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by wirrbel 5y ago
I mean by now it should be clear to everyone that there are certain trade-offs in the choice dynamic vs static typing. I do like clarity of static type declarations, also the absence of weird polymorphism like functions returning a number o
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by wirrbel 5y ago
hall is cognate to Halle I think. The proper standard German translation for hall might be Gutshof. But primarily, Hof refers to a yard, and then derived from that, are related meanings. It can refer to a farm (in many German regions a farm
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by wirrbel 5y ago
My grandmother grew up in a hut, every weekend it would be swept out with fresh sand, because it had a stomped mud floor. This was in Germany. Pretty sure the local gentry had these stucco ceilings, but not everyone. Pretty sure a lot of wh
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by wirrbel 5y ago
It boils down to economics and custom. A few years ago, travelling in the US we, a group of European exchange students) I remember well how we were after lunch or dinner almost thrown out of restaurants by servers (i.e. brought the bill wit
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by wirrbel 5y ago
I don't know about that particular history, but naming things is hard and naming cafes and hotels based on foreign places was kind of customary. "Cafe Wien" (obviously nod to Viennas Coffee house culture), etc. In Germany at
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by wirrbel 5y ago
There is no other credible alternative to betting on lua. vim script is too limited and there are no other options, really. Python plugins are a hassle.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
The roman branch of christianity (from which Roman Catholicism and protestantism arise) are hugely influenced by lawyers and roman law, which emphasises sinning and punishment a lot. If you are a sinner your priest is a parole officer. The
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by wirrbel 5y ago
MTV Europe used non-native speakers in the 90ies, they would be understood across Europe. Native speakers pronounced 'better' but less pronounced.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
I (native German) realised a similar thing happening because I tend to use some syntactical features that lend itself naturally to Germans, like use of "whom" (corresponds to German 'wem', but 'wem' is pretty s
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Most discussions on the topic would benefit from commenters (and article writers) to specify at the beginning of their text whether they write notes in order to also read them later, or whether notes are written without a clear goal of revi
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Its funny how sometimes 'antiquated' English text uses word order that is so similar to German ('When I Was One-and-Twenty'... etc). Sometimes when I read such stuff, I get the feeling that my English teacher might have
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by wirrbel 5y ago
IIRC the movable type printing press was imported from the continent when printing in England started, and by importing that includes the typesets and staff to operate the printing presses. French printers typesetting English text were not
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by wirrbel 5y ago
I am not sure that it is seen as standalone. Surely, one doesn't use "Maid" or other archaic terms from which "Mädchen" is the derived word. But to me I am aware that its a diminutive. If I speak dialect I also use
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Also -ling is not so much a diminutive but more of a suffix for Nominalisation (Zögling stems from 'ziehen' [to raise],and refers to someone who was raised, Widerling from 'widerlich' [despicable], thus a despicable pers
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by wirrbel 5y ago
fairly standard in Germany. And sick leave unlimited (doctor's note required).
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Radiation methods for mutating species are 'traditional' methods that have been employed for decades and aren't considered GMO. A lot of the standard crops have been developed this way.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
ah ok, really confusing in the twitter thread but I guess it fits that the odd bits are his interpretation.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
It sounds like this was the diagnosis he was given. I have done extended water fasts for multiple days and often eat keto (<20g carbs per day). And so I am respectfully doubtful about this diagnosis. Nevertheless, who knows what combinat
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by wirrbel 5y ago
different ends of a spectrum. SysML is essentially a UML mod for system engineering, very much targeted at model-based engineering. FMC is a bit more your whiteboard diagrams, slightly formalised.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
yeah, I read articles about this as well but since there are no samples we don't have evidence in favour or against that hypothesis.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
For us it mostly stopped at age 3 (starting daycare at 2). Of course our daughter still gets sick now and then but fairly low-frequent. First year was rough though.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
> A colleague of mine told me his wife would eat anything that had expired best before date etc while she was in training, just to build her defenses. I lived for 5 years in a college dorm sharing bathroom/toilet and a communal kitc
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by wirrbel 5y ago
I am supplementing vitamin D3 and I still get sick. It is not a silver bullet for immunity. Probably your kid has by the time you started supplementing just gone through the typically circulating virus strains and thus the viral loads in yo
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by wirrbel 6y ago
A problem of UML is, even worse in UML 2, that it was developed for UML tooling vendors (IBM rhapsody, Enterprise Architect, etc.). It is as if we had one compiler vendor design and promote a Universal Programming Language, declare it as an
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by wirrbel 6y ago
I think it highly depends on your work context, wouldn't exactly call it dead but firmly in the trough of disillusionment. Funnily enough, I think the author's analysis is a bit off, or rather misses essential points. They somewha
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by wirrbel 6y ago
Reminds me of my particle physics professor lamenting that we played Skat or Doppelkopf (trick taking card games) during coffee breaks.. What he didn't see is that those who engaged in a few card games would also collaborate much bette
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by wirrbel 6y ago
Thats not how SAFETY in engineering works. You cannot declare that certain situations that are likely to come up (children around a product that is in apparment / homes) are out-of-scope. Source: Have worked in product development for
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by wirrbel 6y ago
> The elephant in the room is that the core devs, after Python 2.7, have taken the very bad habit of breaking compat. For such a popular and core tech a Python, this is not responsible. It erodes trust. It also raises the cost of produci
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by wirrbel 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway Snow isn't an obstacle to trains (unless you don't want trains to be a reality).
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by wirrbel 6y ago
Real book and fake book have been so influential that transcription errors or „odd“ choices have somewhat become Standards and you see people be irritated if people play the original compositions

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