two not one... Zuid Holland and Noord Holland

Is this more common in English or does it happen in other languages also?

Example: Q: What you call your country? A: Deutschland Q: Ok, then we'll call it Germany

???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany - "Because of Germany's long history as a non-united region of distinct tribes and states before January 1871, there are many widely varying names of Germany in different languages, perhaps more so than for any other European nation."

I like 'Navajo: Béésh Bich’ahii Bikéyah ("Metal Cap-wearer Land"), in reference to Stahlhelm-wearing German soldiers.'

It mostly happens to "Deutschland", actually: Germany (English), Allemagne (French), Tyskland (Danish), Německo (Czech). Only in the Netherlands (and Flanders) is the name used that they chose for themselves (Duitsland).

This apparently confused the English so much that they called the inhabitants of the Netherlands "Dutch".

Edonyms vs. exonyms. Happens in every language.

It's especially common when the two sides have difficulty communicating: "What do you call yourself?" "Ger man." (Spear man [1]) "... henceforth the lands east of the Rhine shall be known as Germania."

[1] This is only one possible etymology.

Usually, at least in Europe, if it's not due to linguistic drift or somesuch, it's because the name is just being translated. For example, the French name for the Netherlands, "Pays-Bas", is just a literal translation of "nether lands".

My guess for Germany, which certainly seems the weirdest, is that it's a result of that process happening and the name getting fixed at different times for different languages, combined with the region having a rather complicated political history.

Germany comes from Germania which is Latin. Deutschland is deutsch + land, and deutsch can be traced to proto-germanic origins (common root with Dutch, I believe). So Germany is not actually one of these cases; it's an externally assigned name.

Just because one country decided to change its official name there's no reason all other languages and countries in the world would need to follow.

Croatia - Hrvatska is another... BTW people in the Netherlands will say Holland as well... when the Dutch team play soccer, hup Holland (come on/let's go Holland) is a common chant (there are even songs with that name)

It happens all the time. Think how many non-Brits refer to the UK as “England” for one example

Some of mine

Was testing code and pushed a file to FTP 2 days early... vendor picked up, processed file.. the people who signed up in the next 2 days were in the file pushed later... but the vendor already processed the earlier file so they didn't get their metro cards that month

Somehow managed to rebalance underlying components for a Trendpilot ETF monthly instead of quarterly... daily audit that compares the values on NYSE vs in our DB caught it.. lucky for me there was no money in it yet

dropped a table once at lunch time right before taking a bite of my sandwich... did restore table within 10 minutes , didn't eat lunch that day ... lost appetite...

In ETL tool hardcoded something to test.... left it there when running for real

Most databases will use all the cores you can throw at it :-)

Not out of the ordinary to see a SQL Server query using 20+ cores for a query with a parallelized plan

Same in SQL Server.. this is documented behavior

Also a null is no equal to anything.. not even another null

This will print false in SQL Server

if null = null print 'true' else print 'false'

> Also a null is no equal to anything.

Wrong. It is equal to UNKNOWN:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/is-null-t...

I don't think that's what it says.

If I'm reading it right, (null = null) is unknown, which is falsy (except with ansi_nulls off, then it'll be true). (null is null) is true.

I don't think you can test null = (null = null), i.e. null = unknown. Let me know if that's possible somehow, I can't get it working.

Sorry brainfart, was responding to the second part, ie comparison to another null.

so?.. still not equal to anything, two unknowns are not equal

if null = null print 'true' else print 'false'

It's equal to something: the value UNKNOWN. This influences for example how the comparison result is used in compound expressions:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-elements...

where coalesce(null_column,'') = ''

shortcuts "OR is null", works within functions.

Interestingly in dutch oranje is the color but sinaasappel is the name of fruit in dutch.

There are many various descriptors for red, orange and yellow. In Italian an egg yolk is called "rosso" (red), whereas in Swedish it's called "gula" (yellow). As a side note, Orange (the fruit) is called "Apelsin" in Sweden - meaning "Apple from China", just as in Dutch. Red onions would nowadays be categorized as mostly purple, etc.

> In Italian an egg yolk is called "rosso" (red), whereas in Swedish it's called "gula" (yellow).

In this case, it's possible that the different conventions for what color to call an egg yolk originated from egg yolks that were different colors. Crack an egg in China and you'll get something that is obviously different -- and much redder -- than what you'd get from an egg in the US.

This freaked me out enough that I exclusively purchased high-end eggs from City Shop, which were a reassuring yellow.

See also Hardcore History Episode 60 The Celtic Holocaust https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-60-the-celtic-hol...

This is what prompted me to post this, I was listening to it and thought yinz might like it

Cooking is art, baking is science.

If you get the measurements wrong, your end product will be 'wrong' Cooking gives you ways to fix your mistakes.. (add water, cook it more, add spices etc etc)

>Cooking is art, baking is science.

Not to single you out for an oft repeated phrase, but I've never like this set of comparisons.

Baking surely requires you to precisely follow recipes in a way cooking usually doesn't, but merely following instructions precisely isn't science. Really, there is an art of and a science of both cooking and baking. Understanding some of the science of baking is actually what enables one to productively modify and create recipes.

the process of following a recipe that is not science, but the creation or modification of the recipe is.

Wondering if teamtrees will plant in cities? https://teamtrees.org/

The trees will be planted by the Arbor day foundation, and "in a variety of forests on public and private lands in areas of great need"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Trees

I would probably use unasked instead of undemanded

How about copying a $100 bill?

That's forgery, or fraud. So also not stealing.

There's nothing wrong with copying a $100 bill. It's when you try to exchange it for goods that have value that it becomes an issue.

>Making photocopies of paper currency of the United States violates another section of the code, Title 18, Section 474 of the U.S. Code. Also forbidden under the statute: printed reproductions of checks, bonds, postage stamps, revenue stamps and securities of the United States and foreign governments. Those who violate this law can be fined up to $5,000 and/or be sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.

https://legalbeagle.com/7612138-illegal-copy-currency.html

By your logic wouldn't you say that the content providers are doing the same thing?

The only people who can copy a $100 bill have "the license" to do so.

The only people who can copy a show to show it to you have "the license" to do so.

When you disregard the license put in play to govern the content, you're stealing from the people who protect their property with licenses.

Even in the open source world, respecting the terms of a license is important.