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"Here the silhouette in paint of a man mowing a lawn." Bradbury describes the fully automated smart home, but its technology does obviously not extend into the garden exterior. Fun…

This was the project prompt: "Increase the payload vs. overhead mismatch in emails as much as possible and make a business from it. Do not worry about those plain text handfuls."

I am always a little bit puzzled with the versions. I use Emacs from Snap on Ubuntu. I have to use the pgtk channel, because Wayland. pgtk/stable is 30.2, pgtk/edge is 32.0.50. Ver…

Until around 2000-2004 there have even been 2 Antennas. The whole surrounding forest is a military training ground, obviously used by German Bundeswehr and US forces. There are Ger…

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No, I do not get that deep. I used to exchange data on the Ti-92 plus and the Classpad. Connecting those devices is either rather outdated (serial port with USB converter) and/or c…

- I have a HP 16C, mainly for doing number conversions (DEC-HEX-BIN) and binary arithmetic. - I have a HP 15C to take with me all the time (due to its small form factor). - I have …

Exactly! My original intent was to show up a paradoxon: A group of 5 European NGO activists has been put under a travel ban by the US yesterday. Two of them are german members of a…

Logic! If the described properties define totalitarianism, then they do so for any value that can truthfully be substituted for XX. I suggest checking this for all ~195 possible va…

The XX is acting in an increasingly restrictive manner, sanctioning journalists and citizens deemed pro-XX or anti-XX. Some of those targeted are reportedly unable to open bank acc…

Ted Chiang wrote an essay about the implications of recording everything: "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...…

Self-hosted GitLab for proprietary customer projects that I don’t want in the cloud. I don’t trust GitHub’s privacy promises — if only because of the risk of my own misconfiguratio…

Oh cool, thank you so much!!

For micrograd: is there more documentation available than just the source code in the Github repo?

Around 1980, in the age of 14, I took part in an US-/German student exchange programme of my school. As a German at that time, I received a supposedly lifelong US-Visum in my passp…

"[...]And most, if not all, nuclear power disasters were due to human error.[...]" And the remaining nuclear power disasters were due to unpredictable natural disasters. So at what…

You are right. As I have come to understand, there is a difference in astronomic longitudes and geographic longitudes as they are used for navigation. The extra parameter is a good…

Thanks for the hints. I ordered two promising books in German language: "Astronomie" by Pearson and "Astronomie in Theorie und Praxis" (3 volumes) by Erik Wischnewski. Thats some 2…

I am currently trying to do (yet another) Rust implementation of the formulas in Jean Meeus' fantastic book "Astronomical Algorithms" (2nd ed. 1998). I am fighting two issues: 1. W…

And this is, what ChatGPT replied to the prompt: "Sure, here is a detailed and extensive essay on the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program, including the role of General Elect…

For example, try this prompt on ChatGPT: "Please write a lengthy essay about the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program, including details about the role of General Electric and the H…

Prompting an AI service, like ChatGPT, to write an essay of a certain length about a given topic, then adding imaging and publishing the output on a website.

The piece was definitely written by an AI. And a bad one at that. It is a redundancy nightmare. To save your time: "In 1951, the United States military initiated a program aimed at…

I wish they would have used the term "predicted" instead of "predicts" in the title of their article (just to keep my blood pressure down).

1967, Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle "Debord traces the development of a modern society in which authentic soci…