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Craig Wright claims to have used std:chrono in 2007 (twitter.com/bitnorbert)
17 points by jonathanzufi on Feb 9, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 16 comments



> Oh, it wasn't the C++ 11 feature, see, he worked on Project Chrono and they put everything in the std namespace, see.

Classic pathological liar stuff. Just keep digging with bigger and more outlandish lies.

> He says "object orientated" instead of "object oriented"

To be fair, "orientated" is much more common and natural to say outside America. It's not the common term but it's not wrong.


But programming paradigms and terminology are all invented inside America.

No one says "object orientated".

> He says "object orientated" instead of "object oriented", "Object C" instead of Objective-C, and of course he pronounces the X in LaTeX. I bet he says "authentificated" too. That guy can't code.

The only thing is I also say it like "latex". :C That's how it's fucking spelled!


> But programming paradigms and terminology are all invented inside America.

That's a strange thing to claim. Do you think people in other countries have just never done any of that?

> The only thing is I also say it like "latex". :C That's how it's fucking spelled!

Yeah, same here. Wonder if others are pronouncing it like "latte" (the coffee) or something...


I said it as latex when I first just read it, but then most professors and such around me said it like La-teck. So I think that's the right way.


It's tech as in technology. You want to argue with long-dead Greek or what? Post about it on X!


No, it’s spelled LaTeΧ, with a chi.


The house of cards is finally falling for cryptocurrency crooks. SBF, CZ, Craig Wright... who's next? I can't wait to find out. If Ruja Ignatova got caught that would really top it off.


Who is this and why should I care? I don’t typically follow twitter legal drama.


Crypto con artist who falsely claimed to have invented bitcoin and has ruined people’s lives by suing them in the UK for libel if you tell the truth about him


Fake Satoshi. Ignore him.


> of course he pronounces the X in LaTeX

Okay.. how is LaTeX pronounced?


LaTeX - like the 'ch' in German 'ach' - the X is meant to be a Greek letter χ (chi). TeX is supposed to have a soft Kh as opposed to a hard K.


Copied from: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17502/what-is-the-co...

Let the creators of TeX and LaTeX answer:

Donald Knuth wrote in the first chapter of his TeXbook:

    English words like ‘technology’ stem from a Greek root beginning with the letters τεχ...; and this same Greek word means art as well as technology. Hence the name TeX, which is an uppercase form of τεχ.

    Insiders pronounce the χ of TeX as a Greek chi, not as an ‘x’, so that TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh. It’s the ‘ch’ sound in Scottish words like loch or German words like ach; it’s a Spanish ‘j’ and a Russian ‘kh’. When you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist.
Leslie Lamport wrote in the first chapter of his book LaTeX: A document Preparation System:

    One of the hardest things about LaTeX is deciding how to pronounce it.This is also one of the few things I'm not going to tell you about LaTeX, since pronunciation is best determined by usage, not fiat. TeX is usually pronounced teck, making lah-teck, and lay-teck the logical choices; but language is not always logical, so lay-tecks is also possible.


Pronounce it like a Klingon.


The X is pronounced like a K.


Even boost::chrono wasn’t out then.




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