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I Have Bad News If You Live Near Strancally Castle (Zuckerberg Bought It)(gizmodo.com)
5 points by ochrist 26d ago|1 comments
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by ochrist 26d ago
Mark Zuckerberg is a castle guy now. The Irish Times reported that the Meta CEO and his spouse, Priscilla Chan, have purchased Strancally Castle in Ireland’s County Waterford. The two quietly finished the transaction for the “Gothic-revival
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by ochrist 1mo ago
Some comments mentioned hcker.news, and apparently you can just use this URL: https://hcker.news/?ai=exclude
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by ochrist 1mo ago
I've started following other websites/media more - like Slashdot, Reddit and others. A few weeks ago several HN users presented solutions for filtering out AI results, but I haven't used any of those solutions much.
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Google Opens the Gates of AI Slop Hell(gizmodo.com)
7 points by ochrist 1mo ago|2 comments
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by ochrist 1mo ago
A new Gemini update will let AI slop artists skip cropping out a visible watermark.
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by ochrist 3mo ago
Just guessing it has to do with this: https://nri.today/swedens-crisis-immigration-bloodshed/
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by ochrist 3mo ago
Maybe the Danish government but not the Danish people.
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by ochrist 3mo ago
Someone mentioned this in another comment, so I'll just copy/pasta my own comment: Yeah, that doesn't work either. E.g. it has the following stories: - Nordstjernen 1.0 (built with Claude) - Ask HN: What was your "oh shi
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by ochrist 3mo ago
Yeah, that doesn't work either. E.g. it has the following stories: - Nordstjernen 1.0 (built with Claude) - Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
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by ochrist 3mo ago
Great idea. But the first thread I opened (Nordstjernen 1.0) is according to the comments about a project built with Claude. So it doesn't remove all the AI stuff.
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by ochrist 4mo ago
The difference is important, because there are examples of GNU without Linux (eg. GNU Hurd) and Linux without GNU (Android comes to mind).
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by ochrist 4mo ago
Same here (Firefox on Windows). But when I opened it in Firefox on my Android phone, it seems fine.
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by ochrist 6mo ago
Some years ago I was involved with a society (club), and we wanted a webforum. But as we were geeks as well, we created a combination of a web-based solution, mail-lists and NNTP. These three solutions were syncronized, so it didn't ma
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by ochrist 8mo ago
My first modem (from 1987) was 300 baud, but it could be used in a split mode called 75/1200. Before that I used 50 baud systems in the military as well as civil telex systems.
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by ochrist 8mo ago
Currently USA only has one base left: Pituffik Space Base (previously called Thule Air Base). They used to have about 17 bases and several thousand military personnel, but now it's down to about 200. If USA wanted it, they could establ
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by ochrist 11mo ago
I still have a few floppy disks packed away at the loft, but I wonder if they still work the next time I turn on my BBC or Archimedes.
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by ochrist 11mo ago
As a Dane I am ashamed of the current government, but I didn't vote for them. Hopefully we'll get a more liberal government next year. But a lot of people seems to think that more surveillance means less crime. Problem is that thi
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by ochrist 11mo ago
Yes, sorry. I sometimes pass the connection Rødby - Puttgarden by car, and I have seen trains there recently. But they obviously don't use the ferry anymore.
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by ochrist 11mo ago
My bad. Sorry. I see that they changed the route to go via Jutland because of the upcoming tunnel. So yes, the Italian line is probably the last one of its kind. The Danish-German connection will probably not be reestablished, as the new tu
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by ochrist 11mo ago
That's not the last European train that travels by sea. If you go from Sweden or Denmark towards Germany the train crosses from Denmark to Germany by ferry (that is until the new Femern tunnel is finished): https://www.youtu
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by ochrist 11mo ago
SQL
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by ochrist 11mo ago
There are a few facts you should know about this: Formally Norwegian is West-Scandinavian (together with Icelandic and Faeroese), whereas Danish and Swedish are East-Scandinavian. Also, please remember that the Norwegians have two different
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by ochrist 11mo ago
For those that don't know it, Anders Hejlsberg is the guy behind Turbo Pascal, Delphi, J++, C# and TypeScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
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by ochrist 1y ago
Almost correct. However, this is not a float but a fixed decimal value with two decimals. The V is not stored but just used to indicate where the decimal sign should be. Source: I've written a lot of COBOL years ago.
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by ochrist 1y ago
In Danish knee is 'knæ' and the K is pronounced very clearly. It's interesting that English speaking people have forgotten how to pronounce K before N, so the Danish king Knud became Canute.
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by ochrist 1y ago
Nice article. Just a couple of comments: Doesn't the x86 chips also use microcode? There are several differences between RISC and CISC not mentioned here. (also Sophie was called Roger at this point in time, so the article has been ret
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by ochrist 1y ago
The original BBC computer was way to small for something like this, but you could get a version of the BBC Master that was able to run GEM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Master
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by ochrist 1y ago
I used GEM on some PCs around 1990. At that time I had an Archimedes and was studying in a computer school. I did some DTP (a school magazine) together with a couple of classmates, and we could have done it on my Arch. But then they would h
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by ochrist 1y ago
Also, mules are the result of a male donkey and a female horse. The other version (male horse and female donkey) is called a hinny in English. They have different characteristics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule ht

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