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> I always wonder how Germans view Kraftwerk, as a Brit they feel as important as the Beatles. They are hardly present in the public eye. Most people don't know them, except perhap…

The pocket operators and the EP-133 sampler are fairly priced.

I think the explanation is simple: The first link is usually the category of the article's lemma. Or something else which is a more general or abstract word. Following the links yo…

Or use nylon strings for concert guitars.

Why the snarky tone? MS Copilot is a mixture of enhanced search, ChatGPT like chat and Dall-E 3 for image generation, but without the need to create an account (only for image gene…

You are of course free to have fun with the OP-1, but I found it to block my creativity when I constantly have to work around the omnipresent petty limitations like 4 tracks, 1 eff…

Let my guess: the singer suddenly started to sing in time?

To be fair, the advertising of the knob sounds like trolling to me, but honestly, it's hard to tell if serious or not.

Of course world cities like Tokyo, London or Paris are known for all sorts of things other than sports, that's why they are world cities. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure German …

Regarding the Arctic ground squirrels: > the water inside the squirrels becomes a supercooled liquid. Does that mean that if you grab a squirrel and shake it, it freezes instantly?…

I'm German and I felt very alien as well when I visited. It is an historical monument. People don't go there to commemorate the Völkerschlacht (the small museum nearby is better su…

Does there have to be a special reason? Being naked or not is something which people do mostly because other people do it (like many other things). It's an inherently unstable syst…

Quickly peel an egg by tapping it on and rolling it over the table first so that the shell breaks into small pieces.

I'm curious, do you mind expanding on the fallacy? I read the book you mentioned some years ago but don't know what you mean.

You're lucky if this is common sense for you. Sadly, for me, coming from a family where bad mood and malice is daily fare, this book was an eye opener.

Reminds me how (allegedly) in the middle ages long lasting contracts where made: tell the text of the contract to a kid (better memory than older persons and more likely to survive…

Free alternative: http://www.myscriptfont.com/ Althoug I had to edit my scan in Gimp several times before a decent and usable font came out.

I read about a similar effect in one of Richard Wiseman's books: Look into a big mirror with no light in the room except for a small lamp behind yourself. After one minute, your fa…

OK, you don't build a complete project, but it's a similar approach: Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/ Here, you learn st…

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grok

Correction: - the next sun is 2000km away

When I was bored some time ago I did the math just to have a picture in mind what the solar system would look like when the sun is a ball of 10cm diameter. I made no fancy visualiz…

He argues that 1 is a biggest natural number, too. For example, in Rust, you have a problem, if you want to enumerate all possible byte values: for i in 0u8..256 { } //

You can convert your wiki files to HTML, but you have to do the publishing part on your own.