WTF Bites
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the Russian "borschtsch"
It's just a single letter - борщ - how is it supposed to expand to seven different ones?
The /ʃ/ sound that's "sh" in English is "sch" in German, and for some reason also in the English "borscht", maybe because English got the word via Yiddish. Wikpedia says 'щ' is actually /ɕ(ː)/ in Russian but /ʃt͡ʃ/ in Ukrainian, that does make five to seven letters as romanization of one Cyrillic letter.
In Poland, we say barszcz, which using English letters can be written accurately as barshch.
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the Russian "borschtsch"
It's just a single letter - борщ - how is it supposed to expand to seven different ones?
The /ʃ/ sound that's "sh" in English is "sch" in German, and for some reason also in the English "borscht", maybe because English got the word via Yiddish. Wikpedia says 'щ' is actually /ɕ(ː)/ in Russian but /ʃt͡ʃ/ in Ukrainian, that does make five to seven letters as romanization of one Cyrillic letter.
In Poland, we say barszcz, which using English letters can be written accurately as barshch.
I've always seen 'щ' romanized as shch. I've never seen a
t
in there except in borsht, for which I blame the Germans. Accurate or not, I blame the Germans.
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@Benjamin-Hall That’s pretty bold coming from the guys who can’t spell aluminium.
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@Benjamin-Hall
sch
is from German for sure, but thet
(as intch
) looks like an English addition to me. However,tsch
is an unholy abomination so probably German again
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@Benjamin-Hall
sch
is from German for sure, but thet
(as intch
) looks like an English addition to me. However,tsch
is an unholy abomination so probably German againFunny thing is, in Russian there is no
t
sound in borscht. At least not how I've heard it pronounced.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
I've always seen 'щ' romanized as shch. I've never seen a
t
in there except in borsht, for which I blame the Germans. Accurate or not, I blame the Germans.Surely you mean the subset of Germans who speak Yiddish, as for schmuck, schlong or schlub … or take "schlep"—German has a c in there, Yiddish took it out, American English put it back in.
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@LaoC and the WTF is...?
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@Gąska
Tecknology ought not replace the feeling that's supposed to be in our hearts.Well, unless it's a pacemaker...
Filed under: We've changed our Terms of Service.
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@LaoC That's the web version of UPnP?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@Gąska
Tecknology ought not replace the feeling that's supposed to be in our hearts.I still don't get what's the WTF. AFAICT it doesn't replace anything, just helps praying people connect together through EM waves when physical presence is too hard, like TV transmissions of masses?
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@Gąska
Exactly!
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helps praying people connect together through EM waves when physical presence is too hard
Can't they use telepathy or something, if they're praying already?
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@topspin telepathy doesn't support P2P, they can only use it to connect to master server.
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@topspin telepathy doesn't support P2P, they can only use it to connect to master server.
Now I see why @Tsaukpaetra has so much trouble getting that thing to work.
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@Applied-Mediocrity some rabbis say yes, some rabbis say no.
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telepathy or something, if they're praying already?
You remind me of Philip Dick's book "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?". He described some religion where people connect with the help of some special apparatus.
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@topspin telepathy doesn't support P2P, they can only use it to connect to master server.
candc.papa.va?
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@LaoC no, I blame the Germans. All of them.
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@Benjamin-Hall The Canadians will be happy to hear.
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@Benjamin-Hall And I like to blame yanks for stuff! If I were more German, it'd be a match made in heaven!
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
@LaoC no, I blame the Germans. All of them.
Makes sense, especially in things linguistic they're not the worst choice!
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@HardwareGeek Topic: WTF Bites
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@topspin telepathy doesn't support P2P, they can only use it to connect to master server.
Now I see why @Tsaukpaetra has so much trouble getting that thing to work.
Status: 7 hours after upvoting that, I finally got the joke.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
- All of our chocolates bars are considered gluten-free (this means that they contain less than 20 ppm of gluten and are suitable for intolerant people). Our chocolate bonbons are not gluten-free. We recommend people for whom gluten is a health concern not to consume our chocolate as it may contain traces of gluten.
It's hard enough to figure out what's ok to eat and what isn't without confusing messages like this. It's gluten-free, but it might not be.
That's the nature of the real world. My wife is allergic to tree nuts (I'm more of a ground nut so we're cool) and you get a lot of "same facility" or "shared equipment" or maybe just random chance that something got contaminated.
(Obviously, the safe course of action would be to avoid it, but it happens to be the world's second-best gourmet chocolate and the best that is easily available. Avoiding it would be .)
Yeah, sometimes you just have to take your chances and hope.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I'm more of a ground nut so we're cool
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
get some sleep.
Turns out Wine doesn't set some environment variables I guess.
Next hurdle:
Access denied. What were you accessing? Who the fuck knows!
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Amazon Marketing Services website redesign! Now it uses 4x the amount of screen space and yet shows only 1/4 of the original amount of information! And they removed the counters showing impressions and clicks for each keyword, because lol why would anyone care about those when setting a cost-per-click bid?
