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by eulenteufel 4y ago
The quote is kinda wrong in that point 1 and 2 are mixed up. Branches are just pointers to commits. Commits contain a reference to their history. It's only kind of incorrect because in praxis branches are used to refer to a history (a
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by eulenteufel 4y ago
> and it’s the responsibility of society to fix the failures that led to that loss of motivation. I kind of agree with this statement, but there is not a lot of places where there is significant effort spend to help people who have big p
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by eulenteufel 4y ago
Pain and suffering will be part of anybodies life. Often suffering can even have a positive effect longterm. But people who want to kill themselves often see pain/suffering to an amount so great that it only makes them more miserable o
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by eulenteufel 4y ago
This is known as Universal approximation theorem[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...
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by eulenteufel 4y ago
Imagine an author trapped in a little black box who is forced to respond to your request of impersonating Mt. Everest or a squirrel. They'd also not display a consistent personality. Personally I think the argument in your comment show
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by eulenteufel 4y ago
Matrix multiplications are linear. Modern neural network methods usually make heavy use of nonlinearities. You could also say that quantum mechanics is just matrix multiplications, but look where it got us.
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by eulenteufel 4y ago
The Venn diagramm of the websites that have a Cookie-Popup right now and the websites that would choose to not be GDPR-compliant is a circle. This change would mean most website couldn't be used by privacy concious people anymore and t
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by eulenteufel 4y ago
Finally a website that gets dark mode right! ;D
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by eulenteufel 4y ago
That's hard for me to understand. I'd take 'crucial to the enconomy' to mean 'positively coupled to the rest of the economy' or 'the rest of the economy would be worse off/less efficient if this finan
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by eulenteufel 4y ago
>They understand how the above instruments are crucial for an economy even though they are not end-user products like Twitter is. Do they actually know these instruments are crucial for the economy or do they just know how to make money
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by eulenteufel 4y ago
Anodyne 2 has a unique enjoyable story and is not very violent.
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by eulenteufel 4y ago
The tremolous fork is Unvanquished.
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by eulenteufel 4y ago
> it's already completely undermined by mail in voting This keeps coming up but is not generally true. See my comment from another thread [0]: I don't know how it's done in the USA, but in Germany voting by post has to be
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
Paper ballots requiring a lot of work is the whole point. This makes tampering at scale a lot more difficult and a lot easier to detect.
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
I don't know how it's done in the USA, but in Germany voting by post has to be carried out before the day of the election. The actual postal votes are stored and only opened on the day of the election. After somebody send in their
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
You (kind of) can by now. Killing male chickens after hatching is outlawed in Germany since the beginning of this year. From [1] it reads like Germany subsised research into preselecting female eggs and only hatching these ones. This is sti
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
I'm registered on a mastodon instance and I find it quite nice and not at all a dumpster fire. If you're a conservative or so you will probably have a hard time finding an instace you feel at home at, but the defederation of masto
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
> it's a federal republic rather than a democracy... Germany is both a federal republic and a democracy and I would argue the the USA are too. Both countries ultimatively derive their legislation from the general populace and are re
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
> Tested by Experts is obviously clickbait; nobody's going to say [Tested by novices]. Nobody would write [Tested by novices] into their headline, but leaving out the part in the brackets would leave it open if it was tested by expe
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
About 2/3 to go, whew, that's still a lot of work to do.
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
I thought I wanted dictionaries with dot notation for a while. After some time I realized I didn't care about dictionary features like iterating over keys at all, I just needed a namespace. `from types import SimpleNamespace` works for
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
In a lot of places in Germany public transport was only restricted to using N95 masks. This summer in Berlin all the stores required N95 masks, as did universities. They have relaxed the rules since then and you can see in the recent infect
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
I've tried to learn nix and tried to read various documentation. The problem was that there was always a piece of information missing. That was until I've found the nix pills which are a pretty good and structured introduction on
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
The website respects DNT and informs the user with a small popup that disappears automatically. What a joy! The web could be such a nice place if it was like this everywhere.
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
Which is exactly the reason most children conform to the "normal" gender stereotypes.
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
The East German stasi absolutely did turn a lot of normal non-spy people into snitches.
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
For what it's worth DW is not allowed to broadcast in Germany and therefore relatively unknown amongst Germans.
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
Apple doesn't have that capabilty though. There are countless ways to get copyrighted material on your phone that are perfectly legal. Apple would have to be able to decide if you're legally owning your files. With how the IP syst
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
The comment is neither dishonest nor misleading. It is a fact that many people living in dense areas live a normal live without owning a car. GP was just responding to the problem of transporting large objects without owning a car and corre
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by eulenteufel 5y ago
It's the German state broadcasting agency producing content in many languages for Germans abroad and an international audience. For anti-propaganda reasons they are not allowed to broadcast in Germany. This is in contrast with the Germ

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