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Oh wait (from another comment under this article): > https://pi.dev/models is throwing an internal server error for me.
The last one is a traditional nerd criticism though, it has been present on HN for the last ~20 years. Kind of ignorable.
https://www.reddit.com/r/etymologymaps/comments/g4bmh3/chai_...
I'd guess Finnish has more than one demonstrative pronoun, too :)
Snarkiness aside, that would be interesting. Not just as an educational tool, but it might be useful in the same way as erlang is (large, fault-tolerant, massively parallel systems). But with OOP instead of FP (Elixir attempts to be the "friendly"/more conventional version of erlang, but it is still very much a functional language).
Why was it the provisional capital? Well, the major cities (Istanbul, Izmir) were occupied. Ankara was * Controlled by Ataturk's government * Centrally Located * Decently Large (i.e. not a village)
A government?
Another idea is to generate a random number and multiply it with an illegal prime. If the illegal prime is a sufficiently large number; we can extract the original illegal prime with very high confidence by just finding its prime factors and picking the shortest one.
However, there are far too many individuals/groups (Equivalent to Mafia in Turkey, ultranationalist gangs in Europe) that sympathize/share views with said organization. And those guys are definitely not "mostly harmless".
* I know it is not that, but it feels like that. Also thankfully not tied to the officially reported inflation rate in Turkey