Erwin

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by Erwin 3mo ago
What's fascinating is that this is the difficulty of English translation -- which uses a different start letter and different words than the Polish one: Cyprian cyberotoman, cynik, ceniąc czule Czarnej córy cesarskiej cud ciemne
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by Erwin 7mo ago
I enjoyed the 2009 book Ultimatum about this scenario -- what could you do to make a global polluter to stop if they were endangering the world? https://www.amazon.com/Ultimatum-Matthew-Glass-ebook/dp/B002...
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by Erwin 9mo ago
I was in Belgium going to Antwerp and sometimes the French name -- Anvers -- was used. At least in e.g. Valais in CH cities that have dual names are shown with both, e.g. Sierre/Siders.
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by Erwin 9mo ago
Tales from Earthsea aka "Gedo Senki". Badly reviewed but I enjoyed it.
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by Erwin 10mo ago
Jeff Bezos has a 233 billion net worth. It's not because Amazon users overpaid by a 233 billion but because his share in Amazon is highly valued by investors. My own Amazon investment in my pension has also gone up by 10x in the last 1
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by Erwin 1y ago
Because the same thing has happened successfully in most other European countries. Nationalist parties talk about scary immigrants, ordinary parties tighten immigration rules, and the nationalist parties fail to gain power. For example, Den
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by Erwin 1y ago
Ah, this is like the "trickle down" theory of piracy.
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by Erwin 1y ago
Spending some months with a TDEE spreadsheet can be helpful but requires logging a lot of CI and weights -- if you go to any online TDEE calc you might overestimate your activity level. I was surprised that running 6h/week and 15k&#x2F
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by Erwin 1y ago
I found the backslash as separator of multiple statements on one line curious. I guess that's because I was used to BASIC on the Commodore C-64/128/Amiga and later the magical Amos Basic, so there were more differences in som
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by Erwin 2y ago
That was an amusing post to see pop up here, as I believe I came up with the "copyover" name when I copied Melvin Smith (aka "Fusion") idea about "hot reboot" from his "MUD++" code base to the popular
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by Erwin 2y ago
That CS student was Luke Farritor -- now part of the infamous DOGE team.
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by Erwin 2y ago
In EU, you see the total and per-night inclusive all of fees and taxes when searching and comparing. If you search for an area without dates, it comes up with some arbitrary dates and applies the fees and displays per night cost accordingly
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by Erwin 3y ago
Here in Denmark we have an online lexicon which is managed by (barely paid) scientists and experts. For every article you can see which scientist was involved in making it, what expert is responsible for the area etc. https://den
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by Erwin 3y ago
I'm curious whether their "Locality Groups" concept can be implemented using stock AWS. Imagine you have 1000 type of tasks that can be called millions of times by users; each node can do any task but resource usage would be
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by Erwin 3y ago
https://koinly.io/ is a popular recommendation here in Denmark. Denmark may have the worst possible taxation for crypto: every time you sell, use or convert your crypto, that's an event where you have to calculate your
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by Erwin 3y ago
Svalbard is larger than I thought, but not as large as the projection tricks you to: it's 1/6th the area of Norway shown below. On thetruesize.com you can drag Svalbard around and compare it to other countries, it's roughly t
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by Erwin 3y ago
Black Mirror's "The Entire History of You" S1E03 episode has one take on what would happen if we could effortlessly record -- and replay -- everything. As with most Black Mirrors, there are some dark but believeable ideas. In
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by Erwin 3y ago
The Danish Church is allowed to veto buildings of wind turbines if they were within the 28x the height of the turbine. This is quite a long distance if you consider the 160m tall 14MW Siemens (though I think that may be offshore only). Ther
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by Erwin 3y ago
The complex ARPGs have some unlikely competition: rogue-lite bullet-heaven games. The "rougue-lite" gives you short playing sessions where you die, but can still progress for the next game. The "bullet-heaven" turns your
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by Erwin 3y ago
Virtual envs are actually quite simple -- they contain a bin/ directory with a linked python binary. When the python binary runs, it checks it sibling directories (it knows it was executed as e.g. /home/user/.venv/b
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by Erwin 3y ago
I think the 1977 Icon language is where the generator concept originated. It had many other cool features I have not seen in other languages since: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(programming_language)#
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by Erwin 3y ago
Denmark has had a private school system for decades, and 15% of students go into the private schools (as a parent you pay a portion of the costs so it is not necessarily extremely expensive). "Private" mostly means that you still
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by Erwin 3y ago
Remember Replika and how people got quite attached to that chatbot? I imagine in the near future you'll be able to sell your and your friends' chat history to a company building a more advanced, realistic chatbot. Do you want to h
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by Erwin 3y ago
Many years ago, on the Womens' International Fight Day, the Goethe Institute in Copenhagen set up a specialized photo booth just for this sort of thing and the pictures are online. You'll find some more info if you search its Dani
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by Erwin 4y ago
It's funny because we have labelled "TV Inspektion" vans all over the place -- but those are for robotic camera examination of a stuck sewer line! (After many years of public broadcasting being charged if you have a TV -- or
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by Erwin 4y ago
Gander's role in 2001 was made into a musical, and it's quite a touching and heailng piece of entertainment if you were around back then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcI1EKE01S0 -- certainly best on stage if y
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by Erwin 4y ago
Stockholm's Arlanda Express is 299 SEK (24.18 GBP) each way and around 40km away. For a 17 minute trip with the train!
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by Erwin 4y ago
I was surprised by how much I was surprised by the very first fact -- that air molecules move around at extremely high speed of 450m/s, but just bump into each other cancelling this speed out, and this speed is based on pressure &
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by Erwin 4y ago
I used TiddlyWiki for a while, but it was too fiddly. E.g. saving to google drive was a hack. Obsidian, at a very low price, gives me a reliable app -- Tiddly wiki, running within the browser, often got slow when I had a few hundred diary e
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by Erwin 4y ago
I thought it would be the memory segmentation system introduced by the 286 processor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segment_descriptor & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Descriptor_Table T

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