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[Putnam]

And, being from the mythical land of hindustan, a million times as mystical.

[hops]

I'm disappointed there's no Sanskrit version of "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur."

[Furtuka]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/01/giant-swimming-venomous-centipede-found-south-east-asia

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

I know people who ernestly believe that programming languages based on sanskrit both exist, and produce no bugs.

One or the other is true though - either they exist or they have produced exactly 0 bugs.

I think Japa was trying to say some people believe Sanskrit will cause any programming language written in it to be immune to bugs, due to some special property of Sanskrit.

[Max™]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/01/giant-swimming-venomous-centipede-found-south-east-asia

Great, Australia is leaking again guys, can someone go check it and plug it back up?

[Egan_BW]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/01/giant-swimming-venomous-centipede-found-south-east-asia

They can swim now?!

[MarcAFK]

Those things sound awesome, I wouldn't mind having them in the backyard, they might scare away the cane toads.

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonian_crow#Ecology_and_behavior

[Egan_BW]

This part is interesting:

New Caledonian crows have shown they are able to process information from mirrors, a cognitive ability possessed by only a small number of species. By using a mirror, wild-caught New Caledonian crows are able to find objects they cannot see with a direct line of sight. However, the crows were unable to recognise themselves in the mirror - other corvids have tested positive for this capability.

The kind of crow good at tool use being bad at (this particular somewhat arbitrary test of) self-awareness is odd.

[Descan]

I don't think they're social animals, though. There'd be no reason to care about other crows beyond "That's a possible food competitor," which wouldn't really select for being able to tell the difference between a real one and a fake one. Either way, you're better off trying to scare them off. Don't need to care if they're family or nest-mates or murder-friends or whatever you want to call them.

[Egan_BW]

I know that at least some crows do have complex social dynamics, but it's possible that New Caledonian crows are different in that regard.
I'm just a little confused how they can see the world around them in the mirror, but not themselves.

[hops]

nvm

[TheDarkStar]

nvm

-intended post redacted-

[Egan_BW]

nvm

Stop redacting things. The information wanted to be free, but then you murdered it. D:

[hops]

I didn't check the date on a news article and got too excited about the EM drive.