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by macbr 1mo ago
Note that even before it's been running at down to 10% of capacity due to the draught.
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by macbr 8mo ago
You don’t have to keep feeding the chicken/pigs/etc. if you stop eating chicken/pigs/etc. Most livestock is fed food specifically grown to feed livestock.
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by macbr 8mo ago
Creutzfeldt-Jacob can be tested for using the RT-QuIC test[1] where a positive result guarantees with near certainty that misfolded prions are present. But as the disease is defined via the physical changes in brain tissue only obtainable v
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by macbr 9mo ago
You're right but there has been some progress in that matter. I.e. streaming providers can't stop you from watching Germany exclusive Netflix content when on holidays in Greece using your German Netflix subscription (only free&#x2
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by macbr 9mo ago
> physics is what you study if you couldn't do engineering Wdym "couldn't do"? Nobody here is studying Physics for the job opportunities but I'd say everybody who makes it past semester 4 genuinely loves Physics
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by macbr 9mo ago
I record my travels using travelynx and this is how Deutsche Bahn has been faring: - 2022: 15512 km travelled, spent 150:23 in trains, timetable: 148:42 - 2023: 9818 km travelled, spent 121:01 in trains, timetable: 118:39 - 2024: 11614 km t
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by macbr 11mo ago
Google, including Google Flights, does have a cookie banner. It's just likely that you already accepted/denied the prompt at some point.
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by macbr 1y ago
To be fair: if you're doing a Masters degree the grade you end up getting on your Bachelors degree is pretty unimportant and Masters usually isn't graded that harshly. But yeah, we had exams with 70% failing.
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by macbr 1y ago
A Fachhochschule (Wikipedia calls them "university of applied sciences") in Germany is very similar to a university but as they're less research oriented and usually (with some notable exceptions) don't have the ability
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by macbr 1y ago
Not just Asia. E.g. in Congo it's tradition to see the spouse's siblings as sisters and brothers. There it goes both ways though. (Not sure it's embedded into law.)
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by macbr 1y ago
At least with the Venus probes they were only publicly announced when they were well on their way to Venus with failures either not getting published or getting assigned alibi mission goals (e.g. if they failed to leave earth's orbit)
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by macbr 2y ago
From the Wikipedia page: > The frequency initially chosen for Galileo would have made it impossible for the US to block the Galileo signals without also interfering with its own GPS signals. [...], but they have since reached the comprom
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by macbr 2y ago
In the case of the Minecraft mod Sodium, which replaces much of Minecraft's rendering internals, Nvidia optimisations caused the game to crash. So the mod devs had to implement workarounds to stop the driver from detecting that Minecra
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by macbr 2y ago
Developing a new train platform takes a lot of time but Siemen’s Velaro Novo platform (in development since 2013 and presented 2018) uses PMM motors[1]. Siemens has been trialing PMM motors since at least 2003[2]. [1] https://www
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by macbr 2y ago
Their source is the “The Economist Democracy Index” [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
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by macbr 2y ago
It’s not like mental health is going super well in European countries either Germany [1]: > The average waiting time from the initial consultation to the start of therapy is 142.4 days. [1]: https://www.bptk.de/pressemitt
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by macbr 2y ago
NOYB is a non governmental organisation which initiated many of the investigations against Meta. E.g. they recently filed a complaint against the social media app BeReal for not taking no for an answer and continuesly asking for permission
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by macbr 2y ago
Oh, yeah. No non-ASCII in the “machine readable” part. Though I’ve never seen anything use that section. My national id card also has a “machine readable” section – but that doesn’t even contain my whole name: It’s just cut off after 20 let
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by macbr 2y ago
I’m confused – my name as written on my passport definitely contains non ASCII characters?
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by macbr 2y ago
I’m aware of a party in Germany which, at some levels, uses Nextcloud to great success so I could imagine them pushing for it in their fraction. No idea why that wouldn’t work though given that they have tons of experience
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by macbr 2y ago
The main reason the Apollo program wouldn't happen today is safety: The first Apollo test (unfueled) had three astronauts die due to an electrical fire! At the time Apollo 10 launched the lunar module wasn't finished yet (they wou
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by macbr 2y ago
For some high speed routes there’s a limit on how many carriages one attendant can supervise (maybe to ensure timely evacuation?) so a 12 carriage ICE train needs 3 attendants to fully operate.
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by macbr 2y ago
Having read through the links you provided: You are comparing two different things. DB’s Reisendenpünktlichkeit takes in delays caused by missed connections etc. SBB’s 3 minute delay are just the individual train delays. For that DB has a s
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by macbr 2y ago
Note that trains to Zurich and Basel SBB then end in Basel Bad (or sometimes they let it go to Basel SBB). It’s a separate train station in Basel which is run by Deutsche Bahn so it’s not literally “turning back at the border”. IIRC Swiss p
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by macbr 2y ago
Diesel-Locomotives (and apparently submarines?) use that concept a lot in the form of a diesel-electric power train[1]. Mechanical transmissions like in cars were only in use for a very short time. (You didn’t need them for steam locomotive
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by macbr 2y ago
As someone studying Physics (Bachelor) in Germany Jackson is what my electrodynamics professor recommended. My professor greatly shortened the chapter maxwell in matter and opted to give an intro into quantum electrodynamics instead. At my