VonReposti

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah, 2015...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We do have freeze-dried food which is the same principle. I usually buy a bunch to carry on hikes. Add cold or boiling water (depending on dish) wait a few mins, stir, and voilà! You got a decent spaghetti bolognese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For all you inked people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you prefer “Was late to his own funeral”?

  I think that’s what’ll be on mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're on the wrong timeline!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I do in fact. We need to lower the economical impact of production too, consumption is just a drop in the bucket. To put it in perspective, I can run my PC from a second hand generator. Most low end generators might even be able to run 10s of my PCs. A datacenter training the high end LLMs that I could be running needs a nuclear power plant worth of energy. We are talking multiple magnitudes of difference.

  I suppose you don’t consider the coal-powered electricity that powers your EV when reflecting over your impact too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're on the wrong timeline!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can run a fully fletched LLM at home but you can’t generate the model. The latter is a huge contributor to power consumption. Running it is peanuts in comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Val Kilmer, Actor Renowned for Receding Into His Roles, Dies at 65⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Top Secret!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking hell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t really learn the reason, we just memorise the word for the number. Kinda like you know the word “dog” means a four legged cute creature, but not why the name is “dog”. The old rules are not something we are teached, I just got curious after a confused foreigner made me think about the system for a second :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking hell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Halvfjerds for 70 but yes. Firs is 80 though, so that doesn’t make in much easier.

  Fjerde = fourth, fire = four. That makes “half to the fourth” become “halv til fjerde” or “halvfjerds” while “four times twenty” becomes “firsindstyve” and shortened to new Danish “firs”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking hell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct.

  • Half to the second (halvanden, still in use today) = 1.5
  • Half to the third (halvtredje) = 2.5
  • Half to the fourth (halvfjerde) = 3.5
  • Half to the fifth (halvfemte) = 4.5

  And so on. You might notice that I sometimes write it like “halvfemte” and other times “halvfems”. The latter is just the way it was spelled when used in a combined word (another fun quirk in Danish that we inherited from Germanic this time!). 90 is today spelled just “halvfems”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking hell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, we use the same numeral symbols as everyone else. We just pronounce it in the most unintuitive manner possible.

  I can imagine that we once had symbols representing the base 20 system but standardised at some point to decimal symbols. I though haven’t encountered any piece of history to back that up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking hell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We actually still say “halvanden” in Danish too. Everything else is not used (except for halvfems which means 90…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking hell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason is that the Danish numbering system is based on a vigesimal (base-20) system instead of the decimal system. Why is a good question but it might have been influenced by French during a time where numbers from 50-100 is less frequently used, making them prone to complexity. The fractions simply occur since you need at least one half of twenty (10) to make the change from e.g 50 to 60 in a 20-based system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking hell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even worse. 90 in old Danish is “halvfemsindstyve” but it is rarely used today. The “sinds” part is derived from “sinde” means multiplied with but it is not in use in Danish anymore. That leaves halvfems, meaning half to the five (which is not used alone anymore) and tyve meaning twenty (as it still does).

  We are in current Danish shortening it to halvfems which actually just means “half to the five” in old Danish (2.5) to say 90. 92 is then “tooghalvfems” (two and half to the five, or 2+2.5). The “sindstyve” part (multiplied with 20) fell out of favour.

  So we at least have some rules to the madness. Were just not following the at all anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M'Lady⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that Cheeto flavoured soda?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did I post this to the right comm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Less words, better propaganda

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you consider the 3 greatest movies ever made?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  2. Babylon
  3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've modified the Alcoholics Anonymous plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart Girl⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s currently more than €2/L in Denmark

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually the fuel cap is on the passenger side according to the country of origin, so for example European = right side, Japanese = left side. It’s not 100% bullet proof but it can eliminate a bit of the guess work if the car doesn’t have an arrow to indicate such side the cap is on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just put a spray tan over it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’ll need a bigger patch of skin to actually see the results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tipping culture is out of control, even the cops expect tips now!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was more thinking Dave Franco. The smile is definitely on point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like there’s also a fence in the foreground and maybe a pathway inbetween, so I don’t think it’s a shared fence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m considering it. I’d probably want to know if it works well with Linux first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨l fixed it!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, everything points to a mistake. Bitwarden not only rectified it ASAP but also made the switch to GPLv3. The latter is not just something you do to please people, you need to understand the legal ramifications it can have on your business, so it very likely was a change that’s been discussed before all of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you elaborate on the Plex issues as of late? One of the guys I share my instance with has reported a lot of buffering that I haven’t been able to reproduce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No notes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you wanna say “hello shark!” in Danish you’ll say “hej haj!”

  Good thing we don’t have sharks in Danish waters otherwise it’ll become pretty awkward when you greet someone at the beach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert Zemeckis wants to make another Back to the Future movie (with a twist)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda makes sense, but it is still weird hearing him say it. Especially after the musical flop that was Joker 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert Zemeckis wants to make another Back to the Future movie (with a twist)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Zemeckis, are you okay? Do we need to call someone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Coincidentally last month I got the survey for the first time since I switched to Linux a decade ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bank referred me to their website to get more details about their products...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s illegal in EU

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Captain America: Brave New World' bombs at test screening⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll from now on say Fuck you February when referring to movie releases.

  “When’s Subpar Superhero: The Search for More Money coming out?”

  “It’s set to release in Fuck you February”