That with its pixel art is styled so beautifully and so hard to read at the same time. Couldn't read it at all. (It's not an eye vision problem, reading pixel fonts just is quite taxing on the brain).
Readit Newsfroh42 commented on Engineers repurpose a mosquito proboscis to create a 3D printing nozzle techxplore.com/news/2025-... · Posted by u/T-A
I'm so disappointed they didn't print a tiny benchy in their videos.
froh42 commented on Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub bbc.com/news/articles/c86... · Posted by u/1659447091
>the cto said they exist for the German and Japanese machines but they break much faster
Japanese cars would also break down much faster than US made cars in the 1950s, but eventually they figured out reliability and overtook US competition. What are the odds Chinese companies can repat this playbook?
They're also a critical player in supplying small drone parts to both sides in Russia Ukraine war. Maybe not the most reliable parts, but the scale is insane.
btw, "Made in Germany" was introduced in 1887 as a warning label so British consumers could distinguish cheap German knockoffs from British products.
We quickly improved product quality, and suddenly "Made in Germany" was a sign of quality. The same happened with Japanese products, with Korean products and the same will happen with China.
froh42 commented on Breakthrough in antimatter production home.cern/news/news/exper... · Posted by u/doener
Which means if we get discovered by an alien probe it will look a lot like getting on the wrong end of a nuclear war.
I remember there was a quote from some sci-fi universe that there's "no such thing as an unarmed space ship".
If you can get any kind of spaceship up to speeds to reach other stars within reasonable time - you've got an amazing weapon. Just ram into something at full speed. Ok, if you have enough energy to correct course to aim, only.
What is the next thing coming up? "Awesome WAP"?
froh42 commented on Show HN: Pegma, an open-source version of the classic Peg solitaire pegma.vercel.app... · Posted by u/GlebShalimov
It appears that every short word means something obscene in some language.
Advice would then be to avoid short names for products altogether.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/17ay2l3/til_...
Mitsubishi renamed the Pajero in Spain, because "pajero" means "wanker".
froh42 commented on I just want an 80×25 console, but that's no longer possible changelog.complete.org/ar... · Posted by u/teddyh
"It is now safe to turn off your computer" was a kludge for running Windows 95 on PCs with a physical on/off switch (as opposed to newer ATX power supplies, which have a pushbutton to turn them on and can be switched off via software). I guess it's theoretically possible to build a modern PC with a 30+ year PSU, and then you would see this screen again - or, more realistically, you could disconnect the PS_ON line (https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/394414/how-d...) from the mainboard, preventing the system from turning off the PSU.
My 3D printer has a physical off switch. And it runs Linux - debian - on an embedded ARM board, so I can ssh into the printer etc. (I can even hook up a keyboard and HDMI monitor)
I fear about my filesystem every time I notice the printer is running at night (after a long print job) and I just turn it off without going over to my pc, ssh in and shut down the OS.
Still, it hasn't eaten my filesystem, yet ... ext4 journaling DOES seem to work.
froh42 commented on Xrust – XPath, XQuery, and XSLT for Rust gitlab.gnome.org/World/Ru... · Posted by u/zdw
froh42 commented on Xrust – XPath, XQuery, and XSLT for Rust gitlab.gnome.org/World/Ru... · Posted by u/zdw
From wikipedia
"In Modern Greek, it has two distinct pronunciations: In front of high or front vowels (/e/ or /i/) it is pronounced as a voiceless palatal fricative [ç], as in German ich or like some pronunciations of "h" in English words like hew and human. In front of low or back vowels (/a/, /o/ or /u/) and consonants, it is pronounced as a voiceless velar fricative ([x]), as in German ach or Spanish j. This distinction corresponds to the ich-Laut and ach-Laut of German."
"ch" sounds nothing like "k" in German. (Neither the "ich" nor the "ach" form).
You could claim it if you'd speak Bavarian (Chiemsee starts with a "k", for "Chemie" people are diveded if it's "kehmee" or "shehmee").
So don't use weirdly constructed things as names with your own pronunciation instruction. That's a tragedeigh.
One day I came back from holidays. I had just broken a big go-live where the release number passed x. Date missed, next possibility in a few weeks. The team was pissed.
Yes they COULD have fixed the warnings. But breaking the go live was quite of of proportion for not doing so.