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bananasbandanas
7y ago
I genuinely find it hard to determine whether I should buy some products with or without plastic packaging. Is it better to buy produce without plastic wrapping, even though that means a bigger portion of it went bad and needed to be thrown
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bananasbandanas
8y ago
What misinformation. Germany just had the fewest crimes in 2018 since 1992, and generally has much fewer violent crime than the US. Some actual sources which are not from a far-right 'think tank': Crime statistic summary (english)
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bananasbandanas
8y ago
1555013: B737 MAX First Officer reported feeling unprepared for first flight in the MAX, citing inadequate training. 1593017: B737MAX Captain expressed concern that some systems such as the MCAS are not fully described in the aircraft Fligh
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bananasbandanas
8y ago
We opted not to use a tire model at all, because we weren't sure how well something like Pacejka would transfer to model-size. Instead, we built an empirical transfer function from (target yaw rate, speed) -> steering wheel angle. T
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bananasbandanas
8y ago
There is a similar competition in Germany called the CaroloCup. Here is a video of our run when I was still a student [1]. We used model-predictive control which evaluated about 10k trajectories with look-ahead, which works really well even
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bananasbandanas
8y ago
No, the runtime complexity is just hidden in the scheduler of your OS
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9y ago
Also: The 1875 burning whiskey flood in Dublin. Supposedly, no one died of the flood or fire itself. However, multiple people died from drinking the whiskey, which was also full of horse manure at that point because the latter was used to c
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bananasbandanas
9y ago
I'm curious, you seemed to have a pretty bad experience with your first AEG fridge. What made you go for the same brand again?
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9y ago
Thanks!
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9y ago
Would you mind sharing the code? I find the second example oddly satisfying to look at and would like to experiment with other movies at different resolutions.
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9y ago
> So basically it's about surviving indefinitely while drifting in the right direction. That reminds me of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy's description of flight: "The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at t
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9y ago
Not really. Calling your girlfriend 'Baby' or refering to a girls-night-out as 'Mädelsabend' are perfectly common for example. I agree though that I never heard a professor refer to his students in this way and would def
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10y ago
This seems to basically just create a launcher for a website. When I read the title I shortly got excited because I looked for something similar a few days ago but couldn't find anything. I wanted to create a self-contained package of
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10y ago
There is libinput-gestures, which allows arbitrary commands to be executed for each gesture. You might be able to get the desired behaviour this way. https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures
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11y ago
Sounds a lot like the longest path problem [1], which is NP-hard. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_path_problem