• 1 Post
  • 14 Comments
Joined 25 days ago
cake
Cake day: January 28th, 2025

help-circle
  • Song says it appears that the world’s oceans are losing their ability to dissipate heat from the surface into the deep ocean.

    But isn’t it obvious that there’s a limit how much heat the oceans can store? Actually it can only get rid of it by emitting it into the atmosphere/space.
    Additionally the hotter the water gets the more energy it emits which should slow down the net energy absorption.
    As those two effects are opposites of each other there should be an equilibrium temperature where they cancel each other out. Currently it seems the oceans are a bit away from that equilibrium. It should swing the other way in a few decades or so. The oceans are big that’s why it takes time for change to manifest.

    For me it sounds like the journalist didn’t really understood, what Song researched or tried to make a click bait article.



  • In university we were taught C programming. We started with simple things like loops and stuff. After a while the topic processes, threads & stuff came up and of course we were instructed to use that.

    In the computer lab there where only thin clients so everything actually ran on the server.

    A good friend of mine - not know what was about to happen - entered:

    while (true) {
        fork();
    }
    

    Astoundingly it took a whole minute until the server froze. 🤣
    That was the same server most of the school stuff ran on. So nearly everything went down. 😂
    He got scolded by the sysadmin the next day but nothing serious happened.




  • Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneCats Rule
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    10 days ago

    Old English catt (c. 700) “domestic cat,” from West Germanic (c. 400-450), from Proto-Germanic *kattuz (source also of Old Frisian katte, Old Norse köttr, Dutch kat, Old High German kazza, German Katze), from Late Latin cattus.

    The near-universal European word now, it appeared in Europe as Latin catta (Martial, c. 75 C.E.), Byzantine Greek katta (c. 350) and was in general use on the continent by c. 700, replacing Latin feles. It is probably ultimately Afro-Asiatic (compare Nubian kadis, Berber kadiska, both meaning “cat”). Arabic qitt “tomcat” may be from the same source. Cats were domestic in Egypt from c. 2000 B.C.E. but not a familiar household animal to classical Greeks and Romans.

    The Late Latin word also is the source of Old Irish and Gaelic cat, Welsh kath, Breton kaz, Italian gatto, Spanish gato, French chat (12c.). Independent, but ultimately from the same source are words in the Slavic group: Old Church Slavonic kotuka, kotel’a, Bulgarian kotka, Russian koška, Polish kot, along with Lithuanian katė and (non-Indo-European) Finnish katti, which is via Lithuanian.

    Source

    So… our word for cat is derived from a 2000 year old latin word that itself probably derived from an earlier word from somewhere in Northern Africa and/or the Levant. I guess the people then didn’t pick the name by the sound it makes.