TimK65

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by TimK65 2y ago
DAMN! I had completely forgotten about CBB. Now I want to take a look at it again. Thank you!
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by TimK65 2y ago
All of this. Thank you.
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by TimK65 2y ago
We're about to get Vipps (the Norwegian version of Swish) in Sweden, so why not Wero?
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by TimK65 2y ago
The idea is for you to be able to pay merchants without using a card. For example, I'm in Sweden, and when I get my hair cut, I can Swish my payment to the barber using the Swish app. They get the money within a few seconds. It's
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by TimK65 2y ago
But with Venmo, at least, the money doesn't land directly in your bank account. With the typical European solution (like Swish, which we have in Sweden), it does, and within seconds. Much smoother.
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by TimK65 2y ago
I have multiple copies, one a first edition that I bought at the sadly departed New York Bound Books shop, and have read it several times. Don't be intimidated by the length. Caro's writing draws you in so effectively that the pag
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by TimK65 2y ago
Nordiska Kompaniet is no longer a proper department store, but a collection of boutiques. This has been the case for a couple of decades. The real department store that's left in Stockholm is Åhléns, but it's very mid-market, not
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by TimK65 2y ago
I recognize this content from Hersh and Davis's later book "The Mathematical Experience," which I really like.
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by TimK65 2y ago
Why on earth would you not consider Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries part of Europe? Sweden and Denmark are even in the EU.
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by TimK65 2y ago
GvR's first comment, mentioning (but not naming) the banned person, is now visible to me, at least.
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by TimK65 2y ago
> software people are subject to fads probably worse than the general public and second only to teenagers A-FRICKING-MEN. It's exhausting.
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by TimK65 2y ago
100%. That was a whole series of articles in DN about how the Swedish railways have been run into the ground. Separating maintenance from operations is a terrible idea and has never worked well on any railway that I'm aware of.
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by TimK65 2y ago
You can scroll up and look at Sweden as well. Not a pretty picture.
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by TimK65 2y ago
Coca-Cola is still made with coca leaf, but today, it's decocainized. (And since it's impossible to remove 100% of the cocaine molecules from the coca leaf, Coca-Cola still contains extremely tiny trace amounts of cocaine.)
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by TimK65 2y ago
Years ago, I was a developer on a software project where my friend Svein (of blessed memory) was a tester. I lent him this book and got it back with words taped over on the cover to change the title to: Do Programmers Have Deadlines? I stil
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by TimK65 2y ago
I think the author (Hugh Landau) is making a point about the nature of machines. I accept this point, and the related one that humans can use machines to enforce ruthlessness, and that the machine interface means that there's no human
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by TimK65 3y ago
For sheer complexity, I like this one: https://mitt.sl.se/ficktid/karta/vinter/city_stn.pdf
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by TimK65 3y ago
I created an account here to say this: Exiftool doesn't only work with image files, either. I use it to extract metadata from audio files as part of a toolchain that creates playlists automatically from my music metadata.