroy culture

Could you expand on this, I'm not sure what you're referring to?
-ize is correct in British English as well; if anything it is more "original" as it comes from the Greek -izo (iota, zeta, omega), which is the origin of the suffix. In fact Oxford English Dictionary (OED) spelling, and the Hart's Rules guide, are for organize, not for organise. (On the other hand, analyze is American while analyse is British.)
When I hear the word scrum I am always reminded that my school stopped playing Rugby because a kid in the next town got his back broken, in a scrum. So from then on we played football (soccer) in Rugby kit, until eventually all the kids had grown out of it, or left. Similarly, if you sprint and sprint and sprint you will collapse from exhaustion.

I often wonder if they picked these words because they knew nothing at all about sports, of if there is a coded warning in them...
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I think the progress part is about having a common language, not about this common language being English.
If the common language was wolof, people moving back to their own (Spanish, French, German, whatever) would be regression, as now a discussion between French, Spanish and German people would be much much harder to have.
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I did just over ~ 17,000 vocab all J -> E. Worked like an absolute charm. Active vocab comes through output. Your method sounds right on point.
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