CombatWombat

Sure. What words am I allowed to use when relating this anecdote in the future without being called a nazi? A simple blocklist and allowlist is the easiest format for me.

By “Germans” I mean “the early Germanic peoples who occupied the region that became Germany” and “Russians” I mean “the early Slavic peoples who occupied the region that became Ukraine”. I kinda just assumed folks would understand the modern federal German state didn’t exist when early Slavs first encountered other ethnic groups and could work backwards from there.

If the “pa” part of “companion” comes from path it’s basically exactly the same: “s” and “co” are both “with” and “nik” and “ion” are similar noun endings.

I might translate it that way in some contexts, but if you told me Lewis and Clark were “sputniks” I’d assume you meant they got married in secret, rather than that they were explorers.

The Russians call Germans “nemtsy” or “the mute ones” because allegedly the Germans were the first ethnic group the Russians encountered who didn’t speak their language and so they assumed they couldn’t speak at all. The sausage sounds delicious, though, so maybe they just weren’t speaking because they were eating cheese-stuffed bacon-wrapped sausages.

Sputnik is a fun word in Russian. It comes from the prefix s- (with), the suffix -nik (one who), and the root -put- (path). A sputnik, then, is someone or something who travels a path with you, and it is also a model of train (because it travels with the tracks) and a word for spouse (because they travel your life’s path with you).

“We rewrote the code to be much more performant as part of a migration to Bun, and achieved a 5x throughput increase!” Okay but to bill this as a difference in runtimes, you have to compare the optimized code on both runtimes, rather than the unoptimized code on node to the optimized code on bun? Bun’s dev team was annoying before but now that they’ve been bought by anthropic they’re truly insufferable.

Given its formulation, I would be inclined towards “yes,” despite the fact that I do not believe the United States government has conclusive evidence of extraterrestrial life. The proposition is only that the White House claims it, and the Trump administration has shown that it is willing to lie to distract from the litany of horrors, and they love to contradict former president Obama.

You are not supposed to install OpenClaw at all.

I get the gist of 1200, but 1100 is inscrutable. If you’re having trouble through 1300 and 1400, my best advice is to read it aloud — your ear is better than your eye.