Notices by Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social), page 2

@mahryekuh Excuse me WHAT @baconandcoconut

@baconandcoconut You'll find this a little difficult to pronounce but Viennese has "Grantscheabm" (literally "shard of grouch").

There is also the less localised "Griesgram".

@mahryekuh

My prediction is that the next German loanword to become a staple of the English language (after schadenfreude, weltanschauung, and recently verkehrsverbund) will be gleichschaltung.

Anyone who says "I've never struggled with addiction" should pause for a moment and think about sugar.

Here's a question which we'd have called a #LazyWeb post before search engine results turned to crap; now I'd prefer to use #ExpertWeb instead.

I hope a PoliSci person reads this: are there studies exploring the prevalence of political groups employing a strategy (covert or overt) of pushing people on the opposite of the political spectrum to splinter groups unlikely to meet the electoral threshold, in party-list proportional representation systems?

(Boosts would be great, thanks!)

That's one proposal submitted for @pycon⁠🇮🇹. The CFP still runs until 2025-01-06 AoE.
https://2025.pycon.it/call-for-proposals

#PyConIT2025

You know all those pesky "your year in review" notifications that you're getting from a million apps?

The technical term for that is "annual recrap". Write it down, kids, and tell your friends.

Anyone got a Pinebook Pro with an ISO (en-UK) keyboard layout that you're no longer using and looking to rehome? I'd love to relieve you of it.

(They're not making them anymore. Boosts much appreciated.)

#PinebookPro

Are any of you #Python⁠istas aware of an array of sorts that Python processes always keep in memory, with a size of 8 bytes times the applicable nofiles (number of concurrently open file handles) ulimit? I don't know where to start looking/searching. If that rings any bell at all, please holler. Thanks!

Boosts OK.

There's a specific reason I am intensely grateful for the podcast editions of radio shows funded with public money: no advertising. God damn it's nice to be able to listen at length to someone saying something intelligent and not be interrupted by some fuckhead trying to sell you something you don't need, all the fucking time.

Fun facts:

The most sustainable commute comes with working from home.

The most fuel and power efficient commute comes with working from home.

The fastest commute comes with working from home.

@Sweetshark Ja, "Stellenbesetzung" vielleicht, aber das klingt mir zu bürokratisch — deswegen bin ich noch auf der Suche nach einer Alternative.

Frage in die deutschsprachige Runde:

Für mich heißt auf englisch "Hiring" das Einstellen von Menschen, deren direkte/r oder indirekte/r Vorgesetzte/r man sein wird. "Recruiting" ist hingegen das Anwerben von Menschen, zu denen man keinerlei Vorgesetztenverhältnis haben wird.

"Recruiting" nach dieser Definitition kann ich auf deutsch als "Anwerbung" bezeichnen. Fällt euch eine gute Übersetzung von "Hiring" in diesem Kontext ein?

@bmacDonald94 No worries at all, the paraglider is an equally interesting story! 🙂

@bmacDonald94 I do know about that story, but it doesn't answer the question: the paraglider doesn't ever need to float upward to descend from the top; the kite does need to gain some altitude in order to fly from the summit.

Also, Pierre Carter flew from the South Col, at 8,000m. That's "only" 90% of the height of the summit.

What kiddo asks before falling asleep:

”Could you fly a kite on the summit of Everest?”

That's… not a bad question, even if you disregard the practicalities of needing firm ground to stand on. Sure the summit of Everest is usually windy, but is the air pressure great enough for wind resistance to fly a kite designed for roughly sea level?

Anyone done the math?

(Boosts and comments welcome!)

@ryanhoulihan I've done this. With "guys", too. When "fucked" was too harsh for the context, I used "kissed" and "dated".

They always look they just got a cluebat smack.

@chris I'm curious, is coffee aversion some new trend or fad where you live/work, or is this pure coincidence?

In etwa einem Monat bin ich in Deutschland und halte dort einen Vortrag über Technologie, die in Deutschland nicht funktionieren kann.

https://programm.froscon.org/2024/events/3086.html

Writing efficiency protip: always write so that you can read things out loud using the smallest number of syllables.

As an example, "radical right wing" is three syllables too long. The correct word is "fascist".