leisesprecher

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[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Take "The has a yellow ". Which gender do these nouns have? In German, I could tell you. Both articles and the adjective have a gender.

Of course, you can use gendered nouns, but only a very small minority of nouns actually have female forms.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 35 points 1 day ago (16 children)

In many aspects English doesn't distinguish between genders at all.

I chose the words above specifically because they are gendered. I'm not a native speaker, but as far as I know, teacher, butcher, officer, warrior, president, welder, etc. can each mean male or female. There's maybe a connotation, but the words are not gendered. English also has no concept of a grammatical gender. Articles, adjectives, etc. are gendered in most European languages.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

Du hast hier genau das gleiche Problem wie bei Amazon Bewertungen, nur schlimmer.

Für die allermeisten Menschen ist ihre Arbeit ganz okay (insbesondere in dem Umfeld, in dem man vorher Unternehmerbewertungen suchen würde), die werden also nichts schreiben. Wer schreibt sind Leute die richtig pissed sind und damit quasi nachtreten oder aber die HJ und BDM Mitglieder, die ihre Firma über den Klee loben, damit der (Geschäfts)Führer das vielleicht mitbekommt.

Das ist nicht gerade die beste Ausgangslage.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

That depends, actually.

In general, I try to keep everything English, since we do have some international colleagues.

However, I work with a bunch of projects that have some legal/administrative background and certain words have very precisely defined meanings, that can't be easily translated (at least not in one word, so that the next guy can back-translate the word). So in these cases, I sometimes write comments that explain the domain problem in German, because it's much much easier and whoever touches that code better understand the German terms or screw everything up. Unfortunately class and method names are often a weird language mix.

It's not a perfect solution, but given the legal complexities behind seemingly simple words, it's the best of the worst.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 90 points 1 day ago (25 children)

As I recently saw in a video about bible translations: Greek used (uses?) generic masculine forms for plurals. So a mixed group of stewarts and stewardesses would be called "these stewarts". If there's no context added, it's impossible to tell whether the group was actually all male or not.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I blame the Jedi council!

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 31 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Serbians are from serbia, not Siberia.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

That's what's happening if you're hellbent on using old technology.

All these schemes, ethanol, bio diesel, pellets, biogas, etc are just ways to continue using old assets in the hopes that somehow they're still viable.

As a stopgap solution they would be fine, but for some reason lobbyists managed to convince politicians that growing corn to produce diesel and then burn that in ICE cars is better than a battery, so now we keep driving ICE cars. Great.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 13 points 5 days ago

His followers can't afford mallninjashit.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The new Intel chips already addressed that, at least for notebook class devices.

Realistically, there wasn't really a reason for Intel and AMD to be super power efficient, simply because there wasn't any competition for quite a while. It took Apple Silicon to show how powerful arm can be and how easy the transition could be.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Post a photo of a virus and let's get this debate settled in sharia court once and for all!

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 17 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You don't have to get all philosophical, since the value art is almost by definition debatable.

These models can't do basic logic. They already fail at this. And that's actually relevant to corpos if you can suddenly convince a chatbot to reduce your bill by 60% because bears don't eat mangos or some other nonsensical statement.

 

I have a small homelab running a few services, some written by myself for small tasks - so the load is basically just me a few times a day.

Now, I'm a Java developer during the day, so I'm relatively productive with it and used some of these apps as learning opportunities (balls to my own wall overengineering to try out a new framework or something).

Problem is, each app uses something like 200mb of memory while doing next to nothing. That seems excessive. Native images dropped that to ~70mb, but that needs a bunch of resources to build.

So my question is, what is you go-to for such cases?

My current candidates are Python/FastAPI, Rust and Elixir, but I'm open for anything at this point - even if it's just for learning new languages.

 

I asked a while ago, how to build an automatic light switch and finally got around to actually building it.

My board is an ESP8266 mini D, and ignoring all the sensor parts, my problem right now is powering the actual light.

It's just a small LED array and I connected it directly to the 5V and GND pins (controlled via a transistor).

Measuring from the wall (so including the PSU), this whole setup pulls about 3W (so far expected), however, one small component close to the USB connector gets uncomfortably warm, and I'm not sure, whether that's ok.

The hot component is one of the two small thingies circled in the picture. I thought the 5V get pulled directly from the USB plug, so I'm not sure, why there is any circuitry involved.

 

I'm trying to build a very simple, stupid light switch for my grow light. Essentially, I want to turn on the light, if it gets too dark outside, so that my plants can survive the northern winter.

Since I'm a software guy, my first thought was an ESP32, but that seems excessive.

My current approach would be something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/313561010352 In conjunction with a relay, both powered by a USB-PSU.

If the light level is low enough, the logic DO pin should send a signal and that should be enough to trigger a small relay, so that the relay then closes the circuit to switch on the lights.

Is that idea completely stupid? With electronics, I'm usually missing something very obvious.

The lights themselves are already just usb powered and only draw 5W, so that shouldn't be problem.

What I'm concerned with is the actual switching. Is the logic signal "strong" enough to activate a relay? Would simple transistor maybe sufficient?

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