Ich finde auch abstrus, was für eine verkorkste Einstellung die Leute zum Schreiben haben.

Gute Autoren sagen einem, dass Texte schreiben eines der besten Werkzeuge ist, um sich über ein Thema tiefgreifende Gedanken zu machen. Und gute Pädagogen sagen einem, dass Texte schreiben eines der besten Werkzeuge ist, um Erlerntes zu überprüfen und zu festigen.

Aber kaum gibt es eine Möglichkeit, den Schreibprozess zu überspringen, könnte man meinen, die Leute hätten ihr ganzes Leben nur Strafarbeiten geschrieben und nie irgendeinen Nutzen daraus gezogen.

Gute Boykott-Liste hat der Donald da zusammengestellt.

For those who also don’t know who Monica Lewinsky is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Lewinsky

My brain would also like to propose a new spelling+pronunciation for “remember”: rember

Yeah, people would understand it, but would look at you funny.
Partially, because they’re just not used to it. “Hochseil” and “seiltanzen” are composite words, but are also just used commonly, so they have made it into the dictionary as separate entries. Meanwhile, “hochseiltanzen” is merely a neologism at this point.
But it does also just sound like you’re really shoehorning in that you’re specifically walking on a high wire. Like you’re just bragging about it.

What’s also kind of funny, is that we have nominalization in German as well, so where a verb (or other word) is used as a noun, and using “das Hochseiltanzen” as a noun does not sound out of place to me. In fact, when I throw “hochseiltanzen” into a search engine, I get four results, all of which use it as a noun and like it’s a completely normal word that does not need explaining.

Fun fact: “Krebs” is German for “crab”.

It’s a logo commonly used for political movements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist

Been hacking away at a library and definitely feeling this one. Some APIs, I’m not yet terribly happy with, and there’s always this urge to introduce a macro to hide away the ugly API.

So far, I’m still staying away from it, because I’m just thinking that users will not have an easier time either way. The code they write may look prettier, but if they have to learn custom syntax rules for it, then it isn’t easier to understand in the end.
Also, while a macro can clean up some rough edges, it won’t fix up an API that’s illogical to begin with. Well, unless you make it a turing-complete macro (i.e. proc_macro rather than macro_rules), but that makes it infinitely harder to understand once more.

I’m not surprised, because people here keep posting memes about the guy. I never went out of my way to learn about it, but still know it…

It certainly isn’t just nouns, you do have classics like “zusammensetzen” (put together) and “verschlimmbessern” (to make something worse, despite attempting to improve it).

But yeah, I’m having a hard time coming up with a particularly long composite verb that still makes sense.
Usually, it’s one word + a normal verb to kind of change the meaning of the verb, like “tanzen” means “to dance”, and “seiltanzen” means “to walk on a tightrope” (literally: “to rope-dance”).

And while you could theoretically extend it, e.g. as “hochseiltanzen” (“Hochseil” is a tightrope that’s high above the ground; literally “high-rope”), we just say “auf dem Hochseil tanzen” instead (“to dance on the high-rope”).
Or I guess, you’d specify that it’s a Hochseil once and then say “seiltanzen” in the following sentences.

Last week at work, we had the lights on in the morning and as we went for lunch, I flipped the switch to turn them off. In that moment, you hear a loud bang and the lights won’t turn back on anymore.

The next day, a technician comes in to look at it. He puts the fuse back in and all the lights work again. He decides to check all the capacitors on the lamps in case one of them blew out and finds nothing.

In the week before that, one of the fluorescent tubes got swapped, so that’s our only clue why something like this might happen. Kind of wild that it can just go bang with nothing to show for it, except the blown-out fuse.

I happen to be a software developer, so I hope you’re in for an info dump:

Webpages are generally designed as documents. You type a URL into your browser, it downloads a webpage document and displays it. This simple concept also allows for hyperlinks and browsing history, which just put another URL into your browser, so that it downloads and displays a different document.

But it does not work for everything. For example, this meme was brought to you by the web version of Microsoft Teams™, where if you were to switch between pages by downloading entirely separate documents, then you’d get kicked out of calls every time you do so.

This is why the entirety of MS Teams is using a singular document. It’s a so-called Single-Page Application, SPA (*insert scary music here*).
When you click on a navigation element, it doesn’t put a new URL into your browser for it to download. Instead, some JavaScript monstrosity starts churning, downloads whatever information it needs and then modifies the displayed document, so that it looks as if you had navigated away.

To make it extra confusing, it also does typically change the displayed URL, it just doesn’t instruct the browser to download+display the respective document. It does this, because it tries to emulate a normal, document-based webpage, with browser history and where you can link to subpages.

Well, and this is then why opening in a new tab is often broken. Because there is no link there. It has to emulate the behaviour of a link via JavaScript just as well. If the developers do a bad job at that and never try out shortcuts like middle-click or Ctrl+click, then they may never get implemented.

Having said all that, there’s also a chance that the devs decided to intentionally hinder opening in a new tab.
Because MS Teams and other SPAs are JavaScript monstrosities, downloading+displaying the document anew like when opening in a new tab takes an obscene amount of time.
And having two tabs of it open means that you get two notification sounds for each notification, and users might accidentally join multiple calls.

But yeah, that I can’t have a call in fullscreen on one monitor and respond to chat messages on another monitor, without jumping through hoops like in the post, that’s just bad either way.

Well, in this case I’m merely talking about the webpage not giving access to the right-click menu, as well as to shortcuts like middle-mouse-click and Ctrl+click, which would normally allow you to open parts of it in a new tab.

If a webpage were to actually check for cookies, to try to detect whether you’ve got two tabs of it open, then yeah, Container Tabs would be a solution for that, since it isolates the cookies.

Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar, nur nicht in der CDU. Da bürdet man es einer Frau auf, öffentlich zu verkünden, dass ihre Partei nicht die Intention hatte, sie gleichwertig zu behandeln.

Ja, der Humor von extra3 setzt irgendwo schon einen Gefallen am Fiktionalen voraus.
Gibt ja auch immer den Maxi Schafroth, der mehrere Minuten lang irgendwelche Politiker nachstellt, aber dabei frei erfundenen Quatsch erzählt. Soweit ich weiß, lieben manche Leute die Beiträge, während mir so gar nicht klar wird, warum das gesamte Konzept überhaupt lustig sein soll…

Also was ich von einem Arbeitskollegen so mitbekomme, ist das eigentlich schon ziemlich normal. In den kälteren Monaten häuft sich das natürlich nochmal, aber ich meine er hat auch wirklich mal gesagt, dass eigentlich immer mindestens eine Seuche im Umlauf ist.

Könnte mir vorstellen, dass das auch als Touristenattraktion zieht…

It has been a thing for longer that extensions are not allowed to make connections to the internet, unless it’s actually required for the functionality they advertise. And I believe, they have some rudimentary code scans in place to check for that. Besides that, there’s also their Recommended Extensions program, where they do thorough code reviews for a subset of available extensions.

They have the Recommended Extensions program, where they do that for a subset of the available extensions.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-program