The pathological museum in Vienna (also called "Narrenturm" because it used to be an asylum) has a section with actual historic curiosity cabinets. It's a very interesting museum to visit, but it's not for the faint of heart. They have a paramedic on site because visitors regularly get sick :-D
PSA: "wix" is how you pronounce the German word for "wank". Try to suggest your client to set up a "wank site"... Beautifully demonstrates the importance of checking your brand name in other languages.
My other favorite is MongoDB which in German literally means RetardDB. (Sorry for the slur, but that's what it is.)
Mongo in (British? West country which happens to retain relatively more Saxonism and other Germanic influence?) English too actually, or more often 'mong', but it's not prevalent enough that I've made the link before.
To be fair, there is music where howling and screaming would be appropriate or expected. But that concert was definitely not the right place. IMO her screaming isn't particularly captivating either.
The GUI of Pure Data (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data) is written in Tcl/Tk. In the 90s this was a popular and sensible choice, but not so much in 2025 :) I still have hopes that one day we'll manage to replace it with something better.
(There are alternative implementations of Pd, such as PurrData or PlugData, that use different UI frameworks.)
I have been looking at using both of those. I have used TCL before but it was a while back, but Lazarus does have a visual designer which I have played with a bit.
I am not sure which makes producing cross platform binaries easier. I ran into a few issues the last time I tried TclKit I ran into problems so Starkits may not be an easy solution anymore.
Lazarus is excellent. It is very user friendly once you get the hang of it, and you can use Delphi books to learn the language. It also produces static binaries that make it easy to distribute your software.
Yes, both Tcl/Tk and Python/Tk are great in 2025 for doing simple GUI programming and this fact does make me sad. Or perhaps we've found the global minimum? Who knows.
> Despite the US president attesting to the fact that he finished “top of his class” at Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, his former college professor, William T. Kelley, had another view.
> After Kelley’s death, Frank DiPrima, a close friend of Kelley, revealed that the professor felt the president was a fool.
> It was, it can be said without fear of exaggeration, a day that will live in infamy. When President Donald Trump emerged from his mysterious one-on-one summit with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in July of 2018, the respective visages and body language of the two world leaders could not have been further apart. The Russian president looked smug and sated, like a vampire with a bellyful of peasant blood; Trump looked like a man who’d just received a painful enema.
You are confusing the actual accounts with the surrounding article.
Look, Trump has been claiming that he graduated first in class, but never provided any evidence. In fact, he refuses to publish his college records. Why is that?
> You are confusing the actual accounts with the surrounding article.
The first one is hearsay from a dead guy and the other one is a creative writing project. If you had these accounts handy from reputable sources, you would have posted them from the reputable sources. This is not the standard of commentary expected of this forum.
> Look, Trump has been claiming that he graduated first in class, but never provided any evidence.
The articles I have read on the subject suggest that this claim is impossible because he would have been on the honor roll and does not appear there. This tells me that he’s either delusional, misinformed, or a liar. It doesn’t tell me he doesn’t understand economics.
Go back to my comment further up. When has he ever publicly or privately demonstrated that he understands economics? He repeatedly insists that exporters pay tariffs. He says a trade deficit means we're being robbed. His list of misapprehensions on basic ideas is very long. Absent evidence to the contrary, one can only conclude he knows nothing about economics. Maybe he studied it 50 years ago and maybe he didn't. He has not demonstrated an iota of fluency since entering politics.
The first article also contains testimonies of some of Trumps former class mates, citing them by their full names.
> and the other one is a creative writing project.
Did you actually read past the first paragraph? You may disagree with the style, but it has some reputable sources. For example, they quote Michael Cohen's testimony in the House where he told that Trump ordered him to threat all of Trump's former schools and universities with legal action if they would ever release any records.
> It doesn’t tell me he doesn’t understand economics.
His public statements clearly suggest that he doesn't understand economics. You brought his Bachelor degree as a counter example. I tried to point out that such a degree doesn't say much if you just did the bare minimum to pass. Hell, he said it himself in "The Art of the Deal":
"In my opinion, that degree doesn’t prove very much, but a lot of people I do business with take it very seriously, and it’s considered very prestigious. So all things considered, I’m glad I went to Wharton."
The more I think about Trumpian strategies the more I suspect that he got some friends together (or they came to him) and decided they'll short everything, then he'll do this for a while. He and those friends would be able to 'generate billions' that way, by legal insider trading (since we learned that anything he does "in an official capacity" is legal and he can pardon anyone who ever got caught).
Last term he did some tax on bauxite that had a similar effect of costing billions to a whole industry that processes or buys aluminum, but one of the few bauxite mines in the US, run by a Trump ally of some kind, made bank.
Why should parents be the sole caretakers of young children? This is not the norm and never has been.
> A single income household is ideal over a dual income household with hired childcare.
Why should people have to choose between work and raising kids? Why not work less and do both?
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