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by lqet 5y ago
As is the German "Gletscher" (glacier).
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by lqet 5y ago
My favorite one liner for a pretty and compact graph-like git log: git log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold cyan)%aD%C(reset) %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(res
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by lqet 5y ago
Nice list, but the descriptions are written like they describe the next command, not the previous one. I would not recommend doing this to cat a bunch of files ;): > If you want to cat bunch of files at once you can this command. > rm
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by lqet 5y ago
As a German, I just realized that my intuitive understanding of the (seemingly English) word "glitch" seems to be far better than that of native English speakers, because the Yiddisch word "glitshn" comes from German &qu
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by lqet 6y ago
It's pretty common in Europe for train journey planners to offer a "Via" option. This is often used to select a specific route if multiple options to go from A to B exist (for example, to get a scenic route).
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by lqet 6y ago
Ha, that reminds me of the time when we found a loophole in the European train ticket price system: Deutsche Bahn had (and still has I think) a "Europe Special" where you could buy a ticket from any town in Germany to any town in
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by lqet 6y ago
It will be a keynote at GECCO 2021 ( https://gecco-2021.sigevo.org/Keynotes ).
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by lqet 6y ago
Great read. > Kurt Gödel, only a year beyond his PhD, announced a result which would forever change the foundations of mathematics. He formalized the liar paradox, "This statement is false" to prove roughly that for any effecti
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by lqet 6y ago
§556d, 1 of the German civil code. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__556d.html It's illegal here to demand a rent more than 10% higher than the "ortsübliche Vergleichsmiete", which is approximatel
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by lqet 6y ago
> why not increase the price to the point where 90% of contenders lose interest Because that's illegal, even without the rent cap in Berlin.
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by lqet 6y ago
> Why not make it a multistory building with apartments on top of the supermarket and skip the parking space or put it underground? That's exactly what they are doing at a few places in my city (also with a massive housing problem
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Scott Aaronson Receives 2020 ACM Prize in Computing(awards.acm.org)
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by lqet 6y ago
They recently renamed the village. It's Fugging now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria#Name_ch...
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by lqet 6y ago
I remember being on holiday at the German coast as a kid, craving for a Brezel. I was shocked that the bakeries there didn't sell them (at least in the 90ies). To me, a bakery was basically a Brezel-selling store with some additional s
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by lqet 6y ago
I have produced a fair amount of professional and belletristic texts since I have left school. The most difficult part is not the production of text, but the deletion. It is also the most effective way to enhance the writing quality. A gene
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by lqet 6y ago
> There were no enforced borders before WWI. What do you mean by that? There were of course borders, and they were certainly enforced.
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by lqet 6y ago
> I think that showing up drunk for work might also be one of them? Yes. Also if you just refuse to do any work.
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by lqet 6y ago
Wasn't this model a reason for the decline of the US public transit system? I remember reading somewhere that in cities like LA, transit companies build little frequented lines to properties they themselves developed, just to drive ho
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by lqet 6y ago
> If you're felling a large amount of trees in a forest, at the bare minimum you need the blessing of the land owner (if that isn't you). Great memories: I spend an entire summer building a primitive "log cabin" from
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by lqet 6y ago
According to this newer documentation, many workers of the South Carolina plant would never fly a 787. Because they know how they are being made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os
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The Boeing 787: Broken Dreams(youtube.com)
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by lqet 6y ago
Watched the first 20 minutes, this is surreal. Critical fuselage parts didn't fit together because workers at the subcontractor (Ducommun) traced a template with magic marker onto the material and cut and drilled the part by hand. Offi
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by lqet 6y ago
> this is usually not possible since the water is still salty from the sea Excuse my naive question, but where did the population get drinking water from prior to the GMMR?
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by lqet 6y ago
Here is a painting of the view from the "Isteiner Klotz" in southwestern Germany prior to the "Rheinbegradigung": https://www.gkgbs.ch/obsolet/schulleben/oekowoche/1998-2003/... Here
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by lqet 6y ago
Surely that is more practical than cutting out the area, finding out the paper weight per square inch and weighting it?!
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by lqet 6y ago
I see your single binary static site generator and raise you a single Makefile static site generator: https://github.com/patrickbr/hagel
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by lqet 6y ago
The first non-experimental ship ever outfitted with one of these was the MS Kempten on Lake Constance, here seen (in the back) at Lindau: http://www.bodenseeschiffahrt.de/Bilder/Motor-Li/deutschland... The Augsbur
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by lqet 6y ago
I agree that there is an obesity problem (although I am not an American), but I am not so sure that demonizing french fries, Chicken McNuggets and hot chocolate from age 4 will have the desired effect. E, to answer the question below: becau
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by lqet 6y ago
As soon as they turn 2, getting them dressed does indeed require extensive improvisation :)
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by lqet 6y ago
> She already introduced him to Starbucks and McDonalds. Now I have to ensure that she stays way way down on the list of people we would consider babysitting. Relax. I occasionally ate fast food when I was 4, and I was definitely aware o

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