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  • KleinesSinchen
    Full of scrapes on my hands today – don't take anything I write today too serious (also drinking a little wine🍷), but please don't disdain science: The life before modern comforts sure was hard!

    I don't celebrate any "official" holidays, especially not the current ones.

    Still want to wish you an enjoyable time regardless of any general holidays!
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    I gave you a "👍 ", but I must tell you, that you deserve at least 200 "😡" for giving me the Merry Christmas besides knowing what I think of this phrase (and the explanation lumped together with it makes it worth an additional 100 " 😡").
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    "...for giving me the Merry Christmas besides knowing what I think of this phrase."
    You should evaluate the underlying good intention, not the apparent expression. 😉
    Anyway always better a wish than a curse (like that infamous witch's stroke), or am I wrong?🤣
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    Just for you, Niko, we need the reaction "🤦‍♀️" more than anything. Hardly any discussion with you when I do not bemoan the missing option to react with facepalm.
    Eulenspiegel. I should be really mad at you (but somehow I'm not)

    Besides: The back pain is slowly fading away; ground a good part of my skin on the hands away… while removing bad parts of old plaster today. Good replacement for the back pain, huh?
    KleinesSinchen
    Quick question: How would you interpret "Canali"? Would you associate it with artificial constructions (mostly or even only) –– or with natural structures?
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    "Canali" is plural of "canale" (canal, duct, waterway) and refers to both a natural and an artificial creation.
    Spelled with a capital initial, it is an Italian surname. 😉 Why do you ask?
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    The astronomer "Giovanni Schiaparelli" and his observations of "Canali di Marte" (it.wikipedia.org has it capitalized as headline)
    The English "canal" refers more to artificial structures as I understand it. I suspect this translation problem being a reason for misinterpretation of his observations as mega-structures by an advanced civilization.
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    How can I be so impolite?
    Thanks for the answer! Not knowing the correct meaning of canali has been bothering me quite some time now. Sometimes dictionaries or internet just won't give a definitive answer.
    KleinesSinchen
    Lisa was on duty in this school break; but instead of watching the pupils, she typed into her phone. That is not Lisa’s style. She hasn’t appeared that neglectful at school before. Silently we watched her – I want to emphasize: In not very subtle manner. There still wasn’t the slightest chance to get caught observing her, as she was somewhere else with her thoughts.
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    Knowing her friend is in the wrong, while still trying to be a loyal friend, puts Lisa in to moral conflict.


    "Writing about yourself is also a form of emotional outlet and self-therapy"
    Writing stories about myself would be the most punishing task imaginable.

    "I sense that you are in a good mood today, or am I wrong?"
    It was a terrible day.
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    Sadly, I don't seem to get one right about you. 😅
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    "Hmm... I wouldn't know how to comment, since it is far from my interests and tastes. 🤔"
    This reply was real fun. Somehow I knew you would dislike what I wrote.
    A wide range of interests never harms.
    KleinesSinchen
    When running up (hate elevators!) to the highest floor of the hospital to the palliative ward every two days or so, I had to stop for a minute until breathing normally before entering the corridor. One time I went on the giant roof deck and looked around, imagining it was myself awaiting the inevitable. What would I do?

    Another (translated) quote from Faust:
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    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    What do you mean? I didn't get it from anywhere, it just came out like that, spontaneously. I did forgive you for deliberately misinterpreted my words on the body as ownership.
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    Found it almost word for word in "Edmondo De Amicis - Cuore" today.
    Reading it when having a break in my hard work. What an emotive and solemn text. Hailing military, military heroism and nationalism with the originally intended audience being middle school boys… oh, boy!

    I do have to say I like condemning violence against children, bringing forward other methods of education. He was ahead of his time with that!
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    "Found it almost word for word in "Edmondo De Amicis - Cuore"

    😲 It is absolutely a coincidence: it is a phrase we italians use often, to communicate our emotional proximity to those who reject us. 😉

    Side note: Are you back to your old, minimalist 8bit avatar? Too bad! I thought the caterpillar had definitely become a butterfly. 😋
    KleinesSinchen
    Finished chapter 2 of Narcissu
    The topic palliative care (on the highest floor of a hospital) is sadly something I had to watch in reality, rather than in a visual novel only.

    I do have to say that the people in this ward (in reality) are the most sensitive nurses and doctors I've ever encountered, quite different from that book. Being in charge of palliative ward must be hard… you can't save anybody.
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    "Did you think maybe I didn't know him?" Eh… no? I mean you are a man of vast reading and probably know more literature than me.
    Still recommend Marquise von O.... – it is a wonderful addition to our discussion about gender equity:
    Getting raped (and impregnanted) while unconscious makes her a sinner, thrown out by her father, who also tries to take away her children from her first marriage (she's a very young widow)
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    She searches the rapist in order to marry him… the only way to get socially accepted again.
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    "favorite tale of Sigmund Freud!" Old Siggi was a little mad as well. This guy really had a problem with the word "penis". It is omnipresent in his writings →
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    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    I forgot: I also read the beautiful and unforgettable "The Beggar of Locarno". 😉
    Freud mad? Certainly, another genius, not of science (as he would have liked) but of fiction: His Clinical Cases: The Man of Wolves, The Man of mice, The Case of Dora, Little Hans are unparalleled human documents. And The Interpretation of Dreams is in richness and content a magnificent masterpiece. 🧐
    Veho
    :ph34r:
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    Congratulations to the winner. 😉 After Japan's first penalty shot, I was sure they would lose: they can't shoot penalties! They have learned everything from European soccer except how to kick penalties.🤦
    Veho
    Veho
    I don't really follow football so I can't comment, I just checked the result after the game.
    KleinesSinchen
    :creep: :creep: Time to think outside the box… again.:creep: :creep:
    Let A be the set of all possible DVD images and B:={"[0-9a-f]\{32\}"}

