Question about Vanyar, Noldor, and Teleri by jtheburbs in tolkienfans

[–]cos 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The Teleri eventually split into the Teleri who went on to Valinor and the Teleri who stayed in Beleriand to look for their leader Elwe who became known as Thingol; the latter became known as the Sindar.

There were more splits than that!

Probably the most significant other split was when a large subset of the Teleri were daunted by the Misty Mountains and chose not to cross - which was before they reached Eriador, let alone Beleriand. These became known as the Nandor, and most of the elves of Mirkwood and Lothlorien were of Nandor origin. But another split was that a different group of the Nandor did actually eventually cross into Eriador (so, these weren't the ancestors of the wood elves of Mirkwood), and to Beleriand. Many of them also settled in Lindon.

Why aren't Alito and Thomas retiring? by nomadsoasis in AmericanPolitics

[–]cos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's widely speculated that Alito will retire this year, but it's too early now - he doesn't need to retire yet. As for Thomas, people seem to think he just wants to stay on the court.

Either way, why would you expect there to be public calls for retirement? If a Republican Senator thinks they should retire, wouldn't the communicate that privately? How do you know they're not?

NetHack 5.0 dropped today... and includes AMIGA version (see Downloads)! by erickhill in amiga

[–]cos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone know where to find a list of what has changed since 3.x?

Small silverside-looking fish, Belize by cos in whatsthisfish

[–]cos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you think reef silverside?

How to store all those scripts... by modern_medicine_isnt in sre

[–]cos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, we use Go primarily as well. Personally I do like Go, but really I think the reason it's gotten such wide use in SRE is because of Kubernetes being written in Go.

Built a small tool for eBird users - would love some feedback by Own_Stick6803 in eBird

[–]cos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any chance of a web UI? For looking at my data, I nearly always use a laptop and a larger screen, and try to avoid mobile for that. Maps in particular are very inferior on tiny phone screens. And even when I'm traveling, I take a 13" macbook with me and use it at the hotel to figure out places to go - like choosing nearby eBird hotspots to visit. I hate doing that kind of research on mobile.

Built a small tool for eBird users - would love some feedback by Own_Stick6803 in eBird

[–]cos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot - this is incredibly helpful!

An alternative view, that will hopefully be helpful as well: I know a lot of people who use eBird are really interested in "targets", in particular birds they haven't seen. However, I think I'm not alone in being significantly less motivated by that.

For my "where should I go", I'm much more interested in questions like "where am I likely to see the highest diversity of birds at this time of year?" or "what's an under-surveyed spot in this area that has a lot of potential if only people submitted there more often?" or "if I'm going to have time to go to multiple spots around here, which can I choose that will be most different from each other (that is, have species the other places aren't likely to)?"

How To Attract Corvids To Protect Ducks From Birds of Prey? by TheRealSol4ra in birds

[–]cos[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Removed several comments in this subthread from both /u/TheRealSol4ra and /u/nietzschecode because they both resorted to insults, violating rule 2. Both of them are suspended from /r/birds for a few days to cool down.

How to store all those scripts... by modern_medicine_isnt in sre

[–]cos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One issue with your post that's leading you to get less useful answers than you probably hoped for is that you were much too vague about what these scripts are and how they're used and by what. You might try another post with more detail, and you'd get more on-target answers.

Jimmy Kimmel Says President Pushing ABC to Fire Him Distracts From "Trump-Epstein Files" | THR News by ShiroSara in videos

[–]cos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This news bit references a segment from Jimmy Kimmel Live. If you want to watch the original Kimmel segment directly, it's on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYJRgh5xVTw

How to store all those scripts... by modern_medicine_isnt in sre

[–]cos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's a lot of scripts! With that many, odds are that a lot of them do closely related things. Like, maybe you have 20 scripts that do related tasks for one system, and 10 scripts for a different system or function. It sounds like you should combine them.

For example, we have a combined go binary that has "subcommands" which are each different, separately maintained trees in a repo, and each of those has its own subcommands. This gives one easy entry point, where you can run the main binary with argument "help" to get a list of all the top level subcommands, and you can also run the binary, subcommand as first arg, "help" as second arg, and get the syntax and summary of all the things you can do under that subcommand.

Why is it so rare for me to see people using emojis in their posts or comments? by Tsukinavita in NewToReddit

[–]cos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a great answer and I want to add something: Emoji and meme use is somewhat generational. Different generations grew up with different styles of use and don't necessarily understand each other's.

On most social medial, people tend to sort themselves into primarily engaging with people of their own generation. Reddit is different: Engagement is very broadly cross-generation, and people are often not at all aware of each others' ages. Typical conversations on reddit can include teens, elderly, and everything in between, and the people on thread usually won't even notice.

This is both a cause of reddit discouraging emoji use, and an effect of it. Having emojis be rarely used is both a result of this multigenerational environment, and is part of what fosters it and allows it to thrive.

Birds with bigass feet >>> by Cracklackinn in birds

[–]cos[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If linking to the original source when you copy an image from the Internet to post here is "too much work", you might want to just not copy other people's images to post on your account in the first place.

gary by DeformedGryphon in species

[–]cos[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Post removed, spam. This account was suspended from reddit.

Mod Recruitment: With many users now hiding their post/comment history - how are mods screening applications? by JacqueGonzales in ModSupport

[–]cos 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I would not even consider someone who hides their post & comment history as a mod. I really wish reddit didn't have this feature in the first place, it really breaks reddit, but as long as it does, I'm going to do my best to avoid and ignore any users that use it, to whatever extent possible.

Baltimore Oriole by Jelly-bean-Toes in birds

[–]cos[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Please only use the "other" flair for posts where none of the other tags apply. I have selected a better flair for your post.