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  • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭
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    21 days ago

    I like Rabbi Joseph Bekhor Shor’s interpretation. It’s far from being accepted in Judaism - probably because it makes so much sense.

    The interpretation is based on the fact that the passage originally appears in Exodus twice - but not in a section about Kosher laws. It appears in sections about Bikurim - bringing offerings to the temple:

    The very same verse that contains that law also contains a law about Bikkurim:

    Bring the best firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God.

    You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

    Because these two laws seem so unrelated, Rabbi Joseph Bekhor Shor suggests a different way to read the second part.

    In Hebrew, the root of the word “cook”/“boil” is B-SH-L - and this is also the root of the word “ripe”/“mature”. Because of that, it’s possible to read “you must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk” as “you must not let a young goat mature while drinking its mother’s milk”.

    This makes the second part of the verse a repetition of the first part - a pattern very common in the Old Testament as a (vain) attempt to prevent misinterpretations. Reading it like so, both parts mean “the offerings should be as young and as fresh as possible”.

    That reading is a little bit odd - but not too odd in biblical language standards, and it makes so much more sense in the context where the passage appears.

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Rust? Like what's on some metals?English
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    2 months ago

    I like the description by a Finn who said: Rust is like a car with automatic, while in C (or Zig) you need to change the gears.

    I don’t think this metaphor is correct. The automatic gear’s analogy would be the Garbage Collector, which almost every mainstream language has. Rust’s memory management, in comparison, is still manual. Maybe not as manual as C or Zig - but I’d say about as manual as C++. The difference is not that it has some weird gear-changing (memory cleanup) scheme that does not require human intervention - it’s that it yells at you when you don’t do the regular gear changing (memory management) properly.