madez

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by madez 8y ago
It seems to me there is some kind of political war going on when it comes to education about computers. One side argues, they must know what a computer is, how it roughly works, what it can do and cannot do, and how you can program it. The
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by madez 8y ago
Regarding the distortion, the error due to wrongly assumed superposition becomes noticeable before that. At this point, the non-linearity of soundwaves becomes glaringly obvious.
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by madez 8y ago
Without too much trouble that we know of. And a small number of small reactors. I think it is extremely irresonsible to build military equipment with nuclear reactors. They are destroyed in conflict, polluting everything.
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by madez 8y ago
A floating nuclear plant sounds like of one the most dangerous things a society can do. One of the problematic aspects of atomic fission energy plants are their failure behaviour. One of the most important aspects there is the containment o
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by madez 8y ago
It isn't certain that an earthquake would happen either way. Take the example of a spaghetti noodle. If you bend it and it breaks, it releases a lot of energy due to the bending stress. If you introduce a defect in the middle of it, it
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by madez 8y ago
That first approximation is only valid for small total numbers of failures. If a failure repeats, the loss function is not simply A times B times C but greater, for example by loss of perceived quality of products, or by criminal investigat
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by madez 8y ago
I simply don't understand things to be crazy. Rent a place, have an address, file for residency permit, done. If a landowner wants a residency permit, which I've never seen, then maybe that was an ouvert way of saying no?
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by madez 8y ago
> A lot of the stories I formed my opinion on were second hand, issues my friends were dealing with; such as the Kafkaesque situation of registering for residency in a city, but not being able to rent without residency paperwork, and not
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by madez 8y ago
I know other people from other countries in Germany. They use a similiar language as you do. Are the rules really that bad, or is it that they are unintuitive?
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by madez 8y ago
Yes, there is racism and ethnic stigmatization in Germany. It even goes both ways. It's a sad mess.
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by madez 8y ago
There is the option to obtain the citizenship following the procedure for it. There is the option to leave the country. It doesn't sound entirely unreasonable or unfair to me.
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by madez 8y ago
Interesting story. To avoid that to happen, I'd recommend to get a lawyer and to contest the authorities decision. You could have worked that out if you had looked into it. Sure, just letting it go is suboptimal, but in cases like this
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by madez 8y ago
> Because the final consonant is actually pronounced softly in related forms ("Rad/Räder" vs. "Rat/Räte") Because it isn't anymore the final consonant in the listed related forms. The rule is that simpl
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by madez 8y ago
> Where is the standard codified? You answer yourself: > Yes, for TV news announcers. > If anything, it's softened further and half swallowed to say something like "un'". Do you have a recording of that? Besides
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by madez 8y ago
There is a defacto standard, and telling otherwise to non-speakers is just misleading. Auslautverhärtung is part of that standard. What is the ending of the pronunciation of 'und' in your region? Is it 'd' or 't&#x2
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by madez 8y ago
Being a native speaker does not imply knowing the rules.
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by madez 8y ago
My experience is that after some time and level of proficiency in a language, some just stop learning and caring. I think that is a pity because I believe that with revisiting the rules in interesting exercises one can fix the mistakes even
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by madez 8y ago
Wikipedia calls it Standard (High) German. To be more specific, I meant German Standard High German. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_German
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by madez 8y ago
It doesn't strike me as wrong, just as a bit unhandy. The explanatory Nebensatz that is started with a relative pronoun that refers to the object that is about to be explained can always start directly after the object, and sometimes e
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by madez 8y ago
Why is it difficult to believe that there are phonetic collisions? There are even lexical collisions with _different_ phonetics like in Weg vs weg. The rules behind the shift in pronunciation can be looked up by searching for Auslautverhärt
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by madez 8y ago
in standard high German, which you'll find for example in Hanover, Rad and Rat are phonetically completely identical. In dialects they may be pronounced differently.
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by madez 8y ago
I like the analogies, but I'd like to nitpick, if I may. "While the grammar is mostly regular here, two things make this challenging: the nonsensical assignment of genders to nouns and (...)" The given examples for weird assi
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by madez 8y ago
If that were the case, 'The Web' wouldn't be pushed like it is right now. 'The Web' is a way to take control from users and put it into the hand of the ones that control the servers. People work on fully fledged bin
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by madez 8y ago
You are not alone.
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by madez 8y ago
> Money seems like a good reason. I'd get that argument when the question is whether to make a linux version or not (using the 'movie model'). But my non-understanding was regarding Uber's refusal to spend the work da
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by madez 8y ago
I understand the business aspect that the Hollywood model is possibly incompatible with games in free software systems (i.e. "Linux"). There are other business models to make games, though. The problems are real and I think it is
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by madez 8y ago
I _know_. That stone-walling is a reason why they have so many issues. I'd rethink that approach, and consider the cost of the ticket answers and marketing efforts to fight the flames vs that one day of a developer. I don't unders
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by madez 8y ago
If their one shot release isn't good enough, they deserve all the flak they are getting. I do have empathy with them getting frustrated, but the root cause is their approach.
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by madez 8y ago
No. I expected them to compile their game for the system and try to run it. If it didn't, it would be immediately obvious because the issues were so obvious. The next step would be to upgrade the system to Debian testing, and then chec
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by madez 8y ago
Why except video drivers? Both AMD's and Intel's drivers are free and open, as is mesa. The other closed drivers are alien to a free software system anyways.

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