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New comment by maxnoe in "Am I German or Autistic?"

maxnoe — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:24:59 +0000

Or as Stephen Fry put it: "Nature, Nurture and Nietzsche", very fitting here.

New comment by maxnoe in "OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval"

maxnoe — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:31:35 +0000

There is a section in the GitHub Readme of Eurooffice with a justification of the fork:

https://github.com/Euro-Office#euro-office-liberates-the-onl...

New comment by maxnoe in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

maxnoe — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:40:06 +0000

"Most companies still do not publish Linux builds for creative software"

There, fixed it for you.

It's not like Linux is the blocker here.

New comment by maxnoe in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

maxnoe — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:41:36 +0000

Absolutely not. You could argue this for entry level lectures, but not at the PhD level. PhD is learning how to do original research, how could you separate teaching that from doing that?

New comment by maxnoe in "TeX Live 2026 is available for download now"

maxnoe — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:55:07 +0000

Ever tried latexmk for the automation?

New comment by maxnoe in "Chained Assignment in Python Bytecode"

maxnoe — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:46:28 +0000

But this exact example is different, because the critical step of mutation is missing.

The initial line is the same, but:

    a = b = random.random()
    a += 1
    a == b # False

Only because floats are immutable and thus an implicit copy is made and lists are mutable so the same mutable instance is pointed to by both names.

This talk still applies despite its age: https://youtu.be/_AEJHKGk9ns?si=q5HjMOM9QS3_bFzH

New comment by maxnoe in "String theory can now describe a universe that has dark energy?"

maxnoe — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:20:12 +0000

Science never proves a positive.

You can only disprove.

The only way to prove a positive if there is a finite number of possibilities and you have disproven all but one. But even then, someone could conceivably come up with an alternate description that preserves the current understanding but makes additional predictions or is a simpler model making the same.

As Feyman said: "We can never know if we are right, we can only be certain if we are wrong".

New comment by maxnoe in "Astrophotography visibility plotting and planning tool"

maxnoe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:05:48 +0000

If you are more into doing this locally than using a Webservice, have a look at astroplan based on astropy.

https://astroplan.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

New comment by maxnoe in "Some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature"

maxnoe — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:32:39 +0000

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.

https://youtu.be/EYPapE-3FRw?si=LjSNyltYaVUY5bzX

New comment by maxnoe in "Time in C++: Inter-Clock Conversions, Epochs, and Durations"

maxnoe — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:53:30 +0000

But on any modern CPU, clock speed won't be constant. It's not compile time constant, nor a runtime constant. Its variable over time. You'd have to record the clock speed over time and the ticks, so why not just record actual time?

New comment by maxnoe in "Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres"

maxnoe — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:00:36 +0000

Would this argument still apply if I need to store a uuidv4 anyway in the table?

And I'd likely want a unique constraint on that?

New comment by maxnoe in "Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri"

maxnoe — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 07:14:25 +0000

Fraktur is often associated with the German far right, because it's a mostly German thing that nationalists can hang on to.

Funnily enough, it was Goebbels who banned it and required everyone to change to Latin scripts.

New comment by maxnoe in "Python Data Science Handbook"

maxnoe — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:29:34 +0000

The book is quite old actually, not sure if "this day and age" still applies to it

New comment by maxnoe in "CERN Council reviews feasibility study for a next-generation collider"

maxnoe — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 06:58:41 +0000

Completely new tunnel, but it will be connected to LHC, as they will use LHC to pre accelerate the particles.

Almost all accelerators built at CERN are still active and are a chain of pre-accelerator for LHC now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#/media/F...

New comment by maxnoe in "Opencloud – An alternative to Nextcloud written in Go"

maxnoe — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:00:07 +0000

They integrate with radicale since May this year for card- and caldav

https://opencloud.eu/en/news/opencloud-calendar-and-contact-...

New comment by maxnoe in "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Version of Uber H3 in Rust"

maxnoe — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:25:43 +0000

I cannot... Geoblockig European IPs?

New comment by maxnoe in "Ultrasonic Chef's Knife"

maxnoe — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 07:45:40 +0000

> That being said, I probably have 300 knifes in my home

Don't forget the follow up

New comment by maxnoe in "Making Minecraft Spherical"

maxnoe — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 08:16:57 +0000

> WGS84 sucks for mapping a sphere.

WGS84 is not a map projection, it's a geodetic reference frame prescribing a reference ellipsoid and reference positions of ground stations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System#WGS84

New comment by maxnoe in "NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock"

maxnoe — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:46:45 +0000

The idea here is to have a clock that actually ticks faster and to redefine the second in terms of that new, faster ticking speed.

New comment by maxnoe in "Turkey bans Grok over Erdoğan insults"

maxnoe — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:40:03 +0000

Happened with real people too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6hmermann_affair