    Show that the function md5 checksum function
    md5sum:A→B
    cannot be injective.
    Click to expand...
    (Within the {} is a regex, meaning: exactly 32 characters, each one taken out of 0123456789ABCDEF)
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    Since DVDs are a lot bigger than 16 bytes (128 bit), which is the size of an md5sum, it is pretty obvious there are more possible DVD images than possible checksums. There must be hash collisions.

    The answer is |A| > |B| (cardinality of A is bigger than cardinality of B). Both are finite and there can't be any injective function f:A→B
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    It is a question I would really like to ask at school (of course the symbols and terms must have been part of the lectures before). The point is, there is no calculation and no strict mathematical proof needed here!
    It is an exercise for making the pupils think in various directions instead of following a scheme they learn in class. Think outside the box!
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    "Think outside the box!"
    Fully agree. It applies in all areas of life. That would be to say: not to use habits, set patterns but to be always with a fresh, new mind, ready for the novelties, and oddities of reality. 🧐
    Nikokaro
    Does anyone know what happened to our friendly @Creamu? Until recently you could find him in front of you wherever you went, but then he was suddenly swallowed into thin air. He was last seen near the infamous, cursed @GhostLatte 's van and then nothing. 😱 I fear the worst. Has anyone heard from our friend? @Creamu, if you are there, give us a shout!!!
    KleinesSinchen
    Today I have to continue my plaster work, but I have to leave this message here before leaving the house now:
    "You are an Eulenspiegel!"
    My grandfather would have said exactly this to you, and yes, this is meant benevolent -- despite some of the Eulenspiegel stories being anything but harmless.
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    :teach:→ You are not supposed to translate a name.
    Some of your jokes are really "Eulenspiegelei" (an Eulenspiegel's prank). Of course only the harmless kind! Some stories contain severe injuries caused by his pranks. Some are very mean, but the very last one is so ingenious I'll put it here:
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    Lying on his deathbed he is visited by a greedy priest, who believes the dying prankster must have a lot of money. Eulenspiegel promises the priest money, shits into some pot and covers his dirt with gold coins.

    When the priest returns Eulenspiegel says: "Take some gold, but don't be greedy and grab too deep into the pot."
    The priest grabs deep into it and gets what he deserves.
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    Interesting. Did you know in Italy we often associate shit with money? A rich person we call a money shitter [caca-soldi]
    Or if someone squashes a dog shit with his foot we say he will be financially fortunate. Or by eating lentils you will shit money. So, in the end, 💩=💰
    Nikokaro
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    You all may not know (or care), but in the Soccer World Cup, amazing Japan, after sensationally defeating Spain and Germany , finds itself in the round of 16 against Croatia, an all in all mediocre team. Needless to say: Go Japan !!! Nippon, GANBARE !!! :bow:
    :toot: BANZAAAAIIIII !!! :grog:
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    KleinesSinchen
    Oh please… I knew right away it looks somewhat condescending and know-it-all. I thought the usage of ":teach:" would bring a little irony to this and prevent such negative interpretations. (You used this figure in the past as well, so…)

    It is a weak point of mine: You triggered some of the useless "computer history" memories and I couldn't resist.
    But I can edit the (mostly) off-topic part away if you want.
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    On what computer/OS did you read Narcissu? I never run unknown software on my main Linux machine, only on unimportant or toy computers.
    The Windows 10 tablet goes mad when selecting fullscreen (half picture only) and it doesn't save music volume.
    I'll probably have to read this on my "Optical Drive Beast" computer on the attic.
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    Is there a WinXP compatible mode option in Windows 10?

    I read it about 10 years ago on the old Windows XP PC you already know. It was also converted for VNDS (Visual Novel Reader) for NDS consoles: with a flashcard you can read it on 3ds as well.
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    Those compatibility options do hardly anything. They can be helpful if an application does an explicit version check.
    The half (or 2/3 picture) is more a high DPI problem, but the compatibility options for turning this off… don't do anything as well.
    I will use the XP computer on the attic -- and surely not a DS. That would be an even harder punishment for the ears.
    Nikokaro
    A fellow citizen offered 50,000€ to who finds who threw a poisoned morsel into his garden and killed his sweet and harmless beagle.Screw money,but if I found him I would throw him on the ground and beat the damn,cowardly bastard's face to a pulp until he is unrecognizable, then pay the legal and karmic consequences(the only ones I care about).Woe to those abuse defenseless beings!

