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      224 days ago

      etalon
      /ˈɛtəlɒn/
      noun Physics
      noun: etalon; plural noun: etalons

      a device consisting of two reflecting glass plates, employed for measuring small differences in the wavelength of light using the interference it produces.

      I don’t see how that word makes sense in that phrase

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      That definitely raised an eyebrow for me. Admittedly I haven’t looked in a while but I thought I remembered perl being much more performant than ruby and python