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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
04:54
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Q: Would Mermaids Be Affected by Tongue-eating Lice Evolving Alongside Them?

AlendyiasThe tongue-eating louse is an absolutely monstrous parasite that eats and replaces a fish's tongue. This of course poses a problem for mermaids; if these things evolved to do that for fish, why not mermaids? I think it goes without saying that this would be a pretty traumatic experience, and if t...

evolution parasites mermaid
Cymothoa exigua
Cymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic isopod of the family Cymothoidae. It enters fish through the gills and the female attaches to the tongue, with the male attaching on the gill arches beneath and behind the female. Females are 8–29 millimetres (0.3–1.1 in) long and 4–14 mm (0.16–0.55 in) wide. Males are approximately 7.5–15 mm (0.3–0.6 in) long and 3–7 mm (0.12–0.28 in) wide. The parasite severs the blood vessels in the fish's tongue, causing the tongue to fall off. It then attaches itself to the remaining stub of the tongue and becomes the fish's new tongue. == Behavior... ==
Nature is amazing.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
07:04
Word of the day: Remnant cholesterol
I've yet to understand what exactly it means.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
07:45
I'm listening to Can Democracy Survive Capitalism?
Quite interesting, although I'm not competent enough to judge whether it's heavily partisan on just a little.
S.M.T
S.M.T
Guys , I broke my iPad Air screen.
The Apple store says that we can exchange you the iPad with a new one but it’s very costly .
Is there I way I can repair my iPad screen at home
I have is iPad Air 3
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
08:07
@S.M.T I've no idea. When my iPhone 5 broke, I just carried it to a non-official tinkerer who fixed it for 2000 rubles.
But that guy is located in Yekaterinburg ))
S.M.T
S.M.T
08:22
@CowperKettle Nice. There are non official guys here as well. But Apple says that if the non official guy did any mistake , then we won’t be looking at it to fix it further or even exchange.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Same here! But my iPhone 5 is very old, so I fixed it anyway. Had a new screen installed, a new battery. The only things left are the mobo and the body.
Maybe I'll buy an iPhone 7 next.
A second-hand one.
I came to like iPhones, but will not have the money to buy a new.
They are cute in their own way.
I liked my Nokia 520 windows phone a lot. It's very sad the interface has not lived on.
It was very comfortable to use.
The sliding rectangles covered more of the screen each, yet were easily shuffled to suit the user.
 
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S.M.T
S.M.T
09:33
@CowperKettle Ok. Good
@CowperKettle I have is xioami note 10 pro. It’s amazing. I think going for an IOS has a lot of use when buying iPad becasue of the large variety of note taking apps in iPad + bookstore & everything.
You’ll also get nice ram + new model + same price as iPhone 7. Xiamoi
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
10:46
Yes, Xiaomi phones are cool. My mum has a cheap model, but it works just like a charm.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
11:09
> And an old drug may be joining our COVID arsenal. A new, large clinical trial suggests that fluvoxamine — yes, the antidepressant fluvoxamine — might substantially reduce the severity of COVID-19 illness. medscape.com/viewarticle/958266
Curious.
 
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S.M.T
S.M.T
14:53
book recommendation for beginner in C++ please
 
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Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
16:25
@S.M.T Odd place to ask. Also beginner is ill-defined. A good book is "The C++ Primer", but despite the name, it's not a very basic textbook. It's also somewhat dated now. The last edition, the 5th,was in 2012. Note that there is a C++ chat room on chat.stackexchange.com.
See also stackoverflow.com/a/388282/350713
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
16:42
Word of the day: logopenic
 
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
18:50
@CowperKettle paywalled. Well, it's important to note that, theoretically, any chemical agent that interferes with virus entry until reproduction, reassembly and maybe even exit without doing considerable harm to the host can be considered as a Covid treatment, which is why you see seemingly unrelated drugs like Losartan and Sitagliptin to be suggested. Most of them don't practically work though for various reasons.
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SmokeDetector
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Sam
Sam
21:31
Hi, I was wondering if "I average 1475 keystrokes per minute" is a grammatically correct statement. Can you clarify if it is/isnt?
 