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    KleinesSinchen
    Unprocessed picture. I hope you like this one more than the terminal output.
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    The camera was the bottleneck here. Although very much sunlight, the resolution wasn't enough to capture the beauty.
    KleinesSinchen
    I never understood this "following" stuff and up to now, you didn't follow anybody.
    Why me? Do you have an idea how that looks?
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    You have to follow somebody else as well! How about @M4x1mumReZ?
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    CoolMe
    CoolMe
    @KleinesSinchen well i scrolled down i after reading the answer. What happened to your hdds though?
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    Thankfully nothing happened to the HDDs as I avoided falling from the chair.
    Our very old house does NOT have ceilings/floors made of reinforced concrete (like it should be). The main load bearings inside the floors are made of oak timber/tree trunks (missing correct vocabulary: big, strong wood stuff)
    The floors are a bit elastic and transfer shocks. If I fell down next to the PC, it could be too much for 3.5" HDDs
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    KleinesSinchen
    Time to think a bit outside your main territory… :creep:

    Don't you love working with the professionals? Professional reseller sent me Sims 3 (PC) two years ago (don't ask why I ordered this useless :shit: I despise)
    Sims3_IO_Error.png
    One look on the DVD showed ↑↑this↑↑ was going to happen.

    What did I see?
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    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    I would place a black sheet of paper on top of the CD so that it doesn't reflect back.
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    I can't repeat the scan or try a camera as I resurfaced (polished) the Winx DVD (the PS2 will still not play it :nayps3:).
    Just an example for a disc that looks hopeless and the PC drive will not even complain.
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    Answer: Sims 3 had a deep circular scratch. That destroys some sectors fully, opposed to arbitrary scratches damaging many sectors a bit (so that error correction still has good chance).

    A professional reseller must know that… apparently they didn't (and asked me to send the disc back to show it to all employees for the future).
    KleinesSinchen
    Are you mad at me or something?
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    Your words aren't hard to understand; probably work in any language

    I just want to add:
    Lieschen is also a victim of the past society, with strict religious rules. The people brutally excluded such “sinners”. Gretchen, already "guilty" of the same deed… internally panics and gets aware of the unfairness and stupidity:

    A boy may literally(!) fuck around as he wishes, but a girl becomes a sinner and whore (“pariah”).
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    A boy may literally(!) fuck around as he wishes, but a girl becomes a sinner and whore (“pariah”)
    Click to expand...
    Wow, what a delicacy of language! 🤣
    It was true until a few years ago. Today, in Italy, there is absolute sexual and costume freedom, even for women. Young girls on onlyfans offer nude and masturbation photos in exchange for money, as normal work, with the consent of their families. 😲
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    "Wow, what a delicacy of language! 🤣"
    File it under German bluntness. Euphemistic descriptions aren't going to change the underlying facts.

    "Young girls on onlyfans offer nude and masturbation photos in exchange for money"
    🤦‍♀️
    Market for this, considering the abundance of free pornographic content on the web?
    In any case it is a activity area, in which only certain people can successfully earn money.
    KleinesSinchen
    What you are saying is, that you avoid "Schadenfreude" yourself, which is certainly a noble trait!

    Do you really believe my ugliness and mentioning it makes me suffer after all the things I wrote?? 🤦‍♀️ Good lord, NO! It is a blessing!
    Prettiness is a curse for somebody who just wants to be left alone.
    If this hurt me, I should have been offended right after the caricature assigned to me.
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    :creep: (not serious):
    Associating me with Cinderella is more of an insult than: "You are d*mn ugly!"
    It is saying: "You are d*mn stupid and would marry Mr. Lamebrain 'cause he is rich, powerful and looks good."

    ===
    Still thinking about the word "tantalizes" above. That is harsh.
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    Hi. Unfortunately I am very busy today: we are finally redoing the whole sewer, digging some with the excavator, some by hand: long, hard, dirty and exhausting work. I've been reading in passing, but don't read anything new. Come on, let's put this issue behind us, do you agree?😉
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    Okay.
    Not that there was any issue in the first place (in my opinion at least – was pretty funny).

    I've closed my profile for now (unrelated to our discussion).
    KleinesSinchen
    Indeed, a very
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    Just look at his nose.
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    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    Do I need to explain further? I thought you were referring to yourself, and that it wasn't taken from a book! You got it!
    But you don't read carefully what I say!?! 😤
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    "[…]referring to yourself, and that it wasn't taken from a book!"
    Both: Applying a joke from some old book on myself.

    Many women feel defeated and crushed when somebody seriously questions their visual appearance. When somebody tells me that I'm ugly… well… I got some comparisons (hard to translate) to exaggerate+make fun of myself, outplaying the other person's words.
    They stop instantly noticing they can't hit me.
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    So why would I laugh at something that makes a person suffer (although you may deny it)? That would be a horrible thing to do! Do you think me capable of that? Then you understood little about me. What a disappointment! :sad:
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