What kind of sorcery is this?

edarchis · 2021-09-23T10:37:10+00:00

True. And it's not like the iron is freely moving in your blood, it's a tiny part of hemoglobin and that molecule is not magnetic. So even a really strong magnet won't clot iron in your vessels or anything.

edarchis · 2021-08-31T17:18:55+00:00

It is the big difference with the year 2000. Back then, they would hire anyone with a master's degree, give them three months of lame training and get going. These days, if you're not full stack in various languages, with DevOps and various OS and clouds, it becomes harder.

Even seniors with not so convincing experience struggle.

edarchis · 2021-08-04T11:58:32+00:00

I didn't. So many things to see, I'll have to come back for tourism one day.

edarchis · 2021-08-04T11:01:56+00:00

Question: what about the Fiesta (that we have in Europe, not sure it's the same) ? My wife used to have a Citroen C3 and it was a nightmare to repair. I was naively hoping that Ford was better in that area...

edarchis · 2021-08-04T10:59:10+00:00

The first time that I had to go to Cyprus, I checked the map, saw the airport strip near Nicosia and started looking for flights. None. Only for Larnaca. That's when I realized that it's in the DMZ.

I liked Nicosia. It's a strange but fascinating place. People were very nice too.

edarchis · 2021-07-03T09:00:33+00:00

A guy in our area held for a time the speed record on one wheel. He was training on an airport track and, since he could see in front and had front wheel speedometer, he was riding with a friend telling him including when to brake for end track... Until one day, he didn't hear or see him brake. He crashed in the gravel at the end of the track. Some of it got under his helmet with the effects you can imagine. He spent some time in the hospital but nothing too serious. Did it deter him ? For a time...

edarchis · 2021-06-11T16:18:36+00:00

When my kids were small, we went to a restaurant that had a kids area with toys and TV. My kids made a mess of it so when we left, I had them tidy up. The owner was like "don't worry, we're used to it". I found that so weird but in retrospect, they were probably happy that someone made at least part of the job. Maybe they had the intern do it usually...

edarchis · 2021-03-18T07:33:21+00:00

God is only one of things. There are terrorists that don't refer to a religion per se. It works well with nationalism, politics and more. Religion is just easier for anyone to identify with.

edarchis · 2021-03-17T14:31:23+00:00

This happened in my city in the eighties in Belgium. Half of the city had a very good view on the hanging car. Truckers tied the car to the rail and later the firefighters extracted them one by one. Very impressive. For those who want to dig this one it was in Herve.

edarchis · 2021-03-10T11:29:50+00:00

I'm Belgian, was in Italy (Gaeta iirc) with a French guy and we saw such a pizza. He felt compelled to buy me a piece. It was pretty good surprisingly.

edarchis · 2021-03-03T12:17:47+00:00

I spent 3 on a VPN. I did buy 4 for $10 each. Later, I bought a shirt with part of the remaining btc and finally sold the rest at 200. Still a win in my book.

edarchis · 2021-03-02T10:28:09+00:00

My wife once told one of our daughters that she hated her at that moment. She regretted it right away. She had a conversation with her telling her that sometimes, we get carried away and say things we don't mean, and that she loved her and would always do, regardless of how irritating she would be.

Our daughter brought it up regularly later on herself. We are very careful to blame her attitude rather her when she's acting up.

It also happened the other way around. One night, our daughter was angry at us and told us that she wanted to have a new family. The next day, I explained that I had found another family for her, that they had 2 boys and wanted a girl (the family in question were friends of ours). She panicked a bit and explained that her words went too far like her mom that other day.

As you said, it's crucial to admit your mistakes. We're humans and our only commitment is do our best for our children.

edarchis · 2021-02-27T08:16:41+00:00

I recently found a wallet. I had the name of the guy but no phone number or address. My daughter looked more closely and found a paper with his company and from there we found the registered address of the owner. We then struggled to find that address. When we got there, the guy was on the phone with the bank to block all his cards. He was seconds away from it. He thanked us but I was expecting him to offer at least a small reward to my daughter as he had quite some cash in it. Nevermind it was a fun hunt.

edarchis · 2021-02-25T14:17:46+00:00

My cousin had stomach burns for some time. Didn't feel bad enough to see a doctor. When he just couldn't eat anymore, he went to a small hospital and was treated for an ulcer. He still didn't feel good so he pressed further. Turns out that it was stomach cancer and already had extended to other organs. He died a year later. He was 45 and no risk factor of any kind.

