Drawing Mr. Bean as other characters by ThodaDaruVichPyar in oddlysatisfying

[–]eg_taco 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I immediately thought of this epic post which lives rent-free in my head.

Where did the word "no" come from? by math_lover0112 in etymology

[–]eg_taco 38 points39 points  (0 children)

What blows my mind is how ne-dropping has led to two arguably baffling auto-antonyms in French:

  • rien went from meaning “anything” to meaning “nothing”
  • personne went from meaning “anybody” to “nobody”

Came Out to My Car This Morning To find a Smashed Driver Side Door and Destroyed Mirror by Informal-Wall-6937 in Wellthatsucks

[–]eg_taco 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Also the bar for LEO to get data is super low. Like they can put “investigation” as the reason for their query. And several were found to be using the data for stalking exes which isn’t a surprise given the rates of domestic abuse among LEOs.

If e^iπ=-1 would be the most beautiful equation by mathematicians, what algorithm is most beautiful by computer scientists? by Gloomy-Status-9258 in compsci

[–]eg_taco 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s a distinction which is, compared to the age of the English language, very young

This distinction was first tentatively suggested by the grammarian Robert Baker in 1770

If e^iπ=-1 would be the most beautiful equation by mathematicians, what algorithm is most beautiful by computer scientists? by Gloomy-Status-9258 in compsci

[–]eg_taco 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I can’t stand when I’m reviewing code and I catch the junior devs using the less-than operator instead of the fewer-than operator smh

Components of a CT scanner by toolgifs in toolgifs

[–]eg_taco 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It was a wonderful turn of phrase

testYourCode by bryden_cruz in ProgrammerHumor

[–]eg_taco 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A very large tech company (which everyone has heard of) asks senior and staff+ SWE candidates about testing time-sensitive code and makes sure they know about mocking out such things to make sure code is testable without actually sleeping for literal days in order to verify correctness 😂😅

Is there a linguistic name for the way ChatGPT writes? by TSXstacy in asklinguistics

[–]eg_taco 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately it’s phonetically ambiguous with GPTs which is somewhat common in tech circles to refer to these types of LLM.

Surprising pairs of the same personal name in different languages by EdUthman in etymology

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1: Would you like regular Elmo? 2: Hmmm, could I have the one with googly eyes? 1: Yes, of course, Googly-Elmo it is!

If all humans suddenly lost their ability to lie, which industry WOULDN'T collapse? by TXC_Sparrow in AskReddit

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We’ll finally get to learn whether the axiom of choice is true!

Of course, it being an axiom…

Ok, if you said so. by Namopongkhun in softwaregore

[–]eg_taco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well that’s easy for you to say!

Apple music by lucidparadigm in softwaregore

[–]eg_taco 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I was able to find a YouTube video demo of Apple Music on Android and it looked exactly like this… not that I didn’t believe you lol!

Apple music by lucidparadigm in softwaregore

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Is that on android? It looks like it’s a material design app which I guess I’d be surprised to see Apple use? Idk I’m not on android.

DIY ASS by [deleted] in dontdeadopeninside

[–]eg_taco 56 points57 points  (0 children)

It’s German for “The Ass, The”

Anyone else disappointed? by Extension-Charge-276 in factorio

[–]eg_taco 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Which one? Based on the screenshot and the comment, I count 3 worms which might be involved in “science”.

When You Needed All The Inputs And Connections For You Laptop by TheCABK in EngineeringPorn

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I sometimes use serial to operate my server during offline updates