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The IBAN is also used for paying online by debit note. So somebody who knows your IBAN can theoretically buy stuff using your bank account. You can easily reclaim that money, but still there is hassle involved.

> I always wonder how Germans view Kraftwerk, as a Brit they feel as important as the Beatles.

They are hardly present in the public eye. Most people don't know them, except perhaps by name. Their music is probably too niche for the mainstream; they don't even feature in oldies shows on TV. But Kraftwerk is highly regarded by those who are interested in music, perhaps in the same way as Jean-Michel Jarre.

However, it is difficult to compare Kraftwerk with the Beatles. Let's face it: rock music (in the broadest sense) has a much higher profile in the public eye than electronic music.

The pocket operators and the EP-133 sampler are fairly priced.

I think the explanation is simple: The first link is usually the category of the article's lemma. Or something else which is a more general or abstract word. Following the links you will lead you to the most abstract things and eventually to thinking about abstract things, which is philosophy.

Or use nylon strings for concert guitars.

Why the snarky tone? MS Copilot is a mixture of enhanced search, ChatGPT like chat and Dall-E 3 for image generation, but without the need to create an account (only for image generation, I think). I use it at work every day and it is super helpful. I haven't compared it to ChatGPT, though.

You are of course free to have fun with the OP-1, but I found it to block my creativity when I constantly have to work around the omnipresent petty limitations like 4 tracks, 1 effect per voice, almost useless sequencers etc.

Let my guess: the singer suddenly started to sing in time?

To be fair, the advertising of the knob sounds like trolling to me, but honestly, it's hard to tell if serious or not.

Of course world cities like Tokyo, London or Paris are known for all sorts of things other than sports, that's why they are world cities.

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure German cities like Dortmund and Leverkusen are primarily known because of their soccer teams (at least among those who are into soccer, and that is a lot).

Regarding the Arctic ground squirrels:

> the water inside the squirrels becomes a supercooled liquid.

Does that mean that if you grab a squirrel and shake it, it freezes instantly?

I'm German and I felt very alien as well when I visited. It is an historical monument. People don't go there to commemorate the Völkerschlacht (the small museum nearby is better suited for that), but to see how they commemorated the Völkerschlacht 100 years ago.

Does there have to be a special reason? Being naked or not is something which people do mostly because other people do it (like many other things). It's an inherently unstable system, so to speak, so it's only natural that there are fluctuations.

Quickly peel an egg by tapping it on and rolling it over the table first so that the shell breaks into small pieces.

I'm curious, do you mind expanding on the fallacy? I read the book you mentioned some years ago but don't know what you mean.

You're lucky if this is common sense for you. Sadly, for me, coming from a family where bad mood and malice is daily fare, this book was an eye opener.

Reminds me how (allegedly) in the middle ages long lasting contracts where made: tell the text of the contract to a kid (better memory than older persons and more likely to survive the next decades) and slap it in the face so that the kid never forgets.

Free alternative: http://www.myscriptfont.com/

Althoug I had to edit my scan in Gimp several times before a decent and usable font came out.

I read about a similar effect in one of Richard Wiseman's books: Look into a big mirror with no light in the room except for a small lamp behind yourself. After one minute, your face should look bizarrely distorted. (I never tried it, BTW).

OK, you don't build a complete project, but it's a similar approach:

Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/

Here, you learn statistics by implementing statistics functions in Python along the way and use them to solve the questions in the book.

Correction: - the next sun is 2000km away

When I was bored some time ago I did the math just to have a picture in mind what the solar system would look like when the sun is a ball of 10cm diameter. I made no fancy visualization but I think the numbers are impressive of their own.

So, if the sun is a small ball hovering in the middle of an empty space:

- the earth is a pinhead circling at a distance of 8m

- with a speck of dust circling it 2cm away (a.k.a. the moon)

- Jupiter is a marble 40m away from the sun

- the next sun is 2km away

- oh, and the light moves with the speed of a snail. So you want to visit the next planet system? If you fly with speed of ligth, it's like a snail crawling from Berlin to Madrid.

What's impressive for me are not the size differences of all the objects but how empty the space is.

He argues that 1 < i … is bad because it doesn't really work if your lower bound is 0 (because then you'd write -1 < …). Funny thing is, in most programming languages, there is a biggest natural number, too. For example, in Rust, you have a problem, if you want to enumerate all possible byte values:

    for i in 0u8..256 { }  // <-- doesn't compile, because 265 is not a valid value for a u8

You can convert your wiki files to HTML, but you have to do the publishing part on your own.

Not sure what you mean by workflow, but you can include images like this:

    {{file:../../images/image.png}}
    {{http://example.com/image.png}}

Vim is of course not able to display images, but they appear when you convert the wiki page to HTML.

I personally didn't create Vimwiki and I didn't add the markdown support, I'm just the main contributor for the last couple of years. But thanks for the kind words anyway :) Code contributions are the best way to support Vimwiki, since I can't spare as much time as I would like to work on it.

There is no standard way. It's just a bunch of plain text files, so there are many ways to sync. AFAIK, many users use Dropbox.

Vimwiki maintainer here. I made a few changes just now. If you have a suggestion how to describe it better, let me know.

Vimwiki maintainer here. Feel free to ask questions.