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Writing questions for that show would be harder than writing shared unit tests for Haskell and BASIC.
by speed_spread 3y ago
Writing questions for that show would be harder than writing shared unit tests for Haskell and BASIC.
- 13of40 3y agoI think that depends on whether the panel of judges is all humans or they have a couple of octopuses sitting there as well.
- wilg 3y agonow this is smart television producing!
- Xorakios 3y agoMight sound snarky but really just curious (and I'm older ;) Are we close to standardizing on pluralization in English into 's and 'es? octopuses instead of octopi fishes instead of fish aquariums instead of aquaria media and mediums diverged a long time ago, but it seems as though the last few years has seen a dramatic shift oh good golly, a better question might be: how often do you read your own post and realized you already know the answer :)
- 13of40 3y agoFrom what I've read, the "us" at the end of octopus isn't Latin, but Greek, so if you want to split hairs, it would be "octopodes".
- 5- 3y agohttp://augustss.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-basic-not-that-anybody-should-care.html http://augustss.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-basic-not-that-any...
- disillusioned 3y agoAdrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin gets into the cephalopod-human communication challenges rather magnificently, if you're looking for a remarkable hard scifi read, though you have to go through the (also great) Children of Time start of the series.
- 2000UltraDeluxe 3y agoBoth are excellent books, worth a read.
- speed_spread 3y agoFinished Children of Time two weeks ago. Now I want to be a spider.