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by Erwin 6y ago
The hilarious story about a fake restaurant making it to #1 on Tripadvisor London is worth reading: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the... After gaining some fame from that article, t
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by Erwin 6y ago
Going one level up to https://adactio.com/journal shows a sparkline (with author's activity perhaps, the latest posting is entry 2666!) which has a feature I have never seen before: an audible graph. Clicking on the sp
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by Erwin 6y ago
There is a type of company structure similar to a limited partnership, but where the ownership was anonymous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommanditselskab That was apparently misused by a relatively small companies a
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by Erwin 7y ago
The founder, professor Bose, had quite an interesting career and background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Bose > His father was an Indian freedom revolutionary[4] who, having been imprisoned for his political
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by Erwin 7y ago
Looks like the Google job was relaxing enough to complete a PhD in Computer Science in 2015 at the same time.
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by Erwin 7y ago
Media are suffering at least in this country. Not much interest in buying ads these days. If the newspapers get more people to pay for their stories, they will have to fire the journalist hard at work on the Corona stories.
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by Erwin 7y ago
Europe produced huge amounts of Disney universe comics, which apparently there was not enough market for in USA. This happened in 12+ countries but oddly not UK. There are 500+ (!) books in the series that have been coming out since 1950s,
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by Erwin 7y ago
I liked this bit personally: > Depressed people want to open their hearts, to confess their fears and forbidden urges, to be comforted, reassured, persuaded that life is worth living despite this intolerable, indescribable pain. They wan
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by Erwin 7y ago
The inflation has also increased the prices, at 3.22% average over the last 100 years each 10 years increases prices with 37%.
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by Erwin 7y ago
Solar Realms Elite sounds similar, but Amit Patel wrote it in 1990. It was inspired by Space Empire Elite in 1987 (the programmer was 13 years old at the time). This article has some screenshots: https://breakintochat.com/bl
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by Erwin 7y ago
We have such a supermarket here; here's a video from the inside: https://youtu.be/m-4GorCp-uk?t=166 https://www.loes-market.dk/
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by Erwin 7y ago
I like the infix notation e.g. "Vi Pvj" the Population count instruction, working on vector j as input and outputting into i the count of bits in each element. Versus Intel's vpopcntX reg1, reg2 where X determines element siz
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by Erwin 7y ago
I think this was more of a response to the linked benchmark at guru3d which said: > Instructions per cycle (IPC) > For many people, this is the holy grail of CPU measurements in terms of how fast an architecture per core really is. Ba
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by Erwin 7y ago
SIM cards bought in Italy have long required showing photo ID in person and also some kind of SSN like number used for various financial transactions. I needed to acquire that fiscal SSN when buying wine from an Italian web shop but weirdly
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by Erwin 7y ago
There is at least one established anti-reddit, Voat and there's an open source version of it. Voat is a great place to go for people skeptical about Jews, non-whites, the overweight and transsexuals to freely share their... concerns. S
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by Erwin 7y ago
I've been pleased with Memex WorldBrain, which was recently demonstrated here on HN: you can annotate or star your pages, and every page starred/bookmarked, or visited for some seconds is searchable. If you do a web search on DDG,
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by Erwin 7y ago
AIUI you can only write to the database indirectly through Kafka messages which the KSQL then periodically consumes and materializes into tables with syntax almost like SQL. So if you emit an event (like "New User Created") and ha
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by Erwin 7y ago
We just upgraded to the newest Samsung TV, and the voice integration is incredibly useless. You could ask for "netflix" (but the remote has a dedicated button for this!) but you cannot search for a specific movie, you cannot speak
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by Erwin 7y ago
My own resentment with superhero movies started with "The Avengers" (2012). Joss Whedon made the excellent space adventure Firefly and the even better "Dollhouse". Both series were intriguing, leaving you something to th
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by Erwin 7y ago
Some version of *BSDs probably fixed that with some sysctl interface, but on older Unixes you would read the kernel memory to get that system information. You can see a ps.c implementation here: https://searchcode.com/codese
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by Erwin 7y ago
The corporatism is rarely seen in sci-fi: either it's overwhelming fascist (e.g. battling corporations, killing innocents by the thousands) or trivial. Philip K Dicks' Ubik was close to where we're heading: “The door refused
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by Erwin 7y ago
If you enjoy this sort of thing, this book is full of bit twiddling algorithms you never thought possible: https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-2nd-Henry-Warren/dp/0...
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by Erwin 7y ago
The "Information" domain might sound modern, but this interesting newspaper is one of the newest one in Denmark. It started as an illegal underground newspaper during the Nazi Occupation (with the King being one of its 1000 subscr
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by Erwin 7y ago
They sure seem different than the ordinary McD in other countries. The McD online ordering website in China is https://www.4008-517-517.cn -- apparently "517" sounds like "I want to eat". They sell a "La
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by Erwin 7y ago
Elizabeth Moon (fantasy and mil sci fi writer and a former marine) happened to write a book about almost exactly this modification being available: https://www.amazon.com/Speed-Dark-Novel-Elizabeth-Moon-ebook... -- I enjoye
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by Erwin 7y ago
It reminds of the days of Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing, when everything was possible and even dogs could build websites: https://philip.greenspun.com/panda/
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by Erwin 7y ago
It's not relevant to the HN guidelines and so most people will flag it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Is it interesting that some news org is passing stock footage? Is that in any way new? Maybe if t
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by Erwin 7y ago
An alternate way of doing this is to pass the entire current table row to a function which can be done easily: if you have a table "purchase" PG also creates a "purchase" type, so if you have this function: CREATE
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by Erwin 7y ago
That's how IEEE Spectrum articles generally are: the actual inventors, not journalists, are doing some of the bigger articles. Anyone can subscribe to the paper version and it's $40 for 12 issues international (or $20 in US): htt
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by Erwin 7y ago
Here in Denmark there's a volunteer "heart runner" programme. If someone calls 911 and has a cardiac arrest, people in the programme that nearby can be notified to fetch an available public AED and run to the patient (or atte

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