FoeNyx
Birds (Aves) are dinosaurs (Dinosauria), and dinosaurs are reptiles (Reptilia).
But it seems the author is talking about traditional Japanese words, and looking for ties in words and idioms like ("kokoro" & "corculum"), ("koi" & "cupio"), ("ganbare" & "quam vale"), ("omedetō" & "omen datum").
Seems a bit farfetched to me, but I'm no expert.
I suppose a serious breach of regulations, and if Kagi decided to ignore fines, apart from a bad reputation, could ultimately lead to things like judicial decisions of blocking access to the website or blocking payments for EU customers.
Recently the French Government required its members to use it, but it's made by a French startup, AFAIK.
- Just after that it doesn't translate the "rubber" part
- It states there's no land nearby for it to rest or find food in the middle of the ocean: if it's a rubber duck it doesn't need to rest nor feed. (That's a missed opportunity to mention the infamous "Friendly Floatees spill"[1] in 1992 as some rubber ducks floated to that map position). Although it seems to recognize geographical features of the map, it fails to mention Easter Island is relatively nearby. And if it were recognized as a simple duck — which it described as a bird swimming in the water — it seems oblivious to the fact that the duck might feed itself in the water. It doesn't mention either that the size of the duck seems abnormally big in that map context.
- The concept of friends and foes doesn't apply to a rubber duck either. Btw labeling the duck picture as a friend and the bear picture as a foe seems arbitrary (e.g. a real duck can be very aggressive even with other ducks.)
Among other things, the astronomical riddle seems also flawed to me: it answered "The correct order is Sun, Earth, Saturn".
I'd like for it to state :
- the premises it used, like "Assuming it depicts the Sun, Saturn and the Earth" (there are other stars, other ringed-planets, and the Earth similarity seems debatable)
- the sorting criteria it used (e.g. using another sorting key like the average distance from us "Earth, Sun, Saturn" can be a correct order)
On a similar note, the "cerf" (deer) in "un cerf-volant" (a kite toy) probably derive from occitan sèrp (snake) as a reference to dragon-shaped kites from Asia.
On a somehow related side note, I read that "&", which is derived from a ligature of the Latin conjunction "Et" (meaning "and"), was named "ampersand" in English as a mondegreen for "and per se and" as it used to be placed at the end of the English alphabet recitation.
The "@" looks thinner than the other chars.
The "%" has its fraction slash cut in 2 non aligned non rectilinear parts (and not coherent with their "‰" and "‱").
(Also, the "€" looks weird to me, maybe because the horizontal lines are of the same length ? But that's probably less important in a coding context)
On a less humorous side node, I remember having read there are scientific concerns about large-scale pollution caused by mankind high usage of caffeine: ground-water contamination, bioaccumulation in water organisms, detrimental effects on aquatic or terrestrial organisms like insects, or molluscs
eg from the abstract of https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125343 :
> (...) definitive evidences have been provided that environmentally relevant caffeine concentrations exert adverse impacts on aquatic species and terrestrial insects, which included lethality, decreasing general stress, inducing oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation, affecting energy reserves and metabolic activity, neurotoxic effects, affecting reproduction and development, etc.
According to wikipedia, the US do not use the "Imperial System" but the "United States customary units" and they are not exactly equivalent, although they both derive from the "English units ".¹
Also, from the article: "The international foot is exactly 0.3048 of a meter". And it seems the international yard and pound are defined using the SI units as the reference.² (Edit: So by transitivity they also are defined using caesium-133 atom's radiation, light speed in vacuum and Planck constant.)
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and...
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_yard_and_pound
Wasn't that about magenta/fuchsia? ( #FF00FF )
There was a link 2 days ago about aerial photography of LED greenhouses in the Netherlands : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21327623
I'm not claiming Wikipedia is perfect (they are not claiming this themselves) but in contrast most of the small cities worldwide are not even entitled to get an entry in "actual encyclopedia".
It's not like commissioned painting is a new thing, and it yielded some masterpieces. Bringing it to a broader audience can be beneficial for artists themselves.
I remember seeing an interview of an African artist who was telling the journalist that before she gained some fame in her country she was living in quite a precarious financial situation. I think there's definitely some merit to such a service if it might help some artists in similar situations, as by solidifying a source of income, they could then devote themselves to paint things they really want to paint.
Not having WIFI or 4G available is also a good reason.
October 2000, there were a worldwide online vote to select some members of the ICANN Board of Directors.