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by qwertfisch 1y ago
I was in Paris some years ago, and it surprised me that a jug of water for drinking was free on every table. Of course if you wanted any other beverage you’d pay for it, but just quenching your thirst was free. In Germany water is not free,
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by qwertfisch 1y ago
Wow, I always had the impression the red flag is set by the mail carrier to indicate for the house owner (particularly in rural areas) that new mail is inside the box. (Hence it would save the owner a trip for checking.) But this way aroun
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by qwertfisch 1y ago
Funny, I recently wanted to uninstall a bunch of fonts I tested for programming. Turns out, in the new font settings widget you cannot uninstall all fonts or even all styles of a font at once. I would have needed to select a font, then clic
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by qwertfisch 1y ago
And still I cannot create .ts files (with mp4 inside) using FFmpeg that will be accepted by my dad's TV media player. I have to put them through Avidemux, because somehow it uses a better TS muxer. More compatible with the TV.
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by qwertfisch 1y ago
Will there be a Bluray release afterwards?
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by qwertfisch 1y ago
I have seen the Japanese DVD cut with the fighting scene in full colour. This is a lot better. But also the black/white effect works with its own style. But … not several minutes long. Also if you have seen it in colour, you might not
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by qwertfisch 1y ago
Because that’s a video compression format, from where only a single intra-frame is used.
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by qwertfisch 1y ago
Seems a bit too late? And also, JPEG XL supports all the features and uses already advanced compression (finite-state entropy, like ZStandard). It offers lossy and lossless compression, animated pictures, HDR, EXIF etc. There is just no nee
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by qwertfisch 1y ago
You don’t even have to make it thicker. My Samsung A40 is less than 8mm thick. It has a FullHD display, 440dpi sharpness, weighs only 140g and is less than 145mm in length. The cameras support 16Mpx back and 25MPx front (not that it’s neede
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by qwertfisch 1y ago
These are not smartphones. You cannot do anything with them except phone, SMS, some alarms and make pictures with very crappy quality. So these are effectively just phones, like 20 years ago. They are not extensible by any app, just what th
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by qwertfisch 1y ago
The market? The manufacturers or the people? Phones that were biggest size/weight only six or seven years ago are now not even available anymore. Why? I cannot imagine that all(!) people want phones that now weigh at least 180g (most e
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by qwertfisch 1y ago
Everything may also be installed as a service, so then the application doesn’t need administrator privileges itself on every startup.
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by qwertfisch 2y ago
Maybe I'm not searching well enough, but is there any demo instance one can try? There's not even screenshots.
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by qwertfisch 2y ago
It's available on the Mediathek (streaming platform for public broadcast TV). Either from mediathekviewweb.de (search for Dinner for One), or direct links: https://mediandr-a.akamaihd.net/progressive/2024/1216
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by qwertfisch 2y ago
Vodafone Germany already turned off MMS. Others will follow.
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
Are these undocumented syscalls somewhere documented? ;)
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
So there were at most 19 spacecraft deployed that were NOT Starlink satellites, although 34 launches involved third parties. How? How can I distribute 19 spacecraft on 34 launches?
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
Thanks. :) The developer surely knew that there would be people that asked for the Program Manager, because it wasn't only a name for the desktop itself (like the Explorer with additional file manager windows). It was Windows. If you c
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
This is the window managing part which handles decoration and displays running applications as desktop icons if minimized. But where is the Program Manager?
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
Also after writing this, I noticed the inconsistency (from my view) that in English there are exceptions with words written uppercased, too, like "German", despite being an adjective and not a noun. Which might be irritating, as t
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
More precise it should be called Pascal case, with the first letter being uppercase, as for all German nouns. The German Wikipedia article about "Binnenmajuskel" provides a bit more information about usage in natural languages.
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
The combined address/search bar was presented by Chrome first iirc. Maybe IE was earlier? I cannot remember, never used it (first Netscape, then Mozilla, then Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox).
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
Interesting. But of course there is a lot of investment bottleneck (or whatever the translation for „Investitionsstau“ is). For example take the „Neue Alpentransversale“ [1][2] which was a 40 year project for modernizing the tracks through
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
If the German government would have sticked to the plan of building a Transrapid track between Hamburg and Berlin instead of upgrading the current tracks being able to support an ICE with only 250km/h (which took as many years as build
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
In Germany it is not possible to call emergency without an active SIM (if it is PIN protected, the PIN has to be entered before). This has been deliberately disabled since February 2009 because there were too many anonymous calls for fun or
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
Would be great if one could have at look at the site without being forced to register.
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
The referenced comment does not even take into account that also the lossless compression is more efficient than PNG. This and the easy handling and efficient storing of (short) animations could in total combine the three major image format
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
} } } It’s the same in languages with C-Syntax.
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
Except that the walrus operator “:=” is an assignment expression, whereas in Pascal it is an assignment statement, like “=” in many languages. In Pascal, the boolean comparison operator is “=” instead of “==” (in the same many languages). A
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by qwertfisch 3y ago
Just a number. Remember ICQ? They simple had a number increasing for each new registered account. I mean, if the users still get to set an arbitrary display name, then just give everyone a number as user„name“. Sorted by registration date,

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