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by lqet 2y ago
I once built a DIY beamer out of an old overhead projector and an old 1024x768 pixel TFT screen. Basically, I removed the backlight of the screen, used the raw screen instead of the glass table, and put an extremely bright metal halide lamp
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https://xkcd.com/1135/
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Babies are definitely hardwired to be attracted by the contrast of skin / areola on the female breast. Once they have targeted this contrast, they will do a very typical (also hardwired) "search" for the nipple: they come ver
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by lqet 2y ago
That's fair, but even interesting graffiti still won't let any sunshine come through. Also, I would rather look out the window [0] than appreciate artwork when riding on a train. [0] https://www.swr.de/swraktuell&#
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by lqet 2y ago
> a transparent noise barrier Most rail noise barriers in Germany are completely covered in graffiti [0], so I wouldn't expect them to remain transparent for more than a few weeks. [0] https://ga.de/imgs/93&#x2F
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Beethoven surely was an interesting character. He often had trouble finding apartments because he was such a difficult neighbor (and it didn't help that he played his piano as loud as possible, so that he could hear it). One time, he w
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Well, I guess I believe everything now(blog.plover.com)
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You are right of course!
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by lqet 2y ago
I highly recommend the documentary Filmworker to anyone interested in Stanley Kubrick's character. It's about Leon Vitali, the actor who played Lord Bullingdon (the neurotic brother of Lady Lyndon) in Barry Lyndon . After filmi
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by lqet 2y ago
> "There are good things in Lolita. But in too many respects it squanders, impoverishes and conventionalises its source material, draining it of its complexity, nymphetry and eroticism." I think anyone who has read Nabokov&#x27
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by lqet 2y ago
I tutored a C++ beginners course on Linux a few times. I have had people ask me for help because the error messages were so long, their terminal history wasn't large enough to scroll back to the first error. Even if you have basic bash
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by lqet 2y ago
The difference between an experienced C++ programmer and a C++ novice is that the novice regularly believes that his code is broken beyond repair for eternity and has accidentally destroyed the compiler and most of the hard drive , while t
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by lqet 2y ago
Maintaining a personal collection of 7 Peugeot bikes from the 70ies (they are used daily) is my way of getting a relaxed Saturday afternoon out of the software engineering / childcare grind every few weeks. Maintaining your primary mod
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by lqet 2y ago
> I was advocating for it for decades, but everyone dismisses it with “you don’t know better than rdbms”. That’s almost a religion. Which is simply not true. Query optimization is done heuristically, for the simple reason that you usuall
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by lqet 2y ago
Direct link to the JPEG: https://china.scidb.cn/download?fileId=62b3ceb08e66a93f11a07...
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by lqet 3y ago
I work in academia. When we grade exams, the order of the exams on the stack is the order in which they were collected in the room (people can sit wherever they like). For grading, we are usually 5 people in a single room, and everyone grad
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by lqet 3y ago
> Spitzweg’s piece is often seen as comedic because of the old umbrella that’s shown as magically floating in the air. Isn't it completely obvious that the umbrella is attached to the ceiling by strings, and that it hangs there beca
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by lqet 3y ago
> and not prone to devolving into sociopolitical criticism Some years ago I occasionally read a German architecture forum [0] that may be compared to HN (mainly professionals). For example, I remember the thread about the reconstruction
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> such as in a collision Really the worst-case scenario for a train crash is a collision on the side , because carriages are not built for it. This is the main reason why the Eschede train disaster [0] killed 101 people - the train &quo
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by lqet 3y ago
I found this interesting paragraph on Wikipedia: > Very few of the animators at the Disney studio had had artistic training (most had been newspaper cartoonists); among these few was Grim Natwick, who had trained in Europe. The animator&
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by lqet 3y ago
Yes, extremely impressive. "Mary Poppins" rightfully received an Oscar for best visual effects. I am continuously amazed at the level of innovation done at the Disney studios back when Walt Disney was still alive. Rewatching Snow
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My parents have a new IKEA fridge, and it also has buttons in degrees Celsius. But as I mentioned below, until quite recently, the knob mechanically influenced a bimetallic strip which shut off the power when it became too cold. You cannot
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by lqet 3y ago
Because until quite recently, this knob mechanically influenced a bimetallic strip which simply shut off the power when it became too cold. I guess you cannot expect precise temperature control from this setup, so why lie to people? Also, y
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Here is a very short guide on how to make nice tables (which, IMHO, look a lot better than the visually cluttered "Great Table" example from the article) for scientific papers: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/markusp&#x
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I have owned many freezers and fridges in my life, an it was always "higher number = colder". Which is usually completely obvious, because the dial includes a 0 position, which shuts it off.
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> The biggest lesson I've ever had in cooking is that literally nothing is precise Ah, I remember coming home from school one day when I was 16, and finding the kitchen filled with smoke. On the stove was a pan with a breaded piece
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> Maybe that much water in buckets would be too heavy for the water wheel to drag up alongside the hill? One benefit of the spoons is they only lift the total volume of one of the spoons at a time, since each tower has a store of water i
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Tobler's Hiking Function(en.wikipedia.org)
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> Gaudí's plan It is incredibly rare for a large cathedral to be completed just like the original architect envisioned it, without any compromises made along the way*. It may even be said that a large cathedral is never finished -
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> It's amazing if you haven't gone, especially when sunlight streams in through the windows. I have been to Barcelona 4 times since I was a kid (1998, 2006, 2009, 2014), and every time the Sagrada Familia looked a little more f

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