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benhsu··on Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea
There are similar words in English. My favorite example is Pudding, which can mean anything from black pudding (a sausage), to yorkshire pudding (a bread) to plum pudding (a dessert)

source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-brits-talk-about-...

benhsu··on Android KitKat
Kadayif, Kheer
benhsu··on Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes
If you don't like lisp-interaction-mode, you can also use ielm (M-x ielm) as an elisp repl
benhsu··on The FuqIt Web Framework
how the fuck is this the top link on HN right now?
benhsu··on Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride
I loved this quote from http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/11/11/things_i_won...

Synthesizing polynitro compounds is no chocolate fondue party, either: if you picture a bunch of guys wheeling around drums of fuming nitric acid while singing the Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore, you're not that far off the mark. You really have to beat the crap out of a molecule to get that many nitro groups on it, which means prolonged heating of things that you'd really rather not heat up at all.