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by wheels 16d ago
Indeed. I've lived in Germany for 25 years, and I had to Google where it is. If 10% of the local town came to visit every year, that'd still only produce 8 visitors per day. The numbers just don't make sense.
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by wheels 1mo ago
As noted in an earlier comment of mine, I have one (actually made for burning weeds) connected to my gas grill tank, and a fancy Japanese one inside. They're honestly pretty rinky-dink. What they are good at is transferring heat just
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by wheels 1mo ago
There's so much written about how to cook a steak well, and I've tried a lot of exotic techniques (I have gas and charcoal grills, tried cooking straight on a chimney starter, have gas torches inside and outside). Most of what re
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by wheels 1mo ago
Agreed. I'm an avid cook. Sous vide circulators are cheap now, and so are meat thermometers. Doing a steak well is one of the easiest cooking tasks, to the extent that I won't bother paying top dollar in a restaurant because it
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by wheels 3mo ago
As I said, it was about the generic widgets. Your memory on the time though was better than mine. I looked up the commit and it was April 9th, 2003.
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by wheels 3mo ago
I'm pretty sure that I was the one that came with the idea for adding them to generic text widgets when I implemented that in KDE (originally to add spell checking in KMail, since spell checking in email clients wasn't a thing yet
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by wheels 3mo ago
I had the same thing happen (though seed round). I don't think it's uncommon. Also never took another meeting with the guy.
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by wheels 4mo ago
A quirky thought: I'm very much an advocate of "free range parenting", and mostly grew up with it myself in the US, and it's what my kids have here in Germany. My 7 year old walks to school alone (in my neighborhood),
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by wheels 5mo ago
Stone fruits (plumbs, apricots, the two most common fruits in rakija) have higher methanol levels: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2e9c/544909602112c2816a956b...
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by wheels 5mo ago
Interestingly, after looking at this more closely, what I said is true of rakija, which is what I'm most familiar with (part of my family is Serbian), but appears to not be significantly true for grain distillates. Your sources mostly
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by wheels 5mo ago
You have no idea what you're talking about. Please Google it.
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by wheels 5mo ago
Batches under a certain size don't have a problem with methanol poisoning. You need a large enough batch that you get a high percentage of methanol in the "heads". Usually for batches under 100L, it's not an issue. A
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Too many kid photos, the Apple Vision Framework, #2 spot in the German App Store(shutterslim.com)
2 points by wheels 8mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: ShutterSnap – uses AI to find and clean up Photos.app similar photos(shutterslim.com)
2 points by wheels 8mo ago|0 comments
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by wheels 10mo ago
This was my thought the first time I heard these talked about on a podcast where it talked about there being infinite cooling ... and I just kind of face-palmed because it was like, "This is being discussed by people who don't kno
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by wheels 1y ago
My fancy basses are a Lakland and a Sandberg (also German). But even, say, Ibanez was doing a lot of interesting stuff with low-cost instruments in the 90s, and on the high end there was Alembic, Modulus, Fodera, Ken Smith, hell, even Musi
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by wheels 1y ago
Pretty much this. They were perfect guitars for the 80s that came out right smack in the middle of 90s grunge. They were shredder guitars right as shredding was going out of fashion. I loved Parkers, even though I was way more a grunge pe
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by wheels 1y ago
They're actually actively subsidized in Germany to make them artificially cheap.
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by wheels 1y ago
Adderall is just speed, which also has a long history of recreational usage. It was a widely used recreational drug decades before it began being used for ADHD.
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by wheels 1y ago
There are a few different orders within the catholic church with some of their own intellectual, practical and traditional differences. Most popes don't come from any of the orders. The last two popes did. That's historically o
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Four decades not sleeping well – until a doctor took my insomnia seriously(theguardian.com)
11 points by wheels 1y ago|6 comments
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by wheels 2y ago
I'm also a Texan in Germany, and my German's good enough that it often takes people a few minutes to notice I'm not a native speaker. (Left the US at 21, am now 44.) I definitely also have a lot of German artifacts in my sp
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American Airlines plane, helicopter collide midair near D.C.-area airport(npr.org)
5 points by wheels 2y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 2y ago
This is the standard way that kids learn to ride bikes in Europe. Apparently the English word for them is "balance bikes". Both my kids could ride one of them when they were 2.
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by wheels 2y ago
Berklee is a music school. There are some fields where being average at a decent school can still result in being pretty successful. By and large, music is not one of them. Being an average music school graduate probably means not gettin
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by wheels 2y ago
I wonder if being location based would be helpful? I'm not actually a heavy phone user, but I would guess that people are mainly using it as a distraction when they're at home or work, and less likely if they're out and abou
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by wheels 2y ago
Yeah, there's something off in the story. I went to public schools in one of the most poorly educated cities in the US and of course we were doing fractions when we were 7. 9th grade (admittedly "honors", so about a year ah
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by wheels 2y ago
I ended up with my first hot tea ever by ordering tea in Mexico, as I would have in Texas. I was very confused when I got a mug of water and a tea bag. I was 15-ish. I'd literally never heard of anyone drinking tea hot. (This was i
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by wheels 2y ago
Yeah, but I bet you don't have iced tea makers there. ;-) Fun fact: growing up in Texas, I'd never seen hot tea until my mid-teens, despite drinking iced tea every day. That's why Brits have electric kettles everywhere. W
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by wheels 2y ago
At least in Berlin, there's a coming surplus of day-care spots. It's a difficult problem because the pay for day-care teachers isn't great, and training one takes several years, but demand is difficult to predict several yea

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