z500's comments

On: Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

[z500]

Egyptian had it, and although it's Afroasiatic it's not Semitic, so it must have gone back further than that.

On: Am I German or Autistic?

[z500]

Doch.

[addandsubtract → z500]

Tja.

On: Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

[z500]

I've never heard of it being based on that root before. Do you have a source?

[shakna → z500]

The two big ones for discussing Germanic languages and their inheritance would probably be:

"From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic", Ringe.

And the simpler "Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme", Dunkel.

Both use "n̥-s-ero-", though in the more traditional /ˈun.se.rɑz/ form.

On: Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

[z500]

It's like wiping your arse with silk.

On: Should QA exist?

[z500]

We don't have dedicated QA at my job, but personally I'm thrilled when a coworker finds a bug in my code. It's much more preferable to the customer finding it

[D-Coder → z500]

Yes! I had a QA person apologize once for finding a bug in my code. I thanked him for not letting it make me look like an idiot.

On: French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?

[z500]

The only problem with that is the vast number of declensions. Sure they're not as wildly divergent as, say Latin or Ancient Greek, and there's no gender, but because of all the cases there's a lot of subtle variations to remember

[Koshkin → z500]

Sure; this has nothing to do with the way written words are spoken, though.

On: French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?

[z500]

Like that scene in Hot Fuzz where they go out to talk to the farmer about cutting his neighbor's hedge, and they need a translator for the translator

On: The Jellies That Evolved a Different Way to Keep Time

[z500]

> A circadian clock must be self-sustained and internally driven, as the 20-hour cycle of the jellies’ spawning is. It must also be regulated by an environmental stimulus such as light; while the jellies’ spawning clock can run on a 20-hour cycle under persistent light in the lab, in nature it resets every day.

Sounds like that is what happens.

On: Our commitment to Windows quality

[z500]

It's not just media files. I'm forced to use Windows 11 on my work PC, and I had to disable the new shell extensions to make the file explorer usable again. It's noticeably faster without the new UI.

On: “Your frustration is the product”

[z500]

Any time I have to use the Internet without an ad blocker it's truly shocking how absolutely lousy everything is with ads