jhellan

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by jhellan 6mo ago
The article says meters, not feet.
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by jhellan 7mo ago
Norway does. I think it was introduced in the 1990's after Helsinki Accord observers reported the possibility of fraud. Until then, if you voted early and gave somebody else's name, you could have voted twice. I don't think t
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by jhellan 8mo ago
English and Old English are West Germanic, Nordic languages and Old Norse are North Germanic. Very close cousins, but neither descends from the other.
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by jhellan 10mo ago
I find it weird that English apparently doesn’t have an everyday word for marine bioluminescence. It’s such an academic word. What would traditional sailors and fishermen have called it? In my language (Norwegian) we call it «morild» (sea-f
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by jhellan 10mo ago
This is true when all network delays between the synchronized device and the time reference are deterministic and accounted for in the configuration. The design of PTP assumes that this is the case. NTP, on the other hand, estimates the ne
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by jhellan 11mo ago
Could have been more, but Norway was one. https://snl.no/Pål_Spilling#:~:text=Da%20Spilling%20kuttet%2...
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by jhellan 3y ago
It is certainly possible that a word may differ in gender between dialects. But the way dative is normally expressed in Norwegian dialects is that masculine words get the normal feminine ending and feminine words get the masculine one.
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by jhellan 3y ago
Wow! You have preserved the dative case. "i kerken" instead of "i kerka". Dative is AFAIK not part of any standard Scandinavian language, but remains in some dialects. Steadily losing ground, though.
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by jhellan 3y ago
Nice!
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by jhellan 3y ago
Thank you
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by jhellan 3y ago
Does anyone else get "Doing vfork: Exec format error"? Final gen. Intel Mac, 32 GB memory. I can run the llamafile from a shell. Tried both wizardcoder-python-13b and phi
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by jhellan 4y ago
Alan Turing was a serious marathon runner and came close to qualifying for the 1948 olympics. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Turing_running/
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by jhellan 4y ago
It's just so much easier to improve your range than your speed.
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by jhellan 4y ago
This youtube made it click for me what is actually going on: Git for ages 4 and up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffBJ4sVUb4
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by jhellan 5y ago
I like to think of it as "the law of small numbers"
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by jhellan 5y ago
Interesting how stable French has been over the centuries - at least when judging from these four lines. By no means the same, but much closer to modern French than the language of the sagas is to modern Scandinavian. Not to mention how far
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by jhellan 5y ago
I am guilty of having taught that to a five year old during a hiking trip. He is now an engineer.
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by jhellan 5y ago
Basically, PTP assumes that network delays are deterministic. If that's true, it is very precise. If not, PTP is the wrong tool. NTP assumes that network delays are stochastic, and uses sophisticated algorithms to account for this. PTP
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by jhellan 5y ago
And "Mo Sez, a regional expert in water division management" :-)
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by jhellan 6y ago
Reindeer do gather on snow patches in summer/early autumn to avoid insects.
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by jhellan 6y ago
Weird. The few lines on preview page look like Danish, except "runet" which looks like English "run" with a Danish past participle ending. I don't see anything that looks French. I would read the next to last line a
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by jhellan 6y ago
They arrived in a truck, one coffin sized crate, one slightly smaller. The contents were bright read, and looked like jet engines. - la4rt
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by jhellan 7y ago
How about this one from ancient Rome? https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/collections/greeceandrome/7...
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by jhellan 7y ago
Scurvygrass ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlearia_officinalis ) Kept many people alive who had been marooned over the winter in Svalbard and other places in the Arctic. Also grows in cooler climates in Europe
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by jhellan 7y ago
We all knew. I learned about CO2 greenhouse warming in high school in 1974. At a lecture at the University of Trondheim, Norway, around 1980, (in)famous physicist Edward Teller joked that we of all people shouldn't be worried about glo
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by jhellan 7y ago
Augustus lived into his late seventies partly due to his poor health, which forced him to stay away from many of his battles.
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by jhellan 7y ago
Did you try taking the elevator 10 floors down and walking back up? Or just 5 floors down and returning at a light run?
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by jhellan 8y ago
You can find the preliminary investigation report here: https://www.aibn.no/Marine/Investigations/18-968?iid=25573&p... Interim safety recommendations: https://www.aibn.no/Marine/Investiga
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by jhellan 10y ago
It is just Finland. The other Scandinavian countries are in the same league as the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...