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Ask HN: What are some words that you learned on Hacker News?
I'll start. "Orthogonal".
- fuzztester 2y ago"conflating" is one that I did not know of earlier. "drunk the kool-aid" is another, though a phrase, not a word. "cromulent" is another
- tomcam 2y agoConflate is seldom used correctly on HN. It means combine but now people use it when they mean confuse.
- fuzztester 2y agoOh wow, didn't know that, thanks. Yes, I've mainly or only seen used it on HN in the sense of confuse, or mistake one thing or concept for another.
- giantg2 2y agoActually, there are multiple definitions of conflate. One of these does have confuse as a synonym.
- tomcam 2y agoYes. I should have been more precise and described it as a secondary definition (which has become the primary definition in recent years).
- perilunar 2y ago"heteroscedasticity"
- nomoreban 2y ago[flagged]
- atleastoptimal 2y agogrok
- defrost 2y agoto viscerally delve into psephology .. !an AI
- gadders 2y agoThat "nonce" has another meaning relating to cryptography.
- marssaxman 2y agoWhat is the non-cryptographic meaning?
- lucozade 2y agoSlang for a paedophile
- marssaxman 2y agoMy goodness. I never would have imagined that!
- tomcam 2y agoEnglish thing, not American
- gadders 2y agoSecond sense here: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nonce https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nonce
- LinuxBender 2y ago"bollard" [1] - I always called them steel poles with concrete inside, buried in the ground. Someone here corrected me and I learned something. Adding to that I never associated them with the more artistic versions as I assumed those were weaker or just for looks. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollard
- perilunar 2y agoCheck out the The World Bollard Association™ twitter account for photos and videos of vehicles getting caught up by bollards: https://twitter.com/WorldBollard https://twitter.com/WorldBollard
- fragmede 2y agoconfabulate - what LLMs do
- krapp 2y agoSurprised no one has mentioned "thither" as often as dang uses it. Haven't seen "yon" yet.
- tomcam 2y agoTFA (the fucking article)
- zufallsheld 2y agoAlternatively the fine article.
- tomcam 2y agoHey! I like that much better. Thanks!
- sturza 2y agoenshitification
- nachox999 2y agowastimbolo
- mtmail 2y agomoat
- replwoacause 2y ago“Your pricing is too high” and I learned them in that order too
- piotrke 2y ago'churn' and 'churn rate'
- nicbou 2y ago“Order of magnitude”
- austin-cheney 2y agoCounter-intuitive
- silb 2y agobifurcate