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Because outside of a few narrow technical spheres the HN hivemind isn't data driven, it's cynicism driven.

I think these kind of projects are great for stress testing terminal performance as well.

The claim that "else" is an archaic word and hence a bad/rushed translation.

On the contrary it's a normal everyday word that makes perfect grammatical sense in the given context.

> because that is exactly what happened.

No, it's what the author claims to have happened. I am strongly disputing their thesis as spurious.

Why do you think it's making the right choice when it's not the choice you would have made?

It's a while since I read the book but what I remember is him saying that he personally chooses to use it but the evidence is not strong enough to give a definite recommendation so basically, make your own choice.

It's always "or else" when used as a conjunction in modern English.

"Take your coat or else you'll regret it."

"Hurry or else you'll miss the bus."

Etc.

> if something is true, then do a thing, else do a different thing.

> That's just English, right? Except that it isn't

No, it is English, grammatically correct English. It's not idiomatic English but it's a perfectly fine sentence otherwise.

Idiomatic English would simply require adding an or

    if(x)
        do m
    orelseif(y)
        do n
    orelse
        do o

But of course a native English programmer would quickly recognize the or is redundant even if it is idiomatic, and drop it.

> I think a carefully-chosen German word was probably translated as an archaic English word and then never revisited

This is a weird reach. Else isn't an archaic word.

"Eat your dinner or else."

"If you don't do it someone else will have to."

Plus all the "or else" conjunction examples.

It was probably chosen because it was shorter than "otherwise" and not for any other reason.

I propose SS United Mexico.

I've been running Ubuntu on an MSI Ge66 gaming laptop, Intel + Nvidia gpu for a couple of years now. I did have some teething problems with wifi and sleep but after resolving those it's been rock solid. I'd say 99.9% stable if we're throwing out random percentages here.

You don't need to of course but in many countries there's grants to purchase in the first place and then you can sell excess back to the grid, so it would be rather pointless not to.

My sister got it installed, about €15k worth, of which about a third was covered by grants and she's been selling enough back to the grid that she doesn't pay much bill at all for about 6 months of the year.

Unless she was some kind of off the grid absolutist, why wouldn't she have registered?

You're the one who originally spread anti Ukraine misinformation in your flagged post, and you're now following the other person around and attacking them on unrelated threads, without any reference to your earlier disagreement.

You're still trying to make this about them posting a Wikipedia link! Seriously, get over it and if you're not a Russian shill and you were genuinely taken in by that "Ukrainians buying Bentleys propaganda", do better research before posting stuff next time.

> widely used one in the popular media

I'm not really interested in popular media definitions of things.

> Is computational ability a kind of intelligence? If so then 20 year old calculators absolutely have a computational ability which is superhuman

100 years ago there's not a single person who would deny that computational ability is intelligence.

It's only since calculators because really good at it that you'd even think about asking the question.