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by lqet 4y ago
I don't own the exact machine on the picture, but the same model in the same condition (including the cracked residual glue on the front which I think held some kind of paper decoration originally). Mine is in German. Typing speed is (
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This Cube Cured My Mortality(amazon.com)
8 points by lqet 4y ago|1 comments
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by lqet 4y ago
I will never replace my trusted ORGA Modell 9 [0] as my doomsday writing machine. This thing served in the office of a painter's business for 3 generations until the mid-90ies, is nearly 100 years old and is still working perfectly .
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by lqet 4y ago
ARTE showed a quite nice 2-part documentary about ocean liners a few years ago, beginning in the 1840ies with Brunel's SS Great Britain. Unfortunately I could only find links to a German version: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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We all need subtitles now(youtube.com)
2 points by lqet 4y ago|1 comments
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by lqet 4y ago
> These tools are about as good as a non specialist with time to undertake some bullshitting. Even if you are right, you still acknowledge that ChatGPT is on the level of a non-specialist bullshitting human you can have a meaningful conv
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by lqet 4y ago
What is your definition of "general" here? The classic shortest path problem (which the psalm addresses) is described as finding the shortest path between two nodes, and given non-negative edge weights, Dijkstra's algorithm i
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by lqet 4y ago
ChatGPT. This is the only technology that truly freaked me out in my lifetime (I am 35). It competently explained to me the difference between Dijkstra's algorithm and A* in a psalm-like poem [0]. It was able to find misspelled words i
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by lqet 4y ago
German here - New Year's Eve preparations are nearly done. The Raclette is ready, and I have prepared "Do-it-yourself Mr. Bean" and "Dinner for One" for repeated re-watching. My 3 year old loves it, as I did when I
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Elon Musk says he will resign as Twitter CEO when he finds a replacement(theguardian.com)
3 points by lqet 4y ago|2 comments
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by lqet 4y ago
I remember the sound of just keeping the "Channel Up" button on the remote of my parent's 90ies TV pressed. It was like 10 channels a second, just gliding through syllables. "Br-Da-Wi-Pl-Ka-Ts-Mm-Di-Tu-S-Za-Ol-".
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by lqet 4y ago
But isn't the overwhelming majority of the glass material connected to the base by the glass itself (namely the glass below it)?
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by lqet 4y ago
Would it be possible to construct a seamless acrylic tube, maybe on-site?
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by lqet 4y ago
There are now many reports about material fatigue as the primary cause, but I am not so sure. Another article [0] mentioned that the building is currently analyzed by engineers because the firemen found cracks in floors and walls - they are
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by lqet 4y ago
Previous thread, with link to article in English: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34012469 Before: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/image/sz.1.5716681/1280x720 After: https://www.suedde
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by lqet 4y ago
Did they really "admit" this or was this just a strategy to get out of the lawsuit? Maybe it really was negligence on their part.
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by lqet 4y ago
> Humans are high-fidelity imitators. This is true in a very deep sense, and this human desire (let's even call it compulsion) to imitate others can be used to base an entire anthropology on, as René Girard did quite masterfully. Fo
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by lqet 4y ago
> The result was that Heisenberg received the lowest of three passing grades in physics and the same overall grade (cum laude) for his doctorate I don't think that's accurate - there are usually 4 passing grades for dissertati
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by lqet 4y ago
> They had a constant, sarcastic, tired energy about them. They had difficulty being genuine about anything. I knew such a guy on IRC back in 2003. We all kind of looked up to him on the channel. He was quite eloquent and had (what seeme
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by lqet 4y ago
So, if you smartphone battery runs out at 2am in the winter, you freeze to death?
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by lqet 4y ago
Why? It's obviously the == that should be postfix. "Falls etwas nicht null ist" if something not null ==
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The Tallest Structure Ever Moved by Mankind(twistedsifter.com)
4 points by lqet 4y ago|0 comments
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<marquee>(google.com)
1 points by lqet 4y ago|0 comments
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by lqet 4y ago
> HTML, XML, and ZIP files aren't going anywhere (or there'll be a collapse of society so thorough that print books are unlikely to survive, either) I very strongly disagree. The amount of technical overhead required to render
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by lqet 4y ago
The day <marquee> goes from deprecated to removed will be a very sad one :(
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by lqet 4y ago
I noticed that I often hold conversations in my head while biking. It's quite strange: I start cycling a route I know by heart (work commute, for example), and after a few minutes, the conversations start. Last week I avoided a discuss
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by lqet 4y ago
There are almost always these strangely colored, flare-like artifacts in the background or on the skin. Looking for those, I also easily scored 10/10.
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by lqet 4y ago
True, but in my state (BW), the 2021 birth rate was the highest in 50 years, and it has been higher than expected since 2016. Even if you have only 10,000 more newborns in year than expected, and assuming that 95% of these children are goin
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by lqet 4y ago
That sounds great. Even without this financial help, we would happily pay hundreds of euros out of our own pocket for a private nanny or kindergarten. We have lost half or our net income already because my wife stays at home now. But there
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by lqet 4y ago
Tell me about it. After just a few years of high birth rates, it has now become virtually impossible for us to find a Kindergarten for our daughter, public or private, although the law clearly states that she is entitled to one. According

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