widforss

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   by widforss 6y ago

   Many countries (I know for certain Sweden, Norway and the US) use Transversal Mercator for local maps. The UTM zoning system makes the error as small as possible in the local area.
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   by widforss 6y ago

   The LLA freight proposal was given by the teacher in the assignment, but I guess there is a real benefit. Isn't Anchorage preferred over Honolulu for most trans-pacific flights?
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   by widforss 6y ago

   I did a course on cartography a couple of years ago, and one of the better assignments was to find a suitable projection and make a proper map describing a comparison in distances between two points. The projection I used was of course Two-
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   by widforss 6y ago

   Over here at least (Sweden), there are around 10 channels that are allocated to hunting radio and PMR, which you can use without a license.
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   Iranian CS student arrested accused of opposition [Swedish](amnesty.se)

   2 points by widforss 6y ago|0 comments
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   by widforss 6y ago

   Ok, you need in Sweden and Norway unless they make some kind of exception. And that probably wouldn't happen the way universities are governed here.
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   by widforss 6y ago

   I don't think US PhD's are required to have a Master's to begin with, no?
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   by widforss 6y ago

   "assume that a public key cryptosystem exists"
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   by widforss 6y ago

   The use case for the iPod could be anything, but one time that Swedish authorities wanted to covertly measure radiation was during Whiskey on the rocks ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_S-363 ). They pulle
10. 160.▲
    by widforss 6y ago

    Most users just don't download Firefox.
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    by widforss 6y ago

    Won't gcc complain if you assign a variable within an if-statement?
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    by widforss 6y ago

    I was rather referring to the part about "unclaimed pie-slice". That's not part of the Antarctic Treaty; it predates it and is made irrelevant by it.
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    by widforss 6y ago

    This is a gross misrepresentation of the Antarctic treaty. The treaty effectively removed the relevance of any claim from any entity.
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    by widforss 6y ago

    I was almost posting a snarky comment about how this is just Shamir's Secret Sharing, which is in no way new. But, hey, this is really cool. It was probably really fun to write, and luminates a cool scheme that too few know anything a
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    by widforss 6y ago

    The best acronym must be UTC. Let's make no one happy.
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    by widforss 6y ago

    Relevant Ask HN I asked earlier this summer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23377270
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    by widforss 6y ago

    I had to order some maps over Antarctica by fax a year ago. The USGS had a functional webshop, but it only served the US, everybody else had to fill out this form including debit card data and send it over. It turned ou my uni actually stil
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    by widforss 6y ago

    Maybe dang can help you remove it.
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    by widforss 6y ago

    I love the idea, and will see if I'm able to buy some later. But trans-atlantic shipment and tariffs adds up, unfortunately. And I'm unsure if customs would let animalia get into the EU without special license. Edit: I see now tha
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    Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language?

    134 points by widforss 6y ago|168 comments
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    by widforss 6y ago

    I don't know about Switzerland specifically, but it's up there with Norway as the most expensive places in Europe. I think they are somewhat equivalent. For reference, in Norway, a lower-tier apartment would go for about >9000
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    by widforss 6y ago

    I'm still on my master's, so I'm no expert in the subject yet. I did my bachelor's project on remote sensing of avalanches [1] and have worked with the Swedish EPA for the last year building a structured database of remo
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    by widforss 6y ago

    My current trajectory is headed for the tech side of the avalanche business, and its great. People live all over the mountains, so nobody really cares where you are, everything happens by teleconference anyway. So I basically hope to find a
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    by widforss 6y ago

    My father always told me that American textbook authors got paid by the page. That's probably not true, but it certainly feels that way when reading them.
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    by widforss 7y ago

    We had a giant garbage bin beside the table, everything was tossed.
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    by widforss 7y ago

    I worked one summer (2014) manufacturing emergency stop buttons for ABB. We used SAP for our incoming orders. Each order was printed on paper as some kind of report from SAP and put in our physical inbox. When we had manufactured buttons fo
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    by widforss 7y ago

    A-to-B routing is simple and not very expensive. You can implement it without very much graph theory knowledge. It's when visiting a number of destinations in an arbitrary order that things get difficult.
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    by widforss 7y ago

    Reminds me of the traditional "gimme gimme gimme" easter egg. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man...
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    by widforss 7y ago

    This is a library for presenting map data, you have to specify your map source yourself.
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    by widforss 7y ago

    My personal avalanche detection project https://avanor.se (I haven't started the image uploads for this season yet), seems to fit the second model. It's very simple and small, but is successful in terms of being a pres