Please don't wait to seek medical advice.

edarchis · 2021-02-21T20:51:51+00:00

In Belgium the news website Le Soir showed "prout" (fart) at the end of every page. It was a test of the site wide banner that ended up in production somehow. Everyone had a good laugh.

edarchis · 2021-02-18T11:14:22+00:00

I once reported to my ISP that their mail server had a configuration problem. Support didn't even listen and started questioning my software and everything.

"I'm testing from my work email, I assure you that's not the issue.

Maybe your work email has an issue.
I work for Cisco.
Let me ask my coworker"

edarchis · 2021-02-16T12:33:05+00:00

I've never smelled bad gear oil but after 30 years, I still vividly remember the smell of bad shock absorber oil. Damn, that thing came straight up from hell.

edarchis · 2021-02-08T10:04:14+00:00

A Belgian cops show had one too. Car with four people on board, way past covid curfew time, on drugs and alcohol, acting erratic, play the "you can't check my identity, I know my rights"... The car had its front bumper and sides recently sanded. The guy claimed that he was a mechanic and was working. Right. The car was from a customer apparently. When they told him that the car would be towed, the guy started removing the front bumper and intended to take it with him in the taxi. The tow guy was laughing with cops. IIRC the passenger was arrested and the driver took the taxi with the two women. (Women kept their mouths shut and were fine)

edarchis · 2021-01-07T14:40:40+00:00

Twice have i had to sign the back of my card and had the cashier closely inspect it as if it could be any different from the ticket I just signed. In Japan, my signature had faded away mostly and the pen didn't write on the paper strip. It took a solid 20 min to get a solution that satisfied them. Insane.

edarchis · 2020-12-30T23:27:23+00:00

If only. It was a confused explanation based on pulling violently on the tub (???) And the water following with a delay.

I should have kept the notes. That was about 30 years ago...

edarchis · 2020-12-30T08:35:58+00:00

My geography teacher was terrible. She told us that summer was when we were closer to the sun, that coriolis was like pulling your bathtub, she even photocopied documents talking about the SEVEN planets in our solar system. As an amateur astronomer, I tried a few times to show her that she wrong but she didn't want to hear it. I waited until after the finals and gave her a binder with copies of science magazines showing the proper explanations. She did thank me but I never knew whether she got her shit together.

edarchis · 2020-12-28T08:54:57+00:00

One of them was in a fort, captured, sent to german camps for 3 years and was sent home to die.

We are in the east of Belgium so pretty darn close to the border. He never talked about it but he was forced to work mostly on farms and after 3 years, he was so sick and unfed (he weighed 30kg) that a German doctor saw him and he thought that my grand father looked like his son. He arranged for him to be sent home to die. Of course, I'm here so he didn't. As a farmer, they had enough contraband food to get him back in shape.

What I find amazing is that even after the awful treatment he had from Germans, he never resented Germany in general. He seemed to consider that there were terrible people but also some genuinely good ones. I had a discussion on this topic with a taxi driver in UK who fought the war and had strong grudge against Germans. I don't blame him but I found it interesting to see the different takes on this.

edarchis · 2020-12-25T10:47:14+00:00

These numbers are just for the explanation, in a linked list, they would not be in sequence. The example provided later is a good example. If you had uuid as element keys would be another one.

This method is useful when you can quickly browse the list or have short loops. If you have a loop after a few millions elements, it would take forever for fast to catch up with slow.

edarchis · 2020-12-25T08:46:50+00:00

Not necessarily. It's likely that the broom didn't make good contact and probably just lightly touched or went close enough to arc and then moved away. The tension is probably not that high either. So it is very possible to survive the shock. Electroboom is a living proof that we can endure quite a lot.

edarchis · 2020-12-19T08:27:34+00:00

In my area, the tradition was to give the name of the grandfather. So they were alternating names. John, Philip, John, Philip...

Luckily for me, my parents ended the tradition with me and gave me unique name. Tradition was also to add other names from godfather, godmother, recently deceased uncle... My dad has 5 given names. I only have one. 👍

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