doebler
Re:Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:32PM (#49869452)
> The country of Egypt and the country of Hatti [Hittite Empire] will be forever in a state of peace.
Wonder how long it lasted?
Edit: turns out it lasted until the Hittite empire collapsed 80 years later, so in a sense indeed "forever".
Re:The Greatest Pun in JavaScript
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:25PM (#49869381)
> Rarely can you swap two words to form a correct grammatically sentence, yet he played with words like a magician.
Polish poet Sep-Szarzyński was an absolute master of this. Of course it helps that word order in Slavic languages is flexible, yet still. Hos poems are mind-boggling, to the point of being incomprehensible, yet completely gramatically correct.
Re:Maru OS – Your phone is your PC
on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @03:29PM (#44727342)
> Simply plug your phone into an HDMI screen, connect up a keyboard and mouse, and you’ve got a lightweight desktop experience you can take anywhere.
No, I can't take it anywhere, because few places I go to have a HDMI screen and keyboard ready for me. And to the ones they do, I carry my laptop.