I think 5 or 6. I’d get to experience living in different cultures without having to abandon friends and family in my current location.

And the rest of the world will say the same with respect to American spyware.

Backlash. \ls would get you regular ls. Note that ls already is aliased on some popular distros with some common flags.

Something I did to someone who needed to know the effects of not locking ones screen when away: alias ls to echo 'Error: file not found'. Took them a good hour to figure out what was wrong with their machine 😅

Dd is known as disk destroyer for a good reason. Very easy to fuck yourself over.

It’s to embed Javascript into embedded markup in Javascript

The differences between California and Alabama are still an order of magnitude or more smaller than between e.g. Portugal and Latvia.

For decades I pronounced albeit like “al-bayt”, instead of “all-be-it”. I only ever saw it in writing, and never hears anyone say it. Meaning made also so much more sense when I finally heard it being said out loud. Eye opener.

Oil lamps are not very complicated to make. And could be useful.

The second person during a question is still no special rule for dt. It’s still very regular. For all regular verbs it’s just stem (without the +t).

Examples:

Praten -> stem = praat -> praat jij? Worden -> stem = word -> word jij? Surfen -> stem = surf -> surf jij?

No irregularity for stems ending in d.

But again, there is no special exception for dt. Again it’s the regular rule applied: second person conjugation in questions is just the stem for regular verbs.

This gets really confusing if you’re from Limburg. In Limburgish, “daan” (the cognate to Dutch “dan”) only exists as the time indicator. With comparisons the correct Limburgish is to use “es” for differences (e.g. “Jan is groeter es Maria”, “John is bigger than Mary”), and “wie” for equivalents (e.g “Jan is eve aajd wie Maria”, “John is as old as Mary”). Now “es” is cognate to Dutch “als”, but using it in Dutch as in Limburgish is wrong. So yeah this gets confusing.

That English natives have so much trouble distinguishing effect from affect keeps surprising me.

As for Dutch, the dt-issue is presented as if it is this hugely complicated set of rules. While in reality it is dead simple. Third person in the present time is ALWAYS conjugated as stem+t for regular verbs, except in ONE case: when the stem already ends in t. Dt isn’t special, it’s just the rule applied to all stems.

I got into programming via, I kid you not, Second Life.

Wanted to animate some objects with the built-in scripting language. Turned out I was pretty good at it.

Fast forward 15 years and I’m having a decade-long career in software.

Knowing how to swim. Basic life skill in a water-rich country, but many expats can’t.