The cognate set is real, but jumping from that to "PIE had a word for the sea" assumes the original meaning was already maritime

I think this is mostly a disagreement over semantics.

What I find cool here is how much archaeology you can do without actually digging anything up

One still has to do field work to gather all the linguistic data. It's rather easy with settled societies only. Researchers studying indigenous languages had to travel to hard to reach places and often live with the tribes for a quite long time.

It's a lot easier nowadays, but ease of transportation also correlates quite well with a levelling of linguistic distinctions. That's a problem because the comparative method of reconstructing older stages of a language relies on the assumption that different dialects maintain aspects of the older language.

Yes, etymology is amazing. You carry tens of thousands of artifacts in your head.

The weird part is that the LLM isn't really replacing the debugging loop here, it's inserting itself into the middle of it

This is almost worse in code because the hallucination starts looking like documentation

AI is great as a query layer over my notes, but I don't really want it contributing to them. The whole value of old notes is that they preserve what I noticed at the time. If half the vault becomes competent-sounding generated text, searching it five years later seems much less useful...

Building new fabs is a very different bet from selling into a temporary shortage: you're committing billions based on what demand will look like several years from now

The weird part is that RAM used to be the component you barely thought about when budgeting a build

A device that only exposes an IP field can use DDR without extra user configuration, but it still has to implement DDR and an encrypted DNS protocol in the first place...

Two things can be true: OpenAI can be an aggressive company with serious credibility problems, and Apple can still have handled this case carelessly

You can carelessly leave employee access on the confidential and private company data and in nearly all cases depending on employment agreement it will be against the law to share that data after your employment

It doesn't sound to me like Apple is pursuing individuals that merely had company data on their computers but rather these individuals then went on to share said data with other individuals.