@Criggie I am sure one day someone will say in my hearing "but I can't give you my personal PIN number for the automatic ATM machine, it's personal"
And I will pull out my phone and look at my "wind power - I'm a big fan" meme and smile, even though it's also wrong. Perhaps I will smile because it is wrong.
I still think someone should sell Kaimoana brand "pure beef sausages" or something because things like that make me laugh. And I live in Australia, where I am sure that there is a "Mount Hill" or "River Creek" or something equally tautological.
@Criggie remember that in NZ we have the other sort too. Not to mention hot water beach.
Although "snowy river"... do they know how rivers work? You don't get snowy rivers, you get icy rivers and snowy banks. Geography fail. Still, survivable, not like "we've crossed the little sandy desert, we should be just about home" ... three months later ... "let's call this one the Great Sandy Desert, shall we?"
@alex I kind of agree with him. I have noticed that the most reliable, least problematic parts of my code are 90% C, and the rest is mostly just using std::string rather than fixed-size buffers to pass strings around. The bits where I'm using high-performance thread-safe hashmaps and whizzy message passing... they work, but it took a long time to get them working. I expect a raw C would have been faster and easier to get right, but it probably would run somewhat more slowly.
@Criggie there's even more tautological one: Mount Fujiyama-san. The confusion comes from the Japanese way to call some mountains -San instead of -Yama which is technically same thing and only difference in tradition. San and Yama are the same thing so it is like mt. mt. mt. Fuji.
When it comes to Fuji itself, the modern way to call it is Fuji-san and only that
@Rilakkuma "I mount the mount of Mt Fuji"? It's a filthy horse-beastiality joke in English, but from my limited recollection of Japanese I'm sure it's possuble to construct something equally unacceptable
@Criggie in short, "sacred" mountains are "-san", normal mountains are "-yama" or "-dake", where "-dake" names have connections to the religious beliefs of those living in the mountains, also often standalone mountains are called this way. There are cases when mountains are called "-shiri" and it is a direct Ainu name adoption.
@Móż you are on spot!
so, basically, calling Fuji a "Fujiyama" assumes it is an ordinary mountain, while calling it "Fujisan" adds some spirituality to the whole name;
also, sacred mountains are often owned by a shrine. In the case of Fuji mountain, its peak is owned by Fujisan Hongu Sengentaisha shrine.
I would also mention why some shrines are "-gu", other shrines are "-jinja" and some are "-taisha" but that would be too long.
Japanese do not like to simplify things, in general.
@Móż C++ ... Did you find out if these "experts" really are? From what you're saying, it sounds like you have learned C++ on the job, and I'm guessing they have too. Even if they learned in a Comp Sci course, it's rare for them to actually teach serious industrial quality programming.
It did do a couple of funnies when I first introduced it to my music, a half dozen files where it didn't pick up any tags, but I later checked amd, not only did the physical file have tags, but foobar did have them correctly in its list later on.
Hi @oals. Those tires look well worn to me. Could be they have crack / splits that are letting crud through. Check out relayed question on the main site for more detailed answers.
@andy256 not really, there are inhabitants on the island, but no large businesses or other things which would pollute the environment
because it is a playground! I've got a piece of land and thought what to do with it, given the fact that I can't visit there too often. Some research showed that turmeric grows wild there and requires next to no maintenance, so I went ahead with it.
the island has a seismothermal power plant and an airport, with three airplanes maximum per day
@oals YEah that rear tyre looks pretty worn. If you feel through it with a thumb on the inside and fingers on the outside, it will be flexible, which shows its thin and therefore vulnerable. Since you probably have 5000 mi / 8000 km to get it that worn, I think its time for a new one. Do you off-road with the bike?
@oals consider a tyre with a bit less knobbliness, if your riding is on the road. More of a commuter tyre.
I work on-call for one week in four, so that week is late nights, 5 hours sleep a night, and minimal rides of 2.5 km to/from work, and no rides in the weekend. Not fun.
