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by jansan 8mo ago
Good story. I hope it wasn't written by AI.
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AskHN: Is Auth0 Down Again?
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by jansan 9mo ago
That may be quite close to the truth. Here are pictures from some abandones pavilions from the 2000 World Expo in Hannover. Sad to see this, as I lived in Hannover at that time and had a really good time at the Expo. https://verg
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by jansan 9mo ago
If you compare Norway to other countries, you should always keep in mind that Norway is just blessed with energy. They have more hydropower than they consume, so electrifying everything just makes sense, even if you ignore consequences for
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by jansan 9mo ago
The strategy "Embrace, extend and extinguish" by Microsoft even has its own Wikipedia page.
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by jansan 9mo ago
They actually still have 1,5 million employees. The number has been approximately the same since 2021, and those 16,000 won't make a dent.
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by jansan 9mo ago
It was a government guarantee in November 2023, which was never used, but allowed them to borrow money from banks for new projects. Demand was never a problem, but they were on the brink of collapse due to hidden quality problems at their s
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by jansan 9mo ago
Siemens Energy (which meanwhile is completely separated from Siemens) did a massive cleanup of their management overhead two or three years ago. They cut several layers and a lot of managers got downgraded or let go. Looking at their stock
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by jansan 9mo ago
It tells you that you are not even safe from AI slop in personal conversations anymore. You think you are talking to a friend? Oh no, it's his personal AI assistant.
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by jansan 9mo ago
Wow, Motorola had an iRadio before Apple released their first iPhone? I did not know that.
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by jansan 9mo ago
I think I have downloaded it about ten times in the last fifteen years. Noone came knocking so far.
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by jansan 9mo ago
It took quite a while for the overlay to appear. Be patient if you want to see the data.
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by jansan 9mo ago
I was very naive when I discovered his books as a child in my fathers bookshelf. Luckily my father told me that I should be careful not to take anything as "the truth" from any of Däniken's books. It helped me a lot with keep
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by jansan 10mo ago
I recently found out that my teenage son has about 20 Google accounts. Needed them for his homework he said.
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by jansan 10mo ago
This is one of the posts on HN where I first read the dead comments. And they did not disappoint.
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by jansan 10mo ago
In Germany in 2025 it got worse with only 55% of trains being on time (defined very generously as being less than 6 minutes late).
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by jansan 10mo ago
I did not know that this was a hobby for adults and I find it interesting that the one kid's toy if the other person's collectible. When I was in primary school in the late 70s we used to buy lots of 1/72 scale soldiers on se
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by jansan 10mo ago
This probably depends a lot on how close you are to the equator. Here in Germany output of solar in winter is negligible, and if there is no wind, which can happen for several consecutive weeks, we need a backup. No utilities company will b
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by jansan 10mo ago
A question to native English speakers: Do you really say "Walkmans", not "Walkmen"?
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by jansan 10mo ago
That is correct, but OTOH there was a 7.3 foreshock two days before the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. So the only thing we can say for sure is that it is still extremely difficult to predict earthquakes.
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by jansan 10mo ago
We should not forget, that in most countries people who were unvaccinated came under severe social pressure. They often lost their jobs or got banned from social circles. You were basically rendered an outcast by not being vaccinated. So ta
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by jansan 11mo ago
Looks like this time they first considered that they screwed up themselves, unlike the last time when they were fighting a phantom attack for a while until they realized that it was their own fault.
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by jansan 11mo ago
I think we are not even close to using the potential of current LLMs. Even if capabilities of LLMs would not improve, we will see better performance on the software and hardware side. It is no longer a question of "if", but of &qu
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by jansan 11mo ago
> Zhdanova suspected that the melanin of these fungi was acting as a shield against ionising radiation. Wouldn't that be very easy to measure? My guts tell me that using the melanin as a shield against gamma radiation has a negligib
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by jansan 11mo ago
You are correct, they are probably just called Casio Game Watch like the Casio GC-7, GS-12 or GD-8.
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by jansan 11mo ago
Casio should release one of their "game and watch" products again, or create a new one based on the old models. Production cost cannot be higher than that of a normal watch, and a lot of people would love to own one. I am always d
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by jansan 11mo ago
Or they will laugh at us trying to harness the sun in regions far from the equator, requiring a full fallback fossile infrastructure for winter time, while having a few moderns nuclear reactors would be more reliable and cost effective. Tim
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by jansan 11mo ago
It's more the idea behind it. Considering the great cast, the movie could have been much better.
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by jansan 11mo ago
> I mention this because it feels analogous to military research, where people "dream" of how advanced the military is, how forward they are compared to public research... and yet, it seems to be a recurring myth they love to s
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by jansan 1y ago
Looks like a paper jam

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