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by lqet 2y ago
Also "cow". And "sun", "mama" and "papa" seem to transcended most European languages.
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I did!
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by lqet 2y ago
I still remember the name "gimli", a creator of high-quality maps around 1.3.
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> About six months ago, I felt nostalgic and started looking into what was up with CS. Amazingly, it is still going and is popular I played the "original" CS (at least a version that looked like 1.6) around 3 years ago, and was
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by lqet 2y ago
> On a side note, it's a bit tough to think that all this was 25 years ago now, but I still remember all this quite well I also remember it like it was yesterday when, after school on a hot summer's day, a friend showed me this
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by lqet 2y ago
Lately I noticed that I cannot even speak my native German dialect as easily as when I was a teenager (I moved away from home to university when I was 20). I often hesitate because I am not sure whether some word I said was correct in my na
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Railings Made from WWII Stretchers(en.wikipedia.org)
11 points by lqet 2y ago|1 comments
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by lqet 2y ago
But not "standard" reinforced concrete: > Due to the huge cost of importing steel, the towers were constructed on a cheaper radical design of super high-strength reinforced concrete. High-strength concrete is a material familia
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by lqet 2y ago
Offtopic, but every time I watch a documentary on North Korea I am happy to see that so much of the old Berlin subway rolling stock seems to lead a nice retirement live there - according to Wikipedia, they use 220 Class D cars from the 50ie
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by lqet 2y ago
Then I guess I should be grateful that my academic niche is so small.
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by lqet 2y ago
> * A group of colluding authors writes and submits papers to the conference. > * The colluders share, amongst themselves, the titles of each other's papers, violating the tenet of blind reviewing and creating a significant undis
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by lqet 2y ago
OP's supervisor wrote a paper without any merit. OP then provided a "petty idea" that made the paper "considerable at all". That's how he ended up as co-author.
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by lqet 2y ago
Could someone with insider-knowledge elaborate on that? Why on earth would you exclude names that contain names of musical instruments from anything? Is it common that fake names contain musical instruments?
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by lqet 2y ago
From the same thread, an AMA by a passenger: https://old.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/1is5unz/i_was_on_the_f... Just to emphasize how insanely lucky they were: > From inside we didn't see any of the
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by lqet 2y ago
We were once landing on Madeira, one of the most dangerous airports in the world. Even a nice landing there is quite uncomfortable. For some time you fly very close to the ocean, heading straight into the cliffs, and only in the last moment
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by lqet 2y ago
The consensus on r/aviation seems to be that it was caused by wind shear. > This looks like wind shear to me. It was a stable approach and then it suddenly got slammed into the ground. That doesn't look like pilot-induced chang
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by lqet 2y ago
> Settlers has war as well but I always felt it was secondary, definitely not something large scale. Yes. This is the main reason why I always preferred Settlers and the Anno titles to AoE, EE or similar games. You could build things.
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by lqet 2y ago
Previous discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43028650
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Beauty is really something that distinguished even the early Anno titles (Anno 1602 and Anno 1503) from other similar games like "The Settlers" or even "Age of Empires". I remember that playing these games was just so n
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by lqet 2y ago
> The oregano is reputedly referring to an incident in which one of the original folks involved with BSD was hassled for coming across the Canadian/U.S. border with a bag of what was assumed to be an illegal substance, and turned ou
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by lqet 2y ago
"Honda never replied to my tweet." I lost it when I read that, what a great post.
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by lqet 2y ago
Every time I looked at this poster in my office I wondered what the meaning of the farmer outside the window could be. Now I know!
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by lqet 2y ago
I spend way too much time finding a printable scan of this some years ago. The Internet Archive has a very good version: https://ia801707.us.archive.org/15/items/unix-magic-poster-g...
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Well, I guess I believe everything now(blog.plover.com)
2 points by lqet 2y ago|0 comments
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Troll A – The Tallest Structure Ever Moved by Mankind(twistedsifter.com)
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Florence bans key boxes, a symbol of overtourism(lemonde.fr)
13 points by lqet 2y ago|16 comments
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> “Now, it could be that on the whole we’re a lot larger now than even overweight medievals were, or that St. Thomas was never the portly friar described by his legend,” Father Aquinas quipped, adding, “Regardless, the stories of St. Tho
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> It seems we traded color for quality sometime mid-Century. Absolutely. My parents have crisp B&W snapshots from their baby years in the early 60ies. They even have old B&W party snapshots from my grandparents in the 50ies, all
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> they don't look anything like how we expect a 1930s-era photo to appear You should have a look into Autochrome photography. The photos look amazingly realistic for their age. For example, these are from 1913: https://ed
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by lqet 2y ago
> John Taylor Gatto's Dumbing Us Down perfectly captured this when he noticed that schools, another place where authority figures hang out, ruthlessly disciplined any child who tried to assert individuality. There has been an intere

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