_MusicJunkie

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trying to translate this is left as an exercise for the reader

hint: you'd use it at the breakfast table

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Before electricity, people had to make sure as much daylight as possible got into their buildings. Looks like this might be a large room, so large windows make sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like OP does in fact use condoms with everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Dunno if you're German or Austrian or something, but in Vienna there is a Ziegelmuseum whose curator studies the history of bricks, how they were made and used and whatnot. They have a long list of brick makers in Austria, when they were active and so on.

If you're in another country, they could maybe help get you in contact with a historian local to you.

Could help you learn more about your mystery brick.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I'll use the cliche meme of "I was today years old when I learned where the name comes from". Just made the connection when I read this article, and I love Pulp Fiction.

But I too am not a native English speaker. Just always accepted the clunky acronym as the reason for the name.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I remember a talk a few years ago where someone engineered controlled detonations to destroy a single server in a rack without damaging any surrounding equipment. Was pretty fun to follow the engineering.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

well häuslpapier.at goes somewhere else appropriate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I discovered Tinariwen through one of their live recordings. Pretty amazing stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And if they have access to your computer, they can get much more useful information, both for extortion and surveillance.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

If someone has enough access to your system to covertly use the camera, then the camera is the last thing you need to worry about.

Nobody is interested in looking at you. Getting your payment data, or private data, that is much more interesting.

 
 
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

In the railway context an engineer was the person who worked the engine.

In German the word comes from Latin roughly meaning inventor. Presumably the general usage of the word engineer in English has the same etymology.

 
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The largest countries have the largest forests, how surprising.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If the traffic plummets, YouTube wins. Serving content to ad-blocking users only costs them money. They don't want those users.

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