Erwin

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by Erwin 7y ago
There's one online alcohol retailer that will actually give you 5% on any gift cards you buy -- and they never expire: https://www.masterofmalt.com/gift-vouchers/
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by Erwin 7y ago
Is all your clothing made solely in US? Bangladesh minimum wage for garment workers (1000+ of whom died when a poorly maintained building collapsed) is 95 dollars per month.
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by Erwin 7y ago
The Austrian national rail company has bought up the sleeper trains from other companies and is trying to establish some international routes (under the Nightjet brand). They recently mentioned going to e.g. Copenhagen, but not without some
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by Erwin 7y ago
The one in Bergen, Norway is in a historical building and has avoided the excessive branding: https://www.google.dk/maps/place/McDonald's+Bryggesporen/@60...
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by Erwin 7y ago
In Denmark, phone sales to consumers are generally illegal though strangely insurance and newspapers are excluded. There's a national "do not call" list you can sign up to as well. This is amusing called the "Robinson Li
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by Erwin 7y ago
AFAIK the KreditRegisteret you linked to is required because Denmark, not part of Euro, does not have access to AnaCredit. So it's more of a tool for financial stability, and not private loan estimates. What is EU's AnaCredit? &gt
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by Erwin 7y ago
The ports/schedulers have quite different capabilities however: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/skylak... Using the Intel Vtune tools you can see how each port is utilized, so you c
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by Erwin 7y ago
Interesting how mortages vary so wildly between countries. Here in Denmark the variable loans are all below zero. You still pay something as the loan has a management fee on top of the interest, so you can end up paying approx 0.6% in inter
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by Erwin 7y ago
Remember the Bloomberg Supermicro story? If a billion-dollar company cannot get Bloomberg to retract their stories, what chance does an open source project have? Has any American newspaper or person or politician on twitter been forced to r
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by Erwin 7y ago
Prior to that you could use the special two-argument version of the `iter` function which makes it act completely different than the single argument version: for html_element in iter(scrape_element, None): this calls scrape_elemen
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by Erwin 7y ago
And there was also: print string.Template("a=$a").substitute(a=a)
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by Erwin 7y ago
Java for example, can use "compressed OOPs" -- ordinary object pointers. This is a 32-bit stored pointer but shifted, as pointers to objects always point to something on multiple of 8 bytes. So the shifted address is stored, but t
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by Erwin 7y ago
With databases being often mission critical, the PostgreSQL people decided heroically to support major versions for 5 years -- and as they come out with a new major version every year, minor updates come out for 5 different branches. Note t
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by Erwin 7y ago
While "perf" is great (especially for something like optimizing a shared library loaded into Python) I had a hard time using any other counter than the instruction retirement for anything meaningful. "perf list" list 130
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by Erwin 7y ago
I think it will be interesting to see whether there's a legal difference between a person, being inspired by obviously copyrighted material and creating something similar or a Machine Learning model that is trained by the same. If I lo
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by Erwin 7y ago
Maybe 200 years from now, we'll see the 9 years of delays for the new BER airport in the same light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport
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by Erwin 8y ago
If you end up needing full vacuuming to reduce bloat, there's also the pg_repack extension (it's even supported on RDS). The extension essentially creates a new table without the block and replaces the original one, keeping track
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by Erwin 8y ago
Animals in hard science -- that reminds me of the "Always Mount a Scratch Monkey" story: https://edp.org/monkey.htm (it did NOT end well).
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by Erwin 8y ago
Your Athena data set are immutable S3 blobs of data however, while Postgres reads data that could be modified while it's reading them, concurrently. Postgres has to deal with a transaction modifying 100,000 rows in a table, needing tha
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by Erwin 8y ago
This is the journal referenced in the mailing list: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1097024x Seems the articles are free, if you don't want to pay the €6085 yearly instituational subscription. Other than A
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by Erwin 8y ago
I was at Farnbourough in 2014 and the A380 was even more amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew_kzgqCD2k And the military A400M -- 4 engine turbprop -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voK2o62KpqI -- qu
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by Erwin 8y ago
Reverse image search says: https://w84death.itch.io/tanks-of-freedom
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by Erwin 8y ago
On my Samsung TV (and via casting) I have access to 6 streaming platforms: Netflix, HBO Nordic, Viaplay, TV 2 play, C-more (related to the French Canal+) and a local service for streaming managed by the national public library system (limit
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by Erwin 8y ago
It seems like there are quite a few single-header C++ libraries: https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs The people complaining about dependency management in Python should try doing it in C++; there seems to be h
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by Erwin 8y ago
The effects of the Chernobyl radiation are apparently common, that when I left my luggage in the Belorusskaya train station in Moscow I encountered a very large plaque describing exactly what categories of people were allowed to get in fron
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by Erwin 8y ago
Close to Speyer is the Sinnsheim museum: https://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en/ They have both the Concorde and the Concordski -- the Russian Tupolev 144. In between those two is the Hockenheimring, with F1 will be i
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by Erwin 8y ago
Tidal offers exactly this, see e.g. https://support.tidal.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000397069-TID... and Tidal HIFI. If there's sufficient market interest in this (Tidal HIFI is twice the cost of normal T
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by Erwin 8y ago
I recall the lack of extensibility in gcc being deliberate, according to RMS -- he wnated everything around gcc to be free, and plugins would allow for non-GPL or even closed source code.
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by Erwin 8y ago
It certainly reads similar to the Aurora PostgreSQL technical specs, but I suspect they just have a generic Aurora layer, used by MySQL and PG both which can be used by a document database.
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by Erwin 8y ago
After Uber exited the Danish market, the Danish tax authority received details (from the Dutch tax authorities) of whom Uber actually paid. It turned out 99% of the drivers did not put that income on their electronic tax forms. Uber's

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