Emily VelascoI got a real big and old dictionary for a project -- if i can figure out how to do it
This is why I love this dictionary. The meanings of some words have changed so much since when it was printed in 1930.
Matthew Dockrey@MLE_online I had no idea it was ever called anything but roller chain!
@attoparsec Nor did i!
The Doctor@MLE_online @attoparsec I thought it was just "bike chain."
@drwho @MLE_online That's a subset, usually with a 1/2" pitch like #40 roller chain, but much narrower. So you can use #40 chain on bike sprockets, but you can't use bike chain on #40 sprockets.
Jonathan HendryBike shops could have hyped themselves as working on block chain.
Pete Kirkham@attoparsec @MLE_online that's different to roller chain - roller chain has rollers to reduce friction. AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar-link_chain
@PeteKirkham @MLE_online Ah, interesting!
a high doom@MLE_online crypto will forever be cryptography, as block chain will always be drivetrain.
Sylvhem@MLE_online It is gorgeous!
Greg Bell@MLE_online every time I see a tome like this I assume it's hollowed out and holding something smaller inside
jbaggs@MLE_online Oh Wow. I would have wanted an old OED but that's my second and congrats for getting your hands on it.
petes_bread_eqn_xls@MLE_online I love the cutout thumb indexes on reference books like this
@petes_bread_eqn_xls I feel like I don't see this on new books. I wonder why
@MLE_online my cynical answer is that it’s probably difficult / expensive to automate
but I don’t really know either
Dean Segovis@MLE_online We had one like that in our house when I was a kiddo.