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Also note that in the UK, daddy long legs refers to Crane Flies, which is neither of those.
by cameronh90 3y ago
Also note that in the UK, daddy long legs refers to Crane Flies, which is neither of those.
- davidmurdoch 3y agoWe have three species named daddy long legs? Why are humans like this?
- mistermann 3y agoWhat kind of a name is that in the first place!!
- joshspankit 3y agoThis reminds me that gen alpha has a whole different experience here lol
- krylon 3y agoThey do have long legs compared to their body size, so the name is not entirely inaccurate. Unlike guinea pigs or elephant shrews.
- xnx 3y ago"Naming things is hard" seems to be a universal truth.
- lebean 3y agoDaddyLonglegsManager
- trav4225 3y agoFactory()
- tflol 3y agoAbstractDaddyLongLegsConfigDispatcherServletInitializer
- groestl 3y agoComposition is better than inheritance. So I refactored this into a ListConfigDispatcherServletInitializer which can accept a list of ConfigStrategies for dispatching. Added AbstractDaddyLongLegsConfigStrategy, to help with implementing concrete config strategies for DaddyLongLegs.
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- authorfly 3y agoNot only anthropoids... https://www.historyhit.com/the-extraordinary-daddy-long-legs-railway-of-brighton/ https://www.historyhit.com/the-extraordinary-daddy-long-legs...
- davidmurdoch 3y agoOthers have commented that in Britain the name refers to a fly, but this article about a railway in Great Britain makes it clear it was named after the spider. The devolution of language is fascinating.
- kwhitefoot 3y agoNot really. I've just read the article. The two terms seem to be just alternatives.
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- Clamchop 3y agoYou're not going to believe it when I tell you about how we name people and places. ;)
- drivers99 3y agoThat's why the scientific Latin names were created. The robin in North America (Turdus migratorius) was named after a similar looking one that settlers were familiar with in Europe (Erithacus rubecula) and there are many cases where similar namespace collisions for animals and plants occur in daily language.
- adrian_b 3y agoUnfortunately also many of the scientific Latin names have been given rather carelessly. Linnaeus is one of the worst offenders. He has taken most of his names from classic Latin and Greek authors, like Pliny the Elder and Aristotle, but especially for the Greek names it appears that he has not actually read the original ancient books, or at least he has read them very superficially. The result is that a very large number of names of animals and plants given by Linnaeus have been applied to very different species than those for which they had been used traditionally. The genus of harvestmen Phalangium, which is the subject of this research is one of the animals misnamed by Linnaeus. Aristotle has used 2 words for naming spiders, one for the spiders that make webs ("arachnee") and the other was "phalangion". The description of the latter corresponds to a wolf spider (which is now named "Lycosa", scientifically). Instead of using "Phalangium" for wolf spiders, Linnaeus has wrongly applied it to harvestmen. There are no closer similarities between spiders and harvestmen than between spiders and any other arachnids, except that both spiders and harvestmen have relatively long legs for their bodies. When looking at harvestmen it is very easy to see that they are not spiders, because their abdomen is not separated from the thorax and they do not have the poisonous "fangs" characteristic for spiders. The ancestors of spiders and harvestmen were already separated during Silurian, at a time when the ancestors of humans and fish were not yet separated.
- pvaldes 3y agoPeople are free to say opilion, tipula or spider. Is much easier to remember and write than daddysomething
- LordDragonfang 3y agoThe C. elegans roundworm is one of the most important model organisms in biology. I have to specify "roundworm", because, well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._elegans_(disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._elegans_(disambiguation)
- nervousvarun 3y agoNot just the UK, there are parts of the southern US that refer to Crane Flies as DLLs (also "mosquito hawks" even though they don't prey on mosquitos). You also sometimes hear "Grand Daddy Longlegs". I can vouch for New Orleans at least as they are everywhere right now (there was a discussion on r/NewOrleans just a few days back about this very topic). One thing I learned in that discussion is the same person might call both of them DLLs. That seems impossibly illogical to me but it apparently happens.
- wkat4242 3y agoSo basically you're living in DLL hell ;)
- jandrese 3y agoTake your upvote and get out of here.
- woleium 3y agosigh.. this is HN, not reddit. I come here so i dont have to navigate this noise between signals
- FPGAhacker 3y agoAnd yet, you create more noise.
- Jerrrry 3y ago"If we are supposed to be quiet, when why are you talking?" RIP /., RIP r/prog, RIP HN we need a "you must be this substantive to ride the ride" gate-keeper because shame isnt a good enough moderator anymore.
- woleium 3y agowe just need the next place, so the cycle can continue. it is far easier to ride the waves than to fight the ocean.
- stronglikedan 3y agoInteresting! I always just thought they were the males of whatever the local mosquito species was. I'll stop killing them now.
- wkat4242 3y agoYeah they don't bite and don't make noise either. And they stay away from humans so they don't buzz around your head at night. I kill mosquitoes but not the crane flies. Or silverfish which I have in my place a lot. They're harmless.
- yungporko 3y agoi don't know what the ones near you are like but 100% of the crane flies i've ever crossed paths with fly straight into my face like a moth to a flame. they're harmless but they're extremely annoying.
- Chris2048 3y agoSilverfish can eat cotton, linen, and silk, so they can do damage.
- wkat4242 3y agoI didn't know. Pretty much all my clothes and bedding are made of cotton but I never noticed. They're not like moths, if they eat it it is very little. Maybe they eat dust as well though and my house is pretty dusty so there's that :)
- aidenn0 3y agoBiggest issue I have with them is eating the binding glue in paperback books; they go nuts for that stuff.
- dreamcompiler 3y agoIf you have books and cherish them, you need to kill the silverfish.
- harimau777 3y agoAm I the only one who was taught that crane flies where male mosquitos?
- fasa99 3y agoAlso note in New Orleans, Daddy Longlegs is a nice man who can remove bad juju from a customer for a fee using that dark Tom Cruise witchcraft.