[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 100 points 1 month ago

As Wiktionary puts it:

The word data is more often used as an uncountable noun with a singular verb than as a plural noun with singular datum.

It's like "hair". You can hold a single 'hair', you can also hold three hairs. But if you're looking at an entire mane, you ain't counting, so it's referred to as "hair" again.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 98 points 3 months ago

It's apparently also got the size for it:
Photo of an atlas moth sitting on a hand. Its wingspan is larger than the hand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacus_atlas

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 98 points 4 months ago

Apparently, a borzoi is a big dog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borzoi

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 111 points 5 months ago

Various ant species do a similar thing where their soldiers have really big, flat heads and when their nest gets attacked, the soldiers stick their head into the entrance way, so the attackers can't come inside.

Apparently, this kind of behaviour is referred to as phragmosis.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 116 points 5 months ago

iAI

(...will always love you 🎵)

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 136 points 5 months ago

My bet is on beeswax for the non-vegan ingredient.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 121 points 6 months ago

Nevermind simply having an OS-level clipboard manager...

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 132 points 7 months ago

In particular, to force you back into crime, to be able to pay for that debt.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 131 points 8 months ago

Pretty bad is also that it intersects with another problem: Bus factor.

Having just one person as maintainer of a library is pretty bad. All it takes is one accident and no one knows how to maintain it.
So, you're encouraged to add more maintainers to your project.

But yeah, who do you add, if it's a security-critical project? Unless you happen to have a friend that wants to get in on it, you're basically always picking a stranger.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 115 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The triple parentheses are a racist dogwhistle to point out Jewish folks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

And I guess, because the person on the right is a racist, when they're talking about themselves (a Jew), they use those triple parentheses...

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 96 points 10 months ago

That's one advantage of being German. You do just hear it when a German speaks English.

A few weeks ago, we had a meeting at work and it was like 20 Germans, but one guy greeted in English, so I guess, this meeting is gonna be in English then. And like, us Germans were all doing extremely fine, but it was still just absolutely fucking comical when the native English speaker responded. In comparison, we all just sounded like shitty robots.

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