binrec

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by binrec 2y ago
> Populations of the weeds have been found that are impervious to nine different classes of herbicides. The plant can grow more than two inches a day to reach eight feet in height and dominate entire fields. Originally from the desert So
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by binrec 3y ago
cf. Bernard Parham's "Matrix Notation", which uses the same shapes for pawns, bishops, rooks, and (almost) queens: https://www.thechessdrum.net/talkingdrum/TheMatrix/index.htm...
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by binrec 4y ago
Titanium dioxide is used as a colorant to make things look whiter. It's common in cottage cheese, for example.
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by binrec 4y ago
V8 has such a lax approach to memory management that I sometimes wish I could drop support for everything but Firefox. For example, Promise.race() leaks memory in V8: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/17
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by binrec 5y ago
> To tap into the core layers of language, Starostin’s team starts with an established list of core, universal concepts from the human experience. It includes meanings like “rock,” “fire,” “cloud,” "two,” “hand,” and “human,” amongs
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by binrec 5y ago
IMO "macrofamily" isn't a well-defined enough concept not to be disputed by definition. Sino-Tibetan and Afroasiatic are very large and very old, but not as controversial as Altaic; Austro-Tai and Dene-Yeniseian are classic &
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by binrec 5y ago
It's not an off-the-shelf solution, but what I do is roll my own keyboard layout with MSKLC.
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by binrec 5y ago
> I thought all plants (by definition?) need photosynthesis to stay alive in non-dormant states. There are parasitic plants that don't photosynthesize at all, like the Monotropoideae and Rafflesiaceae. Among photosynthesizing plants
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by binrec 6y ago
If pickles are called gherkins, what are gherkins called? Or is there no separate word for them? (In the US, a gherkin is a small pickled cucumber. A cornichon is a type of gherkin, but there are other types.)
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by binrec 6y ago
Suitland and Beltsville, MD - suburbs of DC named after local landowners, Samuel T. Suit and Truman Belt.
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by binrec 6y ago
Musk is a great hype man in an industry where hype is the difference between success and failure. If he'd started out in a different field, he could've been the next Tom Ford or Zaha Hadid. That's not necessarily a statement
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by binrec 6y ago
> I guess you could totally do it from mobile. But then you have to fight the app store's distribution/marketing model. I don't know much about the mobile world, so this may be a stupid question, but could you route around
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by binrec 6y ago
Decomposition of glyph sequences in phonetic transcription alphabets (e.g. IPA representations of phonemes) into phonological feature sets. Existing attempts to solve this problem are hackish and difficult to customize: they typically treat
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by binrec 6y ago
Chrome's Ctrl+F behavior is damned annoying for handling linguistic data. When I search for ʰ (aspiration), I don't want h (the letter, which appears in some of the column headers and most of the notes entries) - conflating the
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by binrec 6y ago
Easier to read for whom? I have pretty bad eye floaters, and they're more visible in bright light. Having crud bouncing around my entire field of vision does not make for an easy or strain-free reading experience, so I enable dark mode
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by binrec 6y ago
https://neocities.org/ has a free tier. It's limited (no arbitrary filetype uploads, no custom domains), but convenient and easy to use.
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by binrec 7y ago
A few weeks ago I got curious about the phonological development of Rotokas and figured I'd see if any reconstruction could be done on the North Bougainville languages. The only documentation I could find for Ramopa and Askopan at all
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by binrec 7y ago
The DC area is pretty suburbanized. It's not uncommon for people who work in DC to have hour-long commutes - when I lived there, I met people who commuted to DC from as far out as Frederick and Mt Airy - but the MARC is (in my experien
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by binrec 7y ago
Interesting map. The methodology probably wouldn't be comparable to Tyshchenko's, but there is an estimate for the lexical distance between Tocharian and the other Indo-European language families (10.2307/601651) - Tocharian
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by binrec 7y ago
>Functional programming IS immutable programming the two are one and the same. Yes, and many imperative languages allow you to use, in an idiomatic manner, a functional style that avoids mutable state, even though these languages aren&#x
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by binrec 7y ago
>You are using a stack which is not immutable. Yes, but that's beside the point. I said "style", not "paradigm". The basic structure, not the totality of the thing. I don't know what CS researchers would thi
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by binrec 7y ago
It's technically possible to write in a concatenative style in a non-concatenative language, but in most cases, it's nowhere near idiomatic. How would you define a function that squares a number in a concatenative style in Javascr
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by binrec 7y ago
Wikipedia tends to be technical about math/CS subjects. In other fields, you can use it as a textbook for a 101 course - I once heard of an astronomy professor who did this, and this is what I recommend people do with linguistics. (Exc
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by binrec 8y ago
I couldn't figure out how to play this, so I tried making Snake in the favicon: https://defseg.io/snavicon The framerate isn't great - is drawing to the favicon inherently slow, or can it be improved? - but it&#x2