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by msiemens 3mo ago
Link to the ruling (in German, obviously), since the page seems have to been hugged: https://the-decoder.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/26_O_869_2...
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by msiemens 4mo ago
Same here. I've been scraping the data from my Garmin watch for years with very little problems (first with https://github.com/tcgoetz/GarminDB , then https://github.com/sealbro/dotnet.garmin.c
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by msiemens 4mo ago
> the wording is not human at all Or they are not a native speaker. I guess it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't situation". Use a LLM to clean up your own prose? Bad. Post your unedited (or self-edited) pros
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Decoding OneNote's File Format Secrets(m-siemens.de)
3 points by msiemens 4mo ago|0 comments
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by msiemens 6mo ago
Honestly, it's even more funny than I expected Input: F*ck you Output: > I’m not sure we’re aligned on this, so let’s circle back when our priorities are better synchronized. Alternatives: > I’ll take that under advisement and lo
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by msiemens 2y ago
I know it's this is a rather long tangent and not the main point of the article, but regarding "Docker Swarm over Kubernetes", I've had a ton of bad experiences at my employer running a production Swarm cluster. Among th
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by msiemens 3y ago
A few German companies: - Aldi (supermarket chain), founded by the Albrecht brothers, thus AL brecht DI skont - Adidas, founded by AD olf DAS sler - Mercedes-Benz, named by Emil Jellinek-Mercedes after his daughter Mercedes, initially w
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by msiemens 3y ago
Another recommendatation in a similar vein: The Brady Heywood Podcast's Apollo 13 series [1]. It's almost 6 hours in total, includes a lot of original voice recordings and explains a lot about what's going on in the backgroun
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by msiemens 5y ago
After seeing the demos my biggest question is: how will this not lead to people just accepting whatever GitHub Copilot suggests while introducing subtle yet catastrophic errors? Basically, how is this not going to become an alternative to j
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by msiemens 5y ago
I brought down production for a project — by running the deployment CI pipeline for already deployed commit. A couple of minutes later, production was thoroughly dead. Turned out that my coworker had set up the CI process to use a PHP-based
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Why Specifications Don't Compose(hillelwayne.com)
111 points by msiemens 5y ago|63 comments
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by msiemens 5y ago
> JSON, which is [...] unambiguous about its types With the one exception that with floatig point values the precision is not specified in the JSON spec and thus is implementation defined[1] which may lead to its own issues and corner ca
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by msiemens 6y ago
> Easy and simple are near-universally conflated. That’s an interesting statement as it doesn’t always work in other languages. In German (my native language) my first instinct was to translate both words as “einfach” which contains both
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by msiemens 6y ago
I've talked to a couple of homeless people in a large city in Germany and the impression I seems to largely match your assertion. Most people I talked to who are homeless were from eastern Europe who tried to make a better living in Ge
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by msiemens 6y ago
As the maintainer of a moderately popular project on GitHub I'm torn in this. I often get issues where I try to solve the user's problem and think I have answered the question or provided a solution, but don't get any reply f
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Show HN: Convert OneNote Notebooks to HTML(github.com)
1 points by msiemens 6y ago|0 comments
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Developer Experience as a Competitive Advantage(erikbern.com)
2 points by msiemens 6y ago|0 comments
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GitHub Availability July 2020(github.blog)
5 points by msiemens 6y ago|0 comments
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Solving Uninitialized Stack Memory on Windows(msrc-blog.microsoft.com)
3 points by msiemens 6y ago|0 comments
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by msiemens 7y ago
I guess it depends. I have a German engineering degree and took a business administration course as a part of that. And in one of the first lectures our professor told us that The formal goal of the company is to maximize profit . Which se
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by msiemens 9y ago
Did you consider putting the "center" of the detector somewhere other than in the middle of the vector? what would happen if you had 6 before, and 2 after, or 5 before, and 3 after? Another thought I had: for performance reason
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by msiemens 9y ago
That word would be Nahrungsmittelunverträglichkeit again. I just tested it and LaTeX (with `\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}`) does the same mistake as pyphen in the article (it hyphenates the word as Nah-rung-smit-telun-ver-träg-lichkeit ).
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HypheNN-De: German Hyphenation with Neural Networks(blog.m-siemens.de)
40 points by msiemens 9y ago|10 comments
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by msiemens 10y ago
I guess I can see why many researchers are not inclined to publish their code. I've worked as a research assistant in the institute of microelectronics of my university for a year and the code quality was somewhere between mediocre and
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Exploring Computers: Stacking and Overflowing(blog.m-siemens.de)
2 points by msiemens 12y ago|0 comments
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Hackers and Engineering School(blog.seancassidy.me)
1 points by msiemens 12y ago|0 comments
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by msiemens 12y ago
Fun fact: mitsuhiko also asked a fork of Tip4Commit to remove his projects. Now their page states [1]: > This project has been disabled. It doesn't accept donation and it will not distribute tips. > Reason: Project author request
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Porting rr to x86-64(blog.mozilla.org)
119 points by msiemens 12y ago|9 comments
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Ask HN: Feedback for small Python DB
7 points by msiemens 13y ago|1 comments