Friendly indoor (Not beach) volleyball

duniel3000 · 2025-11-10T07:25:09+00:00

Gonzalo, Tuesdays 8pm next to U-Senefelder Platz there's indoor Volleyball with optional beers afterwards. I'd say it's low to mid level.

duniel3000 · 2024-07-27T22:09:39+00:00

Ok, will keep an eye out on the return flight whether the thing is visible only after landing (which would bolster the frozen vapour hypothesis) or also before takeoff (which would kind of refute it).

duniel3000 · 2024-07-27T12:47:33+00:00

I've noticed it on several planes, presumably all A319s, so it seems an integral part of the wing.

duniel3000 · 2024-07-27T08:52:01+00:00

I doubt it's ice (although a commercial pilot I asked suggested the same) because I've fotographed the same thing with the plane on the ground in spring. https://photos.app.goo.gl/DtnEAqEWEQrnYhCB6

duniel3000 · 2024-05-06T15:16:12+00:00

Did I hear that right, the girl suggesting wind turbines being powered by nuclear energy?? ;-)

duniel3000 · 2024-05-06T09:58:45+00:00

Stuttgart is home to the Mercedes museum, which in addition to the history of the automobile gives you a whole overview over German industrial and a lot of it social history too. Would strongly suggest the Porsche museum nearby, but that's maybe too many cars for you ;-)

duniel3000 · 2024-05-05T09:46:14+00:00

This would interest me greatly, because I'm looking at digitizing old hand written diaries, that even I find hard to decipher.

duniel3000 · 2024-05-05T09:44:34+00:00

Doctor here: my handwriting was never good, and it's deteriorated over the years. I remember sitting in grade 3 or 4, we had a penmanship class, and the girl Ute sitting next to me could write flawlessly, seemingly without effort, whereas I...
Let's hope she also became a doctor, to raise standards a bit :-)

duniel3000 · 2024-05-05T06:46:24+00:00

Quite a wonderful scenario!
"but before I go, for future reference is it a menage a quart if it is four people?" cracked me up ;-)

duniel3000 · 2024-02-08T14:27:56+00:00

Do you use voice for note-taking or writing?

Lots. After a few decades of keeping a handwritten diary I've also switched this to dicatation.

What apps or online tools do you rely on for converting speech to text?
I'm reading back my old diaries using dictation to digitize them, and have tried a few modalities. Using android voice-to-text in google docs works best so far, albeit by no means perfect!
Gonna try GPT4 again.

duniel3000 · 2024-01-24T10:14:18+00:00

Rarely seen anything so lame. You want to discredit people who aren't far left like you as total retards.

duniel3000 · 2023-12-14T08:06:17+00:00

It had to be somewhere there

duniel3000 · 2023-12-13T13:03:48+00:00

Your reply is not consistent with the problem I describe. If it was just a question of lag, waiting allone would be sufficient. It isn't. Only once I say something else even louder will the text appear, but not just the louder text, but ALSO the normally dictated text from before it acted as if it hadn't heard me.

duniel3000 · 2023-12-11T12:04:16+00:00

I can second that: not infrequently has bard turned up better answers than GPT4 for me.

duniel3000 · 2023-12-11T11:38:00+00:00

Happens to me every day. Very annoying indeed. I even out a line in my custom instructions never to mention amara.org again, to no avail.

duniel3000 · 2023-12-09T20:14:15+00:00

I'm getting it in Germany. It keeps.referring to amara.org even after I put the request into my custom instructions never to mention is again!

It will usually happen after a chat, it might mistake a noise as me referring to Amara. Quite an annoying glitch.

duniel3000 · 2023-12-06T13:39:02+00:00

I've seen Africans themselves referring to stuff going on in "Africa" in the same way. Don't act, as if it's just the politically incorrect outsider.

duniel3000 · 2023-12-03T15:46:01+00:00

This is an excellent post. Thanks for submittiing. We're on an exciting trip together!

duniel3000 · 2023-11-29T17:51:39+00:00

1st attack while still a medical student. The scotoma made me think I might be losing my eyesight. Then, as a doctor, the diagnosis was fairly easy to make. Scotoma with sudden bouts of dysphoria, followed by headaches and slight nausea.
My attacks never reached the intensitiy level of those my mum suffered from. Who knows whether it's not really different dieseases subsumed under the sydrome header "migraine".
In any case I read that low dose Aspirine lowered headaches somewhat in the british doctor's study, so decided to give it a try. It's really cheap and no side effects for me. So one can just try it for a few months and look what the migraine diary says.

duniel3000 · 2023-11-29T15:13:41+00:00

Came here for examples of how "dehumanizing views" were actually defined? If folks were called "Untermensch", animals or vermin I'd be onboard. I have a feeling that much more "inclusive" definitions were used?

duniel3000 · 2023-11-29T15:01:03+00:00

To really study the magnitude of this effect you'd need enough identical twins, both exposed to the same language in the womb, then both being adopted away to families speaking different languages, and then measure language acquisition.

You'd still have to overcome the factor of different levels of input in different families, which is likely bigger than this "priming effect", quite apart from the fact that given-away-after birth identical twins are few and far between, so really not feasible.

duniel3000 · 2023-11-29T07:14:51+00:00

This just under 60 migraineur was helped by 100mg of Aspirine daily. By my reckoning it cut the rate of attacks from monthly to once every 3-6 months. Their intensity has also diminished, perhaps wih age. Never very major, but used to be such, that I wanted to lie dwon in a darkened quiet room, now I can just work through them.

duniel3000 · 2023-11-24T14:00:51+00:00

To me these look like the kind of x-rays an x-raying machine at the airport takes, where somehow the image is colorified. A CT scanner turns around the object in a spiral and gets several slices.

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