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by lqet 3y ago
If that's true, why then did it take me 10 seconds yesterday to find an extremely obscure fact of 18th century history with ChatGPT 3.5? I tried Google queries for over an hour, without success. ChatGPT first gave a wrong answer (becau
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> Infant discharged to the wrong person When our daughter was born, we didn't let her out of our sight until my wife left the hospital. Sure, they have these bracelets that prevent switching babies (which happened to my wife's
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The original issue of Vanity Fair ( https://www.google.de/books/edition/Vanity_Fair/P-5NAQAAMAAJ... ) doesn't name the author, but there is a monogram (HLS) on the bottom left corner. HLS seems to have bee
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This article strongly reminded me of "Reality has surprising amount of detail", an old HN favorite: http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-... E: which was also noted by the top comm
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I just tried it with ChatGPT 3.5: > The decimal representation of pi is infinite and non-repeating, so it doesn't have "last 8 digits" in the way a finite number would. However, if you're looking for the first few dig
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> As a consequence of the scandal, a total of 27,000,000 litres of wine (corresponding to 36 million bottles or seven months' worth of Austria's total wine exports at the pre-1985 level) had to be destroyed by the West German a
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> The rules are algorithms and techniques for a variety of problems, such as systems of linear equations, quadratic equations, arithmetic progressions and arithmetico-geometric series, computing square roots approximately, dealing with n
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Impressively low. When I was a student (in Tübingen, Germany), I regularly had to use a similar tunnel under an old freight train depot, but this one had a luxurious height of 1.9 meters: https://www.tuepedia.de/images/
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> In its full glory, the pneumatic tubes covered a 27-mile route, connecting 23 post offices. Berlin once had a 400 km tube mail system [0], which was in service from 1865 until 1976 (West Berlin) or 1986 (East Berlin). Before WWII, ther
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by lqet 3y ago
When I access https://www.jaycar.com.au/ from Europe, I get a 503 on every page (although the website says its a 404: "Great Scott! Page Not Found... It looks like the flux capacitor has overloaded and sent the page yo
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by lqet 3y ago
Exactly. After initial testing of the rubber tires in the 70ies, RATP quickly decided to not use the full acceleration/breaking potential of the rubber tires, because it was very uncomfortable for passengers.
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AFAIK, basically all French subway systems opened after the 1960s use this system. This is one of the things I strongly associate with Paris: the slight smell of burned rubber when you enter a Métro station of a line with rubber tires. Pro
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by lqet 3y ago
My choice of the word "majority" was unfortunate, but I cannot edit the comment anymore. Remove "majority", leave "unfair" and "strange". Case in point: if we had this conversation in real life, you w
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by lqet 3y ago
Also, in your example, if you start this remark, you will immediately get subtle non-verbal feedback, often before you have even ended your first sentence. If you see a few friends cringe, twist their mouth, or start with "errr...&qu
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Housing is a substantial part of the problem. We have observed a common pattern: educators apply for a job here, interview goes well, both parties are happy, contract is signed, and after months and months of unsuccessfully searching for an
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> Most places don’t pay well enough to afford daycare. I wish the problem was money. We have been looking for a kindergarten for our daughter (~5 years old) for 2.5 years now in southwestern Germany. At one point we sued the local distri
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by lqet 3y ago
Your kitchen-sink is vanished, evaporated in the cosmic cataclysm that devoured your house, your city and country, and was the final battle of the wars brought upon us by the singularity .
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by lqet 3y ago
I agree, but I think OP referred to crimes involving violence against their own children.
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by lqet 3y ago
Are you saying that 10% of incarcerated individuals are innocent (which I do not find an unrealistic number), or are you saying that 10% of incarcerated individuals are wrongly in prison for crimes against their children?
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by lqet 3y ago
That is also what we were told after birth. My personal opinion is that the advantages of co-sleeping far outweigh the risks. It is much less stressful for both the parents and the baby. My wife simply slept topless, turned (half-sleeping)
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by lqet 3y ago
I found the linked site with an in-depth introduction to Duplo rails even more interesting: https://www.cailliau.org/Alphabetical/L/Lego/Duplo/Train/Rai... I owned both "new-type" and &quo
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> And by law your parents have to pay. You are not required to even work. That may be true in theory. In practice, many parents are in an income range which makes the child not eligible for educational support (Bafög), but which also doe
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by lqet 3y ago
What? My parents send me the child allowance ("Kindergeld") they received for me for the 6 years I was at university, plus 100 EUR/month. I also had a regular job earning 450 EUR per month, so I had around 700-800 EUR of inco
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by lqet 3y ago
I agree, belief is the better word here.
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A group of people integrated by a lie can achieve things orders of magnitude greater than the same number of mavericks living their lives fully grounded on evident truths. This is the evolutionary explanation of religion/cults in a nut
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Yes, he seemed ashamed and offered a (thin) apology.
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I once had a package delivered to a small local post office. App said it arrived there, and the next day I went to pick it up. The guy there couldn't find it and did not allow me to search the pile of packages myself, because "he
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by lqet 3y ago
> In the previous convention, upper- and lowercase type were kept in separate cases, or trays. This is why capital letters are called uppercase and the minuscules are lowercase.
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by lqet 3y ago
Sadly, no photographs of late 19th century American hotels are given. I found this post which has some nice photos: https://www.vintag.es/2017/05/41-rare-photos-of-american-hot...
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by lqet 3y ago
His brother was president of Germany from 1984 to 1994. It's quite an illustrious family [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weizs%C3%A4cker_family

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