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by silvestrov 7d ago
Denmark never denied an approval, so it has no meaningful difference. At one point the US had 17 small bases in Greenland. Almost all have been abandoned by the USA on its own initiative. Look at this map: https://www.researchga
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by silvestrov 24d ago
This is a good live map of how Europe is partitioned into zones and what their prices are. Right now you can see a large price difference between Sweden and Denmark and also with Norway. Britain is often suffering high prices, likely due t
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by silvestrov 24d ago
Commodore 64 in 1982 cost US$595 ($2,059 today). ZX Spectrum in 1982 cost $200 ($692 today) for 16 KB model and had a 48K model for 40% more. It was the difference between affordable and unaffordable for many people.
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by silvestrov 27d ago
Very limited: as soon as you have cleared a notification it is gone forever and old notifications are also gone rather quickly. https://www.lifewire.com/iphone-notification-history-1189516...
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by silvestrov 27d ago
I think this comes from the same problem as notifications on iPhones: if you dismiss them accidentally then it is very difficult to find out what it was. It is missing the equivalent of the "history" in e.g. browsers and YouTube.
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by silvestrov 1mo ago
I'd really wish I could force ISO format for the date input as the current "platform native" is confusing for some users when the OS use a different language than the web page that is shown. For some multi-country companies i
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by silvestrov 1mo ago
PostGIS is also another very useful addition for storing, indexing, and querying geospatial data. http://www.postgis.net
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by silvestrov 1mo ago
In the old days 25 years ago, x86 hardware was the main source of unreliability. Today x86 hardware is super reliable and unneeded complexity in the software stack is the main source of problems.
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by silvestrov 2mo ago
Los Angeles has mountains/water on all sides so it can't grow in size. It also utilizes the space extremely inefficiently. Single level single family houses everywhere and the rest is parking space. The few parks are difficult t
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by silvestrov 2mo ago
precision loss in floating point is often exponential. If 64 bit isn't enough, then very quickly 128 is also not enough. If precision is important then you will very often want systems that represent every number as an interval [a, b]
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by silvestrov 2mo ago
When looking through all the other commits the user has made: they all lack a good commit message. This is systematic for that user. Either the user needs to improve or let go. The organization needs to learn that good commit messages are
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by silvestrov 3mo ago
One of the most interesting innovations in the Ukraine war is their internal market place for drones, letting each drone group decide which drones they want to procure and use in battle. It is not a top-down decision, production and supply
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by silvestrov 3mo ago
Supermarkets often have so low margin that building for the 98% of customers means that all of the profit has disappeared. Profit is often at the margin.
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by silvestrov 3mo ago
The KISS version of regulation would be that stores are not allowed to use the word "buy" when you don't get full ownership and must use the word "license" instead. Also it should be marked clearly that the company
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by silvestrov 3mo ago
Denmark does not have a problem with age. It has gone the other way: members are younger today than in the old days. Graph: https://www.ft.dk/-/media/sites/ft/billeder/infografikker/ta... A
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by silvestrov 3mo ago
Perl has the negated if statement: return unless fooOK; return unless barOK; return unless bazOK; # do something
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by silvestrov 3mo ago
> trains about the same amount The nice thing about trains is that they can run on electricity. It does require investing in overhead wires.
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by silvestrov 3mo ago
Problem is that PostgreSQL does not support LIMIT on the DELETE command. I have no idea why, it seems such an obvious feature for supporting large databases.
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by silvestrov 4mo ago
It is like writing novels: it is not the spelling or typing on the keyboard that is the bottleneck. It is always the creative world building part. The main criticism of the Harry Potter books are not spelling or sentence structure, it is th
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by silvestrov 4mo ago
This is a very nice and fresh page layout.
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by silvestrov 4mo ago
Good trick is to prefix all such keys with magic, i.e. a couple of letters that identify type type of key. Then it will always be a string and you will be free to change the format/type of the key in the future to UUID or whatever you
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by silvestrov 4mo ago
I'd really like a collection of unit tests for parsers. There is a lot of details that can differ between parsers. E.g. in "Section C" the resulting KeyThree is "value 3▵▵▵▵▵▵▵value 3 continued" where each "▵&
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by silvestrov 4mo ago
XML would have the advantage of having a grammar so we could validate the config files. It would also make it much simpler to make good GUI editors for the files instead of the Notepad approach most unix config files take.
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by silvestrov 4mo ago
In Danish: https://danskebank.com/da/news-og-insights/nyhedsarkiv/press... or translated: https://danskebank-com.translate.goog/da/news-og-insights/ny... TLDR: power supply failed
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by silvestrov 4mo ago
A Danish bank found out that this can bite you in the ass. When you hotpatch the system for years then you have no idea if the system can boot up or it will fail somewhere in the booting process. i.e. you can only trust what you regularly t
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by silvestrov 4mo ago
iOS 26 is very late to have acceptable performance in the framework that Apple promotes as what you should use. It should have had good performance from the day it was introduced. WebKit have had great performance for a very long time now.
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by silvestrov 5mo ago
Notes in the toilet were mostly for passing to other students. In many exams we were allowed to bring our own notes. Those are unusable if you haven't learnt the material, as you then don't know what to look for. But a small no
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by silvestrov 5mo ago
> plastic everywhere. plastic will still be everywhere. The major catastrophe that could happen is for evolution of plastic eating bacteria like the creation of (dead) wood eating bacteria. Look at all the plastic containers etc you ha
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by silvestrov 5mo ago
It's a very different world from the exams I had in Denmark, both uni and high school: * all exams were proctored * the proctoring were done by external people hired to do this. * you could not leave exam for the toilet without asking
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by silvestrov 5mo ago
A lot of boomers thinks windmills are against the natural order and will end the world. Also solar parks are just the most ugly thing in the world. They must be banned.

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