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by lqet 1y ago
> You’re close to places like Switzerland, Austria, and Italy, which makes it easy to travel. One thing I really like about living in southwestern Germany is that I can hop onto a train at my local station at around 6am, and - after chan
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The Tools of Martin Löffelholz (1505)(thomasguild.blogspot.com)
1 points by lqet 1y ago|0 comments
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by lqet 1y ago
7 digits can be written much faster than 3 words, and (most) digits are free of any unintended association. Also, the 7 digits may contain the house number. You cannot reliably use what3words for a delivery address, because the house on the
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by lqet 1y ago
One of the many reasons I switched from Ubuntu to Debian 2 years ago. Another reason was snap.
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by lqet 1y ago
Really great posts, with fascinating pictures. If anyone is interested in a beautiful rail adventure with much, much less risk, I highly recommend the round trip <Western Europe> -> Zagreb -> Belgrade -> Bar -> Kotor ->
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by lqet 1y ago
The currently longest word in the Duden is Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-Hyperaktivitätsstörung (ADHS, German for ADHD).
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by lqet 1y ago
As a German, I enjoy reading the Dutch text on supermarket products and manuals, it is a source of great fun in my family :) Children especially love it. Dutch just has so many words that sound extremely cute and funny to Germans: "Sle
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by lqet 1y ago
Now, if only truck drivers could remember switching off their truck's alarm system after rolling on one of these trains... every time they pass through here, at least one of the trucks has their alarm system going off at full blast.
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by lqet 1y ago
Interestingly, if you have good map data, the relative "shape" of you previous trajectory is enough to locate your position globally, without GPS, even without knowing where north is. https://ad-publications.informatik.
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by lqet 1y ago
> The issue with private insurance when it comes to natural disasters is they don't like losing money (understandable) and the climate is changing. I strongly believe in mandatory house insurance. We live in an area where full house
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by lqet 1y ago
We recently bought a house, and we learned that it is surprisingly difficult to get insurance that covers damage from asteroids / meteors / satellite parts. It is AFAIK impossible to get insurance that covers war damage.
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by lqet 1y ago
I live in a mountainous area that attracts huge amount of motorcyclists on weekends. Most of the fatal accidents I recall in the last years (usually around a dozen per year) were caused by right of way violations by cars, by excessive speed
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by lqet 1y ago
At least it seems to be regrowing: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/01/nx-s1-5060047/sycamore-gap-tr...
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by lqet 1y ago
Reading this, I feel slightly embarrassed about our largely unplanned 100 km family cycling tour to France 1.5 years ago. We used our standard day-to-day Peugeot bikes from the 70ies, and a relatively new children's trailer. Because ou
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by lqet 2y ago
That's a strange article. The TGV Inoui is not a "new high-speed train", it is an SNCF brand (think "premium TGV") that has been operating for nearly a decade now, using standard TGV rolling stock. SNCF are simply b
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by lqet 2y ago
The best programmer and the best Linux wizard I knew had absolutely no background in CS, he stumbled into programming in this 20ies because he had to develop a tool for his Master thesis in a completely unrelated field (agriculture). He the
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by lqet 2y ago
Looking at this, I do not understand how people can be bearish about LLMs.
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by lqet 2y ago
> I know that parents have sheltered their children to varying degrees throughout history but now it seems way more extreme than it's ever been before. This seems like an upper class issue, and the upper classes (especially aristocr
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by lqet 2y ago
https://archive.ph/5xUqJ
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by lqet 2y ago
https://archive.ph/uihhM
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Abel Prize Goes to Masaki Kashiwara(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by lqet 2y ago|1 comments
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Math Reveals the Formula for a Hollywood Blockbuster(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by lqet 2y ago|1 comments
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by lqet 2y ago
I always shudder at the following: all three brothers of Charlotte Roche [0] were killed in a car crash on their way to her wedding. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Roche
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by lqet 2y ago
After reading this post and the comment section, I am glad that I made the decision to keep the 1993 Miele dishwasher that was installed in the house we bought last year. We basically renovated the kitchen around it.
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by lqet 2y ago
Oh, and 3 or 4 times, someone was convicted by court to do social work and help me out for a few weeks. These were always interesting characters. We once had a girl in her mid-twenties who attacked and beat up her friend in a fit of rage be
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by lqet 2y ago
No nostalgic feelings here: I was conscripted when I was 19 and did my alternative civilian service in a home for Alzheimer patients for roughly a year. Although I was not directly involved in care (I managed the kitchen, gave food to the p
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by lqet 2y ago
I was mildly interested in poetry as an adolescent, and "discovering" Poe in the English original (I was only aware of bad translations) had quite an impact on my young, impressionable brain. I still have large parts of "The
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by lqet 2y ago
I fully understand that sentiment. For several years now, I have also felt the strong urge to develop something in pure C. My main language is C++, but I have noticed over and over again that I really enjoy using the old C libraries - the
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Math and Physics Can't Prove All Truths(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by lqet 2y ago|0 comments
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by lqet 2y ago
I am not surprised that the author of this great article is Manon Bischoff. I have been reading her articles on Spektrum.de for years now, and they are always excellent. Here is a list of all her articles: https://www.spektrum.de

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