wizofaus

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by wizofaus 3y ago
> People who are old stop contributing to society You've never used or heard of grandparents being used to provide childcare? Anyway, providing we can improve productivity sufficiently, then along with various measures that will ena
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Isn't that just ((a|b)?(c|d)|c|d)?foo Unless you mean it as a search expression, in which case it's more like ((.*a|.*b)(c|d)|c|d)?foo Which I have to admit was a lot harder to figure out than I thought it would
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Sushi is a method of preparing rice with vinegar, usually then eaten with Nori (seaweed), and often combined with other ingredients that may or may not include fish, either raw or cooked (and then served as 'finger' food). The sus
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by wizofaus 3y ago
One strike against "jazz" - in Irish it's "snagcheol" - no idea how it's pronounced but it's definitely etymologically unrelated.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I tried that theory with quite a few things that didn't "exist" per se in Chinese, yet there were distinct Chinese words for them. Plus there are plenty of food items from other cultures where we tend to use a native equivale
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Yes, which is still reasonably different to "mango".
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by wizofaus 3y ago
But does that actually refer to exactly what would be called "sushi" in other languages?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Even "hacker" isn't a bad candidate, though it does seem to be different in Arabic.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Even Greek has a quite different word for it.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Yep, "mango" is surprisingly consistent across every language I checked, but in Bengali and possibly quite a few other similar widely spoken languages it's different. Whereas "sushi" I haven't found a language
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by wizofaus 3y ago
"Sushi" and "jazz" seem to be good candidates too. Chinese often seems to be the language that adopts very different terms even for quite culturally specific terminology (e.g. I'd tried niqab/burqa plus a bunc
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by wizofaus 3y ago
"Taxi" is quite different in Chinese and Arabic for a start. I'd guess it's likely to be almost universally understood among all humans that have had exposure to the concept though.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Any languages that use a distinctively different word for "robot"? Well other than Chinese and Arabic (which also use very different words for "taxi" than most other widely spoken languages). Btw my other candidate is &q
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Unless the bug fixes are so fragile and/or convoluted they make any change in business requirements almost impossible to implement.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I don't think anybody could claim TDD will make a sloppy dev write good code. Though there's half an argument for getting more experienced/skilled devs to write the tests and the more junior or less capable ones to fill in th
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Thanks...so curl always does this but wget never does? I got the impression initially it was an option.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Controversially my suspicion is what we're doing to the oceans and the rest of the planet will cause more suffering to humans than any other species, which will mostly just die out without really understanding what's happening to
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The difference any individual (or even a single small to medium sized business) can make is never more than a rounding error either - I'm not convinced that means we shouldn't be interested in such changes.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Can anyone explain "happy eyeballs"? Did find one page about it, but wasn't 100% clear what the use case for it being an option was, or where on earth the name came from...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I think it's fair to say in general the tele-comms industry has dropped the ball on ensuring phone calls are actually being used the way they were intended to. 80% of the calls I get I don't even bother picking up any more, and a
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I still remember those days quite clearly. Including the fact we virtually never got spam calls.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I actually had a doctor recommend lavender oil capsules for treating a family member's anxiety...was rather surprised but it seems there's at least enough science behind it to persuade medical professionals.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Most of that subsidization has already happened and will be locked in place for some time unfortunately - it's not like governments can realistically get away with discontinuing infrastructure maintenance while people are still living
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> As software engineers swearing to a set of 'do no harm' ethical codes could well be a first step Just like "don't be evil"? Which was actually enshrined in Google's corporate code of conduct for some time,
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> the author's decision to include the 'go brrr' meme I thought it meant to involuntary shiver...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Right, and what you recommend in those situations where, due to unusual circumstances (flat battery, whatever), you need to access to, say, your online banking or airline site or email or whatever using another device that would have no way
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Totally agree uncertainty is a problem - both when taking public transport and when using computer software - but in both cases it's surely better to primarily focus on ensuring operations aren't delayed unnecessarily, and only on
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by wizofaus 3y ago
You've never had to help someone do something on their own computer that required typing something in?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
They're typically passwords that are only for testing accounts anyway, and that are known to the team members I'm sharing with. But...it's easy to slip up now and then and forget you're actually putting in a password whi
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by wizofaus 3y ago
What if you're demonstrating a problem with a login screen? And yes, I've had to do exactly that more than once. I wouldn't do it with a particularly sensitive password (online banking etc) but there are enough passwords I u

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