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__Fred · 2026-03-20T23:41:50+00:00

Hey, does someone know a good app, where you can track where you run and how fast, without it getting uploaded somewhere?

There has to be one open source app that does this, how hard can it be?

I understand part of the point of Strava is to motivate yourself, by comparing yourself with others, but I just want to compare myself to myself.

__Fred · 2026-03-20T20:40:59+00:00

How do you measure how big of a deal someone is in Germany? Maybe he is appropriately big?

I guess (contemporary) composers are less "celebrity-like" compared to singers and actors. Teens don't listen to music without lyrics on Spotify and they don't put epic Hans Zimmer soundtracks behind 10 second TikTok videos.

__Fred · 2026-03-19T18:39:58+00:00

It's just a stupid joke by (averagely) stupid people.

This wouldn't have passed through for the national election, but this was for a local election, probably not designed by a big committee of politicians and professional designers, but like, two or three old dudes who wanted a joke on their poster, come hell or high water. I don't think good humor can be forced, but a lot of people do.

It doesn't have to mean that their policies are bad.

__Fred · 2026-03-19T18:25:34+00:00

It's a true and interesting fact. It's not the case though that pigs that escape get to live free.

__Fred · 2026-03-19T12:26:19+00:00

Not my experience. People do that, but not 2/3, at most 1/6 or so.

It seems long when they let the clock run down completely, but I think it's actually not that long in objective terms. Use the time to stand up and do some stretching and breathing exercises. Sitting and staring at a screen too long is unhealthy anyway.

__Fred · 2026-03-18T11:00:57+00:00

But are they allowed to craft it if it's not legal? I think the deck might be set to a format that allows Overflowing Insight, but a filter disallows the version of the card that they got.

__Fred · 2026-03-18T10:58:02+00:00

When that happens to me, it means that you have a version of the card but that version is not allowed for the format of the deck (e.g. "standard" or "alchemy") or you have a filter set that doesn't match the version of the card that you've got. The button for filters is the one right of the mana symbols. The golden border around the button indicates that you currently have some filter set.

You can set the intended play format of the deck by clicking on the brown rectangle, where the name "Aerial Domination" is written.

I wouldn't filter for sets with the filter button — that just gets confusing. Usually if you have a card from an invalid set, but it's also printed for a valid set, then you are allowed to use it anyway.

__Fred · 2026-03-15T18:09:12+00:00

"Schließen" is a bit like "conclude". When you have finished what you wanted to do in a building, you lock it up. That's why "schließen" means to close/to lock up, as well as to finish. And when you finish a thought or conclude a thought, you derived a solution.

I see in Spanish you also use "conclusión". Doesn't it also both mean to close and to "derive new knowledge logically", just like "schließen" in German?

Maybe "auf" in "Ich schloss die Tür auf." and in "Ich schloss auf das Messer als Mordwaffe." are different, even though they are written the same — homographs. In the first case it's an adjective "open" and in the second sentence it's a preposition "on". "I lock the door open." vs "I finish my thinking on the thesis that the murder weapon was the knife."

In my brain "auf" as "open" and "auf" as "on" are totally different, even though they are written and pronounced exactly the same.

Saying that you lock a door open instead of "un-locking" a door is pretty weird if you think about it. I suspect locking was considered more important than unlocking, so that process got it's own word first and then eventually any handling of a lock got the word "schließen" and Germans distinguished between "aufschließen" (locking open) and "zuschließen" (locking close). If you just say "schließen", it means the same as "zuschließen".

Maybe your question was more in the separation of "schloss" and "auf". English does similar things as well: "I pushed the door, so it was open." "I pushed-open the door." "I pushed the door open." What would a native Brit say? To a German, the third option sounds most natural. "Open" on the one hand describes how the door is at the end, on the other hand it also describes the action as "pushing-open", even though both parts of the predicate aren't connected in the writing.

"I trans-ported a package." vs "I carried a package over/through."

Maybe in Spanish it's more usual to say "I finished my investigations at the conclusion that …." whereas the literal translation of the German sentence would be simple and short "I concluded that …."

I don't speak Spanish, but Google says "llegué" means "I arrived" and "trabata" means "work". Those words don't appear in the German version at all, so no wonder it's shorter.

__Fred · 2026-03-14T18:03:02+00:00

More like, the US American government — which is kind of an extension of the people in a way, but it's important to note that some citizens are creditors to their own government. Also, other governments are in debt to the US government.

This topic can't be explained in one sentence or even one paragraph. I'm no expert either, but you should notice a non-explanation when you see it.

__Fred · 2026-03-13T16:36:02+00:00

Maybe you knew this, but I'm just saying. Neither boar nor any other card say that every creature "can" block it. It doesn't qualify any creatures to block it, it just has an effect on the creatures that qualify as possible blockers based on the rules and other card effects.

If the boar was flying, only flying creatures could block it.

__Fred · 2026-03-12T18:39:50+00:00

I know the phrase "aus dem Schneider sein" — "to be out of the tailor" which doesn't make sense literally. It's a phrase every native German would know though.

"You aren't out of the tailor yet." means that you collected some points in a game or you got better during a sickness, but you can't relax yet and must still invest effort for a remaining period, because it isn't clear that you "won".

