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- Comment on James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis 2 days ago:
As a vodka enjoyer, I do love me a good Vodka Martini. But that shaken thing Bond has going on is pure blasphemy.
It’s worth remembering that the taste doesn’t just come from the vodka so the vermouth is equally important.
- Comment on Something's wrong with denmark 2 weeks ago:
We don’t really learn the reason, we just memorise the word for the number. Kinda like you know the word “dog” means a four legged cute creature, but not why the name is “dog”. The old rules are not something we are teached, I just got curious after a confused foreigner made me think about the system for a second :p
- Comment on Something's wrong with denmark 2 weeks ago:
Halvfjerds for 70 but yes. Firs is 80 though, so that doesn’t make in much easier.
Fjerde = fourth, fire = four. That makes “half to the fourth” become “halv til fjerde” or “halvfjerds” while “four times twenty” becomes “firsindstyve” and shortened to new Danish “firs”
- Comment on Something's wrong with denmark 2 weeks ago:
We actually still say “halvanden” in Danish too. Everything else is not used (except for halvfems which means 90…)
- Comment on Something's wrong with denmark 2 weeks ago:
The reason is that the Danish numbering system is based on a vigesimal (base-20) system instead of the decimal system. Why is a good question but it might have been influenced by French during a time where numbers from 50-100 is less frequently used, making them prone to complexity. The fractions simply occur since you need at least one half of twenty (10) to make the change from e.g 50 to 60 in a 20-based system.
- Comment on Something's wrong with denmark 2 weeks ago:
Even worse. 90 in old Danish is “halvfemsindstyve” but it is rarely used today. The “sinds” part is derived from “sinde” means multiplied with but it is not in use in Danish anymore. That leaves halvfems, meaning half to the five (which is not used alone anymore) and tyve meaning twenty (as it still does).
We are in current Danish shortening it to halvfems which actually just means “half to the five” in old Danish (2.5) to say 90. 92 is then “tooghalvfems” (two and half to the five, or 2+2.5). The “sindstyve” part (multiplied with 20) fell out of favour.
So we at least have some rules to the madness. Were just not following the at all anymore.
- Comment on Google Photos will no longer sync with third-party digital photo frames 3 weeks ago:
Self hosted doesn’t necessarily mean hosted at home. Some of my stuff is for example hosted in a French datacenter for redundancy. At one point it was my only server space since hosting at home wasn’t feasible at that time.
- Comment on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon 3 weeks ago:
It’s not space that’s hard. Its more the stuff you encounter when you run out of space that’s hard.
- Comment on Milestone: NASA achieved GPS signals on Moon 4 weeks ago:
I’d be okay with that, honestly
Well, good news then! If you wait a few billion years the Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy.
- Comment on Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe 4 weeks ago:
using GitHub to host our code
I can’t possibly think of any way that could backfire.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 4 weeks ago:
That is some unexpectedly good news. I’m looking forward to see the results of an EU based search index.
- Comment on M'Lady 4 weeks ago:
Is that Cheeto flavoured soda?
- Comment on Did I post this to the right comm 1 month ago:
Less words, better propaganda
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 1 month ago:
I see your 4-bay docking station and raise my 20-bay storage server. I even stopped counting how much the hardware costs for it :p
- Comment on New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony 1 month ago:
If you’re in a private tracker like RED or OPS it works very well, but I agree that public trackers are not well indexed enough
- Comment on New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony 1 month ago:
Just you wait till you see the arr stack (radarr, sonarr, lidarr, etc.)
- Comment on Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is 2 months ago:
Usually the fuel cap is on the passenger side according to the country of origin, so for example European = right side, Japanese = left side. It’s not 100% bullet proof but it can eliminate a bit of the guess work if the car doesn’t have an arrow to indicate such side the cap is on.
- Comment on YouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll. 4 months ago:
XcQ, link stays blue
- Comment on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism' 4 months ago:
I’m considering it. I’d probably want to know if it works well with Linux first.
- Comment on Palo Alto Networks confirms mystery zero day now exploited 4 months ago:
That could have been done by just having a single entry called GoogleBot or BingBot, not an entire sentence explaining their product offering let alone hundreds of times a minute.
- Comment on Palo Alto Networks confirms mystery zero day now exploited 4 months ago:
They’re saying who they are, what they do, and are linking to their website and sometimes sends hundreds of requests in a minute. It might not say "For only €49.99 you can get your very own thing!”, but that does not mean they aren’t throwing their name up in every website owner’s arse whether they like it or not.
- Comment on Palo Alto Networks confirms mystery zero day now exploited 4 months ago:
They’re spamming all web logs too with an advertisement for their services in the user agent. I decided to ban them from all my websites because the logs took up too much space.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 5 months ago:
I’ve got a 128GB Kingston DTSE9G2 and it has served me very well for close to a decade. Shit’s built like a tank and has sustained a lot of abuse being packed in my pocket with all the keys. Even survived a bike accident where I landed on the pocket (the pain was intolerable though…)
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 5 months ago:
The problem is that with dumb drivers you can easily place blame at the driver and make him pay for his idiocracy. FSD is a lot more complicated. You can’t really blame the driver since he wasn’t driving the car but neither did the engineer or the company itself. We’d have to draw up entirely new frameworks in order to define and place criminal neglect if one should exist. Is the company responsible for a malicious developer? Is the company responsible for a driver ignoring a set guideline and sits impaired behind the emergency stop? Is the driver responsible for a software fault?
All of these questions and many more needs to be answered. Some probably can’t and must remain a so-called “act of God” with no blame to place. And people is not fond of blaming just the software, they’re out for blood when an accident happens and software don’t bleed. Of course the above questions might be the easiest to answer but the point still stands.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 5 months ago:
Meanwhile in Denmark: FULL STEAM AHEAD! Next stop on the digitalisation train, all of your identification papers!
- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 5 months ago:
Or do. It’s not like people care if he breathes.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 5 months ago:
“We can sell 80 percent of the screen before inducing seizures!”
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 5 months ago:
Sounds like homelabber paradise is headed for eBay
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 5 months ago:
While I am not fond of AI, we do have access to it at work and I must admit that it saves some time in some cases. I’m not a developer with decades of experience in a single language, so something I am using AI to is asking “Is it possible to do a one-liner in language X where it does Y?” It works very well and the code is rarely unusable, but it is still up to my judgement whether the AI came up with a clever use of functions that I didn’t know about or whether it crammed stuff into a single unreadable line.
- Comment on Effort require Effort 5 months ago:
Well, it bloody hell is! Me not being bothered to get to school in time is also an excuse! It might not be a good excuse, but that wasn’t the question