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811.
by bhaak 7y ago
I'm currently living in an apartment in Switzerland where the house and the whole street is a UNESCO World Heritage. Due to the building regulations that accompanies, lots of wood is still used. Like for example the whole attic is made
812.
by bhaak 7y ago
I mean that they actually don't know about the history. You can see this in almost every discussion about computer science topics. Look for example how many programmers are shit-talking about Java and they have no clue about certain de
813.
by bhaak 7y ago
I often remark that IT in general is a history-less space. I wonder if Tom would have developed Jekyll if he knew about Blosxom? Blosxom had its last release in the same month when Jekyll had its first. The blog post seems to imply that he
814.
by bhaak 7y ago
I bet that 95% of all in-house CI would break if it doesn't have access to the internet. I also bet that 95% of those wouldn't need to have access if they were properly designed. We rarely hear about CI servers being taken over bu
815.
by bhaak 7y ago
Boring is good. You got enough "excitement" lately.
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by bhaak 7y ago
I would have expected LEGO Ninjago to be as well. That's their own very distinct IP and the models that are included feature the best original LEGO models you can get. And that on a constant high level for several years now. Funny tha
817.
by bhaak 7y ago
> Their City sets don’t include guns and guns are the exception, not the rule, otherwise. That line got me thinking. I think you are right and I've never seen a police minifig with a weapon.
818.
by bhaak 7y ago
In your opinion, in what way does a Lego tire differ from a regular tire? The Wiktionary definition for tyre is "The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneu
819.
by bhaak 7y ago
Trademark law is lot more fuzzy than copyright law. Whereas copyright comes into existence just by creating something, trademarks are only granted after official registering. And then they can still be challenged. But with the Ecto-1-look-a
820.
by bhaak 7y ago
They are also the world largest tire manufacturer ([citation needed] for this year but at least for 2011 it was true).
821.
by bhaak 7y ago
The story about "Held der Steine" looked to me like an attorney going too far. Stupid move, stupid shitstorm ensues. The design of the classical Lego minifigure OTOH is protected. It's completely legal and understandable to g
822.
by bhaak 7y ago
The diskdoctor was anyway more like a doctor from the stone age that killed more patients than it saved.
823.
by bhaak 7y ago
Me, too. I mean, a xkcd forum is not that surprising but half a million users while I never heard about it existing? Could that have been a honeypot? At least partly? That's something xkcd would do.
824.
by bhaak 7y ago
> I speak German and trying to keep up with the language in America is nearly impossible because I can't find any good source of German language I find that hard to believe. Nowadays it is so easy to get a lot of stuff online. >
825.
by bhaak 7y ago
Is the workaround downloading a newer version? Because this works for me. Not that I would do this unless I'm prevented from downloading OpenJDK.
826.
by bhaak 7y ago
And how often do you draw on skills you learned on Arch that you wouldn't have learned on Ubuntu?
827.
by bhaak 7y ago
> Can you really say you're more productive than the people who open their lid and just work? I don't know if overall all the tinkering I've done over the years was a net positive in terms of efficient use of working hours
828.
by bhaak 7y ago
I don't think that cross-dressing for laughs was controversial unless the UK in the 70s was way more conservative than Germany or the US in the 60s. I immediately remembered several movies with Peter Alexander from the early 60s like &
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by bhaak 7y ago
"promptly" :-) It started in 1994 on the German Usenet. Edit: this is the original posting http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2r570dINNahh%40snofru.i... You'll notice the usenet group is de.talk.bizarre so
830.
by bhaak 7y ago
Are there any unknowns for the causes of higher cancer rates, autism, diabetes? I'm with you in regards to allergies, though.
831.
by bhaak 7y ago
Maybe I'm nitpicking but WordPress is a CMS and not a generic web framework.
832.
by bhaak 7y ago
Ruby has that. But you have to be careful that your code stays readable. I know that's not a concern for Perl. :-) Although the "unless" case very often trips me. Somehow my brain can't parse that correctly and I've
833.
by bhaak 7y ago
Thank you. I didn't know we know the actual source. I only knew of some leads back to the 50s or 60s.
834.
by bhaak 7y ago
It also gets never old to tell that this quote is most likely not from Socrates. But you know that already, don't you? What we know from Socrates, this doesn't sound like something he would have said. Although, having done no writ
835.
by bhaak 7y ago
This programmer can't code with taking the constraints of the program's environment into consideration. After learning an unrelated programming language he isn't able to write idiomatic code in a different programming languag
836.
by bhaak 7y ago
`[1]+[1] = [1]` also doesn't hold for natural numbers if you are programming in a language with integer overflow. Neither does the multiplication `[1]*[1] = [1]`
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by bhaak 7y ago
0 being falsy makes no sense outside of the C family of programming languages. But there 0 is overloaded both as a number and pointer (it's a bit more complicated though, as the value of the null pointer doesn't need to be zero bu
838.
by bhaak 7y ago
The even more useful conversion for me is inch to centimetre: F(n)in ~ F(n+2)cm The Golden Ratio squared is 2.618 which is pretty close to 2.54.
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by bhaak 7y ago
One of the proposed explanations is that the ancient Greeks didn't have a fully developed mental model of colors and used them more along on a light/dark axis than dividing the colors into strictly separate color terms (also reme
840.
by bhaak 7y ago
Do note that Assassin's Creed Odyssey plays in 431 BCE that would be before Alcibiades gained any political power when he was about 20 years old. Given how sexually open the Greeks were, the stories about his sex life probably weren&#x

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