Sometimes I wish we had a tech freeze around the year 2010. No new tech or software or UIs or anything after that point, because it's all been giant leaps away from usability and reliability.
Sigh. Cross-posting because this next part isn't a UI bite but it's a continuation of the same story.
Apparently it's verboten to have the price in an ad--most likely due to misleading ads that show an incorrect price and hope nobody notices until after they've bought. But, this means when you run a promotion and your price is temporarily reduced, you're basically not allowed to advertise the fact that it's a time-limited promotion at reduced price. And you can't appeal the decision or try to explain yourself to the advertising system's moderators.
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I regret to inform you that your site has the performance of a dead sloth in any browser, but you don't have to listen I guess.
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has restricted the device/browser for this study
What the hell?!
This is not how the web works. How can you get this so wrong?! What are they trying to achieve with this?
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I regret to inform you that your site has the performance of a dead sloth in any browser, but you don't have to listen I guess.
I guess this is what happens when Ben Heck retires
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When you use legal loopholes to circumvent your own religious rules...
It is forbidden to carry an item as small as a key on Shabbat. However, there is an old trick for doing so: making the key a part of your clothes.
The idea behind this is as follows. Although it is forbidden to carry in public on Shabbat, a person is obviously allowed to wear his clothes out of doors. Walking about wearing clothes is not “carrying” since the clothes are considered a part of the person. This extends to items which are clearly subordinate to one’s clothes – such as a belt, suspenders, safety pin, shoelaces. Even though you are not exactly “wearing” such things, they are helping your clothes stay on properly and so are considered a part of them (Rambam Hil’ Shabbat 18:17, Shulchan Aruch OC 301:39).
This would extend to a key as well if you “wear” it. How does one wear a key? There are two common methods. One is to fashion a tie clip out of a key, in which the top part of the clip is actually a key. Note that this would only work if your tie would be loose otherwise. If you are wearing a sweater or vest which holds down your tie, the clip would be serving no purpose and could not be considered a part of your clothes (The Shabbos Home, p. 130).
The second common method is to use your key as a belt buckle. This would involve removing the tongue of your belt and attaching your key in its place. Other similar methods might be replacing the buckle with a key, attaching a string to the other side, and threading the string through the hole at the top of the key to fasten your belt. As you can see, such methods require some ingenuity.
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@Gąska When you go to such lengths to get around religious restrictions, I'm forced to wonder just how seriously they believe it. Is God perfectly fine with you obeying only the letter of the
lawTanakh?I'd argue that the tie itself is not "subordinate to one's clothes"
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I'd argue that the tie itself is not "subordinate to one's clothes"
Especially when it's loose!
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TIL this is perfectly valid C# code:
struct SomeStruct { }; void Wtf() { SomeStruct wtfvar = wtfvar; }
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@anonymous234 Roughly equivalent to
SomeStruct wtfvar = default;
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When you use legal loopholes to circumvent your own religious rules...
Religious people are deluding themselves. News at 11.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@anonymous234 Roughly equivalent to
SomeStruct wtfvar = default;
As long as
SomeStruct
is empty. When it's not empty,wtfvar = default
still works whilewtfvar = wtfvar
doesn't. Which makes me think it's not really an equivalent to= default
, but either a bug in compiler or an extra special snowflake syntax rule ordered by some retard from Fortune 100 company because they need it for some very hacky code that they could've just rewritten but won't.
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git stash
doesn't work if you haven't configured email address.
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@Gąska A variable is always assignable to itself. News at 11. The people other than you so far have been referring to the specific case of defining a variable as itself.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
A variable is always assignable to itself.
What everyone but you understood @Gąska was saying:
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@Zecc Damn, accusation of stupidity deflected right back at me. I need sleep.
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@Zecc The real world case I encountered was
CancellationToken token = (CancellationToken) token;
Which is certainly not empty, but it has no public fields either.
Whereas
Int16 x = x
doesn't work.
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@pie_flavor That's alright. We still love you as much as before.
Filed under: careful choice of words
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Gąska A variable is always assignable to itself. News at 11. The people other than you so far have been referring to the specific case of defining a variable as itself.
That's some next level pedantry on your part. As you've said, everyone else has been talking about defining variables and not assigning. Wasn't it obvious from context that when replying in that post chain, I also mean defining variables and not just assigning? Especially when what I said is only true about defining variables and not about assignment? I omitted variable type and semicolon because they're just clutter that serves no purpose in my post and would only make it harder to read. Were you really unable to figure it out yourself?
The syntax in your code is broken. It's invalid C# and it will never compile. But I haven't complained about it because it's obvious for everyone with half a brain that when you wrote
default
, you actually meantdefault(SomeStruct)
. So I just pretended you wrotedefault(SomeStruct)
as this is the only thing you could've wanted to write in there, and replied to that. Because I'm not an asshole and wanted to say something that's actually relevant to what you're talking about, and not just point out bad grammar which would help nobody and just make everyone annoyed.