#todayilearned — Public Fediverse posts
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/makarna
"Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مقارنه (makarna), from Sicilian maccarruna, the plural of maccarruni." #todayIlEarned #til 💡 Praise1d be #Cryptonai 🙏 💚 -
Combined Public Service Announcement and Today I Learned: if you have `CLICOLOR=1` on macOS, if you do an `ls` of a directory which is inside iCloud Drive, evicted files (i.e., those that cannot be immediately used, but need to be downloaded first from iCloud) show with a grey background… see below:
First, both files are in iCloud, but not locally available. They have a dotted cloud icons in the iCloud Status field of the Finder window, and a greyed background in the output of the `ls` command.
Second, the `cssday.pdf` file shows a filled circle with a down arrow as part of their iCloud Status, which represents the "Keep Downloaded" option (i.e., the file has been downloaded and is locally available), while the other file keeps the dotted cloud icon. In that case only the `Screenshot…` file is shown as grayed out in the output of `ls`.#PSA #PublicServiceAnnouncement #TIL #TodayILearned #iCloudDrive #Terminal #CLICOLOR
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Quobna Ottobah Cugoano était un esclave affranchi d’origine ghanéenne, figure de la lutte abolitionniste.
Son ouvrage "Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery" (1787) ferait de lui le premier auteur anti-esclavagiste noir.
Conférence de Jennifer Pitts, Collège de France, 14 mai 2024 :
"Les Lumières et l’esclavage : Cugoano, Condorcet et les débats sur l’abolition à la veille de la Révolution"Richard Cosway, "Richard and Maria Cosway, and Ottobah Cugoano", 1784
#til #TodayILearned #QuobnaOttobahCugoano #Condorcet #AntiEsclavagisme #abolitionnisme #esclavage #CollegeDeFrance #JenniferPitts #Lumieres #XVIIIe #histoire
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#TodayILearned that in #Python's #pathlib.Path "broken links" are not folders, so .is_folder() returns False, but then .is_file() also returns False ...
https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#pathlib.Path.is_dir
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#TodayILearned that #KiaHuntzinger (credited in the video as #KiaMontgomery) who voiced the iconic #EVA in the #CommandAndConquer series, originally was the receptionist at #WestwoodStudios and her lines were originally recorded as placeholders: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025777/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Command-Conquer
Lovely #ClassicGamePostMortem so far with #MariaDelMarMcCreadyLegg, #LouisCastle, #FrankKlepacki, #SteveWetherill, #EricYeo, #EdDelCastillo, #JoeKucan (#KaneLives!), #BrettSperry, #EricGooch, #TedMoms and #WilliamRandolph.
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Just watched an excellent video #TomScott did for #Numberphile about 5 years ago, on #numbers in #language: https://youtu.be/l4bmZ1gRqCc ("58 and other confusing numbers")
Really interesting to see it from a #linguistics POV, and I never realised #base10 was far from the only commonly used base system.#TodayILearned #TIL #languages #communication #StarTrek #Klingon