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A deposition is a verbal Q & A that's transcribed by a court reporter based on what they hear the person saying.

Nishitani was most likely deposed in his native language where the particular English ambiguity you point out probably wouldn't happen. Listing things and marking possession use spoken helper words rather than punctuation.

"You're a very clever man, Mr. James, and that's a very good question," replied the little old lady, "but I have an answer to it. And it's this: The first turtle stands on the back of a second, far larger, turtle, who stands directly under him."

"But what does this second turtle stand on?" persisted James patiently.

To this, the little old lady crowed triumphantly,

"It's no use, Mr. James—it's turtles all the way down."

The Tao of Go 1 year ago

I think you missed the joke. The first line of the tao te ching says something to the effect of the tao that can be named is not the real tao.

Gleam Is Pragmatic 2 years ago

One thing I hate about F# and SQL is that they use <> as a "not equals" operator. In Haskell, <> is the binary operator of any Semigroup instance.

The same principle applies to programming. Functions that know less about their arguments are more generally applicable.

Looks like a good resource for people learning Japanese. You can switch between the available languages seemlessly. The legality seems questionable, though.

I suppose this means there's a native Linux build? Because it's been playable via proton since release.

Looking forward to this change: "...soldiers that don't hoard rotten food in their rooms"

"plausible sounding" is probably the best two word summary of LLM output. A good one word summary might be "bullshit".