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I sort of reverse engineered the first couple riddles (the help menu helped too) before really getting the logic here. What I gathered: - the paramaeters in lemma banish() are "giv…

I agree with your sentiment here. However: > if anything, by most traditional forms of evaluating software quality, the projects I work on are better than what they were 5, 10 year…

> I'm not in a large corporate environment, but that also means we're not always a well oiled machine haha, I'm sitting in a very crusty corporate environment right now and your co…

I'm thinking that the domain of (competitive) sports is an outlier as such as it's probably the one domain where physical properties like muscle structure, height etc. have the big…

For me it feels like talent = \int_{time} love. Reminds me of the meme where a kid is dropping tears on the math assignment sheet, "when you do homework with your dad". Forcing kid…

True! When I started driving, I was using the "north is always up" setting as it helped me get a better understanding of where I was in the city. Somehow this was more fun. At some…

In Japan, physical maps like in parks and city information booths are oriented to be aligned with the actual geography. Meaning, north on the map points to actual north. Made me th…

Who's Nasrudin? Apparently this quote has been attributed to an Uncle Zeke :) [0] [0]: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/23/judgment/

thanks, you made me realize I'm not alone

this is just hilarious and not at all what I expected

> I was just thinking about that on 2023-10-10 FTFY

I was there for the first few iterations of TPP and it is probably my favorite moment of the internet. The lore created around TPP was insanely good and captivating, like ascribing…

I hope it's also true that you're cranky just this morning

So the title of this post could be changed to "What Tranformers Are" or "What Transformers Do" instead

This reminds me of the absolute amazement and wonder in the faces of people who are tricked in older movies or video clips, sometimes with simple or outright ridiculous tricks (by …

You're still missing Persian, which is the direct origin of Khaki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki#Etymology Urdu/Hindi and probably lots of other languages in that cultural re…

I realize my question was asking for examples of loanwords, but my intention was to ask for loanwords that also adapt the "foreign pronunciation and foreign spelling". I am well aw…

very interesting! can you share a couple examples of words borrowed with foreign, non-Latin script? I'm having trouble imagining how this could look like

The one case I'm aware of in Europe where debit vs. credit makes a real difference is car rental companies. They will only accept credit cards, not debit cards. Unless you also agr…

obligatory https://xkcd.com/1015/

my score was 5/20, every question in this quiz is uncanny :D

can you share a more helpful real world example? as someone who hasn't implemented transactions in microservices before, I have only seen the bank transfer example and it seems ade…

thanks, I see my misunderstanding now