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It's pretty much the same for the Spanish language.

Totally agree. Lately touch switches have been riddling every electric appliance: kitchen hood, microwave, washing machine, dishwasher... I think that being easier to clean doesn't pay off for the utter loss of usability. That's why I'm very fond of Breville (Sage here in Europe) appliances: they're covered with buttons and knobs.

I had to run it like this

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It breaks down catastrophically with diacritics https://imgur.com/8U3IKR9

Direct fitness is not the only way natural selection favours individuals. Genes that make individuals past their reproductive age turn into good caretakers (including genes that improve their health) are more likely to increase their frequency in subsequent generations (through the descendants they care for). This is called kin selection.

It's funny how these thinking patterns repeat at all levels. I am from sunny Andalucia, and this flamenco and siesta stereotypes still sound like total rubbish.

As a 40 year old Spaniard, I have never heard of this 4 PM siesta time.

Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1314/

Why choose? I use both :-) I'm using irssi in a screen session on a server, with the proxy plugin, and weechat in my desktop as a frontend.

You're getting downvoted, but the guidelines explicitly say:

Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

You know, traditional paellas already have snails as an ingredient, which aren't insects but I think still have the cultural unfamiliarity to Western palates.

Thanks to this wonderful resource I've been keeping a personal Twitter for Mr. Darwin for almost two years, narrating his voyage in "real time" (and in Spanish). He's in Chile right now, but he's having some vacation, coinciding with mine ;)

http://twitter.com/DarwinViaje

It fails here with Firefox 31.0a2 (Aurora) on Ubuntu.

See, continuous ups and downs may be seen as kind of a failure.

Would you consider open sourcing your photo blog site? I like it. A lot.

There's no need for a dictionary definition. Just as you just said, diminutives don't normally make it into the dictionary. So, "suelecillo" is a word for "suelo pequeño" whether or not it's included in the dictionary, whether or not you use it regularly. But the reverse is also true. "Bolsillo" is a "small bag", whether or not it has developed a specific meaning that grants it a separate definition in the dictionary.

And whether or not you use it regularly with the original meaning. The frequency of usage does not invalidate this truth: the rules of diminutive formation entail that "bolsillo" is "bolso pequeño". There's no arguing this statement. Just as "mosquito" is "mosco pequeño", i.e. "small fly".

The same can be said for plenty of other words. Words that have developed a specific separate meaning but are still diminutives for the non-affixed original word. Meet polysemy.

Sorry, but "cochinilla" is still "cochina pequeña", "cabezón" is still "cabeza grande", "cabecilla" is still "cabeza pequeña", and "frailecillo" is still "pequeño fraile".

It would be mistaken and a bit obtuse to nitpick on an article which states that "cabecilla" is Spanish for "small head" by contending that no, it means "leader".

Sorry, but this has nothing to do with our dialects.

You were contending that the etymology of "mosquito" can't be understood as Spanish for "little fly", which is untrue. See, "fly" is not a biological term, but a colloquial one, and describes a wide range of species (suborders, actually). So "mosquito", which originally was meant in Spanish as "pequeño mosco", could perfectly be translated as "little fly", for "mosco" is a type of "fly" and can be translated as such (as is the case of "moscón", "moscarda", "moscardón"...)

if you understand mosquito as "little fly", then how do you call actual mosquitos?

"Mosquitos". Because context. Just as I can know "bolsillo" means "pequeño bolso" (small bag) and cigarrillo means "pequeño cigarro" (small cigar), and simultaneously understand them as the envelope-like receptacle in clothing (pocket) and paper wrapped processed tobacco (cigarette), respectively.

But it has a male form: mosco. From which "mosquito" comes by diminutivization. No mistake in the article.

Actually, it is a diminutive for "mosco", which comes from "mosca". No Spanish speaker I know of (myself included) has trouble understanding mosquito as little fly.

It doesn't get timed. You can quickly test this by adding an expensive operation to your setup and checking that it doesn't affect the resulting time.

In case you're curious how does one get a spacecraft from Earth to a comet, here's an interactive 3D visualization showing all those nice gravitational assists.

https://util1.estec.esa.int/rosetta/where_is_rosetta/

But, but... then this corporation's reach must date back to thousands of years ago, when we (falsely) discovered that proper hygiene was deeply correlated with improved health. Does it control the World Health Organization too? Oh my...

You don’t need any of those soapy substances. It’s all a big lie perpetrated by people who want your money. If you eat/sleep/exercise properly, you will almost never get sick and your body will never smell bad. You won’t need to overcompensate by wasting money on soapy substances.

[citation needed]

It's also exactly how they started with Android.

+1 to the "night mode", which is very relevant to users with AMOLED screens.

Screw redesign. Why not turn the chicken into a raptor-like dinosaur?

http://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_fro...

2000 geotagged pictures a day, every day of my life, automatically uploaded to their servers, and no word on how would one set up their own private server? Let me think about it... #not

So this is the URL to donate to the project: http://www.justgiving.com/plan28

Friction forces have been core theoretical concepts since many centuries.

First, I wasn't really complaining about the use of the verb "care". I think it's OK to abbreviate like that when talking about evolution, as long as we're aware we're anthropomorphizing.

Note that the definition from Wikipedia that you quoted says nothing about "survival". Death isn't even a requirement. You just need a change in the allele frequencies of a population to call it evolution.

With that survival line you were probably referring to natural selection, which is just one of the aspects of evolution, and again not a requirement for it. You can have evolution by genetic drift, for example. But even if you were just talking about natural selection, putting the emphasis on survival (and "nothing but survival") is incomplete and misleading. Death/survival don't need to play an important role in natural selection (though there are instances when it will, of course). For example, small differences in the average number of offspring already mean natural selection.