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by lqet 4y ago
AFAIK, they introduced SAP elsewhere in the company, and it became difficult/too expensive to manage the communication between the old system and the SAP system. I can imagine too well how the conversation between the SAP people and th
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by lqet 4y ago
My mother works for a fairly large textile lab. For decades, they used an internally developed system for lab reports (they had a few programmers and admins they called the "nerds" that did nothing else than extend and maintain th
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by lqet 4y ago
> It's actually terminal software, that's translated into a GUI from a text interface on the fly I am intrigued - you mean terminal output is actually parsed, and a GUI view is then generated from it? E: this would certainly ex
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Why ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’ Sound So Similar in So Many Languages (2015)(theatlantic.com)
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by lqet 4y ago
Same here.
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Tom Crean, unsung hero of Antarctic exploration(en.wikipedia.org)
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by lqet 4y ago
I have a Brother b/w laser printer from 2012. It cost around 60 EUR. Never had any problems with it. It's build like a tank, has 4 status LEDs, and one button. I buy a new off-brand toner every 2 years or so, and that's it. B
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by lqet 4y ago
How about this one? It also includes the rest of Germany: https://travic.app/?z=13&x=1493233.2&y=6894127.0
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by lqet 4y ago
In some alternative universe, the whole Costanza/Yankees plot is replaced by a Costanza/Apple plot, and George is frequently sitting in front of a manically gesticulating Steve Jobs head with the voice of Larry David. "There
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by lqet 4y ago
Anecdotally, most of my family members who actively tried to stay healthy died relatively early (< 70 years). Those who didn't usually lived to be at least 85. My grandfather, who never did any type of sports, ate meat every day, wh
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by lqet 4y ago
> The client sends l and then immediately receives an l sent back. I guess the idea here is that the client is really dumb – it doesn’t know that when I type an l, I want an l to be echoed back to the screen. It has to be told explicitly
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by lqet 4y ago
It would be a completely plausible additional plot line in Forrest Gump.
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by lqet 4y ago
Here is an image of the tool: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyiqN6UXMAAZbrM?format=jpg&name=... I must admit it's pretty clever.
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by lqet 4y ago
Because the scientific arguments for updating the brand are too damn convincing . How else would you improve the gravitational pull in your brand universe? https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arn
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by lqet 4y ago
I remember reading about a case where an elderly couple ate zucchini from their own garden. The dish tasted terribly bitter, but they ate it anyhow. The husband died 2 weeks later of cucurbitacin poisoning. edit, although only in German:
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by lqet 4y ago
> Everyone whose car I've ridden in knows to do that I also do that, and don't know anyone who doesn't. I vaguely remember that I learned it in driving school, most likely because my driving instructor didn't want to
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by lqet 4y ago
This seems like a perfect set of rules to write dull detective fiction. Some of the best works I have read (or seen) from this genre violate a lot of these rules.
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Venice to introduce entry tickets and fees(euronews.com)
164 points by lqet 4y ago|232 comments
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by lqet 4y ago
Wait, are you saying that computer scientists don't learn about spanning trees, DFS, BFS, or sorting at university?
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by lqet 4y ago
Nice idea, but others have tried that and failed [0]. If doesn't work, a good plan B is to open a resort in the hangar [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by lqet 4y ago
Upvoted you, because I think your design uses a very similar idea as the one posted by OP, but its design is more simple /elegant.
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by lqet 4y ago
> IIRC the gist of the article was that playgrounds should always include risk elements because otherwise the children will use the playground against its design to find those risks I have noticed exactly that again and again on playgrou
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by lqet 4y ago
Steel tube monkey bars. We still had them at primary school when I was a kid in the 90ies in Germany. One day I slipped and fell to the ground on my back - I got up, checked for injures (none), and then I noticed that I couldn't breath
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by lqet 4y ago
I started doing this mostly for cleaner commits in version control systems. After a while I also noticed it made the writing more concise. It's much easier to spot redundant "filler" sentences.
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by lqet 4y ago
Same in Germany: https://www.nw.de/_em_daten/_cache/image/1xekc0SVN5N2FSQ295T...
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by lqet 4y ago
> hundreds of wipeouts Wait, hundreds ? I don't own a car and use my bike daily, including commuting to work (which means 24 kilometers per day commuting alone), for around 6 years now. As a kid, I cycled to school every day for 9
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by lqet 4y ago
I would pay significant amounts of money to see a live performance of this contraption.
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by lqet 4y ago
> There was me. That is, Alex, and my three droogs. That is, Pete, Georgie and Dim. And we sat in the Korova Milk Bar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova Milk Bar sold milk plus. Milk plus vellocet
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by lqet 4y ago
The L.A. beast ate a 5 pound bag. The results were... as expected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMjgaa5j_LE
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by lqet 4y ago
> Needless to say, I missed my flight.

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