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by lqet 6y ago
Here in Germany we had a few cases where persons worked as hospital doctors for a few years without a license or diploma or even any medical training. They usually submitted a fake license to the hospital. There was a spectacular case in th
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by lqet 6y ago
> It seems like such a fantastic market Does it? Maybe I am misunderstanding the product, but I am really struggling to think of potential customers. To me, it seems that people who actually design their own fonts will be doing this on
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by lqet 6y ago
Github has been doing this for quite a while know when you try to delete a repository - you have to type in the exact repository name to confirm.
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by lqet 6y ago
> That was just not possible on a console, Was it? Even if you discard stuff like tmux as already a GUI, you can still send whatever is running at the moment to the background with CTRL-Z and typing "bg" on any modern Unix syst
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by lqet 6y ago
Which is exactly why I prefer formal query languages over NLP queries. In both cases (at least with most state of the art NLP techniques), you have to learn certain patterns and ways to phrase a query so that the system will reliably unders
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by lqet 6y ago
I recently learned the following interesting thing about the Transitautobahn (the motorway connecting West-Berlin with West-Germany). To enter or leave the GDR, you had to pass the Marienborn controll point [0][1]. This facility was outfitt
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by lqet 6y ago
Very interesting site. https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/mic/mm61/index.htm > Although the MM-61 was originally intended for use in combination with dictation machines and the first generation of (large)
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by lqet 6y ago
Like this: s̶e̶r̶v̶e̶ https://yaytext.com/strike/
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by lqet 6y ago
Here is an article discussing this: https://medium.com/swlh/the-science-backed-secret-to-rapidly... > On the first day of the class, the ceramics teacher divided the class into two groups. All those on the left side
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by lqet 6y ago
TIL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex Thanks!
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by lqet 6y ago
The video is fascinating, it really looks like a railway.
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by lqet 6y ago
There is https://tracker.geops.de/ , which integrates most of them (though not always with realtime data).
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by lqet 6y ago
The real-life equivalent of this is one of the main reasons why I prefer to shop online (except for groceries). It's just not possible to study the products without a "Can I help you?" salesperson popping up next to you after
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by lqet 6y ago
TLDR: > "Bletchley is not the war winner that a lot of Brits think it is". > But he said Bletchley still played an important role. > "Intelligence never wins a war on its own," says Prof Ferris. The latter seems
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by lqet 6y ago
I remember seeing that video 3 years ago and being blown away. In case someone doesn't already know it, here is Conway's Game of Life simulated in Conway's Game of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIe
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by lqet 6y ago
The Billy I have has slots at the back where you can slide in the fiberboard panels. Only one nail is necessary to hold it in place. If that isn't the case, you can offset the nail positions by 2 cm. If the nail is broken, they can che
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by lqet 6y ago
Anecdotally, I have moved multiple times (2-4 times) with IKEA furniture, including one of those classic IKEA swinging chairs (20 years old), a Billy (13 years old), an Expedit (8 years old), a desk (13 years old) and a bed (7 years old).
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by lqet 6y ago
> Obviously, the purpose of before/after is to produce a visual effect; then why produce pseudo-content if CSS is oh-so-great a language for presentation? Because sometimes the best way to style something is by using a character (bu
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by lqet 6y ago
Brutalist? There is a custom font, a fixed text width, and it is even centered! :)
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by lqet 6y ago
Unlikely, as in its current form, the styling includes special :before and :after rules for specific elements, and the inclusion of element attributes in the final output has to be also hand-coded for specific elements and attributes.
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by lqet 6y ago
> What confusing maps! Blue ice and white water. Bad coloring in schematic maps is something that is driving me crazy. This is especially a problem in maps published by media outlets. Often the water is for example white, and the land i
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by lqet 6y ago
There is currently an article (in German) in the Frankfurter Allgemeine called "The Demise of San Francisco" [0] in which the possible reasons for this are discussed. One reason given (which I cannot verify as I don't live th
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by lqet 6y ago
Thanks for this comment. I just realized that I was morally raised by the first 10 seasons of The Simpsons.
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by lqet 6y ago
I wouldn't add either the British or the American "The Office" to that list. Just think of the relationship between Jim and Pam in the American version, there are clear moral lessons there.
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by lqet 6y ago
> Virtually every sitcom episode demonstrates a moral lesson in their A-plot. Seinfeld may be a major exception to this rule.
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by lqet 6y ago
Very cool indeed. The usage of ed starts here: https://youtu.be/2XLZ4Z8LpEE?t=818
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by lqet 6y ago
Correction: the company is not based in China, but in Abu Dhabi. My mistake. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrade_Waterfront
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by lqet 6y ago
> Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!! [0] [
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by lqet 6y ago
Yup, this was of course meant as a general suggestion. Regardless of COVID, I would also not recommend taking this trip in late autumn or winter.
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by lqet 6y ago
Huh, we traveled through Serbia and Montenegro by train 5 years ago and stayed in Belgrade for 3 days, I cannot remember seeing any cameras. But I certainly do remember the feeling that China is trying to seek influence in Serbia. If I re

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