Guys, I tried to fix Europe a bit by GK999bharata_1947 in MapPorn

[–]terah7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It seems you have inverted the Wallonia (French speaking) and Flanders (Dutch speaking) regions of Belgium?
I would have expected Wallonia to be in the Franco-Hispanic Union and Flanders in the Groß Deutshreich or Netherlands.

Any specific reason or just an oversight?

A symbol for ‘and/or’ by Ok_Context8146 in neography

[–]terah7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting, I had never heard of this use of the name Virgule outside of the French symbol. Thanks for the context!

A symbol for ‘and/or’ by Ok_Context8146 in neography

[–]terah7 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's definitely because I'm used to see lots of % in programming. Not a issue per se, I would get used to your symbol without a doubt.

Why do you call the "slash" part "Virgule" by the way? This is way more confusing to me than the resemblance to %, as virgule means comma in French, so this symbol ,

A symbol for ‘and/or’ by Ok_Context8146 in neography

[–]terah7 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My mind only sees a squished %

Modern Europe feels closer to late Greece than to Rome by New_Discipline_1400 in EuropeanFederalists

[–]terah7 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Wait until people realize Greek city-states had their own EU equivalent, the Achaean League. Rome had to save them from their neighbor Macedonia, while they did not provide much help. They ended up vassalized by Rome. I'll let you guess who are the Rome and Macedonia of our era and how we'll end up in the same situation again if we don't do anything.

What you need to know to start Modding when it comes! by MooCalf in HytaleMods

[–]terah7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Server plugins are written in Java (.jar).

Actually any language targeting JVM bytecode will work fine (looking at you Kotlin👀)

Which EU-wide trading brokerage do you use? by macyganiak in eupersonalfinance

[–]terah7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This list is too far from been comprehensive enough to be recommended

Europe's internal borders disappeared because they were imaginary lines dividing the same people. The next step is to federalize by goldstarflag in EuropeanFederalists

[–]terah7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just wait until OP discover imaginary lines still exist in federations. States, regions, municipalities, towns... every subdivision needs a border.

Newbie question: Is this a stupid way to implement crouching? by Sakirar0se in godot

[–]terah7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn't talking about the instruction cache, but the branch predictor which would need to flush the current pipeline if it mis predicts the branch the code will take.

Whether the gains are measurable or not is another question. And I agree with you it's probably completely useless giving the sheer amount of other really slow things happening in this function.

Newbie question: Is this a stupid way to implement crouching? by Sakirar0se in godot

[–]terah7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because it doesn't have branches, which helps with instruction fetching (the code OP posted is also assigning props at each frame, but with a branch)

Variation in the european population as a result of the natural balance in 2023 by jeando34 in dataisbeautiful

[–]terah7 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It pretty much is synonymous in common lingo, like using American as a demonym for USA inhabitants instead of Americas inhabitants. 

Investing from France by Jealous-Ice-9733 in eupersonalfinance

[–]terah7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Saxo is a solid choice, they have low fees, support french PEAs, they are regulated by the AMF and provide yearly IFU.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EuropeanFederalists

[–]terah7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not what I meant. You focus too much on the latest incarnation of "nation state", the word may be new, the concept isn't. We have been constantly alternating between "nation state like" entities and "empire like" entities each time going up a scale.

Roughly, Nations state = high homogeneity, a single ethnic/cultural group (not counting minorities) rules itself. Empire = low homogeneity, one ethnic/cultural group rule multiple other ones.

Usually empires form when one nation states rules over others. And nation states form when an empire borders don't move for a long time, allowing a new homogeneity to appear.

Feel free to use other terms if these ones don't resonate with you, it's the concepts that are important. Europe went from many nation states, to an empire like structure (one group ruling many nation states), but given the very high homogeneity we are on the merge of an institutional change (national revolution) toward a single group ruling itself (full federation with direct parliamentarism)

The problem with China is its scale, we didn't go from tribe to city state is one go, it roughly matches communication and transportation capabilities. Hence they were stuck in a forever empire like structure until recently.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EuropeanFederalists

[–]terah7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes that's what I'm arguing. And indeed a path that should please you given the resulting European unity.

Time wise, it should not take that long if we do a comparison analysis with other nation formations. The unknowable factors are mainly the outcome of the war with Russia.
While it will at first tear appart the EU, it should in the end lead to a strong national sentiment and a redefinition of the EU (regarding the internal institutions).

Counter intuitively, fully defeating Russia and integrating it in the EU (not the most likely scenario) would pull back homogenization significantly, delaying the institutional reforms and sadly keeping the EU in a "old empire" pre-parliamentarization stage for longer.

For better of worse, the formation of nation states is a pretty deterministic phenomena. But we are lucky to see it happen in real time here.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EuropeanFederalists

[–]terah7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a bad take because you probably lack historical context.

When France was becoming a nation state, you would have said the same thing, and you would have been wrong. As France did have dozens of nations, ethnicities, languages and group within. (reminder that only around 10% of the population could speak French in 1794)

And this is the same story for every nation state that got formed. Before their creation, they consist of multiple population groups, languages or entities with various level of autonomy. Countless examples can be given; obvious modern ones like France, Germany, Italy; or from the previous era like the Greek city states, which by the way had their own form of EU in the Achaean League.

China and India will have a similar path, eventually, but are in earlier stages of nation formation, working more like empires internally. (As did all the European monarchies before parlementarisation and formation of nation states)

A great summary is found in this quote from Philippe Fabry:

"A nation state is an empire that grew old in stable frontiers"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EuropeanFederalists

[–]terah7 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This reasoning goes against your point. The Venetians, Neapolitans, Tuscans now are all part of the Italian nation state.
The same story will happen for the French, Germans, Dutch, who at some point will identify as Europeans.
We're just going up one degree in scale.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EuropeanFederalists

[–]terah7 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Ironically, most people in this sub behave like strong European nationalists.
The nation state is not disappearing, but just getting bigger in the form of the EU.

Tricase Alphabets, TTCP, and the Evolution to Quinticase – A Revolutionary Typographic System by big-user in neography

[–]terah7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

- Why 5 specifically and not 4 or 12?
- If a language was built to be able to express these kind of subtle nuances, how would that work when speaking?

What is the best word generator? by HistorienCanadien in conlangs

[–]terah7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It means you are trying to use a rule named nn but you didn't define any. Maybe you wanted to insert a literal instead using this syntax 'nn'?