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Programming, music, video games.

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Comment · 1 month ago
Well, how's his wife holding up? ...by Verisign, you say?
Comment · 2 months ago
The Swedish version of the page just says "siffror" (literally "digits", but colloquially "numbers") once.

I'm not aware of any relevant Swedish expression that would repeat the same word like that. Maybe something like "siffror och tal", where both words could be translated as "numbers" by someone not paying attention to the resulting sentence. :)

Comment · 2 months ago
Those are the letters we have that are distinct from English. Not exotic to us, but yeah, "weird letters" is probably considered part of the international brand now.

By the way, we consider them unique letters, not A and O with diacritics. The Swedish alphabet goes …XYZÅÄÖ.

Oh, and I just learned that we only officially added W in 2006. Before that, it was considered a variant of V. We still pronounce them the same, which is why many swedes will mix them up when speaking English. Mostly in the W->V direction, but I've heard the opposite happen too.

Comment · 5 months ago
I hadn't thought about this until I recently saw it (lazily) translated to Swedish literally, where it would traditionally be written more akin to "net fortune".

And yeah, "worth" feels super weird.

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Not to mention the huge amount of people who think git == github.
Comment · 7 months ago
I've never had a problem like that. People don't bother looking it up -- probably because your socioeconomic class is apparent anyway from e.g. the area you live in. AFAIK, the only ones who have ever looked mine up are banks, when I was applying for mortgages.
Comment · 7 months ago
What a hassle!

Here in Sweden, your tax filings are public information; companies can just ask the government what you made last year. I have no idea if they actually do, though, and the data will be somewhat obfuscated if you have extra income on the side.

Comment · 9 months ago
I bought it in late 2013, so 12 years from purchase.

Intel lists the launch date of the CPU (Atom D2500) as Q3'11, making it 14 years old when OpenSUSE Leap 16 was released.

It looks like Intel was releasing Atom CPUs without SSE4.1/4.2 up until 2013, e.g. Atom Z2420.

Comment · 9 months ago
> “you can’t install unless you upgrade your CPU”

To be fair, I recently had to switch distros for my little Atom-based server because of a similar deal:

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:X86-64-Architecture-Levels#...

Granted, I only had to convert to Tumbleweed (not trivial, but easier than reinstalling), and the open source nature means there will always be lots of other alternatives, too.

Comment · 10 months ago
Ah.
Comment · 10 months ago
I don't see a problem with that, but for the record, the title on the site is lower-case for me (both browser tab title, and the header when in reader mode).
Comment · 10 months ago
Keep Swedish out of this, you dirty Danes!

Edit: Checked out your profile, correcting myself: "you silly north-Danes!"

Comment · 10 months ago
It exists, hence e.g. AGPL.

But for most open source licenses, that example would be within bounds. The grandparent comment objected to not respecting the license.

Comment · 10 months ago
Sounds kind of like https://asciinema.org/ (which I've never used, but it seems cool).

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