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Student Loan Scandal UK
This graduate/life-tax has been masquerading as a loan since its inception, but it has once again resurfaced, raising important discussion.
To give you a flavour of why it's soo bad. Effectively, the overall amount never decreases despite paying into it... until you die.
...and the adverts, jesus wept, the adverts 🤮
The French word ‘huit’ (8) stems from Latin ‘octō’, so why does it have an h?
Its h was added at a time when u and v were still variants of the same letter: ‘uit’ (8) could be read as ‘vit’ (lives).
The h of Spanish ‘huevo’ (egg), from ‘ovum’, has the same origin.
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"Roads...? where we're going, we don't need... roads 🙌🏽❣️
The Galician words ‘palabra’ (“word”) and ‘parábola’ (“parable; parabola”) are so-called doublets: they stem from the same word, Latin ‘parabolam’.
‘Palabra’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘parábola’ is a late borrowing from written Latin.
Here’s episode 8 of my doublet series: Galician.
The Catalan word ‘metzina’ means “poison”. It stems from the same Latin word as ‘medicina’, meaning “medicine”.
‘Metzina’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘medicina’ is a late borrowing from written Latin.
Pairs like this are called doublets.
Episode 7 of my series: Catalan.
Next: Galician.
Portuguese put the words it inherited from Latin through a lot of fascinating sound changes.
This becomes extra clear when you compare them to later borrowings of the same Latin word:
‘chão’ and ‘plano’ both come from Latin ‘plānum’!
Here’s episode 5 of my 10-part series.
Tomorrow: Romanian.
Poverty can be a headache. ‘Micragna’, the Italian descendant of Latin ‘hēmicrānia’ (migraine), evolved to to mean “poverty”.
Later, ‘hēmicrānia’ was borrowed from Latin, becoming ‘emicrania’ - a doublet of ‘micragna’.
Here’s episode 4 of my 10-part doublet series:
Italian.
Tomorrow: Portuguese.
Want a look behind the scenes? People are curious about how we come up with (good) ideas at Voilà:. Here are five examples in a blog post. 🐝 📊
i have FOBI...
The Fear Of Being Included
Every day I work in Fabric is a day I get closer to giving up on Fabric for good. After nearly three years of hearing "it's on the roadmap" when asking about basic, critical enterprise features, I'm getting more and more ready to leave my MVP title behind and start as a junior on something that actually works as promised.
I have zero patience left and my filter is turned off this week. AMA 🙃
LinkedIn screengrab of multuple datavis (waterfalls, bar, and area), and the same visuals recreated in Power BI.
More fun recreating those random datavis posts on LinkedIn.
#DataVis #PowerBI #Deneb
The fact that the English city of Worcester is pronounced with only 2 syllables may seem odd, but what's really wild is that it comes from an Old English name that had 5 syllables and 15 letters. Watch my video to hear it evolve:
SQL Interview 95: Are ISNULL and COALESCE the same when you only have two parameters?
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The one i find most traumatising was the Autobot Shuttle ambush... goosepimples and trauma...
You can win if you dare....
Arise... Rodimus Prime
(More Spoilers Alert)
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hardmode: No Stars (either Wars or Trek), LOTR or Marvel
When did we start measuring human-worth by their 'net contribution' to the state? We really are beholden to people who are morally bankrupt and devoid of human decency. Alas, they say MPs are merely a reflection of society.
What’s the most succesful Germanic colour word? It’s the dullest of them all.
The Germanic word *grīs (grey) was borrowed into Romance, becoming ‘gris’ (French, Spanish etc.) and ‘grigio’ (Italian).
English ‘grey/gray’ has a different origin though: it’s related to German ‘grau’.
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A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
Design Next Level Power BI Filter Panes with Me by Gary Carpenter #Data #PowerBI www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbpd...
SQL Server ask me anything
The #SQLServer team is hosting an Ask Me Anything over on the /r/SQLServer sub #Reddit tomorrow. Now is the time to start getting your questions into the queue!
Link: aka.ms/sqlama
‘Black’ isn’t the original main English word for this colour.
In Old English, that was ‘sweart’. It’s the ancestor of ‘swart’, the now archaic cognate of German ‘schwarz’, Dutch ‘zwart’, and Swedish ‘svart’.
‘Black’ gradually displaced ‘swart’ during the late Middle Ages.
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There is a genuine concern that are no human quality assurance check(er)s.
Yup: Slicers in #PowerBI are broken. There will be reports out there that return *incorrect* results without anybody possibly realising.
Yes, I have sent repro files to Microsoft. No, they haven’t admitted they are buggy.
It’s weird. It’s dangerous. It’s in #PowerBI unchecked.
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Sad. Hope is the silent killer (again).
