<p>5/ In addition, one especially lovely touch is that instead of a single map at the front, each chapter has its own map, as the focus moves around the Eurasian landmass. Places in the chapter are named. It&#39;s the kind of detail that suggests the work of a deeply caring mind. ↵</p>

<p>4/ Chaffetz is a self-taught scholar, but you wouldn&#39;t quite know it. His learning is both broad and deep, both on empires and on horses and grazing. He documents like a scholar, sometimes in exhausting detail for a lay reader (but in a way a scholar might thank him for). ↵</p>

<p>3/ The central premise is this: the Silk Road is really a Horse Road. (If this seems a bit silly, it&#39;s worth noting that the Silk Road wasn&#39;t really about &quot;silk&quot;, either.) Chaffetz admirably rewrites the history of all these places and times through the lens of horses. ↵</p>

<p>2/ The book is extraordinary in both its temporal and spatial sweep: temporal stretching to centuries before the empires and through them, and spatial from Central Europe to Eastern China to Northern India. That is covering a *lot*, and Chaffetz does it well. ↵</p>

<p>1/ You know how you get these books that take one single thing and make it the central story in human history? The effort is both awe-inspiring in its monomania and irritating in its narrowness. Still, it can sometimes be a delight. Chaffetz on horses is one such. ↵<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BookReview</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jfbastien" class="u-url mention">@<span>jfbastien</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://donotsta.re/users/mwk" class="u-url mention">@<span>mwk</span></a></span> i remember this. i remember reading this comment!!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> one extra because you're such a good customer</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@davidism" class="u-url mention">@<span>davidism</span></a></span> this answer is old but maybe worth a try? <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42733877/remove-type-hints-in-python-source-programmatically#61308385" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stackoverflow.com/questions/42</span><span class="invisible">733877/remove-type-hints-in-python-source-programmatically#61308385</span></a></p>

<p>one of my favorite compiler related trivia is that a &quot;triple&quot; is composed out of four parts</p>