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by liversage 3mo ago
Maestri's claimed first ascent and his compressor route made the history of Cerro Torre controversial, and the later removal of the bolts added to this controversy. However, the unfortunately now deceased climbing prodigy David Lama al
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by liversage 3mo ago
I've heard a variation of the story where the police took them away (i.e., "arrested" them) to protect them from what was becoming an angry mob.
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by liversage 9mo ago
My understanding is that there are three mobile networks in North Korea: the normal one used by the citizens (they have smartphones made specifically for North Korea), one used by the government/military and one for tourists (requires
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by liversage 1y ago
I get the impression that you think VW is Chinese, or am I misunderstanding your comment? VW is the world's largest auto maker and it's German.
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by liversage 2y ago
In my neck of the woods it's called "journalist units": three soccer fields, five blue whales etc. Somebody even created a website to facilitate conversion but unfortunately the TLS certificate has expired and Cloudflare now
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by liversage 2y ago
This is a very controversial topic in Europe where Florence Bergeaud-Blackler's book about how the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to infiltrate European institutions is seen either as a conspiracy theory fueling Islamophobia or a dangero
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by liversage 2y ago
One of many useful features of LINQPad is the output visualizer ("Dump"). Granted, there are now NuGet packages (very likely inspired by LINQPad) that can do something similar in a console app but LINQPad is interactive, allows dr
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by liversage 2y ago
Brian Harry did something similar in 2018 when he was a corporate vice president at Microsoft: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brharry
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by liversage 2y ago
The asteroid belt is between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter so the Voyagers traveled through this before reaching their first mission goal, Jupiter.
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by liversage 3y ago
The SRP Authentication and Key Exchange System does not send the password from the client to the server. This scheme is supposedly used by Blizzard when authenticating users in some of their online games. https://www.rfc-editor.o
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by liversage 3y ago
The brand name 'The North Face' is inspired by mountaineering where the north face of a mountain often is the most interesting but also difficult side as it's always in the shade (in the northern hemisphere). E.g., the Alps h
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by liversage 3y ago
It always irks me when 'Mount' is added as a prefix to a proper mountain name like 'Mount Annapurna', 'Mount Ama Dablam'. Should it then be 'Mount Mt. Everest'?
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by liversage 3y ago
There are early finds of Homo in China but these do not predate the finds in Africa. Neanderthals and Homo floresiensis are not early ancestors and they lived at the same time as modern humans emerged. I believe that Neanderthals are a subs
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by liversage 3y ago
The Danish bespoke train IC4 has entered the chat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC4
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by liversage 3y ago
The Copenhagen metro runs 24×7×365. It's also a driverless system.
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by liversage 4y ago
Previous year (presumably the second consecutive La Niña event) the winter was exceptionally dry in the Alps leading to the current unprecedented snow and ice situation in that area so at least that year the snowfall was very limited. The a
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by liversage 4y ago
In Denmark electric power consumption of homes have decreased by 10% in 2022. Apps that provide the variable hourly rate today and tomorrow are increasingly popular, and they are used to plan the best time to perform tasks that require elec
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by liversage 4y ago
In the article the TikTok spokesperson explains this: “It’s not logging what you’re typing. It’s an anti-fraud measure that checks the rhythm of the way people are typing to ensure it’s not a bot or some other malicious activity.”
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by liversage 4y ago
I believe that the duplicated post you see in the dreadful forum is the accepted answer. It's displayed right after the question but also on the timeline of all the posts. For a long time this confused me a lot and I still find it jarr
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by liversage 4y ago
It's originally written in LISP and this is why it's a single C++ file. However, I believe that it's now being maintained in its C++ form.
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by liversage 4y ago
A famous case of this is the Danish man Victor Cornelins that was born in St. Croix but at the age of seven was brought to Denmark to become part of a human exhibition as a "negro kid" to attract visitors. His birth name was Corne
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by liversage 5y ago
Or 128 bits. FORTRAN has a REAL*16 type (quadruple precision floating point number). I encountered this at university in a physics department that studied non- linear systems also known as chaos theory. Rounding errors can quickly become a
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by liversage 5y ago
You have a timestamp in the future for example the time when a session at a conference starts. If to want to store this as UTC you will have to convert it from the local timezone of the conference location. You can always go back from the U
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by liversage 5y ago
Medellín in Colombia sometimes described as the city of eternal spring is known for its perfect climate. In addition it's a very vibrant city.
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by liversage 5y ago
Thanks for this tip. I usually resolve this by opening Teams in the browser and find the image I need to see. It's very disruptive that an important UI feature randomly (or perhaps reliably) fails.
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Denmark lifted all Covid restrictions, while cases are soaring(twitter.com)
16 points by liversage 5y ago|10 comments
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by liversage 5y ago
Denmark recently killed four suspected pirates in Bay of Guinea (actually five as it was later discovered). The Danish forces were fired at while trying to apprehend the suspected pirates so you can argue it was self defense and the intent
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by liversage 5y ago
I agree that downloading symbols can be oddly slow but you can just turn it off, or only turn it on for specific modules. It can be helpful to have symbols for library code to troubleshoot bugs but typically you only need your own symbols a
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by liversage 5y ago
I don't have an iPhone but I've always been shooting RAW on my phones and then processed the photos in LightRoom. As soon as I use one of the "lenses" on my phone (like "night shot" or "panorama" or e
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by liversage 5y ago
Cases 5 and 10 in the article are actually ambiguous. In each case there are two ways to draw lines to separate the high and low points and a naïve algorithm will just hardcode one of each like it's done in the article. This isn't

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