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Still to this day, when I occasionally use Excel/Libre Office Calc I never know wether to write `sum(` or `summe(`. Function names depend on the localization settings of the system…

I'm currently starting to learn swedish myself. I was looking for the translation of "facing the west" but I think that was omitted in the translation. (Btw. Why is it facing THE w…

Given what we've seen so far it wouldn't surprise me if Musk had built a kill switch into these vehicles to stop the police from taking action against him.

So what do you do instead?

I'm currently using AI code completion. Since then I sometimes have subtle errors in my code that didn't happen before. Here is how that happens: AI suggests something to me that l…

I fear that we'll see a lot of humans err at scale next Tuesday. Global warming is another example of human error at scale.

If you need an example of a germanic language that has a very regular phonetic spelling I think Dutch is a better example than German. German has a lot of idiosyncrasies, because t…

Wow, looks nice! Can you do that for SE and add quantities?

I get it that gnome is nowadays an experimental desktop environment, that tries a lot of new approaches. I just don't understand why many distributions use it as their default DE.

I use dark mode, when it's dark outside and in the daytime I switch to light mode. That just feels natural to me.

While the author dislikes extension functions in kotlin they enable one feature that Java doesn't have: With them you can create domain specific languages within kotlin that are qu…

My reason for switching from gnome to KDE was that it was not possible for gnome to manage more than one Bluetooth adapter. A scenario that quickly occurs when you use a docking st…

Great idea. I'd suggest turning the clock 180°. Since we are used to having the clock wrap around on the top not the bottom. There is a saying (at least here in Germany) it's "5 to…

I have to admit never really dug into Julia. When it was new I read about it as I was looking for a replacement of python/numpy. But then I was really repulsed by the fact that arr…

Yeah, and bomb building instructions and child pornography.

Of course. So everyone can decide wether to use it or not. Or even switch this on at some point in the boot sequence Currently the linux kernel doesn't have an interface for this. …

Very interesting discussion. Here are my 2 cents: I agree, that how shell handles filesnames and confuses them with commands is inherently broken. I would like to focus on whtat fi…