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by lqet 6y ago
It does matter. If you are looking at a single instance where Monty got lucky and chose a goat door, then the probability that the door you have chosen has the car is 1/2, and switching doesn't change anything. This can easily b
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by lqet 6y ago
> It’s important that Monty looked behind the doors before choosing which to open. This is often not explicitly stated when the problem is given. It is even not a 100% clear from the statement above. Monty always chooses a door with a g
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David Foster Wallace Interview (2003)(youtube.com)
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by lqet 6y ago
Reading this thread and realizing how difficult it seems to have become to buy such a "dumb" TV, I am extremely happy that I bought a cheap Samsung TV in 2016 which doesn't have any features except cheap build-in speakers, a
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by lqet 6y ago
I played Roller Coaster Tycoon for months and months and months as a kid, and still have an installation of OpenTTD on my machine for an relaxed evening. But RCT is his masterpiece. I remember being shocked as a teenager when I learned that
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by lqet 6y ago
This may not be a popular opinion, but I simply do not understand why you need the massive environmental and economic overhead of creating such "alternative meat" products if you want to avoid eating animals. Plants are eatable an
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by lqet 6y ago
True, but I still prefer to completely block IPs who tried to log in via SSH and failed multiple times.
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by lqet 6y ago
Dito, a combination of forbidden root login, an obscure username, fail2ban and disabled password authentication worked well for me for the last 10 years. It's also quite simple to set up. The important part is to double and triple-chec
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by lqet 6y ago
To give some numbers: By 1988 three million terminals were installed, with 100,000 new units installed monthly. The telephone directory received 23 million calls monthly, with 40,000 updates daily. About 6,000 other services were available,
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by lqet 6y ago
Martha Argerich will be 80 next year and is still at the top of her game, after struggling with cancer for the last 30 years. Just watch this, including the audience reaction. It's stunning how good she still is. https://you
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by lqet 6y ago
I re-watched Whiplash recently. It is a marvelous movie for many reasons, but I always wondered how accurate its depiction of a competitive Jazz band really is.
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by lqet 6y ago
No, it isn't. NINA failed in large parts of the country, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24430903
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German emergency information app NINA fails during first national test(faz.net)
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by lqet 6y ago
No, of course it isn't. I was just answering the parent's question.
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by lqet 6y ago
Turkey vs. Greece is definitely a possibility. The tensions are extremely high at the moment and both countries are arming up.
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by lqet 6y ago
Meh, the sirens are tested here twice a year. This is the case in many areas. Where my parents live, they are tested every 3 months. More interestingly, the federal government is realizing that it may have been a mistake to dismantle the si
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by lqet 6y ago
This seems to be a great way to tell your relatives and loved ones what a bitter, revengeful person you had been all along, who couldn't even find forgiveness in death. There is also a massive potential for abusing such a service to de
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by lqet 6y ago
As a kid, I didn't have that many spare floppy disks. Simple solution: write the first disk image on your father's machine you used for downloading it, start the installation on your machine, and as soon as it asks for disk 2, rem
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by lqet 6y ago
Ha, that brings back memories of trying to get Windows 95 installed on an old 386 machine with a 100 MB harddrive, 2 MB of RAM and only a floppy drive. I think this was 2001 or so, and you could already download the floppy disk set for Wind
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by lqet 6y ago
Would you be so kind to post an example Postscript file generated by WordPerfect?
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by lqet 6y ago
Where I live, it is possible to elect people into public office that weren't officially running, at least on a local level. There was a prominent example in a nearby town (not a big town, around 50,000 inhabitants) a few years ago in w
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by lqet 6y ago
Dito, I visited reddit many times per day a few years ago. That all changed with the new web app. Yes, old.reddit.com exists, but the old web app acted as a kind of gatekeeper the same way the ancient design of HN acts as a gatekeeper. With
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by lqet 6y ago
This reads like it is a statement about today's press > Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confron
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by lqet 6y ago
This is not only a problem with bakeries or butchers (I also know of two shops here and in my home village who closed down not because business was bad, but because it was so good they retired in their mid-fifties - and nobody wanted to tak
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by lqet 6y ago
German-Japanese female names include names like "Hide", "Aili" or "Uta" which I have never heared in Germany. Is the criteria that the names can be easily pronounced by native speakers of both languages?
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by lqet 6y ago
Don't say that he's hypocritical, Say rather that he's apolitical. "Once ze rockets are up, who cares where zey come down? That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.
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by lqet 6y ago
For the Porto -> Moscow leg you should be able to get a SCIC (Special Conditions of International Carriage) ticket in any European train ticket office. The complete list of participating countries is here: https://de.wikipedia
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by lqet 6y ago
Up until 2 or 3 years ago, you could directly travel by night train from my (relatively minor) home town Freiburg to Moscow. There are direct trains from Paris to Freiburg or Frankfurt (where the night train also stopped), so this could&#x2
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by lqet 6y ago
Indeed, but with software, you can actually have both (short-time profits with low-quality software, and long term quality by fixing the hacks afterwards), so "move fast and break things" might actually be good leadership in softw
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by lqet 6y ago
This is one of the best paragraphs of this great article: > I believe the relative ease—not to mention the lack of tangible cost—of software updates has created a cultural laziness within the software engineering community. Moreover, bec

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