Watching the last of the WWII veterans pass away brings me great sadness. Growing up they were always these men and women of such great legend it felt like they would be around forever.
bitwize · 8h ago
One time when I was in the Bay Area, an old, short Asian man wearing a "World War II Veteran" cap boarded the BART. I silently wondered to myself if, due to his very short height, he had sat in the ball turret of a B-17.
Year or two later, there's a blurb on the national news about a man with a Japanese last name from about the right part of California, who died at the age of 95. Turns out, he was indeed a rear gunner on a B-17 crew.
Thank you for your service, old stranger. We met only briefly and never talked, but I'm glad our paths crossed.
spike021 · 3h ago
This was how I felt when my grandfather passed in 2021. He was always my hero since he was first a Holocaust survivor and then was drafted at 16 to go back to Germany on D-day, where he almost drowned (his lander didn’t fully make it to shore and he couldn’t swim), and then was later caught by the Nazis. Just an insane story and connection to that period in time and once it’s gone, it’s gone. This is why i try to encourage everyone to keep chatting with your older folks before their time comes.
The phrasing in this sentence implies that the Julia language could be named for the code breaker, as much as it could be named for anyone else. In other words, it wasn't named for the code breaker, but it might as well have been.
The follow up comment gives hard quantitative fact that the language wasn't named for anyone or anything. I can see how both comments are correct, the first implicitly, the second explicitly
Year or two later, there's a blurb on the national news about a man with a Japanese last name from about the right part of California, who died at the age of 95. Turns out, he was indeed a rear gunner on a B-17 crew.
Thank you for your service, old stranger. We met only briefly and never talked, but I'm glad our paths crossed.
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We have the watch.
https://youtu.be/jhwZwHaE5JE
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That description is something to think about.
> Is Julia named after someone or something?
> No.
[1] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/faq/#General
The phrasing in this sentence implies that the Julia language could be named for the code breaker, as much as it could be named for anyone else. In other words, it wasn't named for the code breaker, but it might as well have been.
The follow up comment gives hard quantitative fact that the language wasn't named for anyone or anything. I can see how both comments are correct, the first implicitly, the second explicitly