40ish white dude (he/him) from the Netherlands

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  • madjo@feddit.nltoScience Memes@mander.xyz🍺 🍻
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    30 days ago

    You’re already eating bugs, in fact the FDA has so-called “food defect action levels”, which define the acceptable levels of food “contamination” from sources such as maggot and insect fragments among other things (best not to think too hard about it) in your daily food.





  • madjo@feddit.nltoScience Memes@mander.xyzI dunno
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    2 months ago

    I wrote the Dutch mnemonic not the actual Dutch word for multiplication etc. The letters of that mnemonic stands for “machtsverheffen”, “vermenigvuldigen”, “delen”, “worteltrekken”, “optellen”, “aftrekken”.

    Also “Antwoord” is “answer” in Dutch and Afrikaans.





  • ARGH this triggered a bit of PTSD for me…

    “We’re going to convert these COBOL applications to C#, and you need to test that the new application works exactly the same, including the same bugs as the old application.”
    “Ok, where’s the specifications and test reports of the old COBOL applications?”
    “They were lost to time, we don’t know where they are.”
    “Ok, so how are the developers going to write the C# code?”
    “They’re going to read the COBOL scripts and recreate them into C#, we advise you do the same.”

    Cue me spending a month trying to decypher the COBOL gobbledigook into inputs and outputs, and write testcases based on that. And after that month was up, and I had delivered my testcases, they told me that my services were no longer needed.