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   by schroeding 3y ago

   Which becomes clear when you realize that the anti-vehicle / tank ditches and the directional anti-personal mines ("Selbstschussanlagen") were facing the east direction only[1]. West German tanks and military vehicles could h
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   by schroeding 3y ago

   > At least here in Bavaria, it would just be "ein Helles" (or "ein Dunkles"). :D No, I wouldn't. And you wouldn't just order "a Lager", right? I kinda think we don't actually disagree. :) The
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   by schroeding 3y ago

   Yeah, Lager inside a Kneipe / Wirtshaus is obviously meant in the "category of beer" way. At least here in Bavaria, it would just be "ein Helles" (or "ein Dunkles"). :D Regional differences between Bavaria
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   by schroeding 3y ago

   Doesn't help that "Lager" is not used as much for beer in Germany, at least in the regions I know. Such beer is instead often classified as "Untergärig", from "untergärige Hefe" => "bottom-fermenti
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   by schroeding 3y ago

   I would say so, compound words are a defining feature of the German language, especially with the ability to make up words on the spot if required ("Gelegenheitsbildung"). Many of the words in the article are also compound words (
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   by schroeding 3y ago

   The ultimate champions in "new word creation" are languages which allow the creation of new compound words, though, like e.g. German. That's the way you get those hyper-specific words in "the <name> language has a
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   by schroeding 3y ago

   (All non-amazon links will probably require a German IP / VPN - you may find those shows on other streaming platforms, too) Stromberg - German adaptation of The Office, but Bernd Stromberg (aka Micheal Scott / David Brent) is a bi
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   by schroeding 3y ago

   > presumably it's disclosed in the magazine itself? Yes, indirectly, they have screenshots of the answers with a blue "c.ai" box in them.
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   by schroeding 3y ago

   > publish it with a headline and cover that suggested it was real The subheading is "It sounds almost real! +++ What's behind this" ("Es klingt täuschend echt! +++ Was dahinter steckt"), allowing them to weasel t
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    by schroeding 3y ago

    Estimating the climate impact of the additional traffic caused by the Carbon-Emissions-Scope-2 headers and calculation of the Scope 2 values vs. caused change of behaviour (if there is any) is a paper / thesis waiting to happen, should
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    by schroeding 3y ago

    Being more assertive may cause the "sassy, confidently incorrect, gaslighting the user (even more than already) if they doubt it" "character" we witnessed with Bing to appear, though.
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    Adobe Digital Editions DRM and watermarking appear to be popular. It's definitely breakable (e.g. with Calibre and DeDRM, this is even required if you use an obscure E-Reader which does not support it), but secure enough that the publi
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    Totally agree with the first part. > Controlled digital lending had a chance of getting off the ground. The IA's Emergency Library's unlimited digital lending burned it to the ground and stomped on the ashes. One of the problem
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    > What analytics can a network extracxt [sic] from Passpoint traffic? > Generally speaking, the local network will have visibility of the same client traffic it would see on any guest network, but it will not have visibility of the
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    It may have been, but at least in the EU, there was a tax of 4.9% for video cameras (vs. tax free digital photo cameras) in the past, causing many manufacturers to artificially limit the video length to 29:59 minutes to not be classified as
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    What is "european culture"? :) Honest question in good faith, as even some individual EU countries don't have a consistent culture (think e.g. Germany) and at least for my very tiny slice of Europe, the culture and regional c
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    A survey by the Morgenmagazin[1] (morning TV show by the public broadcasters ARD/ZDF) showed that 75% are against the ICE ban, though. Even for those 35 and younger, only a third is in support. IMO, it's too easy to just point the
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    The GranMalt AG was / is being liquidated since 2021. You can buy the patents, however![1] :D [1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/design-patents-sale-gerhard-k...
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    The worst thing is that they are wrong. There are images. Here is a video from the German public broadcaster RBB: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GqEr5TOIJQ8 Edit: Even better images in the few first seconds of this Der Spieg
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    Ha, I didn't see that! :D > User: Almost, but you missed January. Try again. > Bob: Okay. Let's see...January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. Very brittle.
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    > Bob: Certainly. January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. > User: That's not in alphabetical order. Redo. > Bob: Sorry about that. Here are the months again, this time
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    > Same reason film is big lately. Also Instax / Polaroid. AFAIK, Fuji makes the majority (or at least a very significant chunk) of their consumer camera sales with Instax cameras and Instax film.
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    It doesn't appear to be filtered in a significant way. While toying with the 30B model, it suddenly started to steer a chat about a math problem into quite a sexual direction, with very explicit language. It also happily hallucinated,
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    You can, and some people will do exactly that. Ideally, new versions of GPT (and other LLMs) will be also trained on the newly added, mostly hallucinated data when using Wikipedia as part of the training set, baking those past hallucination
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    In German the word for poor ("arm"), while there is some connection to pity like in English (one can be "arm dran", "poorly off"), can't be used to describe bad / undesirable quality. It was still rep
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    The local telco store had an advertisement for a certain mobile phone contract in the store window with "up to 50 MB/s or more!". Sure sounds better than "some amount of MB/s"! :D
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    You can add e.g. natron / baking soda / sodium bicarbonate to tap water and you have DIY alkaline water. Also helps to soften hard water, as calcium carbonate falls out of solution - which is then filtered in the coffee filter whe
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    > jobs like cleaning, tending tables For those, you now may have to talk to a chatbot by Apply Z[1] et al. [1] https://www.talk-n-job.de
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    > It is hard to know whether that is a willful mis-reading or not. It was not a willful mis-reading. I do not think you are a hypocrite, and my comment was not meant to create a "straw retort". I honestly believe you want to er
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    by schroeding 4y ago

    ... so don't talk about it, keep it quiet, because it "shifts the conversation"? :/ Sorry, I see your point, I know that this is used to derail conversations, you're right, but "false equivalence" kinda im