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by raphman 3y ago
Replied to you elsewhere but this might be a German version of the ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WorrpfjAYdc
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by raphman 3y ago
Hah, these magic-heater ads seems to be more common than I thought. In another comment in this thread, I just linked to a different one (in German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WorrpfjAYdc Yours is much more interestin
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by raphman 3y ago
> "It's not a short ad; I've seen it several times, so one of the times I recorded it." FWIW, YouTube ads are just normal, unlisted videos. You can get their ID by: - right-clicking on the video while the ad is playin
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by raphman 3y ago
Indeed. > "Besides the general requirements of 'good faith' and 'balance', the EU rules contain a list of specific contract terms that may be judged unfair. > Here are some situations where contract terms may
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by raphman 3y ago
The best way to predict a crime is to commit it. (with apologies to Alan Kay who coined the original saying)
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by raphman 3y ago
Somehow reminds me of Nokia... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7645482 frik on April 25, 2014: > The Nokia fate will be remembered as hostile takeover. Everything worked out in the favor of Microsoft in the end. Tho
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by raphman 3y ago
I assume you meant integrate instead of assimilate ? I definitely want immigrants to integrate in our society (and am prepared to do this when I travel into another country). But I would not expect anyone to assimilate - which to my und
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by raphman 3y ago
I was trapped in a room with a hungry lion. I gave it some meat spiked with drugs. The AI ignored the meat and decided that I only gave it the drugs. The lion died immediately. According to the AI, I was deeply saddened by this unintended c
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by raphman 3y ago
On Linux? Evolution does this pretty well. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution
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by raphman 3y ago
Mind expanding on this a little bit?
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by raphman 3y ago
Cool research that seems quite relevant for my own research. Thank you for sharing!
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by raphman 3y ago
The systemic problem with Unity is not only that the leadership makes bad decisions on a whim. Apparently, they made these decisions despite explicit internal opposition from their developers. When a company's leadership ignores their
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by raphman 3y ago
> there is no coming back from this German here. Absolutely no chance? What would be the first step in this direction? I imagine that to make HSR happen, first one would have to create walkable cities which make people want to use public
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by raphman 3y ago
At least the German ToS (updated April 10) do not contain any AI provisions. https://explore.zoom.us/de/privacy/
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by raphman 3y ago
Reminds me of the Warez sites around 1995 - 2000. Searching for "Photoshop 5 crack" or similar would lead you to a web site that would ask you to click on another link which would open a dozen popup windows. Many of those popups w
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by raphman 3y ago
Touch and pen would generally require completely different calibrations because touch is detected by the capacitive touch screen whereas the pen position is tracked inductively. However, I wonder why the pen calibration data is not stored o
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by raphman 3y ago
There's also e.g., HRS Group in Germany [1] - albeit much smaller with a revenue of about 200M €. [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRS_Group
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by raphman 3y ago
Wouldn't this incentivise doctors to only accept cases with a high chance of quick success? Young child with cancer? Nope, not worth the risk. Patient with mental health problems? Takes too long, outcome not easily measurable. Obese pa
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by raphman 3y ago
Another way to parse Markdown, HTML, or docx files would be pandoc [1]: pandoc --to json file.docx or in Python: import json from sh import pandoc doc = json.loads( pandoc("file.docx", to="json").stdout
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by raphman 3y ago
Maybe a huge crane lifted it into the park from outside the park. Would the crane be in the park then?
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by raphman 3y ago
Also got 11% - what does this number actually express?
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by raphman 3y ago
I think we are all proving the author's point here. For my decisions, the assumed intent of the rule was slightly different than yours: no potentially fast-moving objects that might cause severe accidents. So: no cars, no bikes, no ska
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by raphman 3y ago
It seems your comment is missing a part: There's only one list item - which is truncated: > 1. There had to be a certification process to use the controller, including risk analysis which would absolutely deny any attempt to
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by raphman 3y ago
You click on the downvote arrow. However, you need to have sufficient karma for the downvote arrow to appear. You do not appear to have passed this threshold yet. Also, if this was not a honest question but just a rethorical one: please rea
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by raphman 3y ago
IIRC, ripcord works perfectly fine as a Discord client (used it myself for some time) - but if you have ripcord and Discord clients running at the same time, logged into the same account, Discord's anti-spam measures are triggered, and
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by raphman 3y ago
I absolutely agree. Furthermore, even if the federal government agreed to hand over operation and responsibility, Söder would certainly have to find a location in Bavaria for a repository for depleted radioactive fuel rods. However, Söder
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by raphman 4y ago
Thank you for this information. FWIW: This does not seem to be an isolated opinion. I have read (vague) YouTube comments recently, that point in a similar direction.
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by raphman 4y ago
Huh? In my (German) experience, responsibility for the crash (and thus for the sentence/fine/payout to each driver) is rarely assigned to a single driver in such a case. Instead, it is distributed among participants with e.g. the
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by raphman 4y ago
Why not use an ESP32-CAM board?
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by raphman 4y ago
Pat Volkerding, Slackware maintainer, suffered from Actinomycosis in 2004 - quite a chilling read [0]. > To help me avoid more tooth decay my dad bought me one of those fancy > rechargable electric toothbrushes that really power

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