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[PhantomCruiser]

Yes! A big thank you for Spaceway! I had some fun with it, but didn't get to fully enjoy it (work responsibilities multiplied).

 

[steph]

Started trying to seriously learn French a few days ago. The numbering system is a bit interesting. It's all fine until you get to 70, which is spoken as sixty-and-ten. 75 is sixty and fifteen and so on. Eighty is four-of-twenty h: and 95 for example is four-of-twenty-and-fifteen . Can't figure why they didn't use this format for the rest of the numbers if they decided to go with multiples of twenty. Will have to wikipedia that stuff , made me curious

 

[jedidia]

Every language needs its flukes in the numbering system. In German it's perfectly logical, except that for some reason you have to switch the tens and the ones in speach (eg 1132 becomes "one thousand one hundred two-and-thirty"). It also applies when using those numbers in higher magnitudes, so 23537 becomes "three-and-twenty-thousand five-hundred-seven-and-thirty.

It can get tricky for foreigners to keep the order straight when discussing large numbers where this switch happens 3 or 4 times :lol:

 

[Linguofreak]

Every language needs its flukes in the numbering system. In German it's perfectly logical, except that for some reason you have to switch the tens and the ones in speach (eg 1132 becomes "one thousand one hundred two-and-thirty"). It also applies when using those numbers in higher magnitudes, so 23537 becomes "three-and-twenty-thousand five-hundred-seven-and-thirty.

It can get tricky for foreigners to keep the order straight when discussing large numbers where this switch happens 3 or 4 times :lol:

English actually used to do that:

"...Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie".

 

[RisingFury]

Every language needs its flukes in the numbering system. In German it's perfectly logical, except that for some reason you have to switch the tens and the ones in speach (eg 1132 becomes "one thousand one hundred two-and-thirty"). It also applies when using those numbers in higher magnitudes, so 23537 becomes "three-and-twenty-thousand five-hundred-seven-and-thirty.

It can get tricky for foreigners to keep the order straight when discussing large numbers where this switch happens 3 or 4 times :lol:

It's the same in Slovenian. So many times that I turned 64 into 46.

 

[Andy44]

English actually used to do that:

"...Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie".

Isn't that more for poetic effect, though? Like "four score and seven years ago"?

 

[jedidia]

It's the same in Slovenian. So many times that I turned 64 into 46.

That's pretty interesting, considering Slovenian is the only south-slavic tongue that does that... I'm not sure about west- and east-slavic, but at least russian doesn't do it either.

 

[Loru]

Heh. Solar bear.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/7/8/15934884/china-panda-solar-power

 

[Andy44]

Interesting article about the upcoming Star Trek TV series. It has at least one thing going for it, is has zero to do with those awful JJ Trek movies.

https://www.vox.com/2017/7/9/15845772/star-trek-discovery-what-we-know

 

[Notebook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-40577923

 

[jedidia]

This is only funny for coders, but for them it's so hilarious that I still feel it's worth posting:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

also, Batman! :lol:

 

[SolarLiner]

This is a classic. A classic that still makes me cry out of laughing every time. :lol:

 

[jedidia]

"I am not tired" he exclaimed at the top of his voice, right before draping a blanket all over himself and blindly leaping straight into the wall.

If only I could link a debugger into a toddlers brain. It should be quite the comedy. :facepalm:

 

[Artlav]

Well, debugging neural nets is a tricky business even with the best of equipment.

 

[Andy44]

AI is getting to the point where the people who build it don't understand how it really works. That's a bit scary.

 

[Linguofreak]

"I am not tired" he exclaimed at the top of his voice, right before draping a blanket all over himself and blindly leaping straight into the wall.

If only I could link a debugger into a toddlers brain. It should be quite the comedy. :facepalm:

No debugger needed: That's not a blanket, it's a cape, and Superman is trying to break his way out of the fortress of the nefarious Dr. Bedtime.

 

[jedidia]

No debugger needed: That's not a blanket, it's a cape, and Superman is trying to break his way out of the fortress of the nefarious Dr. Bedtime.

That is an interesting theory, but there's a few caveats:

a) He doesn't know superman (not old enough yet).
b) superman does not, to the best of my knowledge, put his cape over his head.
c) It wasn't even bedtime yet...

 

[Andy44]

RIP Martin Landau, aka Commander Koenig of Space:1999's Moonbase Alpha

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/martin-landau-oscar-winner-ed-wood-dies-89-002931805.html#mycomments

I know he was in lots of other stuff, but as a SF fan that's the only thing I remember.

 

[Ravenous]

Martin Landau did a lot of Mission Impossible stuff too! Shown on TV in the UK during the 1970s. (Probably dated before that originally though.)

Also, something new to me - according to this he was originally offered the role of Spock and turned it down:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40627982

 

[C3PO]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tGJHfREY2I"]We the geeks hold the following truths to be self-evident - annotated version. - YouTube[/ame]