telepathetisch, adj.
Etwas für seine Frau tun, ohne dass sie es sagen muss, um einer theatralischen Auseinandersetzung zu entgehen
Tag: Quote of the Week
AR create_with
find_or_create_by
method but I didn’t know it had a very useful companion
create_with
.
@something ||= SomeModel.create_with(some: "stuff").find_or_create_by(foo: "bar")
This will either find a record
SomeModel.where(foo: "bar")
or create it with
SomeModel.create(foo: "bar", some: "stuff")
. Very useful.
Allwissender Beobachter
Ein allwissender Beobachter, der in unser Gehirn blicken und alle relevanten Faktoren erfassen könnte, wäre in der Lage, unsere Entscheidung vorherzusehen.
Diese Aussage ist so dumm und offensichtlich bekannt, dass es jeder Beschreibung spottet. Er steht auch noch unter dem Titel „Neurowissenschaften: Gedankenlesen noch in weiter Ferne.“ … m(
salda aldım süper oldu
[…]cim elbiseni kayıp etmiştim bugün bulduk salda aldım süper oldu
via WhatsApp to my wife ?
Ethnic Affinity
Facebook started targeting ads based on its perception of a person’s race or ethnicity, but just to be safe without actually taking into account their race or ethnicity. The magic PR BS word they invented for it is “ethnic affinity.”
They want to monetize every aspect of your identity, whether that’s an ethnic affiliation or a preference for bean thread noodles.
The problem is that profiling somebody’s ethnic affinities has a lot more cultural baggage attached to it—to say the least—than profiling somebody’s taste in restaurants. And that’s why Facebook’s multicultural targeting scheme is getting a lot more pushback than the company bargained for.
Politicians
This line from Matt Taibbi sadly sums up what “high-profile” politicians have become.
[…] they’re not even people, but are […] just robo-babbling representatives of unseen donors.
— Matt Taibbi in How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable
Hadischatzen
Ich lass mich nicht gern hadischatzen! ?
hadischatzen
jemanden liebevoll zur Eile anhalten
Beispiele:
Hadi Schatz, wir müssen los!
Hadi Schatz, gidelim artık!
Saatlerce
A: Eşin nece konuşuyor?
B: Saatlerce.
?
A: Eşin nece konuşuyor?
B: Saatlerce.?
— Riyad Preukschas (@riyadpr) February 11, 2016
Ramen Code
The plaintiffs in Toyota’s Unintended Acceleration lawsuit had someone with knowledge in building embedded software had a look at Toyota’s source code:
possible bit flips, task deaths that would disable the failsafes, memory corruption, single-point failures, inadequate protections against stack overflow and buffer overflow, single-fault containment regions, thousands of global variables. The list of deficiencies in process and product was lengthy.
Gerufen und auch nicht gerufen
Gerufen und auch nicht gerufen,
Gott ist bei dir
— auf der letzten Seite des Telefonbuches meiner verstorbenen Tante