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[N_Molson]

In other news, another story just came to an end:

Congrats for the PhD !

 

[Fabri91]

On a scale from 1- "a lot" how murican is this?
Lawn Mowin' Combine - YouTube
I'd still want one if I had a lawn!!!

Pfft.

 

[Urwumpe]

In other news, another story just came to an end: http://thespaceway.org/page.php?id=1028

That's the way things go sometimes. The experience behind a project is often more valueable than the software itself, because the software will eventually reach technical and organisational limits.

If this would have been a commercial project, this would have been the point to simply let it die peacefully, take all solutions and ideas used in it with you and start writing a successor based on the experiences you already have.

 

[jedidia]

In other news, another story just came to an end: http://thespaceway.org/page.php?id=1028

Awww, now I'm a bit sad, but I perfectly understand the reasons. While hardware development has slowed down somewhat, the velocity of software development has increased beyond ludicrous speeds, and if you try to work on the bleeding edge of new concepts it's almost impossible to keep up as a single person.

It's one reason why I enjoy the reasonable stability of the Orbiter API. It gives me time to develop my stuff without having to be afraid that I'll miss the train.

In the end, thank you for Spaceway! Orbiter and Spaceway combined were the major inspirations that made me pick up coding as a hobby again 10 years ago, and today I'm feeding my family with code. Well, not literally, obviously... :shifty:

 

[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.