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Very cool project! I'll try to remember it the next time I'm looking for a specific image. I noticed that repeated appearances of the search term are ranked higher, which isn't nec…

If your tabs are 10µg but you've experienced ego death, does that mean you sometimes eat like 20 tabs in one sitting...?

I don't think there is a fundamental difference. ECS is the application of relational databases in a dynamic real-time context with relatively modest amounts of data, but lots of s…

>I'm guessing you pay significantly more for food at these local places than you would at a big box grocery store. I think you have a very wrong picture of what the GP is talking a…

George RR Martin still writes his books with the DOS program WordStar. Given the pace he releases books at, this might more be out of preference than desire to focus though...

>Germany imposes such high taxes because they have such massive subsidies for producers. Even without the EEG, the electricity price would be among the highest in all of Europe. Al…

The source refers to retail electricity prices and thus doesn't apply here. The German electricity price is subject to lots of different taxes and fees; energy generation makes up …

I'm not sure why you're trying to say here. Pretty much every German and most definitely every merchant has a bank account. Personally I've never had an account that wasn't free ei…

The front page sample does not explicitly use the Point type in the declaration of p. Typo or does the compiler actually match table variable definitions to available type definiti…

Even the (by far) most dense borough of Berlin is only at 14,373/km²[1], though. That's considerably lower than almost all of the Parisian boroughs[2]. Even the whole city's averag…

No, only licensed taxis.

I live in the Ruhr area. They're definitely still relatively rare (I haven't seen them in the most common stores like Aldi, Rewe), so it's not too surprising you've missed them. I …

I was actually almost happy when the other day, my train in the Netherlands got cancelled and I had to wait a full hour for another connection. Good to know you're human as well. S…

Regarding the trains, >They are usually on time and cover basically everywhere worth visiting in Europe. He has a very ungerman definition of usually on time :) There's probably no…

Very cool! This is the level of abstraction I was longing for when pretending to make a game. I'll check this out the next time I get an itch.

I just want to say, thanks for posting this! I was just playing Minecraft before reading your post yesterday, after a long break (months to years of barely playing at all), and thi…

A quick Google search tells me that the "new regulation" re firefighters you're talking about is a recent court ruling about the working time directive from 2003. Volunteer firefig…

Meanwhile, being from the northwest of Germany, moving to Sweden would apparently be an upgrade for me[1]. :( It really is quite grim here for a good portion of the year and I will…

For what it's worth, on O2 there are a ton of better deals than that. Just checked winsim.de for example, 3GB for 8€, 6GB for 13€ a month with no minimum runtime. If you're a power…

There has been some research on this: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/...

A few counter-questions to poke at your hypothesis: Are you able to imagine sound? To me, imagining and hearing sound, and imagining and seeing images are equivalent relations. It …

auto types really don't have anything to do with dynamic typing, in fact I would argue type deduction is an important tool in making static typing more attractive. An example of dy…

On top of that, mine (Yoga 910) has an incredibly sensitive fan that not only gets loud easily, but also has a very high pitched frequency. My desktop computer gets loud easily, bu…

I'm interested what this deep G buffer for the order-independent transparency would entail.