Karnickel

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by Karnickel 9y ago
For example, https://ask.metafilter.com/297591/Origin-of-the-term-Enginee... > ...used to describe engineers and other technical folks assuming their technical knowledge of systems (usually computer, mechanical&#x2F
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by Karnickel 9y ago
My grandfathers mechanical calculator (German): https://i.imgur.com/jBDUHPp.jpg He used it even though he had an electronic calculator. Common business calculations seemed to perform much faster and more reliably than on th
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by Karnickel 9y ago
Which he didn't write - you did. You even put it in quotes, nice try. The discussion brings out the worst in some people here.
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by Karnickel 10y ago
I don't understand this comment. How are the build tools Jetbrain's fault? Confused...
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by Karnickel 10y ago
We are missing a lot of context - much of which you can't supply here even if you wanted to. For example, it seems entirely plausible and not exactly rocket science that not eating the wrong foods (for a given person - what "w
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by Karnickel 10y ago
I can't speak for any other country, obviously culture plays a role, but in Germany we just had an article in one of the top two news sites (and this is the much more reputable one of the two) [0] that says in a poll [1] 1/3rd of
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by Karnickel 10y ago
Just before where you found that quote the text is a link to another article that talks about those things.
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by Karnickel 10y ago
> it'd change gear when I'd prefer it didn't, That may be an issue with the particular model? In all the "automatics" I drove, American as well as Japanese models (the latter only several Hondas), I had no proble
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by Karnickel 10y ago
> I don't think it's a larger part of population, just much better organized. Point accepted, but those are the ones driving much of society, when the others are just watching on the sidelines. In such diverse things as electio
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by Karnickel 10y ago
> The concept of cat might be present in the world objectively It exists in a world with sensors similar to that of humans, and hardware and software made by humans mirroring their world experience. You are still within the exa