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by stevula 5y ago
I remember reading about the Turing test at least as far back as 2005 long before I developed any interest in computer science.
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by stevula 5y ago
You are probably thinking of century eggs, also known as thousand year eggs and many other names. The name isn’t literal; they are made within weeks or months and I seriously doubt they’d remain edible after 1000 years (nor would they be af
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by stevula 5y ago
There’s not really a debate among linguists. No amount of Old Norse loan words can justify reclassifying English as North Germanic. As far as grammar and syntax are concerned, Old Norse had some interesting effects such as influencing level
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by stevula 5y ago
Skipping through several stages of English and French, the derivation is: male < Latin masculus < mas “male (animal)” female < Latina femella < femina “woman” masculus and femella are diminutives of mas and femina respectively.
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by stevula 5y ago
Why would one of baby’s first/simplest words be something so abstract as “person” (=man) instead of “food” or “milk”?
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by stevula 5y ago
Probably obvious, but apothecary also comes from apotheke, so it’s related to bodega.
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by stevula 5y ago
> A hapax that is unique to all records of a language is quite rare. Depends on how well attested the language is. In Koine Greek I would imagine they’re relatively rare, but in Etruscan or Epic Greek much more common.
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by stevula 5y ago
The existence of Gothic aþnam (athnam) “years (dative)” and Oscan “akno-“ [1] strongly suggests the presence of a consonant in there, which supports the separate root theory. 1. https://www.etymonline.com/word/annual
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by stevula 5y ago
The choice between “v” and “u” is pretty arbitrary. “V” was easier for inscriptions because of the straight lines but in Latin cursive “U” was used as a more rounded form that’s easier to write. What’s inconsistent with ancient usage is the
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by stevula 5y ago
How do you explain the prefixed form in Latin (co-operatus) corresponding to the root form in other languages? Opus/operis is a productive form on its own in Latin.
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by stevula 5y ago
Intervocalic s > r (rhotacism [1]) is a well known phenomenon in early Latin. Any Latin grammar from the last 150 years should mention it. The comparative method proves the original phoneme was /s/ in many cases: generis - comp
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by stevula 5y ago
This might be more of a modern reanalysis based on etymology. The sense development in Greek was apparently more like “private (non-political) person” > ”layperson” > “ignorant” > “stupid”.
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by stevula 5y ago
“Saturday” is from “Saturn”.
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by stevula 5y ago
English does not descend form Old Norse (a North Germanic language). It was merely influenced by it due to Viking invasions of the British isles. English is a West Germanic language more closely related to Frisian.
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by stevula 5y ago
The British pronunciation could be influenced by the French word adresse.
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by stevula 5y ago
I hear this pronunciation every now and then from gamers too. I suspect this happens when people learn the word from reading instead of from listening to the speech of their peers. If it becomes common enough then it spreads via speech patt
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by stevula 5y ago
Exception chaining (`raise from`) was new to me but after reading the docs it seems to be the default behavior in except/finally blocks, so the examples from the article don’t actually add anything. It doesn’t hurt to be explicit thoug
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by stevula 5y ago
> What a fantastic way to dismissively say "Raising children is work that is of zero benefit to the human species and a complete waste of time. I don’t know if there was an edit to the previous post, but “Excluded from many intellec
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by stevula 5y ago
AJAX does not update the DOM at all. You have to write some JS to mutate the DOM based on the response data, which is one of the things React is good at.
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by stevula 5y ago
It’s not uncommon in Python to iterate through dict.items() (or dict.keys()) which is basically the same thing.
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by stevula 5y ago
Absolutely, unless you’re using node or library functions that require callbacks. Even then there is usually a non-callback-based alternative or you can wrap in a promise to use async/await.
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by stevula 5y ago
Wouldn’t the water seek isotonic equilibrium by moving to the side of the membrane with higher salt concentration? I don’t think that would work in your body’s favor.
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by stevula 5y ago
Schools can have a lot of different buildings and outdoor spaces. There’s nothing to stop an employee from scanning in, leaving campus, then coming back to scan out. Ethical questions aside, tracking their location is a much better way to s
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by stevula 5y ago
The post I was replying to was specifically lamenting the inability to have interactive elements inside of anchor tags, which I think is solved by event.stopPropagation. If you have a button in an anchor tag and it's not a submit butto
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by stevula 5y ago
You don’t always need a large sample size to show correlation. When an incredibly rare event happens twice in a short span of time, the chances of it being a random fluke are vanishingly small. And anyways I thought it was pretty clear that
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by stevula 5y ago
Cant you just use event.stopPropagation on the inner button’s event handler to stop the browser from following the link? Of course this requires JS but I assume you’re using Js if you have custom buttons.
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by stevula 5y ago
Given that the post is in the “smart home” subreddit, I’m pretty sure they did connect it to their wifi network intentionally. It probably does something very basic like send a push notification when the load is done.
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by stevula 6y ago
> People do choose oat milk because it is supposed to be a healthier or more sustainable alternative to cow's milk, but the reality is that it could be worse. Surely the environmental costs associated with feeding and raising cows f
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by stevula 6y ago
For medical insurance it’s usually only needed if they you don’t have your member ID number or just recently enrolled. More common for vision or dental insurance to use SSN though.
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by stevula 6y ago
The article is about OS font size, not CSS.

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