American Heritage is much better. They respond to usage, but much more conservatively. And their entries will actually have brief explanations from their "usage panel" about ambiguous or changing meanings. https://dictionary.com. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

I don't know what to say. The act of making a choice is just to "select from two or more possibilities," as dictionary.com puts it. We do that. Cats and dogs and birds do that. Single cell amoebas do that. Trees can even be said to do that. And certainly computers do that. Even the problem Sam Harris is stating above is in the form of an if-then statement, the fundamental conditional statement upon which... Source: 6 months ago

Yeah, here's what dictionary.com says about the phrase's origins:. Source: 6 months ago

My wife set up a bunch of her mature vines hanging down from our entrance staircase (both sides). On the left is about a five year old String of Hearts, then Monstera (only a couple of years old), then Pothos (about five years old). The String of Hearts is about 10 feet long, but seems to still get nutrients and moisture to the end. The pothoses (strangely, that is what dictionary.com says is the plural of... Source: 6 months ago

This word is very interesting. I came across it in a comic. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary's definition seems like a synonym of immediate, but dictionary.com's definition seems more suitable for the comic. Source: 9 months ago

That being said some services that translate and respect privacy are out there. The one I know of off the top of my head is the one integrated into Vivaldi, Lingvanex. Source: about 1 year ago

We are partnered with lingvanex, all translation requests have IP/identifying information removed and such text is not retained after the request completes. Source: over 1 year ago

I loved when Vivaldi opted for translation services of Lingvanex "https://lingvanex.com/" and not of google but then you see they have DNS of google, chain of google enabled for login, phones back to google, dependant on google addon store, uses grid tabs and tab groups and the new share plate where only google apps show not the ones you use mostly to share things made by google for chrome, not for Vivaldi and... Source: over 1 year ago