I do understand being rigorous about questions, and technical forums were even worse a lot of the time, but SO’s methods led to the site becoming severely outdated. They really should have introduced a mechanism to mark old content as outdated. It should have been obvious like 10 years ago that solutions often stop working come next major version of the programming language, framework or operating system.
Last time this question was answered was for several years older software versions, and the old solutions don’t work anymore. Whoops!
TBH asking questions on SO (and most similar platforms) fucking sucks, no surprise that users jump at the first opportunity at getting answers another way.
“Venedig” in German, even though they literally use (almost) the same sound for z as Italian …
It wouldn’t really make sense to use different names than the current locals, though.
OK. German has an H (same as English, which makes it weird that it’s written with a P in the first place) and isn’t shy about spelling reforms, either.
I say we should go the Belarus route.
Austrians are just as able as BRD Germans to pronounce something like Milano, though.
Neat! I’ve been meaning to switch.
Florenz, but yeah
Take it up with your ancestors (or the English, if you have no English ancestors yourself). They started calling the Dutch “Dutch” when people in what is today The Netherlands and Germany were both called deutsch/dutch, and the English didn’t care to adjust when the distinction started to matter/people from the Netherlands stopped calling themselves deutsch/dutch.
But Germans are not much better, it’s absurd that Italian city names that aren’t at all hard to pronounce for Germans have different names in German, e.g. Torino, Milano, Roma (Turin, Mailand, Rom), and we also call Japan “Japan”, even though Japanese is one of the few languages that uses a word for Germany that is derived from “Deutschland” and “Nippon” isn’t hard to pronounce for Germans, either.
Also, the saxons never lived in the area of the German federal state of Saxony.
I often get an “ugh, not dealing with that rn” reaction. Reddit let you mute notifications for replies on a per-comment basis, which sometimes was really nice. Especially useful when dozens of people decide to reply to one comment of yours with similar comments, or when it’s just more useful to open the entire thread in another tab.
Abbreviations aren’t just used to make a word quicker to say or write, but also to obfuscate.
People get emotionally attached to subcultures for much less (though that usually means that they’ll join that subculture, if that’s possible). Sounds to me like it would only really be an issue if the subculture in question was something like criminal biker gangs or neo-nazis.
He also saluted one of NK’s generals, which was a breach of protocol and overall rather uncharacteristic of him.
I mean, Trump barely even bothered to justify what they did in Venezuela. It’s pretty much completely naked imperialism.
The “they have nukes and are going to leverage them against us in some way” thing sounds more like the 2003-era justifications where they actually put some effort into it.
And what does “leverage against us” mean? If it just means that they use it to defy my country’s imperial ambitions, what I should do about that is to go fuck myself. But of course, someone who would actually go fuck themselves would never become their country’s president.
I’ve heard that Mexicans are usually pretty cool with these kinds of stereotypes. e.g. they love Speedy Gonzalez.
My initial point was that it’s not necessarily easy or cheap. I’ve been thinking about renting a safe deposit box, but since that costs >100€/year, I might go with our garage instead - better than nothing and certainly makes it more likely that I’ll keep that backup reasonably fresh.
I know that terabytes of free storage don’t exist, that’s why private cloud was never an option for me. Your issue is that you pretend that your solutions are universal.
A local harddrive/NAS is not sufficient to prevent data loss.
Damn, lol