Yeah, this is the distinction I’m trying to draw between “common” and “scientific” terminology. Scientific taxonomy is based on evolutionary history, rather than just superficial traits like “has gills, fins, and lives mostly in water.”
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Yeah, I’m not really arguing for or against the word fish technically fitting all land animals. I think that using it that way showcases the problem of trying to fit common terminology like “fish” into the scientific taxonomic system. The definition of fish has no use in that context.
Also, there are fish which are also arguably tetrapods https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcopterygii
Hank Green went off about this recently. “Fish” just has no scientific meaning, and there are fish tetrapods.
I don’t necessarily disagree, but ultimately there is a problem in classifying “fish” in the modern scientific taxonomy system - it has no good phylum to fit in as its a term that’s a bit more broad than that, but not broad enough to make for a kingdom.
Birds are reptiles. Commonly, we wouldn’t say so, but they’re in the same clade. The avians are closer related to the crocadilians than the crocs are to other reptiles like the squamates - lizards and snakes.
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7·4 months agoHe’s 70, most likely way out for him is a casket.
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2·4 months agoFair enough and agreed. I don’t have much else to talk about with this, so have a great day, captain!
As for RFK, I hope he has has a horrible terrible fucking day, the cretin.
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2·4 months agoI saw, but this is the admin to bring back up such heinous bullshit.
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Technology@lemmy.world•This is the technology worth trillions of dollars huhEnglish
1·4 months agoYeah - I first hand have seen business majors I work with try to pitch a song from AI as our new marketing jingle. It was neither good, nor catchy for marketing purposes, but business ghouls hear something that sounds close enough to something someone put real effort into and think that’s the hard part sorted.
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13·4 months agoThe violence discussion comes and goes every couple years. It has since the 80s at least. It’s never had any ground in reality, it’s just fear of whatever media they don’t understand.
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Technology@lemmy.world•This is the technology worth trillions of dollars huhEnglish
6·4 months agoI feel this. In my line of work I really don’t like using them for much of anything (programming ofc, like 80% of Lemmy users) because it gets details wrong too often to be useful and I don’t like babysitting.
But when I need a logging message, or to return an error, it’s genuinely a time saver. It’s good at pretty well 5%, as you say.
But using it for art, math, problem solving, any of that kind of stuff that gets tauted around by the business people? Useless, just fully fuckin useless.
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27·4 months agoGiven who he was, probably the latter as a to-him socially acceptable racist dog whistle.
Yeah, outside the joke and old complaint, I’ve been liking uv for my small Python projects.
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4·4 months agoOh man, and the environmental component hearing the clash of metal get louder as you approach the arena. FromSoft has always been good at it, but that was really peak environmental design and story telling.
He tried to deploy his project. Legends say, it’s still not live and no one knows what dependencies might be missing.
Many IT people love computers. They hate computers that other people use.
Windows and Microsoft in general does things to a man.
Then the cyclists and marathon runners can actually get some respect to make up for the free time they lost to training.
Endeavour is nice, I use it on my main PC because some of their util scripts are nice to have. Arch itself just is not much harder to install these days with the current installer.


As someone who works with XML a lot, it’s absolutely terrible. The sooner it’s out of my life the better.
A shame this project is pretty well dead, but I really cannot blame the maintainer for moving on.