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New comment by beeforpork in "More German than many Germans"

beeforpork — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:31:27 +0000

Absolutely!

New comment by beeforpork in "More German than many Germans"

beeforpork — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:36:42 +0000

The driver is not allowed to open the door anywhere but at a bus stop, the company running the bus forbids it. Quite strictly, actually. I think it is mainly because of insurance things. It is the same in a traffic jam when you are on the bus and the next bus stop is just a few meters away, and the bus is stuck and nothing moves -- impatient people will get angry because they want to leave the bus, but the driver is just not allowed to open the door except when the bus has properly reached the next bus stop.

Some bus drivers do open the door on some such occasion, but they can really get into trouble if they are caught doing that.

New comment by beeforpork in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"

beeforpork — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:15:32 +0000

We were outvibecounterexamplemaxxing them when suddenly, they reoutvibecounterexamplemaxxed us.

New comment by beeforpork in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"

beeforpork — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:08:20 +0000

I must object. Because this is derivation, not composition. German is noteworthy for its long compositional word formations (though many other language are, too, e.g., Finnish). German can do derivation, too, but not significantly more than English (and the verb prefix 'out-' is hard to map into German in this case). For admiring derivation, you'd have to point to, e.g., Greenlandic instead (e.g. _iliorfigeqatigiissariaqaraluarput_ roughly 'they should work together' (from the Declaration of Human Rights)).

To be clear, I do like 'outcounterexampled' a lot!

New comment by beeforpork in "How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues"

beeforpork — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:06:58 +0000

Wasps, not bees.

(Sorry, I'm a bit of a nerd. But I am sure you can cope with that.)

New comment by beeforpork in "Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act"

beeforpork — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:06:38 +0000

Fair enough. And you are definitely better than them! :-) You are too kind to these people.

New comment by beeforpork in "Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act"

beeforpork — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:39:39 +0000

The proposal to restrict the access to information came from Amthor himself -- he was in the working group to prepare this proposal for the coalition agreement.

It is not a rumour, it is a plain public fact. Amthor's shady connection to Augustus Intelligence was revealed by a request using this law.

https://fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exklusiv/2025/03/union-will-... (In German)

New comment by beeforpork in "Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way"

beeforpork — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:22:02 +0000

Looks good. It essentially separates phonotactics out of conjugation patterns instead of conflating them, which works also very well with how I learn languages. How to conjugate then breaks down to finding the stem (yes, some learning is always involved), and then there are not even different conjugations, but there are simply vocalic and consonantal stems -- all the morphology is in the suffix (the 'secret vowel') and the rest is phonotactics. I am sure there are irregular verbs, but probably this explains 90% or more of the verbs with simple rules. For me, this creates a perfectly logical system. Thanks for the overview!

New comment by beeforpork in "Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock"

beeforpork — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:05:04 +0000

That sounds completely safe and healthy! Hmmmm, I love the smell of vaporized electrolyte, particularly when waking up!

New comment by beeforpork in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

beeforpork — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:22:32 +0000

The UB in unaligned pointers is even worse: an unaligned pointer in itself is UB, not only an access to it. So even implicit casting a void*v to an int*i (like 'i=v' in C or 'f(v)' when f() accepts an int*) is UB if the cast pointer is not aligned to int.

It is important to understand that this is a C level problem: if you have UB in your C program, then your C program is broken, i.e., it is formally invalid and wrong, because it is against the C language spec. UB is not on the HW, it has nothing to do with crashes or faults. That cast from void* to int* most likely corresponds to no code on the HW at all -- types are in C only, not on the HW, so a cast is a reinterpretation at C level -- and no HW will crash on that cast (because there is not even code for it). You may think that an integer value in a register must be fine, right? No, because it's not about pointers actually being integers in registers on your HW, but your C program is broken by definition if the cast pointer is unaligned.

New comment by beeforpork in "Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test"

beeforpork — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:24:07 +0000

> "kai" (pronounced ke like in keg)

Ancient Greek spans several centuries of sound shifts and many dialects. It cannot easily be simplified into one specific pronunciation, particularly not one that is based on your specific dialect of English. Wiktionary has /kǎi̯/, /ˈkɛ/, /ˈcɛ/ and /ˈce/ for "καὶ".

New comment by beeforpork in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

beeforpork — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:21:45 +0000

... wiped out external reachability of a major economy ...

internal reachability (from Germany to .de domains), too... :-)))

New comment by beeforpork in "Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag"

beeforpork — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:33:35 +0000

Odd? No, it's normal politician behaviour. Julia Klöckner herself got hacked because she is not aware of phishing. To distract from her incompetence, she urges to switch to Wire to implicitly blame Signal. It's obvious what's going on, but people have so little knowledge about digital communication and security that she will get away with it. Poor woman got hacked by insecure Signal, people will remember.

Cafestol/kahweol concentrations in workplace machine coffee vs. other brewing

beeforpork — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:38:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nmcd-journal.com/article/S0939-4753(25)00087-0/fulltext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900361

Points: 5

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New comment by beeforpork in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

beeforpork — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:30:56 +0000

And dont you pronounce that 'x' as 'ks'! It's pronounced as 'sh'! Just like in 'xocolatl'.

New comment by beeforpork in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

beeforpork — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:22:48 +0000

The constitution made it impossible to make a less sexist law, because it says that women cannot be forced to military service. It is an old document, and it is based on old role models. Modernizing the constitution would require 2/3 majority, and the government was already struggling with making a law at all.

This is an explanation, not a justification.

New comment by beeforpork in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

beeforpork — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:52:12 +0000

You don't say.

New comment by beeforpork in "Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood"

beeforpork — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:55:35 +0000

And while we pump CO2 into the atmosphere, we also shrink the engines that could get it out again, like the rainforest in Brazil. Perfect optimisation!

(I don't want to shame Brazil, it's a global chain of problems. And other forests are decimated, too, like in Sweden and Estonia, for the demand of produce worldwide.)

New comment by beeforpork in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

beeforpork — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:57:59 +0000

> while, of course, consumers get nothing

This would have been the case no mattern what.

New comment by beeforpork in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

beeforpork — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:13:25 +0000

Same here. And I have a friend who keeps his small IPhone because they stopped building smaller phones, too. There is a demand, maybe not that big.

For me, I want to be able to operate the phone with one hand, and the large screen makes it difficult to reach all the spots on the screen even with large hands. I do operate my Fairphone 5 with one hand, but it is super awkward and at some point, the phone will fall into a gully because I cannot hold it tight while navigating.

And I wouldn't mind 2mm more thickness if this means the cameras are flush with the back and the battery is larger.