> I feel this is one of those times we would learn Germans have a dead on word like they often do.
Yeah but it would be 72 characters long, being composed out of 6 different words difficult on their own (I know German a bit, and some words I have to read in my head loudly to see where they break into subparts)
Did you know about Kodak and Apartheid? During the 1960‘s, Kodak developed a photo id system for the South African government which was better at taking pictures of darker skin. Due to employee and international pressure, in 1971 Kodak declared they were pulling out of South Africa. Privately though, they used Frank & Hirsch as an intermediary to continue to supply the passbooks until they were found out in 1977.
I heard a very small one somewhere that really isn't meant to get them, through a TV show in earbuds. Perhaps the volume has something to do with what's happening beneath the surface vs magnitude? In our case, as far as I know, the epicentre was a ~5h drive away (and out at sea), but it sounded about the same as loud subs at a concert to me.
Blanking on a source right now, but I recall reading about a study on the 'oldness' of languages and found that the unique sort of phonetics in !Kung and other Khoe or San languages appeared to reduce over time, and simpler hard consonants would emerge in their place - implying that they are indeed some of the oldest languages still around.
Interstingly, there are a number of words from these languages that are still widely used in South African slang: Dagga for Marijuana, Eina for "Ouch!", Gogga for Bug or Insect, and Kerrie for Stick, usually used as the neologism Knobkerrie. Very possibly some of the oldest slang in the world!
Spent a few months writing a pretty hefty Cqrs app in Go last year, had a fun but pretty unintuitive experience with rustlingss, and V really does seem like a cool in between! I look forward to taking it for a spin
Yup, Stephen Segerman actually came by for tea at my place a couple of times when I was living in Cape Town and heavily part of the music scene. He stocked a handful of my super-indie self produced classical sitar CDs. Amazing supporter of local music.
I had always assumed it was due to Brendan Eich being the face of the project. Or the built-in adblocking. It's my preference for these reasons as a chromium default - I don't know anyone using Brave who touches the crypto stuff.
