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King Charles celebrates UK-Germany ties in historic address
In a warmly-received speech to the German parliament, Charles also mentions Monty Python and Kraftwerk.
www.bbc.co.uk
Well, who can forget...
jedidia
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IntelliJ Idea:
MaxBuzz
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Rammstein sings our song (almost no accent)series about Horror Punk band where I worked Gaffer (I just need to know which actor is playing me. )
jedidia
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I used to be very fond of firefox, but the introduction of the "I'll update without asking if it's convenient and tell you I need a restart afterwards"-feature has put somewhat of a dent in that. The recent introduction of the “I’ll crash your new tabs without giving you reasonable feedback after secretly updating without telling you about it”-feature does not improve things.
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It's equal to Windows update - the only thing I complain about regarding Windows 10.
As for browsers: I became an Opera GX fanboy. Firefox is aging I think. I even prefer Chrome over it.
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For me it was the ads when I first opened it.
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Hmmm! When I open my laptop, Microsoft displays some random picture of the day. This evening it was "Alpine scenery in Wolfenschiessen, Switzerland. So I looked up Wolfenschiessen in Wikipedia, it's a village in Nidwalden. The name Wolfenschiessen sorta rang a bell from my very small smattering of German that I know from my heritage, so, I went to Google Translate, plugged in the name and came up with 'Wolf shit'. Wikipedia didn't say that!
Interesting. Sure would be interesting to find out the history of how that name came about.
Interesting. Sure would be interesting to find out the history of how that name came about.
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Linguofreak
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That would be Wolfenscheissen.
jedidia
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Huh... I really thought google translate had gotten better than this...
You would at least expect it to recognise that "Schiessen" means shooting. The conflation into a village name would seem to suggest something like "where they shot a wolf".
But of course that's completely inaccurate, because this is a) Switzerland, and b) the name predates even old new german.
Apparently "Schiez" (apparently from latin Scio, thus related to old english sceat) is an old form of the modern "Sitz", which can be translated to english as "Seat". Whether literally as furniture or more abstractly Home. Wolf, then, most likely refers to a name (there seems to be uncertainty about whether Wolfo or Wolfhar, both names to be known to exist in the period), and this was their family seat.
Linguofreak
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It might not be Google translate. English speakers don't always get ie/ei the right way around in German (heck, we don't always get it the right way around in English), and even people who have a good handle on spelling can still mistype. Arvil can tell us if he thinks there's a possibility he mistranscribed it into Google Translate. If he's sure he didn't or if he just copy-pasted it, OTOH, then Google translate made a rookie mistake.
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Yeah, that happens quite often here as well. Braunschweig for example. literally "Brown Silence". But actually, in the local low German dialect, its "Brunswick" (Same is the English name, BTW), and comes from the "Bruns Wick". Brun was the name of a local king of a Germanic Community, a "Wick" is a village. So, actually it means "Brun's Village" (Like you also have wit Warwick)
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Aha! Yeah, my bad. Google Translate/German-detected to English:
Wolfenscheissen = Wolf shit
Wolfenschiessen = Wolf shooting
Makes much more sense. I knew about the 'ei' and 'ie' thing as a pronunciation guide from the PA Dutch and German, but, typed it in wrong in Translate. I wonder how many get mail there misspelled?
Wolfenscheissen = Wolf shit
Wolfenschiessen = Wolf shooting
Makes much more sense. I knew about the 'ei' and 'ie' thing as a pronunciation guide from the PA Dutch and German, but, typed it in wrong in Translate. I wonder how many get mail there misspelled?
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Playing around with a 9-axis IMU for work, and data seemed a bit.. off. Turns out that:
I guess that's what it must feel like to accidentally walk out on the same side of a revolving door as you walked in...
- accelerometer, 2 bytes per axis, big-endian.
- gyroscope, 2 bytes per axis, big-endian.
- magnetometer, 2 bytes per axis, little-endian
I guess that's what it must feel like to accidentally walk out on the same side of a revolving door as you walked in...
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Playing around with a 9-axis IMU for work, and data seemed a bit.. off. Turns out that:
- accelerometer, 2 bytes per axis, big-endian.
- gyroscope, 2 bytes per axis, big-endian.
- magnetometer, 2 bytes per axis, little-endian
I guess that's what it must feel like to accidentally walk out on the same side of a revolving door as you walked in...
Who designed that?
jedidia
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These guys with the horribly slow loading website...Who designed that?
I assume that the actual sensors in the IMU are by different manufacturers, and that's just the way it came out. It's designed for as low powerconsumption as possible, so I guess they looked for the parts that fit these requirements best...
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Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg | Götheborg of Sweden
Imagine losing your rudder out at sea and sending out a distress call. And then the largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship in the world comes to your rescue. Or in the words of the sailors on the sailing boat: "This moment was very strange, and we wondered if we were dreaming. Where were we...
www.gotheborg.se
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"Ship on the horizon!"Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg | Götheborg of Sweden
Imagine losing your rudder out at sea and sending out a distress call. And then the largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship in the world comes to your rescue. Or in the words of the sailors on the sailing boat: "This moment was very strange, and we wondered if we were dreaming. Where were we...
Skipper takes binoculars and scans, does a double take, and after a while takes down the binoculars, turns to the crew and says:
"Uhm guys, that storm last night, err... is anybody of you familiar with the movie "final countdown"?"
