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@Amikke Heh, why would front-end development be the bottom of the barrel? If any, it's probably much harder because it needs to be intuitive to the end-user so that they're not smashing buttons like a damn savage in order to get something done.

@stux I would love to see that thing landing.

From a large distance, of course.

I'm trying to read *De moordclub (op donderdag)* which is a Dutch translation of *The Thursday murder club*. It feels like a slog to me because the translation is a bit too... stiffly following the original English text, which completely ruins the Dutch reading flow. I mean, while reading what those people in the book are saying to each other I can think of a thousand other words I'd have used that'd make more sense for them to say. I even shook my head at one convo, which is bad mojo.

In my opinion, a translator should feel comfortable to go out of bounds a little with the translation so long the original idea is still intact but where the reading feels more natural to the language used. Right now I don't have the illusion that the translator has actually read the book and is trying to think themselves in the roles of those characters. It feels very jarring because the English style of writing and word choices doesn't always fit the Dutch flow. It is just annoying.

My mom's bought this Dutch version (which I'm trying to read), and I wonder if she's going to enjoy the story as much as I did with the English version.
#Books

@2ck Sounds like Gattaca, good movie.

@lucifargundam KILL IT WITH ICE!

@urusan Well, I did expect an answer in the fractions. ;)

@urusan And how many trees is that?

@datenteiler It kind of does make sense to me, yes.

@Placholdr Could go Sublime.

@Bosbesje@mastodon.nl Als dat het ergste is wat wij meemaken, hebben we het nog best goed. ;)

@Bosbesje@mastodon.nl Wtf, lol.

@MariusM You could always ask our admin to help investigate.

@freemo We don't seem to be able to access some accounts on scholar.social, do you know what our status is with their server? When trying to do a remote follow, they have issues looking up our remote account.

@MariusM When checking her web profile page at https://scholar.social/@DrVeronikaCH you can see that she's posted way more than what we can see here right now. That is not very hopeful, it still might indicate that our server isn't accessible from there.

@logan @urusan Lol, spot welding the tube.

But I don't have welding equipment around me. Funnily enough I also don't have a vacuum setup near me either... so I can test out neither!

@MariusM Funny. That account exists according to their profile web page:
https://scholar.social/@AndrzejWasowski

But somehow we can't seem to follow it from Qoto itself. I wonder if they silenced/blocked our server, they don't have a list of blocked servers anywhere so I can't check that out either.

@logan @urusan Lol!

Though that's a plastic tube... I'm still wondering if a very mangled metal tube would still be able to suck up everything neatly.

@logan @urusan I guess with a plastic tube that might work, albeit not that easily. With a metal tube I don't think that'll be possible at all.

@MariusM Where'd you seen that handle in the first place? I'm now curious.

@urusan I'm just wondering how the heck one can put the paste back in the tube...

@lucifargundam omfg, I'd be dying and holed up indoors all day.