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The best and also worst thing about my habit of double, triple, quadruple, etc checking certain things is that every once in a while the nth time I check things I notice that in fact I did miss something all the n-1 times I did so previously, which I guess objectively is good news in that it's better to catch mistakes than not but also means I can't really argue with my anxiety that "oh my gods shutup it'll be fine" because my brain will of course remind me "hey, remember when you realised you were late for an important exam despite checking the time multiple times and being convinced it'd be two hours later? and you immediately rushed to the place and they let you take it but they definitely wouldn't have if you had been two hours late? anyway better check again you set the correct parameters on that job before pressing run"

(the parameters were fine, by the way. but then a couple hours later i realised I'd set a calendar reminder to just before midnight tomorrow rather than just before midnight today and yeah I probably would've caught that but are you sure)

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On the naming of Allobates niputidea, a species of frog found in Colombia:

Etymology.—The specific epithet is a noun in apposition and is the name commonly applied by Colombian herpetologists to this and other small, brown frogs of unknown identity.

(Grant, T., Acosta, A., & Rada, M. (2007). A Name for the Species of Allobates (Anura: Dendrobatoidea: Aromobatidae) from the Magdalena Valley of Colombia.)

niputidea, incidentally, is Spanish for nofuckinclue