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Justo Gallego, the monk who build his own cathedral from scrap, has died(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by lqet 5y ago|0 comments
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by lqet 5y ago
While this is clearly not from the 90ies, it reminded me of the first website I have ever visited, as a kid on my uncle's Windows 95 machine. I had read about this Internet thing in the German Micky Mouse magazine, and naturally, this
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by lqet 5y ago
I am confused, this seems more like a general math cheatsheet. The only thing that truly has anything to do with theoretical CS are the definitions for the O-notation on the first page (and most CS students don't need a cheat-sheet for
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by lqet 5y ago
As a vim user, I mostly look at this article and think, "Hmm, Emacs seems to include an artists mode for drawing ASCII images. I need a text editor. Therefore, I'll stick to vim."
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by lqet 5y ago
Brilliant.
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by lqet 5y ago
I cannot open the page, my browser (Chromium) just freezes.
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by lqet 5y ago
Sometimes this complexity can lead to nice loopholes. Some time ago I wrote a comment [0] which explained how we once tricked ourselves into a 1,500 km, 7 day train trip for 39 EUR: > Deutsche Bahn had (and still has I think) a "Eur
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by lqet 5y ago
Slightly related, examples for exceptionally beautiful spiral staircases that turn anti-clockwise are the original [0] and 1930s [1] Bramante staircases in the Vatican, which feature a double-helix design. The original could be used by ca
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by lqet 5y ago
My initial thoughts were that this was a bad satirical piece, but I was quickly intrigued. The resemblance is uncanny.
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by lqet 5y ago
Regarding problems of producing royal offspring, I always liked the rumored story of how Louis XIV was conceived: after his mother Anna of Austria had experienced four stillbirths and failed to produce an heir, she fell in disgrace and was
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by lqet 5y ago
> next to impossible to run a public home server How so? I run a public HTTP server and a VPN server from a Raspberry Pi in my living room. It was pretty easy to set it up. Regarding the HTTP server, the only thing that was different fro
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by lqet 5y ago
Isn't XML with trailing whitespace still valid XML?
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by lqet 5y ago
A state-wide referendum was held on the entire project , including the hundreds of kilometers of new tracks, tunnels, and bridges, a long-distance station for the Stuttgart airport, and a new station on the Swabian alb. There was never a r
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by lqet 5y ago
14 hours? A quick search on bahn.de gives several connections from London St. Pancras to Berlin Hbf that take 9 hours.
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by lqet 5y ago
Well, Stuttgart 21 is not exactly a project you want to dig up when you want to advertise train travel. The reason of course is that most people at least in Germany associate it with the highly controversial rebuilding of Stuttgart main sta
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by lqet 5y ago
I remember when I was very little there were those special occasions when my father allowed us to pick a record from his collection and he would play it, songs from strange and ancient looking albums which, as I realized decades later, were
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by lqet 5y ago
It also seems to have a very simple drag & drop interface where you can combine input sources via logic gates to output sources, including a simulator.
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by lqet 5y ago
(A small programmable logic controller by Siemens) https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/automation/system...
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by lqet 5y ago
Literally the only expensive thing my father ever bought for himself was a gigantic stereo gear which combined a vinyl player / radio / cassette deck and hundreds of other features he never used. He bought it around 1982, long bef
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by lqet 5y ago
General rule of thumb that works for me: the number of characters should roughly match the number of handwritten characters that fit onto a normal letter page. For me, that is between 50 and 70 characters. This also roughly matches the num
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by lqet 5y ago
One of my favorite nuclear incidents (although uncritical): in 2014, it was discovered that workers in the Swiss nuclear plant Leibstadt drilled several holes [0] into the primary containment to install a fire extinguisher [1]. [0] https:&
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by lqet 5y ago
This is a spooky read: > On September 16, Alves succeeded in puncturing the capsule's aperture window with a screwdriver, allowing him to see a deep blue light coming from the tiny opening he had created. He inserted the screwdriver
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by lqet 5y ago
Great. Now can we get rid of them on washing machines, dishwashers, fridges, radios, clocks, and doorbells?
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The highway where trucks work like electric trains(youtube.com)
3 points by lqet 5y ago|0 comments
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by lqet 5y ago
At least on integer linear programs, I have found the performance of GLPK to be very disappointing, but I didn't notice any bugs. When compared to GLPK, gurobi is usually orders of magnitude faster (I had programs which gurobi optimi
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by lqet 5y ago
TL;DR: using a calculator to add and multiply, or Mathematica to do integration is okay because as society advances there is no need for certain skills anymore, freeing you to obtain other skills. I am not sure I agree. The argument only se
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Travic: Transit Visualization Client(travic.app)
1 points by lqet 5y ago|0 comments
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by lqet 5y ago
For anyone looking for a drawing editor to produce professionally looking diagrams, I can only recommend ipe [0]. [0] https://ipe.otfried.org/
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by lqet 5y ago
Another advantage of my trusty Thinkpad X62 [0]: no trackpad. [0] https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/07/16/thinkpad-x62/
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by lqet 5y ago
> Is the implication that alt meats aren't being consumed and therefore more wasteful? No, I just didn't understand how the overhead of classic meat production can be "exponential", and I fail to find an explanation i

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