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by nibix 4y ago
> The travel time between, e.g., Berlin and Paris is something like four to five times as long as by plane. I think your estimate is quite off here: Train connections from Berlin to Paris take about 8.5 hours. Flights take 1 hour and 50
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by nibix 4y ago
I can only speak for the use in the German language: The German language allows you to compose several words into one long word, which is no longer structured by spaces. This can lead to ambiguities, especially where a sub-word ends with an
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by nibix 4y ago
Yes, the train rides were in the night programme of ARD during the 90s [1]. Meanwhile, the other public German TV channel ZDF did the contrast program with a different mode of transportation: They had dash cam views of car rides [2]. [1] h
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by nibix 5y ago
Elasticsearch is actually using SecurityManager with quite thoroughly locked down policies; and it seems that this actually saved ES from being vulnerable to the RCE. The irony is now that OpenJDK just recently decided to deprecate the Secu
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by nibix 5y ago
Trust would also include to consider that there might be a reason for why the code is the way it is, even if it is not directly obvious. A brief chat can then help to clarify things.
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by nibix 5y ago
The official commemoration ceremony with all German top politicians took place at Bernauer Straße. That was probably the reason why the street was blocked by police. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/gedenken-an-mauerbau-steinm
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by nibix 5y ago
The border between West and East Germany was already heavily fortified in 1952. So, during the nine years until 1961, West Berlin was indeed a kind of porthole to the west. The reasons why the East German government did not close the border
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by nibix 5y ago
People just will worry about apps which suddenly appear on their phones without their action. And this is totally justified, as the chance that this could be something malicious is much higher than being something non-malicious. Having said
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by nibix 5y ago
IMHO, especially housing on the southern strip would massively influence the character of the space. If you ask people, what makes the space special, you will very often get the answer, that it is the space's openness and breadth. This
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by nibix 5y ago
The main Tegel terminal buildings will be converted to house research institutes; this will be the core of a project with the fancy name "Urban Tech Republic". The eastern part of the airfield will be used to build new residential