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by stevula 3y ago
Interestingly, several cultures actually used the number of stars a person could see in the Pleiades as a vision test.
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by stevula 3y ago
I see “oiōn” (οιων), not “oino” (οινο or οινω). I don’t see how it could be read as “wine”. οιων could be several things off the top of my head: 1. the beginning of some form of of οἰωνός “omen” 2. genitive plural of οἶς, meaning “of sheep
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by stevula 3y ago
It's a reference to the year warp drive will be invented by Zefram Cochrane in the Star Trek universe.
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by stevula 3y ago
Also fake words used in dictionaries for the same purpose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
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by stevula 3y ago
These are mentioned in the article (“gum trees”): > Maybe the ruins of a city will be denoted by the descendants of trees planted for shade: pin oaks, gum trees, sycamores.
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by stevula 3y ago
I think the soma drug from Brave New World (not 1984) is from sóma, a ritualistic drink / drink of the gods in Vedic literature. Huxley did indeed have an interest in Vedic mysticism according to the BNW Wikipedia article.
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by stevula 3y ago
It is not only ungrammatical but impossible to split a Latin infinitive. Latin infinitives are a single word.
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by stevula 3y ago
Surely the difference between modern people and ancient Greeks is just a matter of culture. We can understand ideas from other cultures today. Why would it be any different trying to understand ancient thoughts? I think it’s more likely we
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by stevula 4y ago
susurrus or susurration is a very literary word for a whisper/whispering. The usual adjective would be susurrous or susurrant, rather than susurrential, but in any case it would mean “full of whispering sounds”.
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by stevula 4y ago
Ha! You got me there.
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by stevula 4y ago
I do prefer snakecase visually but having to press shift for the underscore is a pain and it’s also quite far from the home row on the keyboard. I wonder if a lot of people rebind the underscore character to a more convenient key?
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by stevula 4y ago
I guess I don’t see the relevance. Vegans eat other life forms like plants and fungi (it’s unavoidable). Their reservations are specifically about animals. Why would bacteria be an issue?
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by stevula 4y ago
I take it you're talking about removing street parking altogether? If they just remove a few parking spots on each block for dumpsters, I can only see that leading to more tension and disputes over the even scarcer parking spaces. Why
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by stevula 4y ago
If one company started offering insulin for free that would certainly affect their competitors.
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by stevula 4y ago
Conventional commits support a scope which can be an issue ID: `feat(37): add foo` The variable length is still a thing though.
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by stevula 5y ago
Knowing that -ment is a suffix, what would lead one to think the roots “state-“ and “testa-“ might be related?
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by stevula 5y ago
Wombwell is apparently the name of a town in England. According to the wiki article it may have originally referred to a well owned by a certain Womba (in Anglo-Saxon times I assume).
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by stevula 5y ago
Many consider MDN the gold standard when it comes to language documentation and they cover all the JS browser API. I find it much preferable to Python’s docs. If you’re talking about TS or Node docs, I’ll agree they’re not on the same level
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by stevula 5y ago
Corn simply means “grain” in English-speaking places where maize is not a staple food.
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by stevula 5y ago
The fact that the tech was not ready for production was hidden from investors and the public. They sold the tests in Walgreens to real patients, knowing the machines were not accurate. Imagine the trauma of being diagnosed with a life-threa
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by stevula 5y ago
Most apps use the appropriate type of input field ("password") which the browser or mobile OS recognizes should not be capitalized. But some apps use a normal text input (with some masking/styling to make it look like a passw
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by stevula 5y ago
Tech lead might not be the most experienced in terms of technical ability. They could also be someone who just has a lot of domain knowledge but is not the most experienced developer in general.
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by stevula 5y ago
That’s easy compared to boustrophedon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
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by stevula 5y ago
There are plenty of men with OnlyFans channels.
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by stevula 5y ago
> Those European countries also developed fast without much immigration That doesn’t seem correct, at least not universally. Germany invited a large number of immigrant workers to deal with its labor shortage after WW2. https:/&#x2
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by stevula 5y ago
To show an etymological connection requires more than just a superficial resemblance. You would need to explain where the "o" in o-keanos came from and why "-ua-" would change to "-ea-" in that environment but
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by stevula 5y ago
Snow Crash is cyberpunk but it would be a stretch to call it noir.
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by stevula 5y ago
Some old recipes are really good, like shepherds pie. Maybe that’s why it stuck around though.
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by stevula 5y ago
What are you going to do if there’s a breaking change to the API between now and when the native version is released?
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by stevula 5y ago
There’s a footgun when you convert DOBs to Date objects. This can return different dates depending on the local timezone: ``` new Date("1/1/2021").toLocaleDateString() ``` If you want it to return the same DOB regardless

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