Excuse me, sir, this is a well-respected barbershop.

That is an interesting source. Thanks for the link!

I read every line as 4 syllables of which the 2nd and 4th are stressed. The last line is 7 syllables and can be read as two more lines of 4 beats: (pause) I am AN / aus-TRA-li-AN.

Fits perfectly that way in my opinion.

This is still salvageable by pronouncing it as “an earl”.

Syllables, LSD to MSD.

I agree, and I love how it has these younger words with a vivid etymology, how it shares so many common roots with English, German, the Scandinavian languages, and a serving of French, but also sprinkles of many other languages from its seafaring and otherwise trading history. And I love the grammar rules that allow one to be precise and concise in many things (but there we must definitely bow to German).

Water bearer makes much more sense, thanks! I did notice the images where a guy carries a jug, but as a kid, I always imagined the water man to be some kind of elemental, and I never consciously challenged that idea. Haha.

In Dutch we don’t use the Latin names for zodiac signs (and we call them “sterrenbeelden”, which means “star images” or maybe “star statues”). Aquarius is “waterman”, which I guess would translate to (surprise) “water man”.

Why? Not sure, but it might be because of Simon Stevin who insisted we use Dutch words for mathematical concepts, and thought up some words like “evenwijdig” (“same distancey”) for “parallel” and “wiskunde” (“certainty knowledge”) for mathematics.

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I like that I can hear that omitted space there.

git was designed to be decentralized. Everyone can (technically, but it is not too hard to set up if you have some affinity with servers) fork/clone another git repository and serve it up. It has built-in ways to synchronize with any other server. In fact, that synchronizing is what most developers do when they use git.

Of course, that would make it harder to know which repository has the “official” version, but in a way, that is maybe also a benefit of decentralisation. Knowing what code is authentic can be done by signing the commits.

The hubs that we see, are usually a combination of git and a way to serve the code, along with documentation, roadmap, bug tracking, automatic testing and building and the resulting binaries in a visually pleasing way. That does not need to be a part of decentralizing the code, and it is not the only way to do it.

Some of that can also be done with git built-in tracking of files, and the building and testing can probably also done in other locations, as long as there are files describing how to do that bundled with the code (which practically all projects already do).

Sourcehut (https://sr.ht) is one hub that helps developers use simpler tools for those workflows, and I think that’s a good place to find some inspiration.

I will never not read LTT as Lews Therin first, of whom, as a lover of both FOSS and EotW, I definitely prefer being reminded.

E: my brain forgot that the series is called WoT. EotW is just the first book, indeed. But I’m rambling very much off topic here.

At least the sawhorse resembles a horse :)

Like the Dutch “ezel” (which is the same word used in Dutch for painting-supporters which in English are called “easel”).

You can see the wololo-waves radiating from a cross if you put it in the earth.

I would suggest pronouncing “pain killers” in a nice French accent (pan keelUHRZ) when telling the joke. Writing it down might not be necessary then.

ETA: not a native English speaker (nor French). Nor a dad. Also, I tried saying it out loud a few times, and it still misses something. I do see potential, but it might need someone better qualified to fix this completely.

Euler: continues mumbling in German

Euler: mumbles something about imaginary numbers and identities

The opening quotation marks should be on the bottom, but it’s been a while since I wrote them that way. Luckily, the wiki page (in Dutch) shows how they can be entered in three common OSes (see: unicode), so I’ll try my best to revive the correct usage again.

Also, I don’t think it is considered incorrect to use top quotation marks on a computer any longer.

Maybe he married her, instead of the other way around.