magnusmundus

Another meaning the word "effable" acquired in the last couple decades is a spelled out form of "f-able", as in fuckable. OP must've been unaware of the word's prior existence.

Really? I’m surprised. The original is quoted relatively often on reddit (I suspect by people unaware of the origin — as I was until I read your comment).

Consider it proof that HN has indeed not become reddit, I guess :)

Mobbing is probably older than resignation as a concept.

That's funny. I'm curious now, do you live in a microstate, or an island? Or was it a case of an overly eager delivery platform?

Literally every check-in form I've been through had some required checkboxes to declare that you've packed your luggage yourself, have complete awareness of what's in there, and claim responsibility for such items. There are also countless, very visible, posters in airports saying so. Your paper trail might be useful to law enforcement in prosecuting the people who handed you the no-no stuff, but it doesn't absolve you of any responsibility.

Anecdotally, I once had an outrageously difficult time explaining to a German customs officer that the bag I placed in the scanner had items belonging to both my sister and myself. It didn't help that we were travelling together, and she was also there to back my statements up. He simply would not accept the fact that there was an electronic device (e-book) that belonged to her, in a bag that belonged to me, which we forgot to take out before the scanner.

It was possible to do the same with some PC games! I have fond memories of listening to the soundtracks of Driver, and Knights and Merchants, on my little stereo.

If my experience reverse engineering PHP written in Dutch is anything to go by, it means the function and variable names, comments, database columns, logs... would all be in Dutch -- or potentially worse, in Dutch but using English words. Which in turn means they sometimes won't necessarily have an accurate translation to English, in most cases a single translation at any rate, and you'd have to do a ton of disambiguation to make sense of anything.

I also had some fun thinking on a tiger moth jam, and how that may have batted a sonar.

Re: junior colleagues, do you not instead arrive at "why does the static analyzer complain", or worse, an avoidance of proper types that you then have to point out in review?

There are still other reasons to print stuff, and still preferably at home often enough. Hobbies (sheet music, game material), German bureaucracy, workflow preferences. However these companies made it completely impractical to own an inkjet printer which you might not use for 6 months at a time, and for some reason they aren't milking laser printers as hard.

Though, I'm pretty sure I'd just spring for a thermal printer if they made toner maintenance impractical too, personally speaking.

D&D is an example of a tabletop RPG, yes.

> no one around me would want to sacrifice themselves

It's not so much a sacrifice as it is simply a different game. Some people enjoy coming up with stories more than exploring other people's stories.

> This works all the time and serves all possible cases.

Unless you want the check to be always against the initial length of your iterable, rather than its modified state, you'd have to repeat the `n = len(iterable)` inside the loop, or introduce some syntactic caramel of the walrus kind (though I'm not sure if it would work here).

I think the reaction is at least partially based on the loss of precisely that certainty: there is a sense of comfort in that no matter how unacceptable someone’s actions or ideas are to us, they will die, regardless of who they are — eventually. The thought of that eventuality becoming unusually distant in the future threatens that comfort. Doubly so when only the powerful will live longer, which will come first, everyone seems to agree.