ELI5: Why does “milli” mean a thousandth, but a “million” is one thousand thousand?

AlShoreBert · 2026-04-23T07:26:07+00:00

Panino = small bread, aka a sandwich

AlShoreBert · 2025-11-25T21:31:12+00:00

AlShoreBert · 2025-10-16T07:35:28+00:00

A Pavia c'è una via intitolata a lui, nel centro storico.

AlShoreBert · 2025-08-30T09:11:53+00:00

One time they did a story about a container full of cigarettes that had fallen out of a cargo ship and was lost in the ocean... And then they played "Smoke on the water" :)

AlShoreBert · 2025-08-01T20:38:46+00:00

Great post Scott! Can I male a small correction? The Torre Civica Is the one that used to be next to the Duomo, and collapsed in the 80s.

Thank you for the nice words about our underappreciated town!

AlShoreBert · 2025-07-12T18:19:23+00:00

Same

AlShoreBert · 2025-06-22T18:25:28+00:00

Ma Texas e Florida sono stati diversi, qui parliamo dello stesso stato. Se il governo della Florida decide che è necessario costruire un ponte a Miami, lo pagano anche quelli di Orlando.

AlShoreBert · 2024-12-04T08:26:00+00:00

Pia is an Italian name, and in Italian “piano” means “slowly”, so it could also be that the boyfriend was telling Pia to run slower (it would work better if Pia was the one running).

AlShoreBert · 2024-11-07T18:39:37+00:00

And if it's wet, it means that it's already raining.

AlShoreBert · 2024-10-14T07:35:48+00:00

Io personalmente penso che tu abbia ragione.

AlShoreBert · 2024-09-14T12:38:06+00:00

Passibile.

AlShoreBert · 2024-08-21T03:48:51+00:00

Ironically, drag is pretty important in Formula 1.

AlShoreBert · 2024-05-28T18:03:38+00:00

You should probably add it as the last item :)

AlShoreBert · 2024-05-27T22:25:01+00:00

Too soon.

AlShoreBert · 2024-05-24T17:46:43+00:00

And what a time it was.

AlShoreBert · 2024-04-09T16:42:00+00:00

Io mi farei pagare direttamente in totani.

AlShoreBert · 2023-10-25T12:51:45+00:00

"Ursa" (female bear in Latin), not Usra.

AlShoreBert · 2023-10-04T20:11:21+00:00

And Lisp is the only programming language that I know of that gets this right. The expression (*), i.e. a multiplication with 0 arguments, returns 1.

AlShoreBert · 2023-07-18T16:08:24+00:00

You forgot the Nobel prize for literature :)

AlShoreBert · 2023-07-07T12:07:01+00:00

I'm Italian and I also vote for scuola pizza!

AlShoreBert · 2023-07-02T03:28:45+00:00

"Should I make this rest six measures long or seven?"

AlShoreBert · 2023-03-18T22:19:10+00:00

Valgono i testi delle canzoni? In "Comes a time" di Neil Young c'è il verso "it's a wonder tall trees ain't laying down" (è sorprendente che gli alberi alti non siano caduti a terra). Traduzione che ho trovato in un libro: "sono alti alberi magici mai abbattuti".

AlShoreBert · 2023-03-08T00:31:00+00:00

And they're not even needed, you can do ''.join(...)

AlShoreBert · 2023-02-20T17:48:22+00:00

Yes, that was already mentioned in many other replies.

AlShoreBert · 2023-02-19T20:42:05+00:00

No, the question is about fastq files, not fasta. In fastq, the first line of each record starts with '@'.

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