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   by wirrbel 7y ago

   In German I think we also use Galilei more then Galileo.
2. 572.▲
   by wirrbel 7y ago

   Probably more of an industry thing. I remember seeing a Twitter thread where someone was reporting about the state of software at Tesla. What was described was not much different from what I hear about other car manufacturers
3. 573.▲
   by wirrbel 7y ago

   here in Germany that's the legal framework, i.e. you have a balance of vacation days (I get like 3 every month when starting a new contract, and after a year I get the whole allowance of vacation days in january). Sick days are sick da
4. 574.▲
   by wirrbel 7y ago

   It even makes sense, because you do pronounce the g in words like "finger", it just becomes silent at the end of the word. In German "ng" is always without a distinct g-sound (like German "Finger", or its n and
5. 575.▲
   by wirrbel 7y ago

   Same feeling here. Except for a few french or english loanwords it doesn't make much sense because such a contest would probably revolve around random mistakes made in a stressful situation, not about being able to spell that word in p
6. 576.▲
   by wirrbel 7y ago

   Iirc it's "Couleur" in french.
7. 577.▲
   by wirrbel 7y ago

   Lots of conservative backlash against wind energy in the south. "Asparagus landscapes" was a slogan used to get votes of people who don't want wind turbines around. Also fear mongering for infrasound etc.
8. 578.▲
   by wirrbel 7y ago

   I once ordered a domino's pizza via paypal. The app did not complete the transaction. I did find however 20 transactions to dominos on my paypal account. I tried to reason with Paypal that I did not authorize 20 transactions (just one)
9. 579.▲
   by wirrbel 7y ago

   will have a look at zprezto, but I wonder how its "designed for Linux", or at least how that would matter. Been using this template for years on Mac and have not had the impression that I would be missing out on things.
10. 580.▲
    by wirrbel 7y ago

    Thanks for posting this. On the last pages it is said to be licensed under Creative Comments Share alike. I'd assume that the content might still be copyright protected by the original creator? So I don't think that anyone can rel
11. 581.▲
    by wirrbel 7y ago

    I can recommend the GRML ZSH config to go with ZSH https://grml.org/zsh/ Works out-of-the-box for me on most machines (i.e. I don't maintain shell settings besides downloadding GRML zsh regularly) and it is not as
12. 582.▲
    by wirrbel 7y ago

    Last week I have written a Python script purely relying on the stdlib. Basically a coworkers shell script had to be adjusted to account for newer datafiles I was processing and I am not that experienced with shell script magic. I typed down
13. 583.▲
    by wirrbel 7y ago

    Its not only that python stdlib libraries are getting old and sometimes appear to be unmaintained, some of the more recent additions and changes are lacking.
14. 584.▲
    by wirrbel 7y ago

    i makes a lot of sense, just think of Kaufleute = Kauf ++ leute (merchant / trader, from kaufen = to buy) Kaufläche = Kau ++ fläche (chewing surface / morsal surface from kauen = to chew) But I am sure only profession
15. 585.▲
    by wirrbel 8y ago

    I studied physics and this at a time when faculty gradually changed from blackboard-based lectures to powerpoint. The blackboard-based lectures were far superior to any other way of lecturing (in my view). Main benefit was in the speed of p
16. 586.▲
    by wirrbel 8y ago

    I don't know how people are programming. I have good unit tests and regression tests and even though I commit frequently, most of the time I don't end up with single purpose commits and usually when I trace back commit history the
17. 587.▲
    by wirrbel 8y ago

    I don't write that much about making excel spreadsheets. I'd assume that when they stumbled over a rock they put it on the side of their field, arranging it to a wall. They might have just wrote down "field work" in diar
18. 588.▲
    by wirrbel 8y ago

    It is a basic visit. I attended a first-aid training for new parents here in my home country and the general advice was to seek help if in doubt, at night times by calling an ambulance or visiting, well, the emergency room. In two years we
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    by wirrbel 8y ago

    Not a natural early bird, but I picked up the habit of getting up early because its a great way to get uninterupted time at work (without meetings, fairly silent work environment with almost all desks empty). Now I get strange looks when I
20. 590.▲
    by wirrbel 8y ago

    Let me compensate the lack of Richter with a Richter recording that is not [1] a Schubert composition. Variations Serieuses (Mendelssohn Bartholdy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9qEIcgSXLU [1] I love Schubert, best compo
21. 591.▲
    by wirrbel 8y ago

    Most open source licenses seem to be phrased based on US legal terms. The US legal system differs a lot from other parts of the world, such as civil law systems as practiced many others. I wonder whether there are implications with other le
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    by wirrbel 8y ago

    Worth a read because it is one the most condescending computing books I have ever read. While reading I got the impression that I read the text of a really immature fanboy in a web forum of the 2000s. I hope the author has matured by now. S
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    by wirrbel 8y ago

    My employer sponsored our last move, including packing and unpacking. The staff was really great, careful and we had hardly things that broke. A few plants lost leaves (but basically these were excluded from the contract by my employer, so
24. 594.▲
    by wirrbel 8y ago

    uh, there is so much questionable things in this piece I don't even know where to start. First the scale, "A players (top 20%), B players (70%) and C players (bottom 10%)". It assumes there is an objective metric with which p
25. 595.▲
    by wirrbel 8y ago

    I just clicked through the links of that banner and I landed on https://www.oath.com/de/my-data/#protectingdata anyways, I will not read the article because I am sure these dialogs are built in a way to gain &quot
26. 596.▲
    by wirrbel 8y ago

    When I started my first data-science role, the role description of my company sounded a bit like "software engineer who happens to know stats and ml". The description was fairly specific on the fact that data scientists would buil
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    by wirrbel 8y ago

    I think I looked it up in an etymological dictionary and the dialectal form is archaic, I.e standard German uses a "mutated" version of the word. Probably in German both meanings were used alongside for a while and then folks star
28. 598.▲
    by wirrbel 8y ago

    I have a weak spot with articles, i, a native speaker, have to think for long about "teller" is it "der Teller" or "das Teller". One is my local dialect the other standard German. I know which one to use by ima
29. 599.▲
    by wirrbel 8y ago

    I think because it really is interesting to use such a test outside of its intended scope? For me it was interesting because I spent half a year in California and half a year in Toronto, so I wondered if time there left a mark on me.
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    by wirrbel 8y ago

    At least in Germany, we started with a British pronunciation and then in our I believe 4th year of learning english we had one year where the textbook presented american english and we listened to recordings of american speakers. Overall I