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What's fascinating is that this is the difficulty of English translation -- which uses a different start letter and different words than the Polish one: Cyprian cyberotoman, cynik,…

I enjoyed the 2009 book Ultimatum about this scenario -- what could you do to make a global polluter to stop if they were endangering the world? https://www.amazon.com/Ultimatum-Ma…

I was in Belgium going to Antwerp and sometimes the French name -- Anvers -- was used. At least in e.g. Valais in CH cities that have dual names are shown with both, e.g. Sierre/Si…

Tales from Earthsea aka "Gedo Senki". Badly reviewed but I enjoyed it.

Jeff Bezos has a 233 billion net worth. It's not because Amazon users overpaid by a 233 billion but because his share in Amazon is highly valued by investors. My own Amazon investm…

Because the same thing has happened successfully in most other European countries. Nationalist parties talk about scary immigrants, ordinary parties tighten immigration rules, and …

Ah, this is like the "trickle down" theory of piracy.

Spending some months with a TDEE spreadsheet can be helpful but requires logging a lot of CI and weights -- if you go to any online TDEE calc you might overestimate your activity l…

I found the backslash as separator of multiple statements on one line curious. I guess that's because I was used to BASIC on the Commodore C-64/128/Amiga and later the magical Amos…

That was an amusing post to see pop up here, as I believe I came up with the "copyover" name when I copied Melvin Smith (aka "Fusion") idea about "hot reboot" from his "MUD++" code…

That CS student was Luke Farritor -- now part of the infamous DOGE team.

In EU, you see the total and per-night inclusive all of fees and taxes when searching and comparing. If you search for an area without dates, it comes up with some arbitrary dates …

Here in Denmark we have an online lexicon which is managed by (barely paid) scientists and experts. For every article you can see which scientist was involved in making it, what ex…

I'm curious whether their "Locality Groups" concept can be implemented using stock AWS. Imagine you have 1000 type of tasks that can be called millions of times by users; each node…

https://koinly.io/ is a popular recommendation here in Denmark. Denmark may have the worst possible taxation for crypto: every time you sell, use or convert your crypto, that's an …

Svalbard is larger than I thought, but not as large as the projection tricks you to: it's 1/6th the area of Norway shown below. On thetruesize.com you can drag Svalbard around and …

Black Mirror's "The Entire History of You" S1E03 episode has one take on what would happen if we could effortlessly record -- and replay -- everything. As with most Black Mirrors, …

The Danish Church is allowed to veto buildings of wind turbines if they were within the 28x the height of the turbine. This is quite a long distance if you consider the 160m tall 1…

The complex ARPGs have some unlikely competition: rogue-lite bullet-heaven games. The "rougue-lite" gives you short playing sessions where you die, but can still progress for the n…

Virtual envs are actually quite simple -- they contain a bin/ directory with a linked python binary. When the python binary runs, it checks it sibling directories (it knows it was …

I think the 1977 Icon language is where the generator concept originated. It had many other cool features I have not seen in other languages since: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ic…

Denmark has had a private school system for decades, and 15% of students go into the private schools (as a parent you pay a portion of the costs so it is not necessarily extremely …

Remember Replika and how people got quite attached to that chatbot? I imagine in the near future you'll be able to sell your and your friends' chat history to a company building a …

Many years ago, on the Womens' International Fight Day, the Goethe Institute in Copenhagen set up a specialized photo booth just for this sort of thing and the pictures are online.…

It's funny because we have labelled "TV Inspektion" vans all over the place -- but those are for robotic camera examination of a stuck sewer line! (After many years of public broad…