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Comment · 7 days ago
Nitpick: "wenn" is both temporal and conditional, whereas "falls" is only conditional, therefore it is considered good style to use "falls" if you want to make totally clear what you mean. It is, however, perfectly fine to use "wenn" for a konditionalen Nebensatz.
Comment · 29 days ago
Maybe we finally get a working EM drive now as well with all these LLM discoveries.
Comment · 1 month ago
Design document, from the page that links this pdf (http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2008/11/grim-fandango-puzzle-desig...):

"Tim Schafer at Double Fine has posted the puzzle design spec for his classic adventure game, Grim Fandango. It is that game's tenth anniversary; it was released on the Day of the Dead, 1998."

Comment · 3 months ago
Yeah, this happened to me overnight as well. Got the prompt for 18.7.8, and I allowed to install it over night. I wanted to avoid iOS 26 on this aging iPhone 13 Mini I, but hey, a security update sounds great.

Now I woke up today with the iOS 26 Welcome Screen. Great. No way to revert this. Additionally I was on call, and I would bet money that the Welcome Screen meant I was not fully logged in (corroborated by the fact that I had to enter my SIM PIN after completing it). That is really, REALLY user hostile.

Comment · 6 months ago
There is a much more advanced fork of this project: https://github.com/jpirnay/crosspoint-reader

In actuality there are several forks, and the original Crosspoint Reader really got the ball rolling, but now seems to get stuck in discussions. The forks (especially the one I linked) has progressed much further and has better KOReader sync (as in actually syncs to the correct XPath position instead of some close-enough position), bionic reading, streamlined UI, etc. Give that one a shot!

Comment · 9 months ago
Is it cheating, though? I find it is more like bringing the games difficulty down to an acceptable level. I enjoy puzzle games, but often the puzzles boil down to combining everything in your inventory with everything in the game world (in LucasArts terms). That can simply be unfun for some of us in a game we otherwise enjoy. A variant of this is that I would e.g. enjoy open world-ish action combat fantasy games, but I really do not find the Souls like loop of git gud compelling at all, so I... basically don't play these games. But AA or AAA fantasy action games with this kind of presentation are (at the moment) basically only Souls like, so... yeah, great. At least for puzzle games I can "cheat" if one of the puzzles is simply illogical for my way of thinking, so I can skip over that part and go back to enjoying the rest of the game...
Comment · 9 months ago
I remember a different app thats was used on e.g. festivals where the local broadcast cells where overwhelmed when a quite rural area suddenly had to server 50000 to 100000 additional people and 3g and 4G basically stopped working. I think it was called Firechat or something.
Comment · 9 months ago
Now owned by Qualcomm, not exactly know for their open source friendly attitude.
Comment · 1 year ago
That seems to me to be a direct result of too many actors involved in the creation of the Deutschlandticket actually ebing against this ticket, and so those in favor tried to appease them and created this absolut disaster of a booking process. There is no other reason for this otherwise, and it would be trivial to sort this out by e.g. having a validity period of 31 days, or always going until the end of the month and costing only a percentage. But that would be too easy.
Comment · 1 year ago
I was with you until this point, but 1.2 is bigger than 1.10, because 1.2 is a shortened version of writing 1.20 _unless_ you explicitely want these to be version numbers or something like that. The normal expectation would be to treat numbers as, well, mathematical numbers, and not SemVer, especially if we only have one decimal point, don't you think?
Comment · 1 year ago
Just some days ago I found some videos (not sure if on YT or Instagram) from a young women who took over a restaurant from her grandfather, and she was tattooed, had colorful hair, and was a great chef. She faced a lot of backlash in the rural area where this was located due to her looks, and I assume, this is also a problem where young people try once and then forget about it, or don't even try...
Comment · 1 year ago
Huh? Even in Europe most cars are longer than 4m (a VW Golf is 4.28m for example).
Comment · 1 year ago
Just to add this to make it more clear: GrubHub used to belong to the same company as Lieferando, and was only sold at the end of 2024. So in a way this comment is more a "yes, they did it in the US as well".
Comment · 1 year ago
Streaming itself seems to work though, I could just press play on my Sonos system and it just continued with the playback.
Comment · 1 year ago

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