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If you get run over by a car or bicycle while trying to board a bus outside an official station, or if you trip, the bus company is liable, and the driver will be in very big troub…

The ability of the brain to do that gives me 15 min of quiet time to think about problems each evening. But you cannot follow the story in that mode, and the whole facade will coll…

In 1998, a 4-year old girl broke into a frozen pond in Austria [0]. She was found at the bottom of the lake after 30 minutes, with a body temperature of around 18 °C (so much highe…

Before calling it a day, this chatbot actually apologized for answering 3 hours too late because there were so many request at the moment.

I had the pleasure of communicating with the AI bot of FedEx (in Germany) today: > Everything is sorted out! > Everything is now sorted out, and I hope this solution works well for…

The exception is translation . Translation is what transformers were originally developed for. LLMs shine in translation, and creating code is, after all, a translation from natura…

Yes, predicting the future was never possible. In fact, for most of the time in human history, the future looked incredibly bleak. Yet I am immensely grateful that my ancestors cho…

Here is an original from a German station (in the design of the 1950ies): https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/bahnhofsuhr/343129269...

I am German and live near the Swiss border. My wife is Swiss. I always tell Germans: if you want to get a feeling for the life of an immigrant in Germany, go to a non-touristic reg…

In early 2018, before I had children and with much, MUCH more free time, I bought a used X61, plus a used X60 1400x1050 LCD, a new backlight, new internal stereo speakers, a new ma…

This is something that recently also crossed my mind. I haven't really done frontend developing for at least 10 years know, but I am already old enough to remember the time in the …

> The first is when novices in a field are able to produce work that resembles what their seniors produce [...]. > The second is when people generate artifacts in disciplines they …

> A 2x4 LEGO brick manufactured in 1958 will snap perfectly onto a brick molded this morning in Denmark, China, Hungary, Mexico, or the Czech Republic. In the late 90ies, I regular…

> Firefox is about the only piece of software in my setup that occasionally crashes. I would add Thunderbird to that list.

> has an integration with SAP There is your problem right there. A family member worked for a large German company which used in-house developed software for exchanging and prepari…

> it is appalling how much these people are not interested in who actually gives their enterprise money After we bought our house, the property tax was still billed to the previous…

ALDI TALK offers EU-wide unlimited calls & SMS with 60 GB of data for 69.99 EUR per year . That is 5.80 EUR per month for unlimited calls/SMS and 5 GB of data [0]. I switched last …

We assumed that they charge some kind of penalty fee if you do not show up via your phone number, and this (most likely 3rd party) system only works with UK numbers.