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rawbert commented on The Awful German Language (1880) faculty.georgetown.edu/jo... · Posted by u/nalinidash

watwut · 10 months ago

The exact same issue exists with translating English to German - long German words suddenly dont fit. And with translating English into Polish too.

rawbert · 10 months ago

I was once involved in building the UI for a video game. There was some kind of labels for baseic color selection ... "czerwony" instead of "red" broke everything :F

rawbert commented on The Awful German Language (1880) faculty.georgetown.edu/jo... · Posted by u/nalinidash

rawbert · 10 months ago

As a developer working in a German company the question of translating some domain language items into English comes up here and there. Mostly we fail because the German compound words are so f*** precise that we are unable to find short matching English translations...unfortunately our non-native devs have to learn complex words they can't barely pronounce :D

Most of the time we try to use English for technical identifiers and German for business langugage, leading to lets say "interesting" code, but it works for us.

rawbert commented on Charset="WTF-8" wtf-8.xn--stpie-k0a81a.co... · Posted by u/edent

rawbert · a year ago

OMG, the second screenshot might be actually the application i am working on right now ...

rawbert commented on Map of Pontypandy in Fireman Sam two-wrongs.com/map-of-pon... · Posted by u/kqr

flpm · 2 years ago

I think a great intro to RPG for young kids (5-6 year-olds) is Little Wizards. It's originally French, but I have a version in English. It combines enough choice and customization to make it interesting, but without being too complex. It's a world where magic exists, but only kids can use it, so that was a plus for the kids :)

https://www.dicemonkey.net/2020/03/13/rpg-review-little-wiza...

rawbert · 2 years ago

Oh theres also a German version. Can't wait to play this. Thank you very much for the hint.

rawbert commented on The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020) kitze.io/posts/saddest-ju... · Posted by u/thunderbong

rawbert · 2 years ago

When I read this I was like "Oh, that sounds like my family calendar / collaborative productivty app I am working on for months ". And in the last sentence he mentions

> I wanted an app that combines Todos, Habits, Planner, Goals, Pomodoros, Meal tracking, Fasting, Hydration, Packing, Trips, and many many more features.

Surprised Pikachu face.

rawbert commented on Diff-pdf: tool to visually compare two PDFs github.com/vslavik/diff-p... · Posted by u/Olshansky

rawbert · 2 years ago

We use this tool in our team regularly for comparison of PDFs we obtain from third party services that might have changed after code-changes on our side. Big thanks to the author <3

rawbert commented on Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021) vox.com/22559293/food-was... · Posted by u/gsky

tech_ken · 2 years ago

> Every so often, I go through my refrigerator, check labels on the items, and throw out anything that’s a month, or a week, or maybe a few days past the date on the label

Does anyone actually do this for real? In the overwhelming majority of cases it's extremely straightforward to determine if the food is safe to eat empirically. Only in a couple highly specific cases do you need to be conservative about eating old food (meat products and cooked rice are the two I worry most about, and I don't eat much meat so it's really just the latter). If it smells bad or tastes bad: don't eat it. If you can cut off or pull off the parts that are bad, but the rest is good: you're fine. Humans can (and have) survive and thrive on a shocking variety of food items and qualities, this level of omnivory is one of our biggest evolutionary advantages. I don't even look at the expiration date unless I'm already concerned that the food might be spoiled. Am I just weird? I thought everyone did this.

rawbert · 2 years ago

Yes, I do that. But in my case it is mostly products that are months or even years after BBE. I think most waste we produce is from bread. Got a little better when we started baking ourselves.

rawbert commented on Japan's airport control towers stop using 'No.1' instruction for plane takeoffs www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/e... · Posted by u/iooon

lqet · 2 years ago

When I was in 4th grade in Germany in the 90ies, the teacher once asked a classmate of mine to come to the blackboard. She asked her to write thirty-one ("einunddreißig", or "one and thirty"). She wrote "13", and the whole classroom exploded with laughter.

I guess this is how you instill math phobia in children.

rawbert · 2 years ago

I was born in Poland and we moved to Germany when I was a kid. As a child I learned it quite easily (and fortunately I was on a school full of migrant children - today you would call it "Problemschule" here in Germany, I guess - so nobody laughed at me), but my parents still don't get used to it after more than 30 years and struggle with it on a daily basis.

rawbert commented on Can't be fucked: Underrated cause of tech debt jesseduffield.com/Can%27t... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

RHSman2 · 2 years ago

When we only work for a salary we’ve lost sight of what it means to be alive. Move on, go somewhere you deserve to be. Find your people.

rawbert · 2 years ago

This is just wrong if you despise the concept of paid work at all. I spend these 8 hours a day because I am forced to. I need to pay for food and shelter, for my kids education and all the other stuff. If this wasn't the case I would give a fuck and spent all the time with my family, play video games and just live from day to day.

Choosing an IT-career is just the least evil for me.

rawbert commented on Ask HN: How do you store devices with Lithium-Ion batteries for long-term? · Posted by u/fouc

RetroTechie · 2 years ago

Sorry to hear that.. Can you please provide whatever info you have concerning the exact conditions this happened in?

There's maaany stories & videos about Li-ions bursting into flames, but with very few exceptions they come down to:

* While being charged. Or even under extreme stress, like driving a nail through it, or hooking up to a car battery to watch it explode.

* In series configuration, with 1 of the cells being defective / much lower capacity than the others. Or using a mix of different cells / cells in different state of charge.

* Cheap / poor quality / fake cells.

* Physical damage.

* Connected to monitoring / protection circuitry, with that circuitry failing. Not to mention ridiculously cheap chargers that are basically constant voltage source without any kind of safety feature.

* Some history of abuse (under / overcharging , dropping from a height etc).

Loose, quality Li-ions just sitting on a shelf, bursting spontaneously into flames, is very very rare.

rawbert · 2 years ago

Yes, but Li-Ion is not the topic here. RC-cars usually use LiPo / Lithium-Polymer batteries which are quite more "dangerous".