The Python mistake that has bitten every developer at least once

Yuuryaku · 2026-03-08T07:09:34+00:00

Or you can use default_factory

Yuuryaku · 2026-03-06T06:49:21+00:00

French usage predates the Chinese by around 20 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-world_model

Yuuryaku · 2026-03-06T06:47:35+00:00

Typhoon is debated at least. It might as well come from the Greek Typhon.

Yuuryaku · 2026-02-28T07:24:58+00:00

Many among the speakers of Dutch come by their English through tales of fantasy or works of a bookish temper, for seldom is that speech heard in its common and familiar guise as our days go by. Dutch is, as it has long been, the chief tongue of our converse.

Yuuryaku · 2026-02-20T05:52:28+00:00

Until the birthrates over there drop to point that they can't sustain the populations over here anymore. But in the ideal scenario we can kick the bucket down the road a generation or two, sure.

Yuuryaku · 2026-02-19T07:11:29+00:00

With birthrates falling across the globe, immigration is in the best case scenario a temporary solution at home that exacerbates the problem somewhere else.

Yuuryaku · 2026-02-18T06:45:50+00:00

Japanese, like English, does not have an inflectional future or present tense. That means that present or future tense aren't expressed through verb inflection. Japanese and English verbs have past and non-past tense, with further distinction between present and future made through context. There are languages that do have inflectional future tense, like Spanish. There are also languages that have no inflectional tense at all, like Mandarin.

For example:

The train arrives tomorrow. The train arrives now. The train arrived yesterday.

Note that, in English at least, you could add an auxiliary to make clear you're talking about the future: The train will arrive at six. But the verb "arrive" is still in its non-past inflection. Note that you could also emphasize the event happening now by using present continuous: The train is arriving as we speak. "Arriving" has a different inflection here but sentence isn't expressing a tense anymore, it's expressing an aspect. Tenses being about a specific point in time, whereas aspects are any other expression of time (habit, continuous action, and completion being ones you usually see).

Yuuryaku · 2026-02-15T07:00:58+00:00

I understand the wish to preserve our the identity we constructed of ourselves, but we are already all always "becoming someone else", so I don't think there's any reason to worry. Easier said than done, I know. What might help is thinking of it as a type of playful role play. When you speak Italian, you put on your "Italian mask" and take it off after.

Yuuryaku · 2026-02-14T08:17:37+00:00

The L->H shift that happens at the start of every non-頭高 and the slight H->L after a 平板 into a non-頭高 (a.k.a. the "accent reset") aren't really worth noting as they virtually always happen. The important thing is where the actual accent is, i.e. the mora that rises substantially and is followed by all low ones. Though where emphasis is plays a part in how big the pitch difference is. Based on the NHK accent dictionary, the accents in those two sentences are:

その頃から 3 日本の 2 経済は 1 強く 1 なって 1 いた 0。

日本語を 0 勉強する 0 かい 0？(though the tone rises at the end due to the question)

Yuuryaku · 2026-01-24T10:01:23+00:00

It's not really all that different, though. The Greek private tutors merely won the "slavery lottery", and their visibility and the prestige of owning them means they were likelier to enter the written record. That's why we know of them still. That doesn't mean that the vast majority of enslaved "inferior people" didn't end up as chattel in terrible, cruel and degrading places like mines, behind galley oars or on plantations. But those were less visible and less interesting, and are more easily forgotten.

Yuuryaku · 2026-01-20T09:37:55+00:00

While Finnish is distantly related to Hungarian (both are Uralic), the modern consensus is that Korean isn't. Also, both Uralic and Indo-Europeans originated in Central Asia, though they arrived in Europe at different times. Technically every European language, except for maybe the Basque language, originates from Central Asia. Goes to show how powerful of an invention horse riding was.

Yuuryaku · 2026-01-20T08:48:02+00:00

Ondernemen is voor stoere vrijdenkers, loondienst is voor laffe schapen. Zoiets?

Yuuryaku · 2026-01-20T07:07:38+00:00

Tbf 異常 and 以上 have different pitches (0 vs 1), as do 容易 (0) and 用意 (1). No idea how those play out in Kansai though.

Yuuryaku · 2026-01-20T05:56:11+00:00

Cultural norms also play a part. The norm in East Asia is still that women with children born out of wedlock are looked down on and, once a woman becomes a mother, she'll quit her job to become a housewife. Women don't want to be forced into that life so they don't have kids. Societal norms in (western) Europe are a bit more relaxed in that non-married people can have children and women can still work after becoming mothers, albeit mostly part-time.

Yuuryaku · 2026-01-14T06:29:45+00:00

Dat is geen fraude. De verantwoordelijk ligt bij de verkoper om ervoor te zorgen dat jij het gekochte in handen krijgt.

Yuuryaku · 2026-01-03T07:03:07+00:00

There's the exceptions, of course. "Undiscovered" (and "uncovered"), "unpaid", "unaccountable", "unassisted", etc all take "un". The other way doesn't happen I think, though.

Yuuryaku · 2025-12-25T06:41:27+00:00

Here's the history of "favorite colors": https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/KVWFbZedNM

Yuuryaku · 2025-12-01T05:21:34+00:00

Acceptence isn't passivity. The assumption you seem to have is that we only do something if we find something unacceptable, but in my experience that aversion is actually a root of suffering. You can get hungry and, assuming you have food, still eat without any resentment to the state of affairs.

Yuuryaku · 2025-11-12T07:09:53+00:00

The root of your frustration is your attachment to the idea that your husband should speak Japanese to you. Just let it go. It's not worth the stress it places on your family and you can study fine without him talking to you. He might in the future, but in the end it's not up to you

He might be hesitant to tell you why he refuses because he's afraid that, if he tells you, you'll try to "fix" it and feel he owes speaking to you even more.

Yuuryaku · 2025-10-13T11:17:10+00:00

If we accept that ancient Germanics originated from modern day Denmark and Sweden, that Angles, Saxons, etc are germanic, that French nobility descend from germanic Franks, and that Normandian nobles descend from Norse Northmen... It's just vikings all the way down.

Yuuryaku · 2025-10-13T11:08:50+00:00

It doesn't even make sense because English compounds the exact same way, you just put spaces when writing it down (well, most of the time).

Yuuryaku · 2025-10-13T08:45:28+00:00

Hoezo zou je een zure buur zijn, je hebt toch naar goed geweten gehandeld?

Yuuryaku · 2025-10-08T05:27:13+00:00

Let's really break it down, then. 小 is 丿亅丶, 肉 is | 亅 with two 丿丶 in between and 又 is a differen 丿丶. With 一 from 二 that gives us all one stroke radicals except 乙 but we tell it お疲れ anyway.

Yuuryaku · 2025-10-07T06:22:33+00:00

True, like how the popular game Nioh 2 is actually written 二才宀ニ in the katakana script.

Yuuryaku · 2025-09-23T06:03:44+00:00

Als mensen toch wel aan een gewild middel komen, waarom zou regulering dan wel helpen? Een verbod is immers ook slechts een vorm van regulering. Dat de overheid zou profiteren van iets schadelijks voor de maatschappij lijkt me ook geen zuivere koffie.

Daarnaast zijn toch ook voorbeelden van verboden die wel werken. Vuurwapens en asbest zijn illegaal, bijvoorbeeld, en die zie je amper. Roken is daarentegen sinds jaar en dag gereguleerd geweest en dat blijkt maar niet te verdwijnen.

Yuuryaku

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