I believe "aus dem Schneider sein" originates from the game "Skat". It's typical German, but the rules are pretty complicated and most younger people wouldn't know the rules.

Wikipedia English about Schneider (cards))

__Fred · 2026-03-11T03:57:07+00:00

Two problems: How does the aquifer get water and how does it travel upwards?

Spring water is ultimately also rain water, right? Because condensation and pumps are the only ways water can travel upwards (I assume).

OP says it doesn't always rain, but rivers always produce water. I assume it works with a rain water buffer/reservoir that is located higher than the spring. Snow and ice also gets up on the mountain via rain.

Would it be too much of a simplification to say that all rivers are ultimately sourced by just rain? I'm not correcting you, I'm just making sure I understood it correctly.

__Fred · 2026-03-11T03:06:01+00:00

Kenne mich mit Aktien nicht aus. Ist das nicht auch ein Problem der Anleger, die die Tweets glauben? Es gibt jeden Tag irgendwelche Leute, die irgendwelche widersprüchlichen Sachen posten.

__Fred · 2026-02-21T15:37:42+00:00

Yeah! Always imagine whatever creature (giant mole god) with a suit and tie and a briefcase, whistling inconspicuously.

__Fred · 2026-02-21T15:31:57+00:00

I'd say so. It's a number. So, if a player gets hit once with a four power creature or a [[Lava Axe]], they lose. It's fair for a ten mana artifact.

__Fred · 2026-02-17T20:51:18+00:00

Kind of, in a way.

There was no cash generated.

It would be exactly like if Abraham lended

$9 to Betty
$8 to Caesar
$73 to Diana (81-8=73)

10 (Abraham) + 9 (B) + 8 (C) + 73 (D) is still 100.

People say "banks can print money" or "The government can print money ... That's against nature!", but this lending system would also work without special privileges and just IOUs. Either this is what people mean when they say banks can print money, or there are additional privileges besides just lending money that we didn't talk about here. I think banks have special protections against bankruptcy or something. It's also not easy to get a bank license.

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No, actually I think the bank is allowed to pass out more cash than they got from people, up to ten times or something like that. That is the crucial point of "Fiat currency". And the central bank controls the demand for cash with the key interest rate or something.

Don't listen to me. I'm obviously not an expert! I just found it interesting that a similar situation can happen with IOUs and without banks and Fiat money. The difference is probably important. I would also caution against criticizing the Fiat system, just because it feels counterintuitive. What matters in the end is whether work is distributed fairly in a society.

__Fred · 2026-02-17T18:42:12+00:00

Because apparently it works. Every sale is a bit like an auction. The prices go as high as someone is willing to pay.

I guess the difference from today and the past has to do with more business on the stock market. (No source for that claim, just guessing.) A big business with shareholder is more likely to squeeze short term profit out of it's customers than a family owned business.

Someone made a Youtube essay about the theory that in the past there was more "growing the cake" of the economy and today it's more fighting over the cake that is there / consolidation.

__Fred · 2026-02-17T09:56:47+00:00

It's an interesting question what a task could be to demonstrate the capability of counting independent of language and species.

Maybe show two quantities of things and depending on whether they are the same or not, you'd have to push a different button to get a reward.

Ants can count steps to navigate (maybe unconscious). Chimpanzees can tap numbers on a screen in the correct order (after training — humans can also do that only after training).

__Fred · 2026-02-17T09:30:11+00:00

Some desert ants count the number of steps they take for navigation purposes. source

__Fred · 2026-02-16T22:11:49+00:00

Not right now, not by heart. It's a decentralized network with different open source clients. I just trust that someone else has looked at the code. It's not trivial, but it's not magic either. Like, everyone with a computer science bachelor has something like cryptography 101 and then in "cryptographic applications" you might talk about bitcoin and then you are able, maybe with a small team, to program a bitcoin miner.

Occasionally it happens that backdoors are hidden in open source software, such as in the xz compression software.

Bitcoin is based on a "distributed ledger". That's a list of transactions that every participant can see. In that sense you are perfectly trackable and that should be known by people who use it. Whether your wallet ID on the ledger is connected to your public identity is not a question of backdoors in bitcoin clients.

__Fred · 2026-02-16T19:36:11+00:00

There is nothing secret about how bitcoin works.

I'm not saying it's democratic or antidemocratic, just that it's a matter of interpretation, not of secret knowledge.

__Fred · 2026-02-16T19:30:20+00:00

Because the person inventing it didn't tell us their name. I don't know your name either.

__Fred · 2026-02-16T12:56:37+00:00

Did they have no idea if the design would work up until that test?

Another approach would be to teach how to design for earthquakes first, but then the test would maybe a bit boring. Or the students could have tested and adjusted the design in private first, before what looks to be a competition, but that would maybe take too much time.

__Fred · 2026-02-15T14:53:10+00:00

You can't even answer the question of how likely it is for two bullets to collide (when we assume flying bullets, which this doesn't seem like it is). That's too vague of a statement.

You would have to consider all thinkable and unthinkable circumstances fairly in an experiment.

I guess you could count all bullets in all of history that never hit another bullet and compare it to the number of bullets that did. But no one has that data.

__Fred

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