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by hanche 5y ago
> Norway was (by their own account) a country of scattered fishing villages. By whose account, again? I grew up in Norway just before the oil boom started, and I never thought of the country that way. We had lumber, we had cheap hydroele
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by hanche 5y ago
It’s a hard problem. Here’s a wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noninvasive_glucose_monitor
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by hanche 5y ago
I have an algebra book on my shelf* that puts function arguments on the left, as in (x)f instead of the usual f(x). It is definitely more “natural”, as functions compose in the normal reading direction. But even so, it is increadibly hard t
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by hanche 5y ago
Hmm. Meanwhile, Norwegian data suggests that a single dose is highly protective against serious disease, yet largely ineffective (20% or so) against infection. Perhaps the best strategy is to give young people a single dose, then let the in
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How ‘engagement’ makes you vulnerable to manipulation and misinformation(theconversation.com)
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by hanche 5y ago
It is an old tradition in rural Norway as well, known as gravøl. It would be on the seventh day after the death, all the neighbours invited. Showing up was considered a social obligation. It was supposed to be a happy occassion, to allow th
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by hanche 5y ago
Peter Sellers at his very best. Herr Doktor Merkwürdichliebe was phenomenal.
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by hanche 5y ago
If I google for “age encryption” (no quotes), it comes out on top for me.
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by hanche 5y ago
Heh. I didn't know that about the pronunciation. I can just pronounce it like it's Norwegian! In fact “age” is a (rarely used) Norwegian word, roughly translating as “awe”.
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by hanche 5y ago
I certainly would like to think so, but the argument seems circular. These things are so hard to reason about!
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by hanche 5y ago
One person’s small is another person’s large. It all comes down to your typical use cases; no surprise there. I have lots of tiny sqlite databases myself, so for me, a few tens of thousands rows is large. But at least I am well aware that m
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by hanche 5y ago
It may be possible to believe you don’t have free will, yet act like you do and to find meaning in life. After all, given how hard it is to even define “free will”, how can we know for sure whether we have it? Now recent research seems to i
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by hanche 5y ago
That reminds me about the old joke about monads: At the moment you finally understand them, you lose the ability to explain them. Seriously, I too find the basic concepts of git quite simple. But whenever I want to do anything slightly out
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by hanche 5y ago
If you want to draw the boundary that way, fine. But to me, the point of open source is that I can get the source code and compile it myself, if I want to and have the necessary resources to do so.
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by hanche 5y ago
How many users compile Firefox or LibreOffice themselves, rather than just downloading the binaries? And don’t even most users of popular package managers just install binary packages?
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by hanche 5y ago
Lack of self-control is precisely why I don’t want these apps. Apart from privacy issues.
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by hanche 5y ago
Indeed. And thanks! I needed a little morale booster now, for reasons unrelated to this topic.
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by hanche 5y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that even being less wrong is NP-hard.
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by hanche 5y ago
By providing a micro USB to Lightning adapter, I think. I’ve got one. It is easily the most expensive gadget, per weight or volume, that I own.
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by hanche 5y ago
I, too, have pretty good reason to believe I have a globally unique name. Which makes me wonder, how common is that? I have no idea how even to begin coming up with a rough estimate. I can’t even make an educated guess about the order of ma
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by hanche 5y ago
I asked my mobile service provider when they might start supporting IPv6, and got the answer that they have enough IPv4 addresses, so no plans to implement IPv6. The mind boggles.
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by hanche 5y ago
That’s quite an exaggeration, though I understand how it can seem that way to some. Anyhow, it’s the middle of summer vacation, so lots if people are out of town. But more to the point, the meteor was visible over an area vastly bigger than
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by hanche 5y ago
There was the common lisp cells project. But I think it’s gone dormant. https://common-lisp.net/project/cells/
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by hanche 5y ago
The Common Lisp Hyperspec is one good example of this principle. http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/
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by hanche 5y ago
But first the artist has to get a gallery to show his work.
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by hanche 5y ago
Non-SI according to Wikipedia, but yeah …
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by hanche 5y ago
Oops, you’re right. I think I accidentally squared 1000 instead of cubing it when converting between km³ and m³. Which only goes to show why units can be hard. In the interest of using coherent units, I wish there were a named unit equallin
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by hanche 5y ago
Petagrams (Pg) is commonly used in climate science. I always wondered why they don’t write it as Gt instead. But gigalitre? Surely, calling them cubic kilometres (edit: should be hm³, see followup comments) would be preferable?
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by hanche 5y ago
I’ve been using Mm too, but only when I have a reasonable expectation that it will be understood. IOW, rarely. But also, I still have the Earth–Moon distance internalized as 385000 km, not 385 Mm, since that is what I learned as a kid. But
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by hanche 5y ago
It seems more natural for the app to create a UUID for the purpose, then stash it in a prefs file for later use?

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