erutuon

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Why I left iNaturalist(kueda.net)
271 points by erutuon 8mo ago|159 comments
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by erutuon 1y ago
In English, some prayers came directly from the King James Bible. The singular second-person pronoun in those prayers corresponded with the informal second-person pronoun in the normal spoken or written English of that time. It would have b
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by erutuon 2y ago
$500 per person per year divided by $0.50 per meal equals 1000 meals per year, which is almost every meal all year. Most people only eat pancakes for breakfast, and not anywhere near every day. What about a moderate rate like 2 maple syrup
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by erutuon 3y ago
Psilon in this case means plain or simple (as opposed to compound or two-letter), as in spelled with one letter, because when the name was coined in the Koine Greek period, υ was pronounced /y/ like οι (but not like ι as in Modern
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by erutuon 3y ago
There's no need to explain French tu by looking at Germanic languages. It descends pretty uneventfully from Latin tū. However, French and Latin tu are cousins of German du and English thou.
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by erutuon 3y ago
Good insight that I hadn't thought of. To flesh that out, the KJV translators used thou as singular and ye as plural consistently to render the second person singular-plural distinctions found in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. The transla
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by erutuon 3y ago
Apparently it doesn't. From what I read, relative humidity is maximum possible humidity divided by actual humidity (probably not the correct terms), whereas vapor pressure deficit is maximum possible minus actual. Fraction versus diffe
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by erutuon 3y ago
Ah, I see, I misread your comment quite badly. I don't have any references to look this up in, but perhaps the ancestor of the word midori is first attested in a syllabic spelling in Old Japanese with only the meaning "sprout&quot
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by erutuon 3y ago
As far as I can tell from Wiktionary ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B7%91#Japanese ), though I don't speak Japanese, the Japanese word midori has had the meaning "bud" or "sprout", but the
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by erutuon 3y ago
Whoops, the article is about the Asian hornet, not the giant hornet... but my comments still apply.
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by erutuon 3y ago
Drinking nectar doesn't necessarily mean pollinating, that is transferring pollen. The pollen has to stick to the insect's body and the insect has to visit another flower that is genetically compatible and the pollen has to get st
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by erutuon 3y ago
I can see the convenience of sort of importing implementations of traits into scope. One difficulty is that traits are used for core functionality, like dereferencing and comparison operators. It would be inconvenient to have to import the
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by erutuon 3y ago
This part of the article seems to suggest that charging a flat rate that includes the base price plus the maximum possible taxes and fees would be allowed: "'A provider that opts to combine all of its monthly discretionary fees wi
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by erutuon 4y ago
The summary is incorrect. The bridge collapse was in Morbi District, Gujarat, not New Delhi.
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by erutuon 4y ago
A JavaScript string is conceptually an array of 16-bit unsigned integers ( https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/ecmascript-data-types-and-... ). String indexing and substring operations treat strings this way, and they
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by erutuon 4y ago
Interesting! That's similar to a clock that my brother and I made years ago ( http://naturalclock.net ). Ours adds the altitude of the sun throughout the day and lets you select the location and fast forward and rewind time t