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tchrist
tchrist
22:56
@Sam Here is the you sentence's grammar as represented by a parse tree of your its syntactic constituents (grammatical roles) written in what has become "standard" notation: 
(S (NP I)
   (VP average
       (NP (NP 1475 keystrokes)
           (PP per
               (NP minute))))
   .)
This is the same thing with the actual word-tokens aligned to the same column: 
(S (NP             I)
   (VP             average
       (NP (NP     1475 keystrokes)
           (PP     per
               (NP minute))
       )
   )
   .
)
Here is the expansion of its constituent tags into Title-Case: 
(Sentence (Noun-Phrase                  I)
          (Verb-Phrase                  average
            (Noun-Phrase (Noun-Phrase   1475 keystrokes)
                         (Prep-Phrase   per
                           (Noun-Phrase minute)
                         )
             )
          )
          .
)
Here I've added part-of-speech (POS) tags to the original constituency parse tree: 
(S (NP (PRP             "I"))
   (VP (VBP             "average")
       (NP (NP (CD      "1475")
               (NNS     "keystrokes"))
           (PP (IN      "per")
               (NP (NN  "minute")))))
                        ".")
Here you have the POS tags expanded into UPPER-CASE: 
(S (NP (PERSONAL-PRONOUN          "I"))
   (VP (VERB-NON-3RD-SG-PRESENT   "average")
       (NP (NP (CARDINAL-NUMBER   "1475")
               (NOUN-PLURAL       "keystrokes"))
           (PP (PREPOSITON        "per")
               (NP (NOUN-SINGULAR "minute")))))
                                  ".")
And lastly, here you have both tagsets expanded, the constituency tags in Title-Case and the POS tags in UPPER-CASE: 
(Sentence (Noun-Phrase (PERSONAL-PRONOUN                            "I")
          (Verb-Phrase (VERB-NON-3RD-SG-PRESENT                     "average")
                       (Noun-Phrase (Noun-Phrase (CARDINAL-NUMBER   "1475")
                                    (NOUN-PLURAL                    "keystrokes")
                                    (Prep-Phrase (PREPOSITON        "per")
                                        (Noun-Phrase (NOUN-SINGULAR "minute")))))))
                                                                    ".")
@Sam Which grammatical element were you concerned with above?
tchrist
tchrist
23:27
This may be easier to read if you aren't use to those notations: 
Sentence:: [
    Noun-Phrase:: [
        PERSONAL-PRONOUN: "I"
    ]
    Verb-Phrase:: [
        VERB-NON-3RD-SG-PRESENT: "average"
        Noun-Phrase:: [
            Noun-Phrase:: [
                CARDINAL-NUMBER: "1475"
                NOUN-PLURAL:     "keystrokes"
            ]
            Prepositional-Phrase:: [
                PREPOSITON:  "per"
                Noun-Phrase:: [
                    NOUN-SINGULAR: "minute"
                ]
            ]
        ]
    ]
    "."
]
Or just this: 
Sentence:
  Noun-Phrase:
    PERSONAL-PRONOUN "I"
  Verb-Phrase:
    VERB-NON-3RD-SG-PRESENT "average"
    Noun-Phrase:
      Noun-Phrase:
        CARDINAL-NUMBER "1475"
        NOUN-PLURAL     "keystrokes"
      Prepositional-Phrase:
        PREPOSITON  "per"
        Noun-Phrase:
            NOUN-SINGULAR "minute"
  "."
So your sentence is a noun phrase and a verb phrase.
The verb phrase has a noun phrase that is not a direct object. It's not like averaging the good and the bad, which would be. It's a measure phrase expressing a rate.
So it's actually being used "adverbially".
@Sam Is that what you were worried about?

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