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by lqet 1y ago
One of his boats (he used four): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/St... His route: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Sp
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by lqet 1y ago
Slightly related: https://xkcd.com/2892/
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Philosophical problems regarding the fundamental nature of reality aside, this short clip is relevant to your question: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCUK2zRTcOc Translated transcript: Physics is a "Real Sci
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by lqet 1y ago
Great post. I have been intrigued by the life in Antarctica (especially the people living this life) ever since watching Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World . This place seems to attract a fascinating variety of characters,
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For those unfamiliar with this "rental tax": If you own a house in Switzerland, the tax office assumes that you are your own landlord and rent your house to yourself. It estimates the fictitious rent you charge yourself, and you h
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by lqet 1y ago
> People spend hundreds of dollars and many hours sharpening kitchen knives I am ashamed to admit it, but I have been happily using this 5,99 EUR IKEA knife sharpener for nearly 10 years know: https://www.ikea.com/de&#x2F
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by lqet 1y ago
arte had a very good documentary about Gaudí some time ago, which also analyzed the engineering aspects of his earlier buildings in details. Very interesting, but I was unfortunately only able to find a German version on YouTube: https:&#x
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by lqet 1y ago
Every winter since I was a kid, I get Keratosis pilaris [0] on my inner upper arms, which is a bit of a nuisance. After the first day of spring sun in a T-Shirt, it disappears completely within days. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&
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First Open Conference of AI Agents for Science 2025(agents4science.stanford.edu)
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Also, the northern wing of the Louvre and most of today's Place du Louvre and Place du Carrousel were still several residential blocks back then. And the Palais des Tuileries (burned down by the Paris Commune in the 1870ies) was still
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by lqet 1y ago
I printed a 1.5 meter version of this map 10 years ago, it still looks beautiful on my living room wall.
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> It was the Victorian novel that made the chapter seem natural. Key to the reality effects of nineteenth-century British fiction is its synchronisation of novel time with the natural rhythms of life. As a result, novelistic chapters los
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by lqet 1y ago
This. A less confusing way to ask the question with the 1/3 answer would be: What is the probability that a family with 2 children has exactly 2 daughters *if you know that the family does not have 2 boys*? The reasons why the o
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by lqet 1y ago
Wikipedia has a map [0] which shows the extent of the ancient lake (Lago Valino) the Romans drained (the waterfall is in the upper left corner). This lake had a surface area of around 90 km², which is roughly half the size of present-day La
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Eiffel Tower fan builds 1/10 scale replica in his back garden(independent.co.uk)
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by lqet 1y ago
Yes, a standard binary heap is very fast and incredibly simple to implement, mostly because you can store the entire heap in a single continuous array, and because you can access individual elements by simple pointer arithmetic. It's
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by lqet 1y ago
Very good points. I wonder what this means for real-world street network graphs. In my experience, m can be considered proportional to n in road network graphs (I would estimate m ≈ 2C n , with C being between 2 and 3). This would me
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by lqet 1y ago
> I think you're vastly overestimating the security of... basically everything computer related in the 2010 and earlier era. My astonishment is unrelated to IT security. Your behavior is equivalent to just sneaking into the unlocked
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by lqet 1y ago
Wait - you accessed your doctor's computer after he left the room and downloaded data from it ?
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by lqet 1y ago
I think that referred to Americans
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My local Volksbank does basically the same, linking to https://www.wero-gewinnspiel.de/ . The site also uses a Let's Encrypt certificate, which seems strange. This appears to be a massive, coordinated and not very well-
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by lqet 1y ago
That would also be my first interpretation, but no. Never. There was also no pressure from our side, we kind of decided that a kid would be nice now a few weeks before our marriage. She was born to the day 9 months after our wedding day.
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by lqet 1y ago
Before I had children, I regularly had nightmares in which I felt an incredible , consuming guilt. Usually the dream started quite normal, and suddenly I "remembered" in the dream that I had killed many, many people in the past a
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by lqet 1y ago
A close relative once told me that as a child from maybe age 6 to 10, each dream every night was about him dying. It was so "normal" for him that he remembered the first dream he had again at age 10 in which he didn't die.
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by lqet 1y ago
Many years ago at my first job after university, I accidentally committed a private key into our internal Git repository. We removed it, because we could not completely rule out the possibility that this repository would be made public to a
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I also used to think that work meetings are low information density. Then I attended our first parent-teacher conference at kindergarten. It was incredible: 2.5 hours of discussions and ridiculous complaints ("why does my child has to
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by lqet 1y ago
> Do you have a citation for this? I don't, this is just my personal experience with passenger rail in southwestern Germany. The smaller lines with 1-2 trains per hour are usually extremely reliable, while the lines on crowded track
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> The once efficient and punctional trains in Germany have deteriorated severely in the past years due to lots of delayed maintenance causing lots of delays and even regular cancelations of trains. The main cause (often somewhat hidden b
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> I have a simple philosophy in how I approach everything: Too much of anything is bad. This. Everything in moderation, including moderation.
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