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> 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 …

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...

Titanium dioxide is used as a colorant to make things look whiter. It's common in cottage cheese, for example.

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://githu…

> 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,”…

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…

It's not an off-the-shelf solution, but what I do is roll my own keyboard layout with MSKLC.

> 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 Monotropoide…

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…

Suitland and Beltsville, MD - suburbs of DC named after local landowners, Samuel T. Suit and Truman Belt.

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 Za…

> 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 s…

Decomposition of glyph sequences in phonetic transcription alphabets (e.g. IPA representations of phonemes) into phonological feature sets. Existing attempts to solve this problem …

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 …

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 o…

https://neocities.org/ has a free tier. It's limited (no arbitrary filetype uploads, no custom domains), but convenient and easy to use.

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 do…

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 …

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 la…

>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 …

>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 wh…

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 sq…

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 th…

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…