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You will learn to love the Ortlieb backpack. I bought mine (comparable to the current commuter backpack) more than 30 years ago and it is still in great condition.
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> it’s about giving people something to be proud of. Are you talking about the very generous pensions for government officials?
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I wonder what that "big European city" would be? I don't think in Berlin anyone would grab a laptop from your hands in the U-Bahn.
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It was at least six seconds between the co driver pointing it out and the car hitting the object. The screen shows 77mph, which means he saw it from approx. 200m distance. Anybody would at least be able to prepare or slow down in such a sit
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You can see one international ranking (maybe the most important) from June this year here: https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings
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I compared this to the QS ranking, where Oxford is still second in the world, and Durham, the new third place in the ranking mentioned in the article is 341. QS ranking does not even rank the first two, London School of Economics and Univer
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1y ago
It's a joke. In the original Bladerunner film they are using a so-called "Voight-Kampff" test to find out if someone is a human or a replicant (artifical humanoid), which has a similar purpose as these "I'm not a ro
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What is the green line in the large diagram? I am pretty sure it does not go through the touch point of the small circle and the large one with the center at bottom left. And the pink line seems to be wrong too. Don't they all (green,
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I got stuck at the level where it asked me this: "You're in a desert, walking along when you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun
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Please do not accuse anyone of "hate" for having a different opinion and expressing it in a way that you do not like. Btw, I donated.
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Non-scripted? You must be kidding.
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Vue has everything and is very well maintained. I started using Vue more or less by accident a few years ago and never saw a reason to consider other reactivity frameworks.
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> peak demand in the UK in 2024 was actually only 45MW It was actually 1000 times that much.
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Without any scientific evidence just by observing the lifestyle I am almost certain that the "secret" lies in nutrition.
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It took me a minute to understand your comment. Well put.
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Because that's where I found that discussion. Is there a problem with that website?
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Even if they did, I am sure this would have been toppled by our constitutional court. You have to know that our police is not allowed to scan number plates of cars entering or leaving the country due to privacy concerns. How on earth would
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Smurfs are most probably bald, as discussed in this thread on a good old fashioned forum: https://bluebuddies.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/1/1485.... And my unopular opinion is that Smurfette is most
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That merging can be done with another, much simple filter and people have been doing it for years. It has been called the "Goo" filter. Here is an implementation: https://codepen.io/lenymo/pen/pJzWVy
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I was actually thinking about implementing exactly this (using feDisplacementMap), but never found time and I was not sure if it would be possible at all. Great to see that it actually works and someone with deep SVG knowledge implemented i
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No. It becomes apparent in the "Magnifying Glass" demo. Nothing is magnified in Firefox, while it is a really cool effect in Chrome.
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The Phaeno is a place I think would be perfect. They are well funded and have interest in everything remotely automotive related. Also, they like to blend the border between science and art. Make sure to add some silhouettes of modern and o
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Of all the information in the Wikipedia article the fact that eels are fish was about the least interesting and only thing I previously knew.
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It was the main phone in Europe and the USA, but in Japan they had entirely different types like the Docomo P208, which were much smaller and pretty cool (although I never used one). I remember when I was on a business trip to Japan with a
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People of Berlin made a particularly stupid decision when they voted against any construction on the vast empty area known as the Tempelhofer Feld. They could have had anything they wanted, like car free residential area with lots of green,
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Overall you are probably correct, but there are certain benefits from the Chinese character system. Long time ago I studied Japanese in Japan. On the way back to my home country I was sitting next to a bunch of Chinese people on the plane w
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If a company uses discord for support, then I am not using their product, unless it is a computer game. It is that simple.
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I found it amusing when a few days ago the front page was littered with ChatGPT 5 news, and then suddenly, when reactions turned negative, these news entirely disappeared.
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Just like refactoring tools felt like a superpower, if you were already around at that time (early 2000s).
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There is some very deep knowledge in SO's comments and some lower rated replies. But I suspect that is not what was making Stackoverflow so popular.
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