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icodar··on Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek
Herodotus states that the Pelasgians spoke a language different from Greek. However, some words from the Pelasgian language may have become incorporated into the Greek language.
icodar··on Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
Some friction can be painful. It's not always beneficial.
icodar··on Turkey's ancient, caffeine-free coffee alternative
I hope the Greeks don't hear this. They label everything that happens in Türkiye, even if it has nothing to do with it, as "Greek doing" and present it to the world that way.
icodar··on [dead]
They are privileged in this world!
icodar··on Whose Punctuation Is More Human: Yours or A.I.'S?
Because Zionists are think they are the masters of the universe. (If there are any Zionists reading this, of course they say we are!)

Israel founded the organization called Hamas. This is overlooked. That's an excuse!

icodar··on We Built a Language Model 14,000,000x Smaller Than GPT3 and Formally Verified It
The next token prediction appears to be predicted based on fixed grammatical rules. However, modern LLMs learn the rules themselves. Did I misunderstand?
icodar··on OmniParser V2 – A simple screen parsing tool towards pure vision based GUI agent
This is not the intended use but it good working on parsing document layout from image.
icodar··on How (and why) we brought SQLite to the Cloud
Is it a similar job to https://turso.tech/
icodar··on Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
In those years, mostly said as web masters, not web developers.
icodar··on Ask HN: Best PDF Viewer in Browser?
Simple option: Iframe + https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=your-p...

Example: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=https:...

icodar··on Family Matters: Everyday Life in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
I was very surprised when I read the article. He's talking about the Assyrians. Lamashtu is known as Albasti among Turks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Basty. The Assyrians are a nation that lived in the Middle East before the Turks appeared in Mongolia. Interestingly, Lamashtu and Albasti sound similar.
icodar··on When Mongols Set Out to Conquer the World, There Was One Limiting Factor: Grass
If the Mongol attacks had reached the west. First time, the Mongols would kill all the peasants outside the castles and city walls. Or the peasants would join the mongols. The absence of peasants meant the cities were starving.
icodar··on A new history of Byzantium reveals the inner workings of a late antique empire
This is normal behavior. Some early Roman emperors also dreamed of becoming like Alexander the Great. Today Putin dreams of becoming like Napoleon Bonaparte.
icodar··on A future for SQL on the web
Have you seen https://github.com/WebReflection/sqlite-worker