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·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
I looked briefly, but is anyone aware of the differences between Yew[1] and Sycamore[2]? Presumably they are both Elm-influenced(?) Rust web UI libraries named after trees, but it's unclear to me why I should use one versus the other.

1. https://github.com/yewstack/yew

2. https://github.com/sycamore-rs/sycamore
wsowens
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
Rendezvous with Rama was one of my favorites as a teenager, hopefully the film adaptation does it justice.
wsowens
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
People are often boring in conversation. Therefore, an AI agent doesn't need to be interesting to seem human enough in a Turing test.
wsowens
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
It's disappointing to see the myth of the "Christian Dark Ages" still repeated so often.

It's true that the collapse of the Western Roman Empire led to a regression in social order. To blame this complex collapse entirely on Christianity is overly simplistic. There's obviously some casualties during this period of upheaval (like the Palimpsest you mentioned), but if anything the early Christian monasteries deserve some credit for preserving knowledge during this period of tremendous upheaval.

Many have also pointed out how Eurocentric this view is. Mathematics and science continued to flourish in Arabic and Chinese places of learning as well. Algebra, modern astronomy, and the printing press did not pop out of the aether the moment Europeans decided to start printing Greek gods again.