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by simongray 3y ago
I think Danish and Dutch are much closer phonetically than Dutch is to any of the other two, so I'm not sure that overused meme applies in this case.
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by simongray 3y ago
W3C standards basically always build on top of other existing W3C standards.
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by simongray 3y ago
Semantic HTML and the Semantic Web are not really related, other than both of them having "semantic" in the name. > I see someone has sneakily added ActivityPub to the end of the list on wikipedia in 2021, retroactively giving
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by simongray 3y ago
Well, it's a pretty concrete tech stack these days even if the original vision didn't take off. I actually use these technologies in my day job (and have been for several years), so it's not just a wikipedia look-up for me.
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by simongray 3y ago
I just wanted to point out that both you and the one you're replying to keep writing "semantic web", but I think what you really mean is "semantic HTML". The semantic web is the umbrella term for the stack of techno
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by simongray 3y ago
I think he's just referring to all his classic talks, e.g. this one, Are We There Yet, Hammock-driven development, etc.
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Keynote – LockPickingLawyer (2021) [video](youtube.com)
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by simongray 3y ago
Probably worth mentioning that triplestores/Datomic-like databases are relatively mainstream in Clojure: https://github.com/simongray/clojure-graph-resources#datalog
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by simongray 3y ago
It's probably because the author keeps getting comments from other developers about his choice of language and he's tired of explaining why. There was a HN submission yesterday about another project of his (also in Clojure) and ma
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by simongray 3y ago
Your answer: https://aphyr.com/posts/367-why-is-jepsen-written-in-clojure
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by simongray 3y ago
Why does this even matter to you? You're not forced to use Clojure to use this.
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This was recently in the Danish news since it was done by a Danish astronaut on the ISS: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex...
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by simongray 3y ago
It's GDPR.
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by simongray 3y ago
It's a feature to only sell the bundled product at a much high cost?
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by simongray 3y ago
Google only sells YouTube Premium bundled with a music subscription in my Spotify-dominated country, because they obviously want to use their large video platform to expand into music. Classic monopolistic behaviour.
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by simongray 3y ago
Borkdude is a misnomer. He should really be called the Borkcollective.
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by simongray 3y ago
I don't think it's like pineapple/ananas, e.g. we call it gurkemeje in Denmark which is cognate, but not obviously so.
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by simongray 3y ago
It's based on citizenship. The Danish national statistics agency has an official set of Western countries used when e.g. comparing Denmark to other Western countries. They also define 1st and 2nd generation immigrants The Danish politi
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by simongray 3y ago
Zeihan's synthesis view of geopolitics is pretty interesting, but he does display glaring faults when he ventures beyond that niche, e.g. when he tries to summarise the economic systems of the world in his most recent book he says all
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by simongray 3y ago
Plenty of HN bots on Mastodon already, e.g. I follow this one: https://social.lansky.name/@hn500
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by simongray 3y ago
I happen to think Mastodon is good enough as it is. To me it doesn't really need faster growth. It won me over and it won over the hundreds of people I'm following. I get a lot of value from it that I never got on Twitter, despite
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by simongray 3y ago
I recommend installing the extension Streetpass for Mastodon to build up your followed accounts organically across time. A surprising number of interesting articles submitted to HN link back to the author's Mastodon account. (Graze for
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by simongray 3y ago
Mastodon is quite different. It really filters a lot of noise away (e.g. Xwitter always has ~20 pointless meme gif comments below every viral post) and it self-selects what I would consider interesting people. The algorithm-centred platform
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by simongray 3y ago
> Hope this passes the same way the USB-C thing passed. All these parasitic megacorps with more money than many countries need to be whipped into submission for their shenanigans It has already passed and is active legislation as of this
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by simongray 3y ago
Fair enough.
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> NASA's Webb I guess it may be technically owned and primarily operated by NASA, but it was developed from the start as an international project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Par...
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Yes
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> I love OSS products, especially OpenStreetMap, but I have a hard time believing it could be better than the big players. Apple and Google both use OSM data as well, but supplement it with massive internal mapping efforts. Apple Maps do
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Mac OS X
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"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" takes place during the Prague Spring, which I found interesting enough in itself to read it.

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