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  1. Am Samstag ist Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften.

    langenachtderwissenschaften.de

    Besonders cool wäre, wenn das Formular GET statt POST wäre (oder so). Bei der Navigation zurück im Browser von einem Eintrag zurück zur Suche bekommt man sonst so unschöne unnötige Fehlermeldungen. #lndw26 #nitpicking #WebDev

  2. Am Samstag ist Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften.

    langenachtderwissenschaften.de

    Besonders cool wäre, wenn das Formular GET statt POST wäre (oder so). Bei der Navigation zurück im Browser von einem Eintrag zurück zur Suche bekommt man sonst so unschöne unnötige Fehlermeldungen. #lndw26 #nitpicking #WebDev

  3. @joel @pzmyers

    I will probably read the novel some day. Scifi is virtually always better in written form; there's just so much you have to leave out to fit a story into a 2-hour movie. I think that's why many of the best scifi movies are based on short stories or perhaps novellas, rather than full-length novels.

    On the subject of nitpicking: if the spaceship has magical engines to get it to near lightspeed, why would the crew have to travel in suspended animation/induced coma state? Time dilation would mean the trip was subjectively short, maybe just days or even hours, for everyone on board. Obviously I haven't seen it yet, so maybe that's addressed.

    #nit #pick #nitpicking

  4. @joel @pzmyers

    I will probably read the novel some day. Scifi is virtually always better in written form; there's just so much you have to leave out to fit a story into a 2-hour movie. I think that's why many of the best scifi movies are based on short stories or perhaps novellas, rather than full-length novels.

    On the subject of nitpicking: if the spaceship has magical engines to get it to near lightspeed, why would the crew have to travel in suspended animation/induced coma state? Time dilation would mean the trip was subjectively short, maybe just days or even hours, for everyone on board. Obviously I haven't seen it yet, so maybe that's addressed.

    #nit #pick #nitpicking

  5. A quotation from Emerson

    A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities

  6. Lernen die das eigentlich bei der Bahn so, dass "to arrive" ein transitives Verb ist und genau "erreichen" entspricht? 😕 (Ansonsten hat es mein ICE ohne sonderliche Verspätung von Frankfurt nach Berlin geschafft 😌)

    #nitpicking #db

  7. Tsunami heißt wörtlich "Hafenwelle". Wer "Tsunamiwellen" schreibt, schreibt auch "LCD-Display" und "SMS-Service".

    #nitpicking

  8. Tsunami heißt wörtlich "Hafenwelle". Wer "Tsunamiwellen" schreibt, schreibt auch "LCD-Display" und "SMS-Service".

    #nitpicking

  9. Just a reminder to writers, pressure waves travel about ten times faster in rock than in air. So first, the ground will shake, then the blast wave hits.
    #WritingCommunity #nitpicking

  10. Just a reminder to writers, pressure waves travel about ten times faster in rock than in air. So first, the ground will shake, then the blast wave hits.
    #WritingCommunity #nitpicking

  11. I can not see the font issue? Don't have X11 installed to compare. As someone who went Wayland years ago this seems a bit silly to complain about

    dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma

    #64

  12. I can not see the font issue? Don't have X11 installed to compare. As someone who went Wayland years ago this seems a bit silly to complain about

    dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma

    #Linux #KDE #64 #review #wayland #nitpicking #greebles #plasma #plasma6

  13. So, two people were barely able to push one container around the cargo bay and SOMEHOW they got them all stacked two containers high.

    #AllStarTrek #StarTrekTNG #Disaster @allstartrek
    #FFS #nitpicking

  14. So, two people were barely able to push one container around the cargo bay and SOMEHOW they got them all stacked two containers high.

    #AllStarTrek #StarTrekTNG #Disaster @allstartrek
    #FFS #nitpicking

  15. I appreciate that this series, Into the Night, has actors of different nationalities speak their native language where/when it makes sense for the characters they portray, but it bugs me that they use Dutch and Flemish randomly as descriptors in the subs. While technically it's correct to say [speaks Dutch] when the Belgian is speaking Flemish, I've also spotted them use [speaks Flemish] when the Dutch guy is talking plain Dutch.

    #nitpicking #rant #intoTheNight #SeriesFiXatoWatches

  16. I appreciate that this series, Into the Night, has actors of different nationalities speak their native language where/when it makes sense for the characters they portray, but it bugs me that they use Dutch and Flemish randomly as descriptors in the subs. While technically it's correct to say [speaks Dutch] when the Belgian is speaking Flemish, I've also spotted them use [speaks Flemish] when the Dutch guy is talking plain Dutch.

