Ephera

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

Comeback as in "A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comeback

Franklin's response is the 'comeback' in this case.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Official translation is "Human dignity shall be inviolable", but yeah, same thing.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.html#p0020

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Really don't feel like this one needed a comeback. Publicly posting that is enough of a self-own.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I also enjoy "one". There's just a random "w" in there when you pronounce it.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

We have a concept of word inflection, which can be used to replace a lot of words that English would use to denote something being a question, ownership markers, causes and effects etc.

I don't speak Finnish, but I believe a good example for such an inflection is how in English you can glue an -s to words to make them plural. In some other languages, you say "many word" instead, because they don't have such an inflection.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Hab vor 'ner Weile im Laden "Ameisen-Buffet" gesehen und dachte, krass, hätte nicht gedacht, dass das schon im Mainstream angekommen ist, dass die Ameisen in Deutschland aktuell hart am Aussterben sind, so dass es genug Interesse an einem Produkt wie dem Bienenhotel nur eben für Ameisen gibt.

Ja, es war Gift.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Hmm, what's the berry he holds in his hand? I don't think the others are poisonous, except maybe if you do eat them whole, then I don't know...

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

It's mainly horrid, because it means you have to code extremely defensively (or I guess, use a different API).
You can't rely on new Date("not a date") aborting execution of your function by throwing an error. Instead, you have to know that it can produce an Invalid Date object and check for that. Otherwise a random NaN shows up during execution, which is gonna be extremely fun to try to find the source of.

I understand that it's implemented like that partially for historical reasons, partially because it's often better to display "NaN" rather than nothing, but it's still the sort of behavior that puts me in a cold sweat, because I should be memorizing all kinds of Best Practices™ before trying to code JavaScript.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

(saying something more realistic like “2015” or whatever your inexperience or AI told you to)

User input is probably the big one where this API is gonna get stress-tested...

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Hmm, I can believe that it was based on java.util.Date, but I don't remember that being as unpredictable. I guess, a different API to begin with, would have avoided a lot of problems, though...

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 days ago

I do enjoy the irony of them ignoring that particular social cue. 🙃

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

"Elmer's" is a glue manufacturer, for others wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer%27s_Products

 
 
 

Keine Ahnung, was ich erwartet habe, aber jetzt überlege ich mir eine Jacke aus dem Zeug zuzulegen.

 
 
 
 
 

In a recent Coglin run, these were my best weapons at one point.

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