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by svth 28d ago
As an Icelander, I've often thought about starting a chain of anal dildo stores and calling them "United Kingdom" just to get back at those fuckers.
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by svth 4mo ago
doubleclick.net, about 20 years ago.
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by svth 4mo ago
I just work around it with a .gitkeep file.
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by svth 5mo ago
Geothermal is fantastic for heating. Speaking as an Icelander, we have so much hot water in Reykjavík that we even use the residue to keep our pavements clear of ice in winter. Pipes under the sidewalks carry exiting geothermally heated wat
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by svth 10mo ago
What's wrong with wahn-der-fyoo-gull?
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by svth 10mo ago
If I recall correctly, iTunes was a Carbon application. They ported parts of the Carbon APIs to get it running on Windows.
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by svth 1y ago
"There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every
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by svth 1y ago
Why no macOS support?
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by svth 1y ago
Britain is not in the EU.
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by svth 2y ago
End of an era. Used to go there in the 90s. Now everything belongs to shitty, worthless Silicon Valley adventurers.
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by svth 2y ago
There's also afplay - Audio File Play (plays an audio file to the default audio output). Can play all audio formats supported by CoreAudio.
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by svth 2y ago
Use iTerm2
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by svth 2y ago
Thank you for that lengthy diatribe, which I heartily agree with. It's really all about separation of concerns.
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by svth 3y ago
Yes. I maintain some open source Mac apps in my spare time (and even develop new ones from time to time) using Objective-C. I've known and used this programming language for 20 years, and don't really see the point of investing in
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by svth 3y ago
English-language only text-to-speech.
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by svth 3y ago
I'd say we have quite a vibrant startup ecosystem given the size of the country.
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by svth 4y ago
Sloth author here. To clarify, Sloth does not run with or require root privileges. However, it allows you to (optionally) run lsof itself with root privileges via Apple's Authorization framework. The application is Developer ID signed,
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by svth 4y ago
I've been using PyPy and psycopg2cffi in production for the last 5-6 years or so without any issues. https://pypi.org/project/psycopg2cffi/
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by svth 4y ago
No. Have you?
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by svth 4y ago
Dr. Strangelove : It would not be difficult, Mein Führer! Nuclear reactors could - heh, I'm sorry, Mr. President - nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plant life. Animals could raised an
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by svth 4y ago
This is a very good and important point. As our technology becomes more complex and our global structures more essential, the system surely must tend towards ever greater fragility. Just like software, really.
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by svth 4y ago
> Average annual household income here is 610000 NOK (~64500 USD). Norway's GDP per capita is about USD70.000. Surely you're using GDP per capita, or average individual income, not household income? I have a very hard time be
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by svth 4y ago
Russia is not a third world country. Rather, it is a second world country.
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by svth 4y ago
Edward Gibbon on his time at Oxford: "To the university of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College;
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Show HN: macOS speech recognition via the command line(github.com)
2 points by svth 5y ago|0 comments
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by svth 5y ago
Have you tried using TinEye.com for reverse image search?
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by svth 5y ago
µTorrent was available as a native macOS app for a long time. They dropped support in macOS Catalina. Apparently going 64-bit was too hard. Now they just offer some shitty web client.
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by svth 5y ago
Such a wonderful writer, probably the finest English stylist of the 18th century. You can pick a passage at random from Decline and Fall and it'll be something masterful, e.g. "As the happiness of a future life is the great object
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by svth 5y ago
HAMLET Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and
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by svth 6y ago
Heimskringla was written by Snorri Sturluson, who was not Norwegian but an Icelander.

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