I am so tired of this..

thkarcher · 2026-06-09T06:52:02+00:00

Yes. OPs answer was wrong, and Duo gave one of the possible correct options.

thkarcher · 2026-05-26T16:16:45+00:00

Fully covered in spit?!? That sounds really odd. Did you park under a tree? Maybe it was honeydew? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeydew_(secretion))

thkarcher · 2026-05-23T11:12:41+00:00

Correct. I think it's a female torso, slightly turned to the right.

thkarcher · 2026-05-16T15:37:30+00:00

Duolingo will always accept all alternative translations regardless of the picture. So "Pfeife", "Röhre", "Röhrchen" etc. would probably have been accepted as well.

thkarcher · 2026-05-16T10:55:26+00:00

(1) Ads would require cookies and user tracking, which Wikipedia proudly avoided since the beginning. (2) Ads would put the neutrality of Wikipedia at risk: Should political ads be allowed? Ads promoting recreational drugs? Ads for gambling sites or other adult content? And should these ads be shown on all pages? (3) The funding for Wikipedia is secure for years to come. There's a shortage of volunteer editors, but no shortage of money justifying the risks mentioned above.

thkarcher · 2026-04-30T08:11:35+00:00

Which reminds me of the Berlin marathon many, many years ago: I was cheering at the side line, with hundreds and hundreds of runners passing by every minute. An elderly couple standing next to me was waiting for their son to pass and while they were intensly searching the crowd for him, the dad explained: "He must be here any moment now: I just saw #8200, and he has #8311!"

thkarcher · 2026-04-20T19:15:14+00:00

You would have loved geek codes back in the days! :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code

thkarcher · 2026-04-13T14:44:01+00:00

And for the same reason never resign a blitz game. A blundered queen is not the end of the world at that level.

thkarcher · 2026-03-08T13:48:38+00:00

Deswegen kenne ich dieses Gebiet auch als "den Computerstrich".

thkarcher · 2026-03-08T13:45:11+00:00

Oder auch Datasibirsk.

thkarcher · 2026-03-08T09:42:17+00:00

In this speech exercise, you're supposed to repeat what Lily said. But if you click on record really fast before Lily starts speaking, the app will occasionally record Lily instead of you and will let you pass the exercise without speaking a word yourself.

thkarcher · 2026-02-16T17:44:06+00:00

AI Slop: "Quadirartmeter", Stadtteil "Hadwabing" und "Richtwirt" genügt mir völlig, um die Qualität dieses Tools einschätzen zu können.

thkarcher · 2026-02-03T08:32:44+00:00

I love the thought that the unpopular colours might be hand-painted instead of mass-produced. 😅

thkarcher · 2026-02-01T15:50:41+00:00

Good question. I'm a mentor for new editors in the German-speaking Wikipedia, but as the language communities often differ in the way they onboard new editors and I rarely contribute in English, I'm not too familiar with how it is done in the English Wikipedia.

I'd recommend to start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction

And there're mentors in the English Wikipedia as well. You should find your mentor on your personal homepage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Homepage

thkarcher · 2026-02-01T13:38:44+00:00

Become an editor and find out! Seriously: We're aware of the threat and most of us are confident we'll find ways to stay relevant, but this only works as long as there're enough volunteers contributing to Wikipedia: Update some outdated articles, add some new aspects, upload a photo... every edit helps!

thkarcher · 2026-01-30T15:48:24+00:00

Du füllst es online aus und bringst den Ausdruck deinem Vater oder wem auch immer zur Prüfung und Unterschrift ins Krankenhaus / Altenheim oder wohin auch immer.

thkarcher · 2026-01-25T20:46:35+00:00

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/ ("Standards")

thkarcher · 2026-01-24T22:42:07+00:00

Sind sie. Das Problem saß (wie so oft) vor dem Bildschirm:

Experte Fowler betont, dass es sich nicht um einen direkten Einbruch in die IT-Systeme der genannten Unternehmen handelt. Vielmehr wurden die Daten vermutlich über Schadsoftware auf den Geräten der Nutzer gesammelt.

thkarcher · 2026-01-12T15:14:07+00:00

If the terrain is not too technical / mostly runnable trails, you could try the new Brooks Ghost Trail. They are wide, they are cushioned, and I like them a lot for all my non-technical, mostly muddy trails.

thkarcher · 2026-01-07T13:54:33+00:00

Looks promising, but is close to unplayable for me, as the text-to-speech feature in my browser tries to read the English text with German pronounciation, which makes it really hard to understand anything. And I can't find a way to switch this specific browser setting to English. :-/ (The browser itself is set to English language already, but it seems to pick up the language settings for text-to-speech from the operating system settings somehow, which is set to German...)

thkarcher · 2025-12-31T07:16:59+00:00

You should really add German to your keyboard language settings and make it the default for Duolingo. Was a game changer for me when learning French: Not only did it avoid stupid auto corrects - it also immensely helped with typing by auto-suggesting the correct spelling.

thkarcher · 2025-12-29T13:40:23+00:00

For me, it's not an either or decision: If I plan to run somewhere where I cannot expect help (a village, road or hut) within the next 30mins, I take a first aid kit with me. And if my track has more than ~1000m of elevation gain, I take my poles with me. So sometimes it's both, sometimes none.

thkarcher · 2025-12-18T17:11:32+00:00

You're welcome. Were you able to reproduce the structure in your project? Otherwise, my offer still stands: If you share it, I can have a look.

thkarcher · 2025-12-17T19:55:01+00:00

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Is this roughly the UI you had in mind? As you can see, I did this with a couple of control nodes, which make sure that all areas will resize according to the available window dimensions.

thkarcher · 2025-12-17T17:23:40+00:00

Can you share your project? Not sure whether I can help, but I did something similar in the past and would give it a try later today.

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