    #nitpicking #rant #intoTheNight #SeriesFiXatoWatches

  17. Dmitri's magnum opus on Go style is basically a shrine to #nitpicking 🤏, where even the smallest deviation from the sacred Go gospel is meticulously cataloged for eternity. 🔍 Why bother rewriting rationale when you can just send a link, right? 📎 Because who doesn't love being schooled on the minutiae of code style by someone with a passion for pedantry? 🙃
    dmitri.shuralyov.com/idiomatic #GoLang #GoStyle #CodeQuality #ProgrammingHumor #Pedantry #HackerNews #ngated

  18. Dmitri's magnum opus on Go style is basically a shrine to #nitpicking 🤏, where even the smallest deviation from the sacred Go gospel is meticulously cataloged for eternity. 🔍 Why bother rewriting rationale when you can just send a link, right? 📎 Because who doesn't love being schooled on the minutiae of code style by someone with a passion for pedantry? 🙃
    dmitri.shuralyov.com/idiomatic #GoLang #GoStyle #CodeQuality #ProgrammingHumor #Pedantry #HackerNews #ngated

  19. I wonder if the author of Embers of War is American and trying to casually use metric in the way the freedom units are: "... was a small woman, about meter seven ...", just like Steve Buscemi in that gif you all imagined right now 😋

    Yes, I am #nitpicking for funsies, but that does read 107cm, not 170cm, and details like this bother me weirdly much 😄

  20. I wonder if the author of Embers of War is American and trying to casually use metric in the way the freedom units are: "... was a small woman, about meter seven ...", just like Steve Buscemi in that gif you all imagined right now 😋

    Yes, I am #nitpicking for funsies, but that does read 107cm, not 170cm, and details like this bother me weirdly much 😄

  21. Taking a break to watch The Rings of Power. Watching mithril get melted down in a crucible and am surprised it takes such a low heat to do so. Those are yellow flames, and not all that hot. A propane torch is hotter than that. Must be magic fire.

    (I used to study goldsmithing and silversmithing a couple decades ago.)
    #jewellery #nitpicking #smithing #goldsmithing #metal #TheRingsOfPower

  22. Taking a break to watch The Rings of Power. Watching mithril get melted down in a crucible and am surprised it takes such a low heat to do so. Those are yellow flames, and not all that hot. A propane torch is hotter than that. Must be magic fire.

    (I used to study goldsmithing and silversmithing a couple decades ago.)
    #jewellery #nitpicking #smithing #goldsmithing #metal #TheRingsOfPower

  23. Rewatching #LOTR (Two Towers, specifically) and one thing that annoys me is Aragorn's comment about the Rohirrim at Helm's Deep: "Farmers, Farriers, these are not soldiers".

    Well newsflash, Peter Jackson, welcome to medieval society. The only "soldiers" out there were mercenaries and the nobles. Otherwise it was indeed your farmers that did the fighting.

    #Film #Movies #Tolkien #Histodons #Nitpicking

  24. Rewatching #LOTR (Two Towers, specifically) and one thing that annoys me is Aragorn's comment about the Rohirrim at Helm's Deep: "Farmers, Farriers, these are not soldiers".

    Well newsflash, Peter Jackson, welcome to medieval society. The only "soldiers" out there were mercenaries and the nobles. Otherwise it was indeed your farmers that did the fighting.

    #Film #Movies #Tolkien #Histodons #Nitpicking

  25. The feeling when 87.5% of the discussion under your contribution is about : unreliable CI and insignificant .

    Congrats, the project has created a barrier to entry for anyone who hasn't been into it for years already.

    Hint: give everyone a freaking that satisfies your needs and let us move on to actual work, without having to redo the same stuff 8 times. Sheesh.

  26. The feeling when 87.5% of the discussion under your contribution is about #bureaucracy : unreliable CI and insignificant #style #bikeshedding .

    Congrats, the project has created a barrier to entry for anyone who hasn't been into it for years already.

    Hint: give everyone a freaking #linter that satisfies your needs and let us move on to actual work, without having to redo the same stuff 8 times. Sheesh.

    #opensource #coding #nitpicking #contributing

  27. @mathling this is a lunar eclipse. So not fitting the solar eclipse day. #nitpicking

  28. @mathling this is a lunar eclipse. So not fitting the solar eclipse day. #nitpicking

  29. Trying not to be hypercritical, but just watched S27E3-4 of Silent Witness, and Timetabling would burn us as witches if we tried to schedule such a small class in a huge lecture theatre. #Nitpicking #SilentWitness

  30. Trying not to be hypercritical, but just watched S27E3-4 of Silent Witness, and Timetabling would burn us as witches if we tried to schedule such a small class in a huge lecture theatre. #Nitpicking #SilentWitness

  31. the f-string is inefficient since it needs to create a new string which consumes time and memory

    print(word.upper(), rest)

    does the same and not create a new string.
    #nitpicking

    @tshirtman @linuxgal

  32. the f-string is inefficient since it needs to create a new string which consumes time and memory

    print(word.upper(), rest)

    does the same and not create a new string.
    #nitpicking

    @tshirtman @linuxgal

  33. #Hilton is confusing. Doesn't affect me, but a Hampton Inn I'm going to be staying at has this pet policy: "Pets allowed ... $75(1-4n),$125(5+n)2 pets Max,dog/cat only"

    What?
    #Proofread #Nitpicking

  34. #Hilton is confusing. Doesn't affect me, but a Hampton Inn I'm going to be staying at has this pet policy: "Pets allowed ... $75(1-4n),$125(5+n)2 pets Max,dog/cat only"

    What?
    #Proofread #Nitpicking