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by niklasd 5y ago
Second that! He has a very scientific approach, sampling various ways (cooking dishes in six different ways, comparing them), which makes it far easier to understand why something is done that way.
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by niklasd 6y ago
I once visited an art exhibition where the theme was art objects that change while being displayed. Once exhibit which I particularly enjoyed was a cassette that was being played, while its outrolled tape was tightend around some bars in th
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by niklasd 6y ago
What is also strange is when comparing "different" offerings they sometime turn out to be exactly the same product, just with a slightly different picture/text and a (sometimes substantial) price difference. For products like
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by niklasd 6y ago
I would argue that this is already happening. We have some new bike lanes, and a little less cars here in Berlin, at some places. And I do not suggest that every development should be utopian. But why not give some utopies a try within a ce
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by niklasd 6y ago
Hamburg build from 2008 on a new district, the HafenCity, a soulless place of concrete, expensive apartments, and chain stores. I recently thought about how great it would have been to try something radical new – like building everything wi
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by niklasd 6y ago
I think you're right, that is also my take. However, the issue here is they just don't comply with that. I wrote them via contact form, and they replied from a non-reply email address to call them instead (and after that they even
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by niklasd 6y ago
I also just canceled my NYT subscription (or, more accurate: I am in the process of doing that) and it is just terrible. I am in Germany, and basically they do not accept your cancellation via writing to the customer support, but require yo
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by niklasd 6y ago
Actually the title of the article is kind of misleading. "Berlin" stands in this context for the German federal government (the announcement is from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy) not for the state of Berlin
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by niklasd 6y ago
For me it is often a question of what I am looking for. If I quickly need to know how to get the last item of a list in yet-another-language, Stack Overflow will provide me an answer in about 2 seconds. The documentation will certainly prov
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by niklasd 6y ago
On the other hand, when speaking to a government employee, you're mostly speaking to someone who can make an actual decision on that matter, and can help you to solve your problem. Yes, there are many rules, but living there I've
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by niklasd 6y ago
Why not? I can't really see the difference, except that identifying a person by face is easier than by voice.
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by niklasd 6y ago
Yes to that! Last semester I had to program in Java, and while having very little specific knowledge of the languague, the IDE (and some basic OOP understanding) basically enabled me to solve the tasks without any troubles. Java is especial
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by niklasd 6y ago
I just buyed an air cleaner, and amongst other I looked at the one by Xioami. To operate, requires you to install an app which tracks you locations and sends it to Xiaomi servers. This really troubled me. I ended up buying one which can be
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by niklasd 6y ago
Yes, I have, and I enjoyed it! Thanks for the tip.
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by niklasd 6y ago
I‘m a huge fan of Ishiguro. I find it fascinating that through most if his books he stays very close to his main themes – memory, introspection, self-deception – while playing with and exploring various different genres: historical, dystopi
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by niklasd 6y ago
I recently tried out wireless noise-cancelling headphones from both Bose and Sony, and (the important privacy issues aside) the user experience with these apps is just horrible. You unpack your Bose headphone, eager to use them. But before
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by niklasd 6y ago
I am really curious how the model would be if you would train it with a decent amount of really good literature. Kazuo Ishiguro et al. instead of Reddit.
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by niklasd 6y ago
I really struggled with the iCloud feature that automatically uploads stuff to save space. I was running low on disk space and iCloud just constantly auto-uploaded files and deleted them locally. While this – in theory – might sound like a
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by niklasd 6y ago
I can't speak for him, but in Germany PhD, MD and JD all have the same title ("Doktor", abbr. "Dr."). So I guess that includes doctors and lawyers.
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by niklasd 6y ago
I've heard now from a couple of people that they've enjoyed remote work and some have already sucessfully negotiated that in future they will work part time from home. So it really seems that some of the change will be permanent.
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by niklasd 6y ago
I really liked "The Computing Universe" by Tony Hey. It's a book which covers most of these topics on a higher level, but I felt it was (very roughly) an abstract of what I learned in the first CS semester. So I find it a ver
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by niklasd 6y ago
When I started programming (with Python) I remember how the modulo operator was introduced, without any further information. I found it quite confusing, since I didn't know what modulo meant (that could be solved with googling) but mor
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by niklasd 6y ago
Interesting read concerning that topic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo... Its quite old (from 1982), but some things might still be relevant today. The article leaves you wi
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by niklasd 6y ago
One of the best law schools in India is called "National Law School of India University". I had a great time there as an exchange student, but boy, there is some heavy parsing involved in that name.
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by niklasd 6y ago
Yes. But he threatens to remove protections of tech companies from liability if users post defamatory messages on their platforms, which can lead to more moderation.
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by niklasd 6y ago
I also heard that McKinsey adheres to that strategy when investing in training for their employees. Though that is only hearsay and it doesn't mean anything, they could also be wrong. But I think you are right when saying that the oppo
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by niklasd 7y ago
We don't have enough masks in Europe, and those few are needed for professionals. Besides that, I think that especially in times like this, it is important to stick to the recommendations of experts. Here in Germany, the expert recomme
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by niklasd 7y ago
I always find it baffling that news pages are amongst the worst offenders regardings tracking (at least that how it feels). Here in Germany we have news pages like Spiegel Online, whose journalists criticise Facebook et al. in quite harsh w
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by niklasd 7y ago
Probably Chaos Computer Club, a German association of hackers. At least in Europe quite well known. They do a lot of cool stuff, like looking for security flaws in voting machines and such stuff.
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by niklasd 7y ago
I've actually came across this key in an apartment building in Berlin once, so they really are still in use. The person living there did complain about it though, as (at least in the evening) you had to collect guests from the main gat

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