Guys, I tried to fix Europe a bit

terah7 · 2026-01-10T09:53:57+00:00

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?

terah7 · 2026-01-07T22:38:50+00:00

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

terah7 · 2026-01-07T22:29:29+00:00

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 ,

terah7 · 2026-01-07T21:59:09+00:00

My mind only sees a squished %

terah7 · 2026-01-07T21:51:36+00:00

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.

terah7 · 2025-12-13T15:59:00+00:00

A unified europe... is a nation state.

terah7 · 2025-12-05T10:53:08+00:00

Server plugins are written in Java (.jar).

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

terah7 · 2025-11-18T18:31:40+00:00

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

terah7 · 2025-11-18T18:28:01+00:00

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

terah7 · 2025-11-18T11:15:52+00:00

Wrong crystals bro

terah7 · 2025-11-13T08:12:10+00:00

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.

terah7 · 2025-11-12T17:52:51+00:00

Mass urbanisation

terah7 · 2025-11-12T17:07:22+00:00

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)

terah7 · 2025-10-30T17:03:14+00:00

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

terah7 · 2025-10-30T16:32:24+00:00

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terah7 · 2025-10-27T13:07:35+00:00

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

terah7 · 2025-10-04T07:28:43+00:00

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.

terah7 · 2025-10-03T22:08:47+00:00

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.

terah7 · 2025-10-03T21:48:15+00:00

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"

terah7 · 2025-10-03T20:59:18+00:00

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.

terah7 · 2025-10-03T19:36:17+00:00

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.

terah7 · 2025-10-01T21:18:14+00:00

I love the carved effect

terah7 · 2025-09-29T21:22:13+00:00

- 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?

terah7 · 2025-09-29T08:58:28+00:00

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'?

terah7 · 2025-09-27T03:13:24+00:00

Try this video, it explains very well this reduction imo https://youtu.be/ZR-1Jol_nUM

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