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self-host your own services. There are a lot of alternatives to GitHub.

scientifically the only names that matter are the botanic binomials (ICN or ICNafp)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Nomencla...


I was specifically interested in the Irish names, because they are related to some research I have been doing for a number of years.

The Latin names are available in numerous other sources.


Richard Feynman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_7j72CVlc

The names of birds.

tl;dw: Knowing the name of something gives you no knowledge of that thing even if you can name it in every language but it's super useful to know when communicating with others.


Scientifically, communication matters. Therefore, other names do also matter.

All other names are generally considered either common or historic. Common names are regarded as too ambiguous for scientific use, they are generally only mentioned in relevance to collections such as "How do the local people in <area x> having <population y> of <latin name z> (who might help identify where it is growing) refer to the organism?". In a small number of cases local names confer ethnobotanical or cultural semantics.

I am well aware that laypeople don't always distinguish between various similar species of plants and animals, and I probably can't in some cases myself, but I am specifically interested in some of those "common or historic names" along with their "ethnobotanical or cultural semantics", to see how they might compare with words elsewhere.

For old Irish names I would have thought Gallic-Druidic cultural associations might have some sort of currency or influence. Maybe try looking for research with those conceptual frames of reference. Here's an example query to place with your favourite LLM: "make a list of the top 30 plants associated with traditional herbal lore in pre-modern ireland. seek gallic/druidic associations through etymology, lore and written record (if feasible). table format."

There is some of that with certain names for sure. Also interested in comparisons with Manx and Scottish Gaelic and Broad Scots.

resist this.


There's something really interesting about the constraints given by plain text that you would lose with What You See Is What You Get (or, the ever-unfortunate acronym WYSIWYG) controls. I almost think what you get in that case is an unfortunate mindset-shift towards What You See Is All There Is (or, an incredibly dope acronym, WYSIATI).


the Universal Blue project has got a great suite of distributions:

https://universal-blue.org/


they may have been, yes. back in those days, a CPU with multiple cores were meant for the server or enterprise workstation market and priced accordingly.

Celerons were consumer-grade budget kit.


There were zero multi-core x86 CPUs, server or otherwise, back in those days.


that's cool we also have a few thousand drums of DDT off LA's shores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_ocean_dumps_off_Southern...

This all comes from an era where the prevailing thought was the solution for pollution is dilution.


Hey my dad used to wipe the stuff of tomatoes before eating them right off the vine.

I’m mostly ok, have the normal number of arms and legs. Only had one tumor, and just a few endocrine issues. Nothing major, it’s all good.


:/


Adults are learners too.


X.509 certificates


They specified a lot of stuff that ultimately didn't get used but ITU is still my favorite standards organization.


To the extent that it can be considered an "organization" the IETF is definitely a better Standards Development Organization than the ITU. Most importantly because the IETF is for people, and I'm a person, whereas as a UN Specialized Agency the ITU is for UN Member States and I am not and will never be a UN Member State.


They both publish their standards for free.

The ITU has a slight edge in that their published standards are generally of a higher quality and easier to implement.

I care about utility not about nominal designations.


Yeah, I don't see it. I looked at a few cases where there's close overlap in the work and mostly what I see is that the ITU doesn't want me looking at the draft stages of documents, which I guess isn't crucial for your implementation work. I couldn't see any particular higher quality though I suppose if you like PDFs and hate text that might go in the ITU's favour.


A "social network" is a concept that goes far beyond computing and the internet


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