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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 necessarily productive. Also, some kind of duplicate detection would be nice. Searching for "SpongeBob" yields many copies of the same images that mentions "SpongeBob" several times.
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 sequential processing. Sparse sets work well in this context, but they are ultimately an implementation detail. There are other ECS implementations that don't make use of it but can still deal with large throughput.
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 about, since this is not really the case at all. We're not talking about NY-style bodegas here. In Germany for example, cut-throat discount stores like Aldi that constantly try to lower the price floor for groceries are ubiquitous and can definitely be found in dense neighborhoods. Come to think of it, a while ago I read that they started building apartment buildings with a store integrated in the ground floor because that concept works well for them.
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. Also, given how much public money coal for example receives in Germany, I think it is a very reasonable argument that the EEG subsidy should not really be considered a fixed part of the electricity price that could not be moved elsewhere.
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 less than a quarter of it [1]. These taxes do not need to exist and even the "EEG" which subsidizes renewables could be paid via the general budget. Like, for example, power plants could be paid for by the state. The comparison of household prices therefore makes little sense, as it implies the governments are in a race to offer the lowest rates to its population.
[1] https://strom-report.de/medien/strompreis-deutschland-2021.j...
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 either, although some banks are changing this in light of the low/negative interest rates.
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 definitions?
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 average is 20,000/km². From the point of view of most American cities with some obvious exceptions, the difference is probably indeed not that noticeable though.
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verwaltungsgliederung_Berlins
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 guess that will change within the next couple of years.
I have a pretty good experiencce with O2 also, but I'm aware that it can be completely unusable in rural areas. Luckily, I don't really leave the city boundaries much.
EDIT: I just remembered, I used to live in Karlsruhe, and the Real there also had a self-checkout. I haven't lived there since 2016, for what it's worth. Yeah, not sure why it's confined to larger stores. Perhaps not popular enough to warrant sacrificing cash register real estate in smaller stores for it. Germans don't like new things after all.
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.
Self checkouts are definitely a thing here, although typically not in small grocery stores. Larger stores like Edeka, Real, Ikea, Hornbach have them where I live. I'm aware that even the small stores like AH in city centers have them in NL though, which is nice.
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 not a bigger laughing stock in Germany than our trains (Okay, there is BER). The long-distance ones only arrive within 5 minutes 75% of the time [1]. If you have tight transfers to make, that can get very annoying.
I also thought the ICE and non-ICE dichotomy was funny. I would split them into long-distance (IC, ICE, EC) and regional (RE, RB, S-Bahn).
[1] https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/konzernprofil/zahlen... (Db-Fernverkehr tab)
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 this was exactly what I was longing for.
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 firefighters are a huge part of the firefighter workforce in many EU countries including Germany (97%) and France (78%) so I highly doubt what you're insinuating will happen.
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 never get used to it (I was born and raised here).
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Europe_s...
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 user, Freenet Funk offers unlimited data at 1€/day used (so around 30€/month tops). Don't get me wrong, the situation here is still embarrassing, I just wanted to provide some pointers.
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 seems obvious to me, but of course since we're talking about the literal differences of the way human minds can function here, I can see how it might not be to some.
Do you dream at all? I can still picture a lot of scenes from my most vivid dreams.
Do you read fiction? It's hard to imagine what's that like if I can't, well, paint a picture of the scenes you're trying to imagine, like in a movie.
(edited to clarify the last sentence)
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 dynamic typing in C++ would be std::any (although you're still limited by what you can do with the contained object of course, for better or worse).
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, but it's white noise so it's fine. This is not.
EDIT: "On top of that" was bad wording, I do not encounter the double key issue.
I'm interested what this deep G buffer for the order-independent transparency would entail.
However, neural filters only allow a signal to pass to the brain to trigger a conscious response when at least about five to nine arrive within less than 100 ms. If we could consciously see single photons we would experience too much visual "noise" in very low light, so this filter is a necessary adaptation, not a weakness.
Wonder if this is related to what I experience. Visual snow - basically seeing static in your vision, especially at night. I sometimes don't notice it for weeks, but then I just pick up on it again and can't stop noticing. It's still hard for me to believe that it's not normal, given that it happens with any camera ever built, but apparently not many people experience it.
A bit older but this presentation about Killzone 2's usage of the PS3's Cell architecture was pretty neat https://www.guerrilla-games.com/read/the-playstation-3s-spus...
Also, Chrome has proper two finger pinch zooming on touchscreens. Firefox just simulates ctrl+scroll wheel, which is 1. slow and 2. not nearly as useful for the user. But that's not something I use often, I gladly switched over to Firefox again, this new version is really something.
In Japanese those three words could be translated as 分析、本当に、面白い respectively, 8 characters in total - i.e. the same length as just "analysis" in English.
Same here. I honestly didn't expect this, that's a bargain.
What strikes me as incredible is that 44% of Democrats agreed with the original statement. I'm not an American, but isn't that totally incompatible with the party's ideals?
EDIT: The fact that the vast majority of them agreed with the two options that are for redistribution of wealth kind of confirm that, in my opinion.