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by lqet 6y ago
Yes, it's written in the description: > Your assets will be available at poly.google.com until June 30, 2021
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by lqet 6y ago
Will there be any Google products left at the end of 2021?
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> I wouldn't put a lot of stock in to proto-Nazi Germany's discounting "sentimentality" in Metropolis. I think this is being way too harsh on the critics. Sadly, I forgot to add the sources above. The first quote is f
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by lqet 6y ago
Watched it a few years ago. The filming and scenery is very impressive, but the story - not so much. Here are some German reviews from 1927: "Thea von Harbou invents an impossible plot that is crammed with motifs. Nothing but emot
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by lqet 6y ago
Regarding speech understanding: I think even in everyday situations, we rarely understand other people 100% and derive the missing bits via context. I watched a lot of movies in the English original with English subtitles over the past ye
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I am not so sure: according to Wikipedia, Skype uses SILK, which has bitrate of 6-60 kbit/s [0]. In contrast, G.711 (often used for classic landline telephones) has a bitrate of 64 kbit/s [1]. I can only speak from personal experi
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If you are trying to find a manufactoring job or want to work as a craftsman, than speaking the dialect is definitely an advantage. In higher level jobs, not so much. But to really teach the dialect we would have to agree on a "standar
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I am surprised that Skype is ranked better than a wired phone.
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In Germany, this also has a long tradition. People were making fun of Richard Wagner's Saxon dialect for all of his life. When Schiller held lectures, students would later complain that they did not understand anything because he alway
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> I could slap something together with a few lines of Make or Python that does exactly what I need Here is a static page generator implemented in a 200 LOC Makefile: https://github.com/patrickbr/hagel
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by lqet 6y ago
It takes considerable effort to "allow yourself to sleep until you are "fully slept"" if you are woken up by a 2 year old sitting on your head and trying to get you to look at a book with him.
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> However, this is how I would also raise a child, letting them sleep as much and whenever they want. With small kids, the problem is usually not you trying to force a schedule on the kid, but the kid forcing a schedule on you.
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> Europe has largely adopted it I live in a very bike-friendly European town. I use my bike daily. I have seen maybe 10 if these things in the last 3 years, mostly owned by elderly people who were sold high-end e-bikes they don't ne
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> "Individuals will seek to raise the other person's status, and lower their own". Isn't this the very definition of politeness, anywhere in the world? I read the beginning of the Wikipedia article on Taarof: > In
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This was my first thought as well, the theory is also mentioned in the article (the small round mushroom-shaped knobs were possibly used to hold the tent cover in place). I think I have seen similar standardized joints in modern constructio
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A colorized version of the video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KsJi0UPoH4&feature=youtu.be...
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The Moving Sidewalks of 1900 Paris(openculture.com)
5 points by lqet 6y ago|1 comments
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IMHO, this is only one of the theses, and not the central one. The central thesis is already hinted at in the subtitle: change and progress are caused by humans either aimlessly playing around with ideas or concepts, possibly from totally
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by lqet 6y ago
I fear that another BBC favorite of mine, How Buildings Learn [0], is too modern (90ies) to have been produced on film... [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvEqfg2sIH0
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I wonder if it was produced on film. This would allow a remastering, similar to Seinfeld [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFIrsitJW5M
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If I am not mistaken, you are saying that technical entry barriers into documentary filmmaking are much, much lower today than in 1978, and therefore it is much easier to create such a series today. The former is definitely true, but consid
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True, I might have been a bit unfair to him above. I mainly based my comment on my reading of the Tractatus logico-philosophicus, which I remember as being written extremely dry and in a similar style as the article. I have not read anythin
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The style of this article reminds me of Wittgenstein: short, clinical, almost mathematical statements, with no poetical ambition whatsover. I understand that there might be situations in which such a style is appropriate, but this article i
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> There's something else: One my best friends growing up in Dallas was named Henry Zapruder. His father was Abraham Zapruder [the Dallas dressmaker who shot the famous film of the assassination.] I knew the Zapruders very well, and
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Here is a picture of how it looked before the cleaning: https://untappedcities.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Grand-...
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As someone who is house-hunting at the moment, this is exactly what I do all evening for houses without an explicit address in the online exposé. Most of the time, the combination of solar panels and the positions of rooftop windows and the
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I expected this to be about ergot [0], a fungi with hallucinatory effects. It's suspected that ergot caused the Strasbourg dancing plague of 1518 [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergot [1] https://
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Didn't know the joke, here it is: https://steffenmoller.com/2010/09/20/a-joke-about-a-goat-and...
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'net send' was always great fun during LAN partys when I was a kid.
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