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by lqet 4y ago
Buying a new washing machine / dishwasher requires delicate skills - there are basically two things that drive the price down: simplicity, and low quality. You have to look for simple and well-build machines, and this usually means day
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by lqet 4y ago
This is basically why I paid 100 EUR to have the 23 years old cheap Whirlpool stove that came with our apartment fixed. It has 4 plates and 4 turning knobs, and when I turn one of them, the corresponding plate gets hot. Simplicity lasts lon
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by lqet 4y ago
The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1, by Arthur Schopenhauer. It is still a very original book, and will strongly influence your thoughts on basically everything: love, music, literature, architecture, science, religion. Volume 1 is
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by lqet 4y ago
Very cool. I became fascinated with bells after watching this [0] documentary on how they are made a few years ago (it's in German, but that hardly matters, just watching the process is extremely interesting). The whole process is a co
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by lqet 4y ago
> My plant is not ok. That pot is too small for such a large plant.
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by lqet 4y ago
Ha, I was in Italy last year and literally tried to get a parking ticket from one of those machines for 10 minutes, without success. The only instructions were some words in Italian, which I vaguely translated as "enter the number&quot
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by lqet 4y ago
Where I live (southern Germany), you cannot find a house under 600,000 EUR. The average net household income in Germany is around 43,000 EUR. That means that house prices here are over 16 times the average household income. Yupp, it's
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by lqet 4y ago
Yup, it is also partially underlined in blue and a popup suggests to replace "And. And." with "And And" just before it crashes.
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by lqet 4y ago
I am still at a loss why my parents thought that a movie about bloodthirsty killer-rabits was good entertainment for an 8 year old. To renew your trauma: https://static.kino.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/
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Physiological validation of aphantasia via pupillary light response(elifesciences.org)
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by lqet 4y ago
Dito.
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by lqet 4y ago
> e.g. I had to try this one (“a medieval painting of a monk and a skeleton drinking together in a tavern”) a few times to get the monk to not be a skeleton! And he still looks a bit skeleton-y. Well, the prompt is actually a bit vague -
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by lqet 5y ago
A short answer for Germany would be: the system is operating at its absolute limits. The results are employee burnout and bad reliability. An example: a few years ago, they introduced a new way to reduce delays caused by trains arriving so
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by lqet 5y ago
Here in Germany, for as long as I can remember, the government praises itself every year for investing as much in rail as never before. I have not noticed the service quality to change for the better over the last 15 years. The ever-risin
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by lqet 5y ago
Ha, I also started with programming using Klik&Play when I was around 9! I only had the free shareware version, and if I recall correctly, it was not possible to use custom variables or if/then/else constructs in the free vers
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by lqet 5y ago
Seems like trains are up and running again today as announced, with only little delays: https://travic.app/?z=9&x=628581.0&y=6814491.0
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by lqet 5y ago
She had a score of 841, which was broken just 3 months after her record by Neil Gewirtz with 2,349 lines. The record is 5,164 points now. https://www.twingalaxies.com/game/tetris-dx/game-boy-game-bo...
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by lqet 5y ago
Twin Galaxies did an interview with here [0], sadly that version is without line breaks. [0] https://www.twingalaxies.com/content.php/2614-Lori-Baker-Gam...
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by lqet 5y ago
> Sure, some of his videos had the odd questionable moment—a video lag here, some dark footage there—but for the most part these queries were far from conclusive proof that he had been cheating, and so nothing ever came of them. This rem
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by lqet 5y ago
Indeed, this makes even more sense than my explanation!
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by lqet 5y ago
The emperor makes a joke at the cost of the peasant's mother - that she was in Rome at some point and was impregnated by the emperor's father. The peasant's clever answer implies that his own (peasant) father had sex with the
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by lqet 5y ago
Either I am not getting the punchline behind the punchline, the prostitute is not very successful, or she has serious bowel problems.
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by lqet 5y ago
Shameless plug: a few months ago I was frustrated by a similar article's lack of jokes and compiled some funny jokes from antiquity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28468098 A favorite: A provincial man has co
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by lqet 5y ago
> Strangely, Crazy Eddie’s fraudulent history gave it an advantage. To provide the illusion of quickly increasing profits ahead of the IPO, the Antars simply reduced the amount of cash they were skimming.
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by lqet 5y ago
Le Corbusier is a mystery to me. I would very much like to understand the intellectual bending of his esthetic instincts that lead him going from this [0, 1, 2] to this [3, 4, 5] and his ideas of "machines for living" [6]. With go
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by lqet 5y ago
I think there are two possibilities: either the strait of Gibraltar was suddenly lowered by an earthquake and the atlantic immediately started to flow into the mediterranean over the entire 13 km (which would have look very different than
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by lqet 5y ago
I assume it looked very similar to this apocalyptic 1993 video from a landslide in Malaysia (which formed a new cove nearly 1 km wide) except many times wider (the Gibraltar strait is around 14 km wide) and higher: https://www.yo
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by lqet 5y ago
I am not so sure, judging from the German press coverage, it seems that this study is regarded as vindication for Birbaumer and Chaudhary. The patient didn't just answer yes/no questions as in the original study, but produced whol
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by lqet 5y ago
Hm, after reading the Wikipedia article on psychogeography, I am not sure whether it is satire: > Psychogeography is the exploration of urban environments that emphasizes interpersonal connections to places and arbitrary routes, and foll
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by lqet 5y ago
Ok , I glanced over the original publication [0]. This is basically outlining a vast railway network spanning the entire globe. Its primary purpose is the efficient colonization of the world by the Aryan race. I am not even kidding: > I

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