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Odenwaelder

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About Odenwaelder

I wish I had git for my life.

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    I did something similar with a receipt printer, an Arduino and a PHP script in 2011. It got replaced by an iPhone very soon after, but I'm thinking of reviving it, because it force…

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    Comment #40245662

    The latest version of paperless-ngx can rotate documents. Check it out!

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    Comment #28129989

    Neither is a car or a dishwasher. Yet, they are convenient to have.

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    Comment #28127514

    How well does this work as a daily driver? I heavily rely on my smartphone.

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    Comment #28127390

    What did you switch to? Google? Are they handling this issue any better? Or are you using a dumbphone?

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    Comment #28127377

    Maybe someone can comment on this: Does Google scan the cloud fotos of its users for CP? Have we seen an uptick of false positives/SWATings since they do that? Apple is - rightfull…

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    Comment #27122104

    I, for one, don't like losing my keys or umbrella and really like AirTags.

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    Comment #26521740

    This browser plugin automatically accepted a Notion.so pop up to upgrade to enterprise plan. Beware of this plugin!

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    Comment #25257790

    I have no idea what you are talking about.

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    Comment #24987302

    You age inevitably, because your genetic code will degrade over time, increasing the chances for malignacy. If you can reverse that in each of the 10^16 cells in your body, you wil…

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    Comment #21802613

    echo "KW"$(date +"%V") Super useful for me!

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    Comment #21483906

    A wearable captcha!

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    Comment #21410222

    Depends on how deep you want to go. You need to find out what people are working on, and you do this by searching on PubMed and talking to people working in that field.

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    Comment #21410201

    There is a huge gap between having knowledge from books and being able to do original research, let alone solving a biomedical niche problem using CRISPR. This gap is usually fille…

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    Comment #21409645

    1) Not enough for starting a biotech startup as OP would like to do. Having a PhD means that you've spent years on a certain subject. You cannot just read a book and be up to speed…

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    Comment #21409372

    In biology, the problem space is extremely vast and very hard to understand. I have a PhD in biology and find computer science relatively logical and simple. You can just look thin…

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    Comment #21388186

    I wasn't thinking of the end user experience, but more of the developer experience. I'm wondering why such a clause is even written in CoCs.

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    Comment #21387906

    Genuinely interested: How are gender identity, race, ethnicity, etc. of any relevance in Open Source Projects? Is this a regular topic of discussion besides the code?

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    Comment #21185343

    "Content Overload: Accommodations have very rich content, e.g.descriptions, pictures, reviews and ratings." Laughed at that one. Booking.com is so full of dark patterns that I drea…

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    Comment #20745359

    Chemolithoautotrophy is the technical term and while it is very interesting that more of these lifeforms are discovered, it isn't a new thing.

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    Comment #20390259

    Check out the relevant Reddits r/homeassistant and r/homeautomation. I started using Home Assistant a year ago and it has become a fun hobby.

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    Comment #20322836

    I'm fascinated about the degree of automation. It seems that all the necessary computations are made and presented on that website. I would love to learn more about this and their …

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    Comment #20261757

    The problem with this approach is: You don't know if this lifestyle caused you reaching a certain age, there is no scientific basis whatsoever. Which turns it into a religion.

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    Comment #19946388

    They didn't enter the barcodes from memory, they entered the price of the item from memory. That alone is a feat, though.