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I so desperately want to upvote this. Driveby puns don't get nearly enough recognition

Just like beloved is supposed to be pronounced (don't @ me Descriptivists).

I couldn't agree more. The obvious quirks which are easy to pick up and identify, like em dashes or overuse of a specific rhetorical device, are also easy to adapt and change. The …

Not if you see the IPO as your only remaining exit strategy for a juggling act that is threatening to rain down on your head when it collapses

Adjectives can be used as nouns in informal speech

The Stars My Destination ... how did I mess that up?

Is he really criminally underrated if My Stars the Destination features in just about every "best scifi books" list I've ever read? Maybe not as high up as it deserves on those lis…

> Vietnamese is one example. Having tones attached to syllables means that words and sentences are shorter. This does not entail that more can be expressed than other languages. Pl…

> Tonal languages allows individuals to express way more than Latin based languages. Not true. There was a study that showed that information density is pretty consistent across al…

I'm pretty sure that you are correct. Or at the very least it is a reference to that specific aphorism. The title is far too idiomatically Latin (if you overlook the awkwardness wi…

"PyPI is growing fast. If this dangerous expansion not stopped, our advanced machine learning models predict that in only 8 years the number of packages will outnumber human beings…

I don't know whether this level of accuracy is imortant for you or not (if it isn't please excuse the correction) but the plural for "corpus" is "corpora"

> A developer working on a function may suddenly discover the need to, say, left-pad a string with blanks. Rather than go though the pain of implementing this challenging functiona…

"Boeing decided late last year that those failures were not a security issue, but the company and the F.A.A. later concluded that they represented a threat after further investigat…

Amazing name. Has my Latin nerd stamp of approval.

I think you'll find that if you do even a small amount of research you will find that this is not the case. There are many sources which confirm this, many of them official. Your c…

I played Path of Exile for many years since the 1.0 release and always found reasons to go back to it. The only reason I stopped playing was a decrease in leisure time and having t…

https://www.drugs.com/pro/desoxyn.html Methamphetamine hydrochloride IS methamphetamine. I don't know how that can be stated more clearly. Edit: in addition they are very much the …

"For critics of capitalism none of this will be a surprise. They argue that firms controlled by private shareholders are especially unethical. Yet it is easy to poke holes in this.…

To elaborate, I'm pointing out that redundancy has been an integral part of aeronautical engineering for ages so to ignore it in any situation, never mind in one where the pilots a…

"Two is one and one is none." That's pretty much been aeronautical gospel since dinosaurs strapped cardboard to their stubby arms and dreamed of soaring.