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by lqet 7y ago
> A spider appears over an ice field on the Eiger mountain There actually is an ice field on the Eiger Nordwand that is called "White Spider" [0], which might be the motivation behind it. [0] https://de.wikipedia.org
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by lqet 7y ago
So is the YouTube link, the leanpub link and the code tasks link.
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> history’s worst epidemic Come again?
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by lqet 7y ago
> the same way you would talk about the concepts out loud to someone else. But isn't this extremely exhausting and time-consuming? And if it indeed works this way, then where do you think the idea you are trying to formulate in your
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by lqet 7y ago
I have a serious question to people here describing themselves (as I understand it) as thinking in words and whole sentences: How can you think about concepts which cannot be put into words or for which no words exist? Do you have to come
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by lqet 7y ago
Yes. 5 years ago, I printed the Turgot map of Paris roughly 1.5 meters wide from this file: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Turgot_m... It is hanging in my living room and look great.
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by lqet 7y ago
If such maps or the aesthetics of copper engravings interest you, I strongly suggest to have a look at Matthaeus Merian's "Topographia Germaniae" [0]. Some highlights: Prague ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wiki
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by lqet 7y ago
I sometimes watch the German version of "The Chase" [0]. I am often completely flabbergasted by the quiz competency of the Chaser. They regularly know the answer to questions which are so outlandish that there is no way you can ex
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by lqet 7y ago
That's a neat idea. > At the end of each period, a single email is sent to the real email address containing all of the messages the alias received over that timeframe. Why not send each received mail individually? If you aggregate
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How did you end up working on that?
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by lqet 7y ago
My Samsung Galaxy S turns 10 this year. It runs the latest compatible version of Cyanogenmod. Despite the obvious security drawbacks, I am still using it as my day-to-day smartphone for these reasons: * These things are seemingly indestruct
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by lqet 7y ago
Before anyone is panicking, please remind yourself that whatever medium was used by humans as a form of communication in the last few thousand years, was also used for fakes. You only need a half-decent voice actor to pretend you are someon
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by lqet 7y ago
Or, if you want to loose a few months of your life, instead of looking at the code, just play the game. After 5 years, I am still improving the urban rail system of my metropolis.
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by lqet 7y ago
I cannot understand why they aren't more night trains. For me, it's the perfect way to travel. You have your own room which you can lock and do whatever you want, you have a bed, some storage room, a table, a sink, and if you spen
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by lqet 7y ago
> but too often you end out with a strange mix of stuff on your plate Bingo. When presented with a buffet, people (myself included) usually have a fear of "missing out" the good stuff, so they just load a little bit of everythi
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by lqet 7y ago
In Switzerland during WWII, the population was advised to be suspicious of anyone not speaking the local dialect, especially of they asked for directions. The army removed all traffic signs in case of an invasion [0] and stores did not sell
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Indeed, but you are already one step ahead with real-time updates. This is an entirely different beast than static schedule data. In my experience (I occasionally talk to people in the industry), even providers of public transportation in c
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> Actual transit providers typically lack the technical knowledge This is actually getting better, as most of the transit providers already rely on software companies that provide their own route planning software for passengers and&#x2F
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by lqet 7y ago
A few years ago I found a high-res version of the Histomap [0] somewhere and printed it with a height of roughly 2 meters. It is still hanging on my kitchen door. Edit: here is a decent version: https://i.4pcdn.org/hr/1
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by lqet 7y ago
> Instead my guess is that mostly you just didn't know. On a London bus for example, before they had screens telling you where you are, which bus this is and what the next stop is, there was nothing For the most part, this was solve
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by lqet 7y ago
Well, how do you actually determine the age of a web page? Is it the post date? How do you even find that out? Is it the last comment post date? Is it the last edit of the main post, or the last edit of a comment? How do you find this o
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by lqet 7y ago
> Screens are also less likely to break than mechanically moving gauges What? If you buy a 30 year old car, the gauges are most likely still intact, and original. If you have an older house, things like the water gauges (or even regular
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by lqet 7y ago
In my opinion, this is only likely to happen if there is a concrete, immediate and easy to grasp threat to Europe, like Russian or Turkish troops crossing the border. An abstract threat is not enough to overcome the strong nationalistic ten
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by lqet 7y ago
BLAS [0] and LAPACK [1], which are used for example in Numpy, have been written in Fortran in the 70ies. vi is from 1976 [2] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAS [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by lqet 7y ago
You have to be careful with such an argumentation. It may very well be that forbidding pork is the result of century-long observations that people who eat much pork will on average die earlier than the general population. It may even be tha
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by lqet 7y ago
There is kind of an official explanation for the non-standard gauge: Western Railroader June 1965 Vol 2806 Issue 305: “Clara (the test car) arrived at Concord from Sacramento in a special Sacramento Northern train. She rode on a WP flat car
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by lqet 7y ago
HAL was following static orders in a radically changed environment which was not thought of when the static orders were designed. This is really a problem of any formal / religious / moral system designed by humans and ultimately
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> It does not use neural networks and was not trained on any dataset.
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> Vault lights were used to light some of New York City's first subway stations and were placed in the ground of the opulent passenger concourse in the city's original Pennsylvania Station. I will never get my head around the f
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by lqet 7y ago
Well, I played around enough with electronic equipment as a kid to know that coming in contact with a live 230V house wire is painful and gives you a nice adrenaline rush, but comparing it with the things that could go wrong in a mine (pote

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