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by mbank 2y ago
I was looking for this and thought I was doing something wrong not finding anything... Great job! I do think though a "clean" development mode not needing this would be to work with a virgin virtual environment starting a new proj
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by mbank 3y ago
Wow what an honor! VB really got me of the ground (after a short endeavor with QBASIC) and I loved it! I have to say though that in terms of creating an UI it kind of messed me up: When later studying CS and was asked to create a UI based p
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by mbank 3y ago
Increasing max/avg/median lifespan without major improvements in battling dementia it is a rather dystopian vision. And even if we are not talking full blown Alzheimers, declining mental capabilities is a big issue: My own grandmo
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by mbank 3y ago
Reading Hagakure (Japan, 1716) really helps putting things into perspective here: Even back then the author complained about moral decline. And in the author`s eyes the sad low point of this degeneracy is the trend that the young lords won&
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by mbank 4y ago
What a lot of people don't know: the standard NATO barbedwire - correctly deployed - is highly effective against tanks: It messes up the chains and is a nightmare to remove (eg blowing them up is not an option).
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by mbank 4y ago
I prefer Andrew D. Huberman's idea: Dopamine is the real currency
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by mbank 4y ago
This ain't new it's just the background image of beloved pc game "master of orion II" :)
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Omnia acquires Patagona to become Europe's leading pricing software provider(omniaretail.com)
1 points by mbank 5y ago|0 comments
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by mbank 5y ago
I think this is an even bigger issue: A cultural one. We live in a (western) society where NOT getting shit done has become the norm. Often things don't get finished at all and if they do they take forever. There seem to be only few co
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by mbank 5y ago
I love You mentioning moon patrol. It was one of my first games back in the days on Atari 1024St. Spend hours in front of it, just a me a friend and a joystick...
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by mbank 5y ago
I get your point. But with all due respect, the comparison is unfortunately off by a substantial magnitude: overall VR devices sold world wide in 2019: <6M ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/671403/global-virt
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by mbank 5y ago
The saddest thing about these VR companies (or any other hyped yet insubstantial new thing for that matter) to me is the fact that they got acquired too quickly that one cannot short them on the stock exchange...
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by mbank 6y ago
We have recently finished planning a prefab home in Germany and hopefully soon the actual building process will start. Just a couple of insights: * roughly a third of private homes are build like this * prices are a little lower than custom
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by mbank 6y ago
Love these kind of micro simulations! They really help to discover non intuitive behaviour of complex systems just by playing around. Great job!
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by mbank 6y ago
Love it! I started out by manipulating simple games in qbasic. Then switched to Visual Basic and made my first serious yet small projects. In the meantime got into web design and always thought I was doing something wrong when creating a UI
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by mbank 6y ago
I think the story goes that there were less than 10 people in medieval Europe that could do a division on paper at the time the great gothic cathedrals were build. Gets you thinking...(no source provided)
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by mbank 6y ago
Intro of the movie "Idiocracy" sums it up pretty good ;)
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Charité, Berlin: Highly effective antibodies against Covid identified(dzne.de)
1 points by mbank 6y ago|0 comments
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by mbank 6y ago
Be somewhere you don't want to be and where it is not much (work) to be done. Seriously: Few years back, we had the draft in Germany and these were the longest 9 months of my life. Especially the first 3 (bootcamp style) seemed never t
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by mbank 7y ago
Study from Marseille seems well founded, although (of course) based on a small sample. Why isn't this higher up?
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by mbank 7y ago
Its important to think in multiple layers: For example carrots and salad on the ground, tomatoes on top and way above beans. One thing I would always recommend: potatoes - one of the most robust crops, that almost always work out. For a bal