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Yes, if you translate it literally. The grammatical gender for a harddisk is indeed feminine and another mistranslation for 'geht' would be to say that it walks.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I find the German language to be fascinating. In French a hard disk ("disque dur") would be masculine.
Why inanimate objects have a gender at all, I have no idea. As a software developer who thinks in algorithms, I've never managed to come up with a simple rule that would help establish the correct association. Back in school, I simply "got it" going with my gut and always got great grades in French, but ask me to explain what the actual rules are...and I wouldn't know where to start.
Just as well I've never had to write a grammar checker.
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I don't think that any rules exist anymore. Languages are older than most objects and the words for these objects often were inherited from previous meanings of the word, along with the gender. We would have to know the original meaning of the word and the culture at that time to get a hint why they would have used a particular gender.
A little like seamen referring to their ship as 'she', even in languages that have no grammatical genders. At least we can still understand why they do that.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Several years ago we bought an expensive external hard drive with 4 Seagate 1TB drives configured as RAID-5. Over the course of our first year of ownership, each of the hard drives failed. Fortunately with the RAID-5 configuration we never lost any data. I did not replace the drives with Seagate, especially after the manufacturer of the external drive was charging 3X the price of the same drive from newegg. I replaced them with used Western Digital drives salvaged from another project. After replacing all of the original Seagate drives with WD units, the external drive worked like a champ for quite a while. We bought another external drive, except this one has 4 6TB drives, again in RAID-5. Shortly after it arrived, and I copied the data to it from the original drive, the RAID controller in the original unit crapped out. I still have the WD 1TB component drives for use as extra storage in our development machines when we need it.
I'm not a fan of Seagate if I can avoid them. I've never had a Western Digital drive fail.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yes to Western digital. I've had good experiences with them too. Their green drives are terrible performers though, and get a black for a system drive, whatever you do. Other than that, you can't really go wrong.
Real programmers use butterflies
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So my big hangup on writing visual dev code (see flowstone) or workflow code is UI stuff.
Well look what i found:
GitHub - dataweb-GmbH/NShape[^]
An open source diagrammer library for industrial apps in C#
woo. it's christmas in february!
Real programmers use butterflies
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You might want to post that in the Free Tools[^] forum; otherwise, it's going to get lost in the bowels of the Lounge. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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oh, i didn't realize that was a thing. will do
Real programmers use butterflies
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The Open Source is MIT licensed; a commercial license is over US$ 2k.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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yep. My software is also MIT so it's actually convenient for me, as far as using open source stuff goes.
Real programmers use butterflies
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When an Eskimo builds a house, does Igloo it together?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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No, but the igloo nursery contains Ice, Ice, Baby!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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He may find that simply using water freeze up his time.
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You may not know the answer, but Inuit.
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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The Eskimo lottery: "You've got to be Inuit to Win you it!"
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Polar momma bears tell their cubs: Life is like a village of igloos, you never know what you're going to get.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Least favorite Eskimo song; Ice blocks keep falling on my head... ?
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
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only because it's so hard to ride a bicycle on snow.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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The frost thing that comes to mind has sled me to believe otherwise.
It is said that Eskimo corn-dogs husky.
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Yes - but come spring time Nunavut matters.
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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For cryon out loud, how'd you come up with that one?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Talking mainly about non technical books, Do you read one book at a time , read it, finish it and move to next one or you read multiple books at various stages of completion.
I just realized that I am "trying" to read 5 books and already started fishing for the 6th book to start!! The problem is not the lack of books but the location.
1. In Bathroom ( No need for explanation)
2. Near the bed night stand (Before heading to sleep couple of pages or chapters)
3. In the car (While I chaperone Mrs to various shopping and boring errands)
4. In the Living room (when Idiot box really becomes stupid)
5. In the kitchen ( On weekends when I take over the kitchen responsibility)
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
modified 5-Feb-20 10:16am.
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Non-technical -> One at a time
Technical - Multiple
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(kindle user here)
I read one book at a time(*); mostly while commuting in public transport or sitting at a bar.
I tend to read a lot more in winter because when the weather is nice, I bike to work, so not practical (duh).
I have several books in the queue, either already bought or waiting to the bought.
(*) I have a couple of unfinished dead-wood books laying around that I mean to finish, but they are large formats and heavy.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Multiple - this is why I moved to eBooks only some years back. As long as I have my tablet with me - which is smaller and lighter than most books - I have the books I am reading with me as well, plus a pile of others if I finish one.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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