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Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by lanyard-textile »

e40 wrote: post #168
lanyard-textile wrote: post #9

I found out my crimson-bellied conure is laying an egg today! She's nesting in some towels now, chirping away while she works on laying it. Having an egg is relatively hard on parrots. I've given her lots of food and warmth to prepare. She is comically hungry -- she's usually not such a big eater, but she's happy today to be scarfing down her apple slices, fruit pellets, and safflower seeds. She usually sleeps at the…

Do you have two of them?

Seven, if you can believe it! She is the only crimson bellied conure.

I have a peach front conure, two green cheeks, a meyers, a senegal, and a half-meyers-half-senegal. Quite the flock.

Their bonds are criss crossed. The bird laying an egg is peaceful to everyone but not hard bonded. So it is... weird that she is laying an egg, lol.

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

kenrick95 wrote: post #160

Today I learned about the difference betweeen "preconnect" and "dns-prefetch": https://web.dev/articles/preconnect-and-dns-prefetch I have thought that they were the same...

In terms of similarities, they are both attempts to improve "perceived page speed" that actually decrease page speed or encourgae practices that decrease page speed

For example, injecting ads and tracking into web pages via connections to third party servers. This is not a practice that increases page speed

If I am not mistaken, "web.dev" is operated by an ad services company

As a web user, not a "web developer", I use clients that do not "support" these "features". For me, YMMV, this makes information retrieval from the www much faster and more resource-efficient than if I tried to use clients that do, such as the so-called "modern" browser

There are also privacy and security implications associated with choice of client, however these are not the primary reason I choose clients other than the so-called "modern" browser

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Post by andoando »

TZubiri wrote: post #326
andoando wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure what you mean, all the Romance languages are derived from Latin. German, Russian and a lot of languages have cases. The tough part is having to memorize feminine/masculine/neutral genders + the million cases for how they transform. Genders seem completely useless, Im curious as to why they developed so extensively in language at all.

Right, and we descend from amphibians, but we diverged quite a lot. I took a look into german, it seems that their case system is much more stable than latin, based on suffixes mostly, and most words having the same form for many cases. Why genders or specific declensions exist? Being a native spanish speaker I can say: - Error correcting code: If a gender or number doesn't match, you can reparse what you heard, or a…

My native language is Armenian which also has cases, no definite word order, and word endings, but no genders. I think cases are great. Latin sucks cause it has 3 genders and neuter has like 3 different forms, each changing the word endings. The system overall is great, its the inconsistency that makes it difficult. In english, you still have to denote the intent behind the decelerations somehow.

https://latindiscussion.org/attachments/declensions-1-jpg.24...

To everything else you said: I think language develops more naturally without such intent.

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Post by PokemonNoGo »

numpad0 wrote: post #41

Surströmming, the Swedish can of fermented fish, is strongly recommended to be punctured while submerged in tap water. It is not pasteurized and is actively fermenting in storage, and the content will spray around if opened under atmospheric conditions. When transported on cargo flights, they are double packed as cans in a barrel in a crate, and considered UN classified "miscellaneous dangerous goods" with identifica…

You forgot to mention that it is actually quite delicous.

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Post by dyauspitr »

sowbug wrote: post #252
dyauspitr wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t know specifics of this dish but usually you want to cook everything else first and only add in the rice for the last 10 mins so it stays firm. The choice of rice matters too, basmati tends to stay separate. Also wash the rice first so excess starches get drained off.

I'll give that a try. Some recipes prepare the beans separately from scratch, and then pour the toasted rice into that already-seasoned liquid mixture. I'll pick up some basmati today, during Day Three of the local Panamanian chili pepper search.

Good luck on your pepper search! Also you probably want to have a 1.75:1 water:rice ratio in the pot when you add it in and it’s important to cover the top for the rice to fluff up. You don’t want a tight seal just a plate loosely covering the top so some steam can escape. Finally for some real flavor in these dishes you might want to use bouillon instead of the broth and add a good amount of it or it’s going to be bland. You can also skip the salt once you do that.

Usually rice and bean type dishes always go with something on the side so you should probably have another protein/meat dish on the side to properly appreciate the dish. Maybe ladle some of the juices that come off the protein over the rice when you eat it.

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Post by olelele »

numpad0 wrote: post #41

Surströmming, the Swedish can of fermented fish, is strongly recommended to be punctured while submerged in tap water. It is not pasteurized and is actively fermenting in storage, and the content will spray around if opened under atmospheric conditions. When transported on cargo flights, they are double packed as cans in a barrel in a crate, and considered UN classified "miscellaneous dangerous goods" with identifica…

It is also mostly eaten outdoors :)

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Post by _DeadFred_ »

I don't really musically understand reverb (to the point where I just know oh this needs a plate at X length), so I've been learning future garage forcing me to use a lot of reverb hoping it will click. Inspired by Urban Waifs sharing of some of their process in their Youtube videos. https://www.youtube.com/@UrbanWaifs/videos

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Post by cylentwolf »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #282
spenjovewkwhalo wrote: post #49

The origins of Port and Starboard on ships. Chosen to be independent of a mariners orientation. Starboard - most sailors were right handed and the steering oar was placed on the right. Star = steer. Board = side of boat. Port - as steering oars got bigger, boats tended to dock on the left hand side. This became to be known as “lardboard” which sounded too much like starboard, so it was changed to “Port” (as in the si…

A fun mnemonic I use to remember port is to the left is "lp unix command = line printer = left to port".

I just remember that port is four letters and left is four letters. :)

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Post by nottorp »

nottorp wrote: post #184
elric wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I too am actively fighting the Teams spellcheck and autocorrect garbage. I can't seem to turn it off permanently, every time I log in again it switches itself on again. It refuses to understand that I speak multiple languages, and that no, I do not ever want this shitty tool to change words as I'm typing. Another classical case of MS not understanding consent, I guess?

> Another classical case of MS not understanding consent, I guess? Not sure if Apple is better in this respect, with the "helpers" at least. For MS, this job only switched to MS from Google less than a month ago but I could whine about new annoyances for 4-5 more paragraphs. And before using it, I thought Google is too enterprise oriented and getting in the way of getting work done. Compared to Slack. But not compare…

> Not sure if Apple is better in this respect, with the "helpers" at least.

Since I posted that, I got a popup trying to trick me into upgrading to Mac OS 26 again. I thought I had the workaround to get rid of the idiotic popups applied, had to apply it again.

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Post by d_runs_far »

That exporting an svg from Illustrator and dropping into Fusion as a sketch is not a very wise approach - the scale is completely off! DXF is the way to go, keep your units in mm across the workflow.

I've not used any CAD tools in a significant way in nearly three decades - all very familiar and yet not at the same time. Form-Z and ArchiCAD were my bread and butter back then, despised AutoCAD but here I am back in the Autodesk realm again with Fusion :-(

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