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Seems far more likely to me that ChatGPT knows the meaning of specific idioms rather than knowing the cultural context of that number and using it in the translation.

In Helix you'd have to x downward or use v to enter visual mode. But you initially said that you "found kakoune bindings limiting". In kakoune you can 8Kxd, or 8K<a-x>d on less recent versions. The vim approach is usually superior for simple commands like "delete N lines", the kakoune approach is superior when you want to compose commands, e.g. `%sif<ret>f(<a-i>(sand<ret>cor` is "select all `if`, find `(`, select inside `(`, select all `and`, change to `or`"

I'm far from an expert on Maori culture but central to their worldview is the concept of "mana", which is essentially spirit. Your own mana and that of your ancestors was incredibly important, and that mana could be imbued in items.

Exchanging gifts of mana was a big cultural/social tradition. It seems reasonable that a valuable and distinctive item like a feather cloack would have had a lot of significance and tradition surrounding it. That doesn't mean there were cloak specific prayers but I doubt the ceremonies were completely baseless.

When they talk about the ceremonies and personify the cape (which does sound a bit odd the way it's written in the article) I'm pretty sure it's referring to the spirit of the previous owners, and I'm not surprised that Maori with a traditional sense of spirituality would find a lot of religous importance in that.

I agree, but I also think if they author either knew what they were talking about or wasn't just trying to sell more books they'd make that clear. Rather than just trying make the case for these patterns in languages that don't suit them.

Awful stuff. These principles could only ever make sense in a dynamic language since it's mostly manually enforcing some of the basic functionality of a type system, but the fact that he also tries to argue this style could be used in a language like C# throws that defense out the window.

https://blog.klipse.tech/databook/2022/06/22/generic-data-st...

The examples also contradict his other principles, i.e. immutability.

In zig code blocks are expressions and can appear in a lot of places, e.g. on the RHS of an assignment. Probably possible to not need the dot but considerably more complicated.