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not even a decade ago for an example (NSVLTNMT):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nashville_bombing


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

NASA and SpaceX are fundamentally incomparable, considering how these two organizations are established and the motivations that drive all the actors within. Sure, NASA could start to adopt certain approaches but I don't imagine it to work in a way anyone else would imagine it to.


the Pentagon is the name of a building (pretty much a very large bikeshed). I see the actual agency is named by the author as the Defense Department and one of the officials in question is a Defense Secretary. Interestingly, the bikeshed itself has its own spokespeople.

"The Pentagon" has been the nomenclature for DoD / DoW for decades. Everyone knows what it means.

Yeah, this is an incredibly common metonym.

The Pentagon is a synecdoche for military leadership in the United States.

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


The White House is also the name of a building.

News sources have been using both building names (and several more I can think of off the top of my head) as short hand for the people who work inside of them for my entire life.


there is also a figure of speech used soo often, called metonymy.

It’s called a metonym. Look it up.

yet it’s website is the department of war.

Officially, they're the Department of Defense. There was an EO signed last year that lets them use "Department of War" on all but their most official documents (since only Congress can officially change the name of the department).

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.


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