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msiemens

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    Comment #48472082

    Link to the ruling (in German, obviously), since the page seems have to been hugged: https://the-decoder.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/26_O_869_2...

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    Comment #48320671

    Same here. I've been scraping the data from my Garmin watch for years with very little problems (first with https://github.com/tcgoetz/GarminDB , then https://github.com/sealbro/do…

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    Comment #48223616

    > the wording is not human at all Or they are not a native speaker. I guess it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't situation". Use a LLM to clean up your own prose? Bad. Pos…

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    Comment #47410764

    Honestly, it's even more funny than I expected Input: F*ck you Output: > I’m not sure we’re aligned on this, so let’s circle back when our priorities are better synchronized. Alter…

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    Comment #41015942

    I know it's this is a rather long tangent and not the main point of the article, but regarding "Docker Swarm over Kubernetes", I've had a ton of bad experiences at my employer runn…

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    Comment #39464108

    A few German companies: - Aldi (supermarket chain), founded by the Albrecht brothers, thus AL brecht DI skont - Adidas, founded by AD olf DAS sler - Mercedes-Benz, named by Emil Je…

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    Comment #35583398

    Another recommendatation in a similar vein: The Brady Heywood Podcast's Apollo 13 series [1]. It's almost 6 hours in total, includes a lot of original voice recordings and explains…

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    Comment #27676514

    After seeing the demos my biggest question is: how will this not lead to people just accepting whatever GitHub Copilot suggests while introducing subtle yet catastrophic errors? Ba…

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    Comment #27652307

    I brought down production for a project — by running the deployment CI pipeline for already deployed commit. A couple of minutes later, production was thoroughly dead. Turned out t…

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    Comment #26681545

    > JSON, which is [...] unambiguous about its types With the one exception that with floatig point values the precision is not specified in the JSON spec and thus is implementation …

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    Comment #26229835

    > Easy and simple are near-universally conflated. That’s an interesting statement as it doesn’t always work in other languages. In German (my native language) my first instinct was…

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    Comment #25312822

    I've talked to a couple of homeless people in a large city in Germany and the impression I seems to largely match your assertion. Most people I talked to who are homeless were from…

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    Comment #25104573

    As the maintainer of a moderately popular project on GitHub I'm torn in this. I often get issues where I try to solve the user's problem and think I have answered the question or p…

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    Comment #22038630

    I guess it depends. I have a German engineering degree and took a business administration course as a part of that. And in one of the first lectures our professor told us that The …

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    Comment #14337422

    Did you consider putting the "center" of the detector somewhere other than in the middle of the vector? what would happen if you had 6 before, and 2 after, or 5 before, and 3 after…

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    Comment #14337284

    That word would be Nahrungsmittelunverträglichkeit again. I just tested it and LaTeX (with `\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}`) does the same mistake as pyphen in the article (it hyphena…

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    Comment #11609144

    I guess I can see why many researchers are not inclined to publish their code. I've worked as a research assistant in the institute of microelectronics of my university for a year …

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