lqet

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by lqet 2mo ago
If you get run over by a car or bicycle while trying to board a bus outside an official station, or if you trip, the bus company is liable, and the driver will be in very big trouble. Also, wehret den Anfängen! If they started doing this,
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by lqet 2mo ago
The ability of the brain to do that gives me 15 min of quiet time to think about problems each evening. But you cannot follow the story in that mode, and the whole facade will collapse on a single innocent question... > "Dad, why di
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by lqet 3mo ago
In 1998, a 4-year old girl broke into a frozen pond in Austria [0]. She was found at the bottom of the lake after 30 minutes, with a body temperature of around 18 °C (so much higher than the case described in the article). She made a comple
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by lqet 3mo ago
Before calling it a day, this chatbot actually apologized for answering 3 hours too late because there were so many request at the moment.
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by lqet 3mo ago
I had the pleasure of communicating with the AI bot of FedEx (in Germany) today: > Everything is sorted out! > Everything is now sorted out, and I hope this solution works well for you. Of course nothing was sorted out (se
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by lqet 3mo ago
The exception is translation . Translation is what transformers were originally developed for. LLMs shine in translation, and creating code is, after all, a translation from natural language into a programming language. A lot of what curre
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by lqet 3mo ago
Yes, predicting the future was never possible. In fact, for most of the time in human history, the future looked incredibly bleak. Yet I am immensely grateful that my ancestors chose to build homes and marry and have children and live life
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by lqet 3mo ago
Here is an original from a German station (in the design of the 1950ies): https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/bahnhofsuhr/343129269...
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by lqet 3mo ago
I am German and live near the Swiss border. My wife is Swiss. I always tell Germans: if you want to get a feeling for the life of an immigrant in Germany, go to a non-touristic region in Switzerland. It's definitely not open hostility,
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by lqet 3mo ago
In early 2018, before I had children and with much, MUCH more free time, I bought a used X61, plus a used X60 1400x1050 LCD, a new backlight, new internal stereo speakers, a new mainboard with an Intel Core i7-5600U from 51NB, plus new SS
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Lohner-Porsche(en.wikipedia.org)
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by lqet 4mo ago
This is something that recently also crossed my mind. I haven't really done frontend developing for at least 10 years know, but I am already old enough to remember the time in the late 2000s when suddenly everyone stopped developing we
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by lqet 4mo ago
> The first is when novices in a field are able to produce work that resembles what their seniors produce [...]. > The second is when people generate artifacts in disciplines they were never trained in. There is a third shape. Experts
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by lqet 6mo ago
> A 2x4 LEGO brick manufactured in 1958 will snap perfectly onto a brick molded this morning in Denmark, China, Hungary, Mexico, or the Czech Republic. In the late 90ies, I regularly played with my uncle's old LEGOs from the late 60
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by lqet 7mo ago
> Firefox is about the only piece of software in my setup that occasionally crashes. I would add Thunderbird to that list.
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by lqet 7mo ago
> has an integration with SAP There is your problem right there. A family member worked for a large German company which used in-house developed software for exchanging and preparing lab reports for customers. The software worked well si
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by lqet 7mo ago
> it is appalling how much these people are not interested in who actually gives their enterprise money After we bought our house, the property tax was still billed to the previous owner for some time. We called our local city hall, and
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by lqet 7mo ago
ALDI TALK offers EU-wide unlimited calls & SMS with 60 GB of data for 69.99 EUR per year . That is 5.80 EUR per month for unlimited calls/SMS and 5 GB of data [0]. I switched last year from O2 (they use the same network) after I r
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by lqet 7mo ago
We assumed that they charge some kind of penalty fee if you do not show up via your phone number, and this (most likely 3rd party) system only works with UK numbers.
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by lqet 7mo ago
You better also have a UK phone number ready! We had a nice family vacation last year in the UK (beach town in Wales). One day, we wanted to make reservations in a restaurant just a few blocks away. This was only possible by calling them. T
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by lqet 9mo ago
We have come a long way down from ads like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VM2eLhvsSM
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by lqet 9mo ago
> Today, [young people] like to spend time with the smartphone; they even take it to bed when they go to sleep. Recently my parents (in their mid-60ies) were visiting us. At some point I realized that both of them had been quietly sittin
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by lqet 10mo ago
I you mow them after they have developed seeds, you are mowing them too late.
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by lqet 10mo ago
Weeds on the lawn: just use a lawnmower each week, the grass will usually handle being cut on a weekly basis much better than any weed. Weeds between tiles / slabs or on gravel: just pour boiling water over them. The weeds will becom
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by lqet 10mo ago
It may go further than that: > Fever is used by organisms as diverse as fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals (see for reference Basu and Srivastava, 2003). Since fever is metabolically expensive, it must provide substantial advantage t
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by lqet 10mo ago
Strongly agree. I was involved with several CS lectures in the past ~10 years that did not require a final exam, and we always did a 1:1 session between student and tutor in which the tutor asked the student detailed questions about their
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by lqet 10mo ago
> Most of what schools teach is either useless or toxic You must have a pretty broad definition of useless / toxic if you think that reading, writing and basic math, but also geometry, calculus, linear algebra, probability theory, f
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by lqet 11mo ago
Click on "settings", and be surprised what "accept all" means. Note: each of the tabs on the left has their own "vendors" you may grant access. In total, there are over 800 toggle switches.
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by lqet 11mo ago
> Exactly a year after the attack, I left Saumlaki in a new boat, crossed to the Kei islands, and then faced the longest lap of island-hopping to New Guinea. Indeed, looking at the map of his route, the longest distance he had to actuall
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by lqet 11mo ago
It isn't, I posted in the wrong comments section, sorry for that!

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