ivanhoe

5 ms·

1.
by ivanhoe 3mo ago
Hey, remember what Larry said, there's more than one way to do things ;P
2.
by ivanhoe 8mo ago
Perhaps she just had a good sense of humor? It's a great movie after all..
3.
by ivanhoe 8mo ago
I'm confused that, speaking of origins, they don't mention at all Spanish "hola", having literally the same meaning as hello?
4.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
It'd be impossible to limit the use of drones to just recovery, some people would use them for tracking down the animals which is a horrible idea to allow.
5.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
In ex-Yugoslavia countries using gr (usually without a dot) for grams used to be a fairly common thing. Last few decades as EU standardization takes place it's a lot rarer to see. Also in Croatia in everyday life people will far more o
6.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
Also makes UNIQUE indices much harder to use. You can't just delete and later re-insert the same data, you need to "undelete" it instead, but that can actually mess up the chronology of the data, so then you need a separate t
7.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
> For example, you don't soft-delete a customer row, you "deactivate" a customer I'm all for naming things more precise, but functionally speaking at that point it's really just semantics, you still end up with s
8.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
Yes, but I believe it was Latin, not Greek (Constantinople was a capitol of Easter Roman Empire, and they used both Latin and Greek). Latin term Sclavi that meant Slavs started to be used for slave servants, because there was so many of the
9.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
Well, they were basically a highly-mobile light cavalry/archers combination, so while they progressed very fast they were not spending much time sieging heavily fortified cities or going into mountains and other hard to cross terrains.
10.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
> these poor people served as a "buffer" against the Mongols, saving Europe from the slaughter ... You mean saving Western Europe :) Mongols ran over (and did a lot of slaughter in) the most of Eastern and Central Europe, incl
11.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
You reversed the timeline a bit. Varangians came primarily from todays Sweden, and were initially going inland into the today's Estonia, Belarus and Russia from north, from the Gulf of Finland, using rivers. The group of them called Ru
12.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
Thank you for this, had no idea :)
13.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
How do you remotely detect if car stinks or not?
14.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
I love this part: One of the other pilots on the mission was reported to have radioed Foust during his descent by parachute that "you'd better get back in it!"
15.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
Yeah, that one confused me too. Visiting Chernobyl was mostly a walk in a park, as no other people around and forrest slowly taking over everything. Honestly, it felt way safer than big cities in Ukraine to me - hell, even safer than big ci
16.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
It's definitely not "relatively safe" in what I as a European would consider a safe place - although I was told it got a lot better in the last decade. If you look like a rich tourist than you need to be careful, like pretty
17.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
Well no one ever organized a horse fights, but bull fights were quite popular through-out the Europe. And even goats are far from friendly, unless they're accustomed to having a lot of people around. Pretty much any farm animal that&#x
18.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
There's generally a lot more large wild animals in Africa than anywhere else in the world.
19.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
Wolves are more aggressive than dogs, but can be successfully domesticated and kept as pets... can actually be quite friendly with humans, especially female wolfs as they're a lot less competitive/aggressive than males.
20.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
It's the same as saying humans can't be trusted. Of course you can trust some humans, and of course you can trust some dogs. Just first make sure... my dog took so much "torture" from my kids, and yet they were inseparab
21.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
CRT image is an analog signal so it always has those little imperfections, especially as the screen ages and phosphor matrix gets burned, and there's dust settling so all dissipation curves change slightly, and each analog electronic c
22.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
> That's how it should be Why exactly? I'm not aware of any benefits of filenames being case-sensitive, it just opens a room for tons of very common mistakes that literally can't happen otherwise. It's not like in cod
23.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
> I think the internet has broken people’s brains. I agree, but what I see as a result is this paranoia that there's a conspiracy and something sinister in absolutely everything.
24.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
I really like this. How about enabling user to select any piece of text and use it the way the links work now? For instance, I've noticed it doesn't linkify peoples' names, and one thing I love on Wikipedia is that you can ea
25.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
You can do that or something similarly bad in pretty much any language if you have write access to where the files are. That's really a server misconfiguration problem, not php problem. Huge misfortune of php is that because of the tim
26.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
Nothing like typing in an ssh prompt and each time you press a button on the keyboard you have to wait a few seconds for the char to appear on the screen, because it has to go to the server and back first... that't the true "blind
27.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
Can't edit the above post anymore, so let me write it here: After writing all this in the post above I've went to check the twitter (as I usually do) and it's set back to For you recommendations... so yeah, now I get why ppl
28.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
My experience is different, perhaps because I follow people from both Europe and US (and some in Australia and Asia), so around the clock I always have 10-20 new tweets to go through, which is just as much of social noise that I have time f
29.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
I don't want to sound arrogant, but they really need to rtfm. There's a tab Following in the top and it shows people that you follow and their activity. I use it daily and haven't noticed anything of what they describe. Now,
30.
by ivanhoe 2y ago
> Every country was a utopia until the British and French got there? Nope, but you can bet that in every single case it got way worse when British, French, Spanish, Belgians, Russians, Italians, Venetians, Turks, etc. occupied them by of

More ›