derivation

Noun the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues); “he prefers shoes of Italian derivation”; “music of Turkish derivation” Less specific beginning origin root rootage source Related derive come descend derive derive educe (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase Synonyms deriving etymologizing Less specific explanation account Related etymologize etymologise derive derive Topic Members historical linguistics diachronic linguistics diachrony a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions Less specific inference illation Related deduce infer deduct derive (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation; “singer’ from sing’ or undo’ from do’ are examples of derivations” Less specific linguistic process More specific eponymy Related derive Topic Members descriptive linguistics inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline Synonyms ancestry lineage filiation Less specific inheritance hereditary pattern More specific origin descent extraction pedigree bloodline Attributes purebred crossbred Related derive come descend drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body Less specific drawing drawing off drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation Less specific drawing drawing off the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin Less specific act deed human action human activity derivation - LookUp noun

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Whyp in CarPlay!

Today, Uuganbayar Otgonbayar added astonishingly responsive and (like the rest of the app) quite original CarPlay support to their React Native-based iOS/iPadOS client for Whyp and… Oh man! I spent nearly an hour pushing it as hard as I could but found only delight.

Some More Almost Entirely Unrelated Conjecture About Telegram

Here is the blog post I keep referring to (from 2022, please note.)

pukka

Adjective absolutely first class and genuine; “pukka sahib”; “pukka quarters with a swarm of servants” Synonyms pucka Similar to superior Region India Republic of India Bharat pukka - LookUp adjective informal genuine the more expensive brands are pukka natural mineral waters of or appropriate to high or respectable society it wouldn’t be considered the pukka thing to do

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*The Onion*'s new fate is a rare glimmer in the media industry landscape

And how do you do all of that on top of migrating the entire Onion website to WordPress? Nilay Patel https://www.theverge.com/24225592/the-onion-new-owners-print-newspaper-digital-media-gawker-ben-collins-decoder-interview If you, too, immediately thought “well what the hell was it, then, if not The ‘Press???,” the answer is… fucking Kinja. The Editorial Process Ben Collins: …I just want to walk through their daily process for writing headlines. They come in every day. There’s either one or two meetings depending on the day, and then they write — usually, it’s around 190 headlines.

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GASSY World Tour

Doing the third leg of my tour around the world commemorating the KC-10 Extender, this morning. Rammstein Air Base (ETAR) to Al Udeid Air Base (OTBH) Track me live, here! Route ETAR/26 DCT VP093 DCT GIBSA DCT RATIP DCT DOBEN DCT PNY DCT TIMUR L606 EKI DCT YAA UG8 SRT DCT RATVO UM688 ULDUR DCT KUA M320 ASVIR H741 KFA DCT GINTO DCT OTBH/16L File Briefing PDF SkyVector Update…

eventuate

Verb come out in the end Less specific turn out come out Related consequence effect outcome result event issue upshot eventuate - LookUp verb formal occur as a result you never know what might eventuate eventuate in lead to as a result circumstances that eventuate in crime Origin late 17th century (in the sense bring about ): from event , perhaps on the pattern of actuate

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"Oleophobia" - Logic Pro for iPad Experiment

iCloud Shared Project File

Still having trouble describing how good this was for me to listen to.

iPadOS 18 Audio Capture Anecdotes

Aiko Transcript All right folks, it’s your favorite thing, favorite time. It’s time to play around with the changes to audio capture specifically, an iPadOS 18.1 beta 2. I don’t actually, I don’t know if this is as a beta 2. Two things I noticed, the thing that they introduced in 16 I believe, which is called mic modes, where you could switch between standard wide spectrum and voice isolation.

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ǝ ɯ ɐ l

Transcript Oh was just behind a Tesla Model X for a moment and just long enough to notice that they I mean it looks like it I don’t even know they put a SpaceX badge on the rear as in where the brand badge would be I don’t actually remember if I don’t think the word Tesla is there but uh I didn’t get a long enough look at it to tell but uh it was square but very homemade looking and certainly it completely unrelated to SpaceX’s actual branding and I just I don’t use the word lame very often I don’t know if that seems like it’s kind of for a reason but that’s just the lamest fucking thing that I’ve seen in a good while and it’s a shame that all that work I did tracking down the type typeface so that I could make a parody Tesla brand logo instead of saying Tesla says Musker literally no one has ever laughed at that I don’t know why this is a you guys problem that’s your problem man

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Google Teeth

“Design a logo for a fictional Google denture product called Google Teeth.”

urbane

Adjective showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; “his polished manner”; “maintained an urbane tone in his letters” Synonyms polished refined Similar to sophisticated Related urbanity urbane - LookUp adjective courteous and refined in manner (typically used of a man) the supposedly urbane, restrained English gentleman | urbane wit was the mark of taste and cultivation Origin mid 16th century (in the sense urban ): from French urbain or Latin urbanus (see urban )

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Burn in Hell, Fruit Company

The End of an Era: A Message From the Founder as We Announce the Closure of AppleVis | AppleVis applevis.com applevis.com https://www.applevis.com/blog/end-era-message-founder-we-announce-closure-applevis DoubleTap Episode

gossamer

Noun a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture Less specific gauze netting veiling Related ethereal gossamer filaments from a web that was spun by a spider Synonyms cobweb Less specific fibril filament strand Related ethereal gossamer Adjective characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; “this smallest and most ethereal of birds”; “gossamer shading through his playing” Synonyms ethereal Similar to delicate Related cobweb gossamer gossamer so thin as to transmit light; “a hat with a diaphanous veil”; “filmy wings of a moth”; “gauzy clouds of dandelion down”; “gossamer cobwebs”; “sheer silk stockings”; “transparent chiffon”; “vaporous silks” Synonyms diaphanous filmy gauzy gauze-like see-through sheer transparent vaporous vapourous cobwebby Similar to thin Related cobweb transparency transparence transparency transparence transparentness gauze netting veiling film plastic film gossamer - LookUp noun

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Glass Profile Ingestion

As much as I genuinely enjoyed my free trial + then some paid time using Glass, I’m just not able/interested in image capture right now to continue paying $6.99 a month for it. I was pretty excited, then, to discover that micro.blog’s macOS app offers support for importing the .zip profile export files Glass creates, and to report that I have imported 18 images from my profile to this blog successfully.

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esemplastic

es¡em¡plas¡tic | ˌesemˈplastik | adjective rare molding into one; unifying: Coleridge defines imagination as the esemplastic power. Derivatives esemplastically | -(ə)lē | adverb Origin early 19th century: from Greek _es _‘into’ + _hen _(neuter of _heis _‘one’) + -ic; formed irregularly by Coleridge, probably suggested by German Ineinsbildung, in the same sense.

Just a Test

(sorry) Transcript (Not sure why these aren’t added automatically tbh.) URL If you don’t find the potential for accessibility in large language models to be by far the most exciting aspect of the whole idea, you’re nuts.

Typora ⇨ Marked 2 "Support"

Despite the beautiful myriad of text editors available for macOS, I’ve still found myself using Typora on my old machine. When I recently (read: ridiculously late) discovered that Brett Terpstra’s venerable Marked 2 can be schemed (sortof) with x-marked://, it immediately occurred to me that I could use a custom Typora Export preset to add “integration” between these two apps: open 'x-marked://open?file=${currentPath}&raise=true'