Also: Move stuff, don’t delete it. It’s faster to restore from a renamed folder than from backup.

It is in fact often intentional. It’s basically the same business model as printers. They make money from the refills, not the machine. Obviously people want to save money with generic paper, so they make sure the dispenser only works right with their paper.

What the dispenser manufacturer doesn’t consider is that whoever orders the paper doesn’t use the dispenser, so they don’t give a shit whether the dispenser works well or not. In fact, it not dispensing well saves even more money on paper!

It’s also a volume thing. By the time I reach a reddit comment thread what I wanted to say has already been said, and if I say it again my comment will drown in a sea of heavily upvoted comments. On lemmy you can be several days late to the party and still get both upvotes and responses.

Yeah, some nouns are already taken, that’s fair. Like “shafted”.

Almost forgot “jalla” or “jallamekk”, originally adopted by Norwegian military from a middle eastern word for “fast”, meaning a quick and dirty, but not particularly high quality, solution.

According to John Oliver you can use any noun, like for example “gazeboed”.

A classic! I don’t know how I forgot to mention that one, I even coincidentally explained it to someone earlier today!

I’ve found that the meaning depends on regional differences in both English and Norwegian, and as a result I never use “next Sunday”. I say “Sunday in a week and a half” or the date instead.

Waste of materials. Norwegians build air castles.

Some Norwegian politicians have completely ruined this expression, and now use it to mean “a really big favor”.

It’s almost as annoying as when Americans say they “could care less” when they mean the opposite.

In Norwegian we say “helt sylta” (“completely pickled”) when we have a very stuffy nose. I tried using that idiom when calling out of work in the US once, and was informed that I had just told them I was too drunk to go to work!

In Norwegian we say either “you shit on your leg”, “you shit on the shovel” or “you shit on the drawbar (of a horse-drawn carriage)” for the same thing.

And if you’re “out bicycling” you’re making a mistake, like if you’re doing a crossword and you realize that some of the previous words definitely weren’t right, or you’re doing math and you realize that you definitely made a calculation error earlier because nothing makes sense.

If someone says you’re “all out on the field” (“helt på jordet”) it means they think what you just said was completely wrong.

The Norwegian equivalent of “a hard act to follow” is “like (ski) jumping after Wirkola”, a ski jumper who was definitely way better than both you and everyone else.

And if there are owls in the moss (“ugler i mosen”) something is pretty fishy.

Thank you for explaining that it was a joke.

That requires someone to look at that section in the IDE. If it doesn’t block the merge, it doesn’t do shit.

Golang won’t even compile with dead code. Unfortunately that’s too strict, you just end up commenting out the whole block instead. At least the commented out code is obvious in review, and some automated checks catch it if you have them.

I did the same thing with “DO NOT MERGE” back in the day. Saved some people who didn’t even know about the check.

Did you misspell CAPTCHA, or is this some new tech that I’m too luddite to understand?

This isn’t even about preference, though. Most people would recognize Taylor Swift before they’d recognize any NFL players, even if they hate her music.

Why would you be fascinated by that? She’s probably been more famous than all of the NFL combined for more than a decade. Why wouldn’t she get more attention than them?