@runarorama @MiddleearthMixr Alexander is quite possibly a name of Hittite origin, already some 3200 years in use.
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Maciek Gorywoda
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Maciek Gorywoda
@makingthematrix
A joint professional and hobby account || Prof: Scala at JetBrains, LLM, AI on video games || Hobby: Archeology of prehistory, writing, languages
Lesznowola, Polska Katılım Kasım 2011
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@MiddleearthMixr It’s entirely plausible that our civilization 20 thousand years in the future will still be using ancient biblical names like Paul and Jessica, Gaelic names like Duncan, and names of places in the mythical past like Idaho.
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I’m more inclined to believe that Tolkien hated DUNE less because of the philosophy and more because of how flippantly Frank Herbert used language and names.
Culture Crave 🍿@CultureCrave
Jason Momoa as Hayt in 'Dune 3' A clone of Duncan Idaho
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@Madcyril2001 Warsaw University of Technology. A full semester course. Around 45 students.
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@makingthematrix Who are you teaching Scala to? I have been using it since 2010 and it is in massive decline.
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Teaching Scala makes me appreciate this programming language even more. The features really fit together like nowhere else.
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russia didn’t liberate shit
russia just replaced Nazi occupation and mass crimes with russian occupation and mass crimes
russia has never liberated anyone, anywhere, ever
Not a single person
Not a single centimeter of land
russia only brights pain, misery, torture and death
Otto Ozols@OttoOzols
Sometimes Putinists tell me that Latvia should be grateful to Russia for the liberation from Nazi occupation in 1944/45. I tell them I would be grateful, of course! It’s just that I can’t seem to find a free and independent Latvia on the map of Europe after 1945. Nor Lithuania and Estonia, for that matter
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I'm working on Windows for the first time in forever.
GIF
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@Grady_Booch @StarTrek Battlestar Galactica has "frak"... but, oh, it's not set in the future
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One of the things that surprises me about the distant future as envisioned by science fiction series such as @StarTrek is the distinct absence of new swear words.
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Maciek Gorywoda retweetledi
If you're using macOS and Homebrew, we have some great news for you! Thanks to the great work by Piotr Chabelski, installing Scala via Homebrew now includes native-image binaries.
This means the CLI starts faster and doesn’t require Java to be installed on your machine.
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@headinthebox Well, I have MSc in AI, I work with LLMs daily, and even though I see value in them, it's nowhere near the claims made by hyped tech bros. Lines of code were never a good metric of anything.
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I mean, I get the Luddites who see their craft evaporate in front of their eyes. But if you played with one of the coding agents for just 10 minutes, it must be crystal clear what the future is.
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What do the doubters see that we don't? Or, do we see something they don't.
IMHO, the biggest mystery right now in our field.
David Cramer@zeeg
i can write 50k lines of code a day and it will absolutely not generate any tangible lasting value nor will these 16k, from Garry or anyone else (sorry, but its the truth)
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@JoshDenofNerds The sphinx was built around 2500BC so unfortunately, 11000 years ago it didn't gaze at anything.
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Maciek Gorywoda retweetledi
Due to shifting demand, we’re gradually sunsetting Code With Me, our collaborative coding and pair programming service.
2026.1 will be the last IDE release to officially support it, with the service planned to shut down in Q1 2027.
Full details: blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2026/…
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@koziolek Ale czyli że jego uwagi miały sens? Bo taką wypowiedź można też zrozumieć jako gaslighting z jego strony.
Zdjęcie super :)
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Jak przez pół treningu shihan, tłumacząc techniki, patrzy w twoim kierunku, to znaczy, że będzie bolało.
I rzeczywiście boli… ale w końcu potrafię zrobić poprawne cięcie.
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@shahanSean @GabrielSaidR Is it really hard to believe people were moved by the Qur’an when they first heard it? This is one of the most influential books in history, and it still brings people to Islam today.
Hagarism was also weirdly credulous in its reliance on non-Muslim sources about early Islam.
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old school scholar of Islam David Margoliouth trying to sort out why the Ethiopians would have started weeping when they heard the Qur'an recited by Muhammad's companions (but no, we should not fancy that an Ethiopic speaker could understand Arabic).
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Maciek Gorywoda retweetledi
ScalaWAW #39 – the @scalarconf pre-party is here!
📍 NOBU Hotel Warsaw
🎤 Talks by Aleksandra Zdrojowa (sbt 2.x caching) and @li_haoyi (Mill 1.1.0)
🍻 Networking + afterparty
Join us even if you’re not attending Scalar!
meetup.com/scalawaw/event…
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Okay, now I'm convinced that AI can take jobs from Polish economy experts.
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🚨He Reigned for Over 28,000 Years?!
The oldest known historical chronicle on Earth, the Sumerian King List, begins with a sentence that sounds almost impossible:
“After kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridu.”
The first ruler recorded is Alulim, king of the ancient city of Eridu.
His reign length?
28,800 years.
Not decades. Not centuries.
28,800 years.
He is listed as the very first king after “kingship descended from heaven,” ruling in a time before the great flood. And he’s not alone.
The King List records eight rulers before the flood whose combined reign totals 241,200 years.
Then something strange happens.
After the flood… reign lengths suddenly drop from tens of thousands of years to normal human lifespans.
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Maciek Gorywoda retweetledi
Back in version 2024.3, we introduced a new module layout for sbt projects. Since then, we've been polishing it and we're now ready to switch over.
As of 2025.3, the old layout has been deprecated and will be fully phased out in 2026.
Read more: #update-as-of-march-5,-2026" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">blog.jetbrains.com/scala/2024/11/…
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@Graculus01 @MoundLore useful in such situations. It's only that sometimes someone on social media will decide that they will die on this hill. 2/2
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@Graculus01 @MoundLore It's not even about such mistakes. Even if we do our best, when trying to convey scientific info to general public, we need to find a level of detail people will still tolerate. Simplifying the definition of some terms, like "hunter gatherer, is actually pretty harmless and /1
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“Public literature dumbs down scholarship.”
Welp that’s one way to protect the field from contradiction.
Flint Dibble 🍖🏺@FlintDibble
@MoundLore Public literature, even that written by scholars, "dumbs down" scholarship. Not because the public is dumb, but because we have to use more colloquial language to communicate our points and not have them drown in definitions and jargon
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@Megalithic12000 Most of Sahara is rock, not sand. If there were ruins of an advanced civilization, they wouldn't be buried and we would have found them already. After all, we were able to find much less distinctive signs of hunter-gatherers presence.
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The real question is how much lies buried under the sand.
If sophisticated cultures emerged in that fertile era, the desert would be both the perfect archive and the perfect concealment.
The Sahara is not empty. It is sealed.
Forgotten History@4gottnHistory
Could evidence of a lost civilization be hiding under the sand. The Sahara Desert used to be green. Satellite scans have show ancient rivers buried under miles of sand. There were lakes, wildlife, and human settlements where today there is nothing.
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