Over the past few days I have been making a spell checking TUI app. I used AI (meaning: free Gemini web interface) to discuss various aspects about the apps and debug compiler errors ang suggest useful rust crates for various problems.

Just a more helpful discord chat generally. It also gaslights you too!

Here is the tool: https://git.sr.ht/~asibahi/hoopoe

This can’t be serious.

It’s hacking when it’s someone you don’t like.

You made me curious. Has anyone invented new ways to ride horses in the age of the automobile?

Best I could find: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1174605

There was a relatively big shift in riding style right around the same time of the first mass production of vehicles.

It’s definitely a great tinkering language but .. eh .. the Zig team and community are extremely opinionated about how to use the language correctly.

This has not been my experience.

I don't understand how this is relevant to the thread.

I won't call it "opinionated about how to use the language correctly."

Space is valid and it compile, Tab don't --- that's it.

When one say "opinionated about how to use the language correctly", I would think JavaScript with or without end of statement semicolon and being yell at even when your program works.

Not really

The component model is still in phase 1 (standardization is phase 5) and the Bytecode Alliance are its sponsors and the ones pushing it into the ecosystem with wasmtime.

I don't think you're fully saying what you want to here. Are you saying this is bad?

The point of a component model is interoperability, so the more runtimes that support it the better.

I am saying as far as anyone other that the Bytecode Alliance is concerned it is custom API for Bytecode Alliance projects.

I think just pointing out that it's still in stage 1 so it makes sense that it's not supported in every runtime yet

I’m confused. Why not start the conversation in Polish?

He didn't know the nationality of the man in front of him as he's never seen the faces of the two before. It was the mid 90s, so it's not like he could easily look that up.

Also he figured it would be rude.

IIRC the wider context is that my dad, not knowing where the priests were at that moment and having no one to ask in the vicinity, went to a confessional as he saw someone there.

Nie widzę problemu z pytaniem o polskiego księdza jeśli wiadomo, że taki znajduje się gdzieś w pobliżu - jeśli to miałoby ułatwić całą sprawę z załatwianiem chrztu. Nie ma w tym niczego niekulturalnego. No chyba, że tata był nauczony padać plackiem przed koloratką - to wtedy to zupełnie inna dyskusja.

Oh look at me, I'm being rude here - talking in Polish. Because that eases the convo.

But why wouldn't he start the conversation in Polish? If the priest responds, he is Polish. If he doesn't, he is Spanish.

Because addressing someone in a language they might not know seams rude and entitled and also sparks a kind of helplessness in the other and the situation. Addressing someone in a language he knows is polite and has a likely hood of better success of the topic of the conversation and not drifting into a side quest of determining a way to communicate.

Yea I didn't get this logic either. Why would the Polish person be the one assumed to be speaking Latin but the Spanish (literally a language based on Latin) person not? Who says Spanish people can't learn Latin?

Both priests are assumed to understand Latin. The situation they want to avoid is starting up a conversation with someone in a language they don't know.

So the options are:

1) Use Polish, with the risk of being rude if you happen to speak to the Spanish priest

2) Use Latin and ask "do you speak Polish?", and both the Polish and the Spanish priest will understand.

You could of course argue that it's not so very rude to accidentally try to strike up a conversation with someone in a language they don't know, but apparently Tade0's father thinks it is.

because the assumption is that he wanted the child baptized by a Polish priest.

Could it be he just wanted the child baptized, no matter if it was Spanish or Polish priest? Then, starting with Latin is the way to get a priest's attention.

Submitting a patch requires talking to other people.

His initials

This was a very interesting read. I wonder if similar techniques can apply to Turkish or Japanese dictionaries?

An old C++ library using a related approach (DAWG) was seemingly created by a Japanese programmer: https://code.google.com/archive/p/dawgdic/

It was later used to power a popular Python package for processing Russian morphology (pymorphy).

I don't know about Japanese, but to Turkish definitely can.