Erwin

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by Erwin 5y ago
Staub iron cookware has an enamel, so it does not require seasoning nor does it have issues with tomatoes or other acidic things. I use their cocotte, since I often put things in the oven but it's also good for e.g. steaks at max tempe
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by Erwin 5y ago
How about: "Welcome to my very old antiquarian bookshop, Daniel" versus: "This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those wh
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by Erwin 5y ago
This year a Danish female writer is nominated: https://thebookerprizes.com/books/employees-by-olga-ravn
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by Erwin 5y ago
While their normal perfumes are 130 EUR, they offer a 5-sampler for 30 + shipping, with their 4 other perfumes also having some quite interesting branding histories: https://www.storaskuggan.com/collections/all -- I su
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by Erwin 5y ago
Back when I used Netscape on DEC ULtrix, connected from a Windows X client some 20+ years ago, I sure would not have believed that one day device drivers would be written in scripting language and run in my browser.
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by Erwin 5y ago
She looked at the message she'd crafted and penned - A letter to Philip that she'd never send. From reddit's resident poet, "poem_for_your_sprog": https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comment
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by Erwin 6y ago
He's also a HN user: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lutusp
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by Erwin 6y ago
Looking at IRS data, top 1% tax payers in US in 2018 paid 38.5% of the federal income taxes. Bottom 90% paid 28.6%. So I don't think they're as good as hiding their money in the Cayman Islands as you think they are: https:/&
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by Erwin 6y ago
There are some food writers that are good at getting to the core of a dish idea, listing out the variations. Felicity Cloake's "Perfect" column in The Guardian for example. For the Wikipedia of food, Nikki Segnit's Later
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by Erwin 6y ago
Angry aliens, or angry end-users?
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by Erwin 6y ago
That's one cool looking gun. Like that futuristic FN Herstal's P90, featured in Stargate.
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by Erwin 6y ago
The 1999 soundtrack for Tarzan by Phil Collins was also recorded by Collins himself in English, Italian, German, Spanish and French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m03Wcfx8dPE For a more extreme example, Pocahontas' &
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by Erwin 6y ago
You can use a site like this to compare: https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolio/total-stock-market/ versus https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolio/classic-60-40/ Mixing bonds gives you a s
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by Erwin 6y ago
I'd also like to recommend the rest of Ian's site, as it has lots of periodic, often geeky, information about London, especially Underground. Like his weekly review of alleys: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/
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by Erwin 6y ago
Similarly, the largest land owner in Scotland (and UK) is... the Danish clothing magnate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Holch_Povlsen ( the richest Dane, #254 on Bloomberg's list ahead of e.g. LEGO family wh
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by Erwin 6y ago
Reddit has plenty of discussion about violently overthrowing, imprisoning or murdering anyone anyone who is currently "too rich" like Jeff Bezos. Strangely the American redditor seem unaware that the rest of the world might also c
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by Erwin 6y ago
I had another fun experience like that, but triggered by the guest reviews. I booked a place for my parents to stay which suddenly disappeared. All I was told by AirBNB is that the host cancelled and the user nor the place was no longer to
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by Erwin 6y ago
The price is included in Europe because EU asked them to. When I search the map shows me a price per night for the amount of nights I picked including the corresponding part of the cleaning and service fees. So it is not an "engineerin
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by Erwin 6y ago
Is this allowed on the free tier? https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ 2.8 says: "Use of the Services for serving video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content is prohibit
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by Erwin 6y ago
An interesting feature if you want to just play Windows games once in a while is "PCI passthrough" aka VFIO. With that you can assign a PCI device to be used directly by Windows emulated within a VM, which lets you play game in Wi
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by Erwin 6y ago
One of the several Danish retailers publishes their waiting list data: https://www.proshop.dk/RTX-30series-overview which are impressive -- just that one retailer received 3500 cards, 4300 clients have bought and not recei
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by Erwin 6y ago
From the same author, "Savaged by Systemd: an Erotic Unix Encounter".
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by Erwin 6y ago
Interestingly, colonoscopies here in DK are mostly without anesthesia. I prepared by looking at mostly-American sites where some doctors said 90% of patients prefer full anesthesia, and the rest some other sedative drugs. The procedure was
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by Erwin 6y ago
I moved from LastPass due to various security concerns, but in Chrome/Linux 1Password is a worse experience. LastPass is just smarter about creating accounts and assigning new passwords, or updating if you change them.
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by Erwin 6y ago
I only ran into the Orleans Virtual Actor model a few days ago. I have an application I long wanted to move to a distributed model, and I've been struggling with seemingly to reinvent everything due to an unusual execution model. So it
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by Erwin 6y ago
That society already exists in e.g. Nordic countries. If we look at Sweden, Finland etc, total tax revenues as percentage of GDP are 48-54%. In USA, they are 24.3%. So here's a smaller community where the majority is fine with high tax
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by Erwin 6y ago
The November 2001 top500 supercomputer had 7.2 TFL0PS: https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2001/11/ It's fun to compare it with the historical top500 list: https://www.top500.org/sta
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by Erwin 6y ago
On a more fun note, what is considered "Chinese" varies greatly by language (it's Greek in English): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_to_me#In_other_languages In German, wikipedia claims "Polish
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by Erwin 6y ago
Interesting someone bought it on Steam for 50 EUR, given XBox Game Pass for PC subscription (despite the weird naming) lets you have it for a fraction of that price (together with a dozen other good names, e.g. the new Flight Simulator and
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by Erwin 6y ago
I hoped it would be HeyYeYaaeYaaaeYaeYaa.com which once used to show this important piece of Meme History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5LpwO-An4

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