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I tried to be careful about the biblical reference. It’s been translated as “apple” since at least the 12th century CE.
The biblical comment was not to argue that the Torah said “apple”, but that it has been translated as “apple” for centuries, demonstrating that the apple has been a commonly known fruit in Britain for a long time; and that ripe apples are frequently red.
I agree with you!
Word definitions are like the lowest common denominator consensus version of those individual meaning, but they are changing slightly all the time as people change. Dictionaries are just documenting that evolution, but are constantly playing catch-up
This is my pet peeve, and yet I know I’m wrong. I hate Miriam Webster for being a catalog of slang; it’s not a dictionary, anymore. OED is the only English dictionary. Words have meanings, despite 20% of the population misunderstanding or intentionally redefining them.
And yet, and yet… it is not possible to argue against popular usage in natural languages. The best you can do is use a conlang that enforces strict no-evolution rules, such as the stance Esperanto has traditionally taken. Or learn Volpuk, a logic based language that strives to eliminate all ambiguity and achieves only being impossible to use outside of extremely narrow circumstances, because that’s not how humans think.
This is one of the great internal conflicts in my world: natural language evolves and changes, and context alters meaning even further; and yet I desire reliable definitions and disambiguity, and shudder when I see MW has added “boomer: N. An older person.”
The end, though, is the same. lemmy.ml well still want their version, so they can have their own content rules. What you’re suggesting is functionally centralization, which is already an issue for Lemmy based on its design; consolidation would aggravate it.
Eventually, lemmy.ml !linux users would want to have their own community to enforce rules programming.dev won’t. Diaspora is inevitable. Consolidation fixes the wrong problem - a better solution would facilitate less centralization.
So:
Yeah?
An indisputable fact is that static typing and compilation virtually eliminate an entire class of runtime bugs that plague dynamically typed languages, and it’s not an insignificant class.
If you add a type checker to a dynamically typed language, you’ve re-invented a strongly typed, compiled language without adding any of the low hanging fruit gains of compiling.
Studies are important and informative; however, it’s really hard to fight against the Monte Carlo evidence of 60-ish years of organic evolution: there’s a reason why statically typed languages are considered more reliable and fast - it’s because they are. There isn’t some conspiracy to suppress Lisp.
Naw, giant lava trenches sound like a good idea.
No. The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is 10 light days away. The outer edge of 100 ld away.
The math looks like:
The Oort Cloud is not only mind bogglingly far away, it’s about 50x deeper than it is away from the sun.
Those are minimum estimates; some estimates have the inner cloud edge 28 AU away.
The original Superman wasn’t a god, but it got hyperbolic over the years with one-upmanship until he was indistinguishable from a god. Canonically, beings regularly travel between star systems, so FTL is not uncommon in the DC universe. Heck, in Invincible (not DC), even relatively low-power beings travel FTL all over, all the time. Spacetime doesn’t work the same in comics. So, Superman can travel FTL, and the Oort Cloud would be reachable. But he’d have to travel at least 20x the speed of light to get to the Cloud and back in a day, and thousands of times faster if he wants to explore it at all, or see the outer edge.
That’s a pretty good starting list. I don’t know that I’d waste time trying to show them anything; just go straight to disposal.
I, too, was thinking “murder.” It solves only a sort term problem though. Within a few years, you’d just have a new batch.
The system is broken. Capitalism as we practice it is broken; our political systems are broken (some more than others). That won’t be fixed by DXing a bunch of oligarchs.
They’re great shoes, after they’re broken in. Last forever.
NK is really taking “cannon fodder” to the extreme. Too many mouths to feed, I guess.
I thought briefly about editing that to say, “in this context”, but I thought it might be redundant.
It’s like the whole fruit/vegetable debate, and there not really being a scientific category of “vegetables” that aligns with the common usage. However, in common usage, the loose, lay definition of “vegetable” is far more useful than the scientific, taxonomical one.
Context is king.
Still? I thought it was just current fashion.
Hmm. Would that be good, though? Different rules, different moderators. Wouldn’t an aggregation system based on subscription be better? Consolidating would result in a consolidation of power into the hands off a few.
Consolidation would also encounter trouble when server admins disagree with moderators about community rules. When conflicts happen - which they inevitably would - we’d have a situation where the community would split as some moderators recreate a new community on a different server. It was hard enough when lemm.ee shut down, and that have communities no option but to switch; if the reason for a move is policy and not server shutdown, the chaos would be far worse.
The more I think about it, the worse consolidation sounds.
I figured it might be a client thing. Someone else did mention Piefed does this.
This might be the impetuous to fire up a self-hosted instance.
Neat! So, I have to switch to a Piefed account or run my own Piefed server? Does this mean that Piefed performs this aggregation in your feed when you’re browsing your subscriptions?
Physicists might argue that, but black is a color linguistically and in common usage; I’d argue that since OP was generally speaking in a linguistic context, linguistic rules override physics pedantry.
Dear Mr Encyclopedia, when were raspberries discovered? Wasn’t Avalon “the isle of apples?” When did Christian bibles start describing the forbidden fruit as “apples?” Were they not red apples?
What color did they call ripe ribe avu-crispa (a gooseberry)?
Maybe you don’t live somewhere where the average summer temperatures are 30C or higher. I’m those places, this would be a great product; your alternatives are to swelter all night, or A/C your house. A self-cooling bed would be more energy efficient.
It’s surprisingly far away! Shockingly far. It baffles me every time I stop to think about it; it’s so incomprehensibly far, I am incapable of visualizing how far it is, no matter how many times I play with the scrollable solar system web page.