"... With this arrival, this conquest, one idea reigns supreme. You are a numbers person. You believe in possession through measuring the thing. The land is this many metres, the elevation is this high off the ground. Where a traveller may have seen the land, been curious about what 50 names say about the tree, already your mind was quartering, the stake hammered right in..."

"Possession—the numbers game—requires brute strength and the willingness to eradicate the speakers too."

- Yumna Kassab, The Conquest of Land and Dream

#land #biodiversity #life #quality #diversity #dispossession #commodification #quantifiability #ratability #scalability #values #language #naming #LanguagePolicies #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #IndigenousPeoples #writers

https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-conquest-of-land-and-dream/

The Color System I Wish I Understood Sooner, by @theadminbar.com:

https://theadminbar.com/semantics-and-primitives-color-system/

#colors #colorpalettes #naming

Today I learned the meaning of CAR and CDR [0]. When I learned to program scheme I did not ask why CAR and CDR have such names I just associated those names with their functionality in my brain.

CAR and CDR stand for "Contents of the Address Register" and "Contents of the Decrement Register"

Also CONS stands for "Construct" [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_and_CDR#Etymology
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cons

#lisp #naming #programming

Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide

https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/go-naming-conventions

#HackerNews #Go #Naming #Conventions #Practical #Guide #Coding #BestPractices #SoftwareDevelopment

‘Old soul’ kid chooses his own name, then cracks himself up for a full minute

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/old-soul-kid-chooses-his-own-name-then-cracks-himself-up-for-a-full-minute/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-soul-kid-chooses-his-own-name-then-cracks-himself-up-for-a-full-minute

/I'm/ not doing an exhaustive deep dive into moss species names/nicknames, /you're/ doing an exhaustive deep dive into moss species names/nicknames!!! 😝

#Naming #NamingOfThings #NamingThingsIsHard #HardestProblemInComputerScience #Hostname #Hostnames #ComputerNames #E_TOOMANYHASHTAGS

Neueröffnung! Alles zum halben Preis. 🎉

https://thegoodwork.blog/posts/sorry-were-open

#kreation #blogging #writing #naming #brand #thegoodwork

Interesting that the group 4 elements on the @compoundchem infographic

Carbon, Silicon etc, whereas Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_4_element

Suggests group 4 is Titanium, Zirconium, Most periodic tables are group 1,2 on the left, then there is a jump over the transition to group 3, Boron, Aluminium, Transition elements are numbered IIIB, IVB (which wikipedia lists as group 4) 2nd group of the transition elements.

So which is correct here, or does it depend on the periodic table you are looking at?

#Chemistry
#PeriodicTable
#Elements
#Groups
#Naming
#Numbering
#Question