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The Transistor: a 1953 documentary, anticipating its coming impact on technology(youtube.com)
1 points by _Microft 3y ago|0 comments
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Boulder landlord succeeds in evicting Twitter over past due rent(denverpost.com)
3 points by _Microft 3y ago|3 comments
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by _Microft 3y ago
A phase transition can store lots of energy without the inconvenience of changing temperature. Melting water ice into liquid water at 0°C takes approximately as much energy as heating the same amount of water from 0°C (assuming that it is a
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by _Microft 3y ago
Phase change materials are a way to store lots of energy at a given temperature. You might have noticed how much time it takes to freeze something - that's because lots of energy need to be extracted from liquid water to turn it to ice
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MOP3: a Mastodon to POP3 Gateway(github.com)
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by _Microft 3y ago
It's not the low voltage system you are hoping to see but right now there's a push in Germany to have lots of small photovoltaics systems installed. These setups are called "Balkonkraftwerk" ("balcony power plant&
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by _Microft 3y ago
> I left Reddit back when they decided they don’t care about free speech and banned nonewnormal. What happened to this new normal btw? Everything has reverted to pre-pandemic life here as it seems. Wasn't the expectation that we&#
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by _Microft 3y ago
I never managed to find a good tandem partner either. Maybe there is some Internet content you might like btw? The Youtube channel "KurzgesagtDE" has over a hundred videos covering a wide variety of topics in a more modern style i
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by _Microft 3y ago
On Nitter if you don't want to visit the birdsite: https://nitter.net/atc1441/status/1667252413051424773
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by _Microft 3y ago
Have you tried finding other ways to practice your German than at the workplace? Your local library or the university (if your town has one) might have pinboards for finding a language partner, i.e. someone you meet with and practice your a
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by _Microft 3y ago
> In English speaking countries immigrants are treated so much more gracefully compared to Germany (or France, for that matter). You either are perfectly fluent or you may as well not bother whereas in English speaking countries people w
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by _Microft 3y ago
Official pages can be found here in French [0] and German [1]. I found the conditions as described in the DW article not obvious, so here is an attempt at stating them more clearly: In each country, there are 30k free tickets on a first com
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The Illusion of Moral Decline(nature.com)
3 points by _Microft 3y ago|0 comments
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by _Microft 3y ago
Another commenter pointed out that having a pool influences the property value and thereby tax, so they should be able to collect the tax yearly, not just once.
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by _Microft 3y ago
„The spirits that I summoned…“ / “Die Geister, die ich rief“ came to mind. It is a well-known German phrase about losing control over something you started and unintentional consequences. It‘s adapted from the poem „The Sorcerer‘s
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Hacking the PHR-803T (2014)(diyouware.com)
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by _Microft 3y ago
We don‘t need to wave the ticket at a card reader to use the bus. We just board and mayyybe, like just once a month, there‘s someone on the bus checking the validity of tickets and fining people if they don‘t have one. What‘s your point exa
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by _Microft 3y ago
You only need a bank account with an IBAN number (and an address). There are transportation services that allow you to sign up, download the ticket, print the QR code and use just that, so you don’t even need to use some app for that. Make
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by _Microft 3y ago
Here is a link for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Ant...
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by _Microft 3y ago
No, there’s nothing yet. I think you‘re thinking about (e)LISA btw.
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by _Microft 3y ago
There are numerous reasons why posts are not publicly shown. Email hn@ycombinator.com to ask about yours if you like. You can enable "showdead" in your profile settings to be shown these hidden posts and submissions.
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Cat Communication(en.wikipedia.org)
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Mars in colour as never seen before(dlr.de)
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by _Microft 3y ago
OK, so this is fine ? (No, I do not believe that)
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by _Microft 3y ago
What does 2σ mean here? Is that referring to a normal distribution with the given mean, i.e. if temperature were following a normal distribution with a mean like from 1982-2011, then 95% of the temperatures would fall into the 2σ range?
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by _Microft 3y ago
We wanted flying trains and all we got was a js compiler.
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by _Microft 3y ago
These speakers seem to work like this: There is a rubber layer, coated with conducting material to serve as electrodes. The signal is applied in form of a high voltage which makes the electrodes attract each other and contract the rubber in
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by _Microft 3y ago
They are referring to the Euler-method and a Runge-Kutta-method (of which the simplest is called RK4) if you are curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ru
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by _Microft 3y ago
> I'm hesitant about reposting as all of my submissions had been inexplicably blocked by HN filters Almost exclusively submitting content from the same source might look like spam to the system. I‘d try submitting other interesting
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Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by _Microft 3y ago|0 comments

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