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by rob74 8mo ago
"Fest" is also German for celebration - but just because several Germanic languages have the same word doesn't mean that it's a Germanic word. Actually all of them got it from Latin...
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by rob74 8mo ago
Well, days get longer without DST too (in countries far enough from the equator, but those nearer to the equator don't have to worry about DST anyway). What bothers me about DST is that just before the clock is moved forward, the sun s
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Did you actually manage to remove a block without everything collapsing (eventually)? Then you must have an incredibly steady hand, it's nearly impossible to do as far as I can see. Which can also be interpreted as a metaphor for the s
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One more pedantic nitpick: when a block gets wedged between two blocks at an angle, it gets slowly pushed out, although there is a lot of weight resting on the top block. That would be realistic only (maybe) if the blocks were made of ice,
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by rob74 8mo ago
Well yeah, he's working with a pretty small team, and quite successfully: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste_(video_game) I would say that one of the "Miscellaneous Thoughts" at the end of your articl
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After I read the title, I fully expected this to be about writing games using AI. But no, actually there is no mention of AI to be found in the text, not even in the "Miscellaneous Thoughts" section, which seems to be mostly answe
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3D printing is helpful too. The infrastructure created during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s was also helpful. The UK is still profiting from the railway infrastructure created during the railway craze of the 1840s ( https:/&#x2F
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by rob74 8mo ago
I guess Amazon would have a hard time justifying their investment if OpenAI remained Azure-exclusive... https://openai.com/index/amazon-partnership/
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As a native German speaker, I can at least say that knowing both German and English doesn't really help in understanding the text. Not even the most "dumbed down" version - ok, he's apparently saying something about his
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What I have always wondered about with FE-Schrift: they painstakingly made all glyphs distinguishable, but completely f'ed it up with V and Y: the "stalk" of the Y is vertical and so short that they're very easy to confu
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Thanks for confirming my suspicion! When I read phrases like "Battery cells require electrode coating with toxic solvents (NMP), electrolyte handling, and formation cycling. This is exactly why Tesla's Gigafactory went to Reno.&qu
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I guess that with "throughout the country" you mean the US? There, building gigantic new pumped storage systems might work, e.g. somewhere on a mesa in a desert with few people living nearby (OTOH you need some source of water for
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Well, once AI takes over most of the white collar jobs, people will have to do something to put food on the table, and not all of them can be gig workers. Or do you see ideas like Universal Basic Income as an alternative for the US?
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Not only one of those types, I can think of at least another one that's (IMHO) far worse than Altman. You know, the one with the social network everyone used to use before he turned it into a cesspool of disinformation, the one with th
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Ok, thanks for setting the record straight, I stand corrected. Interestingly enough, while I have been to the UK several times, I don't remember coming across the term "immigration" (probably because most of those times were
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Cool project! What I miss most about switching from CDs to digital music/streaming is the CD art/booklets. Yeah, I know, that itself was a far cry from the art on vinyl record sleeves (mostly because of size constraints), but stil
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> she is able to stroll through immigration without stopping because her P-Comm is dealing with the ID checks as she walks. We're getting closer to digital ID. But outside of a few experiments, there's no international consens
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> More suicides happen by firearm than murders by a factor of 2:1 According to https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-... , this is true (if you squint) for 2023 (actually in 2
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by rob74 8mo ago
Wow... so not only does Gemini thinking not fall for it, but it also answers the trick question with humor? I'm impressed!
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Ah, sorry, I'm actually from Germany, so I interpreted the "." followed by three digits as a thousands separator. My bad...
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> (sorry Radon and Oganesson) With Radon it might even be conceivably possible (not sure how hard it is to get and if any restrictions apply because of its radioactivity), and it would work for a few years, because it has a half-life o
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Or good old Warcraft I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAEG8S-F01A&t=7s
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> Meanwhile, many people in the US are convinced that the government will be coming for them any minute now. It's a bit ironic that most of those people voted for Trump, who is now doing exactly that. But I guess they think it&#x2
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Congratulations! Now you've got yourself a precious and global(ly exploitable) vulnerability...
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I think that "magnification effect" is what tombh (one of the authors) means when he mentions "refraction" in his comment above? Here's the English Wikipedia article (although it doesn't mention the Föhn specif
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The word you're looking for is dystopia (Star Trek being mostly utopia, at least in the original timeline and as far as Earth/the Federation is concerned).
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I'm afraid brutalist architecture has been inseparably associated with urban decay and dystopia in the public opinion. For instance, I recently played "Ghost Town" on Meta Quest, and the protagonist lives in a (extremely dila
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I first thought that too, but if you take the time to scroll down a bit, you'll see that the instruments are actually three separate screens, and at least the center one has a mechanical needle. Also, the central control panel has lots
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I think you've got that quote backwards. In full it reads: > Unequally or unjustly, perhaps, as these laws sometimes operate, and imperfect as they appear to the Idealist, they are, nevertheless, like the highest type of man, the b
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Great article! I have to admit I had also heard of "Rayleigh scattering", but didn't really know more than that, until today. Actually, I liked it so much that I went to the homepage of the blog, only to find out that this is

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