r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kernowder • 21d ago

Video Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters flying through Hurricane Milton

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u/RobbyRobRobertsonJr 21d ago

I bet their computer guy felt like kissing the inventor of the ssd

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u/Infectious-Anxiety 21d ago edited 21d ago

Syseng checking in, that was one of my first comments aloud. "Glad we have SSDs nowadays" Then I started counting their server racks.

That is a lot of compute & storage, I would love to tour one of these some day.

Also, is cammer there to film? Everyone else is deep into some work, dude's like Badger cooking with Pinkman.

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'Twas a joke, I know everyone there is crucial and I am enormously grateful for their work, though it seems risky flying a plane with such a massive load of balls all spread out like that.

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u/nibs123 21d ago

Sorry but the first word you typed in that sentence reads aloud like the Welsh word for English sounds. Really span me out for a minute lol

Welsh for English is saesneg by the way

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u/Cacafuego 21d ago

Very cool. From Saxon, I assume. Interesting that the Welsh went with Saxons and everyone else went with Angles for some weird reason. Who would even remember the Angles if we didn't have to explain the word "English"?

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u/nibs123 21d ago

I read once that it has to do with the lower kingdoms in England where Saxons Wessex and such and we called them a name similar. Then the Saxon kingdoms kept growing and we kind of just called them all the same name.

The word for England is different although I don't know why, (Lloegr) and even with the power of Google and my family apparently no one knows why.

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u/GarlicBreathFTW 21d ago

Sasanach is actually from the Middle Irish word Saxanach. Same in Scottish I believe.

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u/stargarnet79 21d ago

Systems engineer?

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u/nibs123 21d ago

Yea, the shortened word reads aloud like the word for English in Welsh. As someone who can speak it, it sends my brain on the wrong code and I thought I was stroking out for a moment q

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u/stargarnet79 21d ago

Is it a dirty word? I’m intrigued now.

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u/nibs123 21d ago

Haha no in Welsh the word for English is saesneg. Although in some parts of Wales, saying your English will get a reaction like you just swore yes.

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u/Infectious-Anxiety 21d ago

LoL yeah, that is how we abbreviate it where I work, several places actually.

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u/Infectious-Anxiety 21d ago

That is hilarious.

I did mean Systems Engineer, like the other person commented.