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IANAL, but EU law doesn't have "fair use". It does have a _very specific_ set of uses where you don't have to ask for permission (or pay). As I understand, it is more limited than …

Also having grown up in Denmark in the late 80's, I definitely had some of the same experiences; my school was built in the late 30's/early 40's, so not built for the cold war (but…

Accompanying blog post at https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/yet-more-google-compute-cl... (with raw data!)

AFAIK, most of the Danish cellphone infrastructure was built after TeleDanmark (now TDC) was privatized.

Without ECC memory, ZFS carries the nasty risk of writing good data with a bad checksum, leading to data loss which would not occur in other filesystems Assuming a memory error som…

Previously posted a few times. These two seem to have the most discussion going: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13643025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18235798

I sometimes got quite confused as both my university and hall of residence both had gateways named 'bifrost', 'heimdal' and servers 'thor', 'loke', etc. (I ended up setting differe…

Some people just don't have a global mindset, I guess.

Yes! No more jet-lagged minors twice a year, no more train tickets stamped ~200 years in the future (yes, that has happened to me) and no more confusing server logs with odd duplic…

In Denmark, several municipalities have hired garbage-collection trucks to test mobile coverage (danish article with images at https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/regionale/oestjylland/skral…

Copenhagen Suborbitals has a blog-post about those limits: By default all GPS units have some built-in limits (so-called COCOM limits) that prevents them from providing any data if…

All the media fuss was about dropping the tax-exemption completely. As I remember, you had to read the news about it very carefully to see that they did a gradual phase-out of 20%/…

I experienced problems with several Google services from DK after upgrading Chrome this morning. Disabling QIUC as parent links to unbroke things for me.

AFAIK, this could also be written as a transform in AssetGraph [ https://github.com/assetgraph/assetgraph ], which does all of the loading, parsing and traversing for you. At least…

The bug was introduced in Go 1.5 (when the compiler was rewritten to Go)

I worked at place with such a button. Neat caveat: only VP's could unchecked it... (And I managed to check it within my first month there. My boss kindly let me know the difference…

Facebook does this (and quite a few other tricks) for storing time-series data in Gorilla (in-memory TSDB, Paper: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1816-teller.pdf ), getting to 1,37…

Danish media say the price is 100M+ DKK, which approx. translates to $15M+ USD. Slightly related to yesterdays' new of Danish-origin Unity raising capital https://news.ycombinator.…

(Hej; fellow Dane here!) > Zendesk is also Danish originally, Tradeshift is, Podio.. they all end up leaving because the market opportunity in Denmark is very small (6mio) and ther…

I was quite surprised that `nix install vim` didn't work out of the box. More so after realising that there's not even a `nix` command. I see that there's a bunch of `nix-whatever`…