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[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

scroll thru this list and see whether you can spot a matching image or silhoutte:

https://hortica.de/flugbilder-von-heimischen-greifvoegeln/

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Correct. Photo was taken at a British hospital in 1940.

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[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

The European Central Bank has been working on this for many years. The current crisis is not the cause but may significantly speed up resources dedicated and raise urgency of the process.

It's been some time since I read thru the proposals of the European Central Bank. But a digital euro isn't just a replacement for a credit card system. It's a difference system altogether where transactions are directly cleared with the central bank (or a certified agent) online.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Feeling confused, amused, bewildered or overwhelmed yet? It's working then, it's the Trump team's strategy.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Merci beaucoup. J'aime bien lire tes memes pour apprendre en peu de français. Et c'est les "vrais" français comme il est parlais pour les gens vivant, pas l'éstile trops formale trouvé dans les libres de la école. 🤗

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

Ultimately it's because of corruption. When chancellor Kohl was incumbent it was clear that fibre optics is the future. He instead pushed for the technically inferior alternative of cable internet to satisfy his business buddies.

That being said, Germany's not only lagging behind in connectivity but in digital infrastructure in general. Many businesses and especially the administration are still stuck in the previous century. Plus there's a considerable lack of IT knowhow (and herhaps interest) in the general populace. Travellers from countries like Estonia or Finland must feel like having traveled back into the past 20 years.

I'm still using a fax machine to send messages to the local government cause they can't properly handle email yet, lol. Called the hospital the other day due to some info missing on their website. Had a very confusing convo with their staff cause the lady genuinely didn't understand the difference between a website, a browser, Google and a search bar widget and kept confounding them. That's where we are at 🤷🏽.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sure, a skilled human is still better at the job. But you don't always need to capture every nuance. And AI does it at the fraction of the cost.

I see this with lots of German product descriptions on big store fronts like Amazon. They often seem entirely machine translated. It's not great, but "good enough" and serviceable.

Machine translation also increasingly shifts the process from the sender of the message to the recipient. It used to be that the web page of a Vietnamese company was inaccessible if you didn't speak Vietnamese or they specifically had an English version. Nowadays a visitor can choose to get the entire site translated automatically (by the browser, for instance). Is it as good as the translation by an expert? Of course not. But it costs the company nothing at all and the visitor a negligible amount. And it works for a plethora of languages.

That's another (invisible) way that the world needs less and less translators. I wrote this post in English but for all I know someone could be reading it in French or Bengali. No further input required from my side.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Amazing. Today I learned not only something about owls but also about my own anatomy.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, when I need to inspect lots of images I just open the folder in gwenview.

For peeking at a single picture or two through you can hold down control and click/hover on the filename when using Konsole. Love that feature. You can even listen to .wav files this way.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Knew about Python's Turtle drawing module but never knew that it was based on an actual physical toy. Both are great learning tools, I guess. Neat.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

j'aime bien votre estile low pixel 🙂

 

I'm writing a fish script to process the output of music tagging programs (like operon). I use this for instance to list the filenames of all music tracks in a collection that are missing certain tags like a date of release or which have a CD number tag but no tracknumber tag.

Unfortunately the output I'm parsing may control control characters // escape sequences. This caused me quite a lot of headache during debugging.

Take the following string for instance: it will display as tracknumber (including the leading whitespace` in my terminal. The word itself only has 11 characters so naturally I tried to call string trim on it, but that doesn't actually alter it because on closer inspection the character sequence looks like this:

string_value= tracknumber
string_length=16
0:
:[
2:0
3:m
4:
5:t
6:r
7:a
8:c
9:k
10:n
11:u
12:m
13:b
14:e
15:r

As you can see it starts with a terminal escape sequence which is rendered as a whitespace.

Is there an easy way to strip any and all escape sequences from a variable? I used regular expression search and replace with some success, but that seems quite a brittle approach as I can't anticipate every single (edge) case and could also accidentally remove stuff I want to keep.

 
[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

If you need it precise and adjustable use 2 layers and concentrate them with the alignment tool.

 

feedback appreciated

I tried different brushes and strokes on different crystals, ¿which ones look best you?

 

source: https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/colorful-river-basin-maps/

It has more detailed maps for each continent too.

 

Trying to emulate the style of traditional landscape printing my grand parents had at their house. I guess those must have been painting with oil (I wouldn't know).

 

I often write multiple statements on the same logical line. For instance short loops that converts one image format to another.

Is there a way to bring up tab completions or history search for subsequent statements? After beginning a new command with ; && &or | I want to be able to make use of suggestions again.

 

Oh Harambe, ¿what did we do to you?

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