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It's pretty much the same for the Spanish language.

Totally agree. Lately touch switches have been riddling every electric appliance: kitchen hood, microwave, washing machine, dishwasher... I think that being easier to clean doesn't…

I had to run it like this UNZIP_DISABLE_ZIPBOMB_DETECTION=TRUE unzip DqteCf6WsAAhqwV.jpg

It breaks down catastrophically with diacritics https://imgur.com/8U3IKR9

Direct fitness is not the only way natural selection favours individuals. Genes that make individuals past their reproductive age turn into good caretakers (including genes that im…

It's funny how these thinking patterns repeat at all levels. I am from sunny Andalucia, and this flamenco and siesta stereotypes still sound like total rubbish.

As a 40 year old Spaniard, I have never heard of this 4 PM siesta time.

Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1314/

Why choose? I use both :-) I'm using irssi in a screen session on a server, with the proxy plugin, and weechat in my desktop as a frontend.

You're getting downvoted, but the guidelines explicitly say: > Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be …

You know, traditional paellas already have snails as an ingredient, which aren't insects but I think still have the cultural unfamiliarity to Western palates.

Thanks to this wonderful resource I've been keeping a personal Twitter for Mr. Darwin for almost two years, narrating his voyage in "real time" (and in Spanish). He's in Chile righ…

It fails here with Firefox 31.0a2 (Aurora) on Ubuntu.

See, continuous ups and downs may be seen as kind of a failure.

Would you consider open sourcing your photo blog site? I like it. A lot.

There's no need for a dictionary definition. Just as you just said, diminutives don't normally make it into the dictionary. So, "suelecillo" is a word for "suelo pequeño" whether o…

Sorry, but this has nothing to do with our dialects. You were contending that the etymology of "mosquito" can't be understood as Spanish for "little fly", which is untrue. See, "fl…

But it has a male form: mosco. From which "mosquito" comes by diminutivization. No mistake in the article.

Actually, it is a diminutive for "mosco", which comes from "mosca". No Spanish speaker I know of (myself included) has trouble understanding mosquito as little fly.

It doesn't get timed. You can quickly test this by adding an expensive operation to your setup and checking that it doesn't affect the resulting time.

In case you're curious how does one get a spacecraft from Earth to a comet, here's an interactive 3D visualization showing all those nice gravitational assists. https://util1.estec…

But, but... then this corporation's reach must date back to thousands of years ago, when we (falsely) discovered that proper hygiene was deeply correlated with improved health. Doe…

> You don’t need any of those soapy substances. It’s all a big lie perpetrated by people who want your money. If you eat/sleep/exercise properly, you will almost never get sick and…