msiebuhr
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Comment · 2 years ago
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 was reportedly used as the local Nazi HQ during WW2). But I can definitely recognize that a lot of 60's and 70's architecture was dual-purpose.
Kulturministeriet (The Danish agency for Culture and Palaces) has a great section on the Cold War ("Kold Krig" in Danish) at https://slks.dk/omraader/kulturarv/bevaringsvaerdige-bygning.... (Google Translate: https://slks-dk.translate.goog/omraader/kulturarv/bevaringsv...).
There'a also a book, Kold Krig, which is available as a PDF at https://slks.dk/fileadmin/publikationer/Kulturarv/Kold_Krig_... (but I can't make Google translate ... translate)
And I still have to visit www.reganvest.dk some day :)
Comment · 6 years ago
Accompanying blog post at https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/yet-more-google-compute-cl... (with raw data!)
Comment · 7 years ago
AFAIK, most of the Danish cellphone infrastructure was built after TeleDanmark (now TDC) was privatized.
Comment · 7 years ago
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 somewhere:
On ZFS you'd be writing bad data with a bad checksum, which would be caught by ZFS later on.
On (most) other filesystems you'd be writing bad data and no checksum, and you'd be none the wiser until garbage comes back.
It's a myth that ZFS requires ECC memory; ZFS is safer when running with ECC, but without ECC it will still save your data in a lot of places where most other filesystems won't.
See https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/7ng231/does_a_zfs_mirr... for a bunch of links on this.
Comment · 8 years ago
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
Comment · 8 years ago
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 different terminal prompts depending on which domain the current machine was under.)
Comment · 8 years ago
Some people just don't have a global mindset, I guess.
Comment · 8 years ago
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 duplicates.
Also, contact your local EU parliament member and politely explain why this is good...
Comment · 9 years ago
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/skraldebiler...) and some utility companies have done the same with recievers for short-range transmitters placed in water/power/heating meters.
Comment · 9 years ago
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 the velocity
exceeds 515 m/s at altitudes above 18 km. These artificial limits are
built into GPS receivers to prevent bad guys from using them in
missiles and other nasty stuff.
Comment · 9 years ago
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%/yr or so.
It actually turned out that the change caused the EV sales all but stop completely (quite to the surprise of the tax authorities). So they're looking at re-exempting a few thousand cars every month.
Fun fact: The danish nickname for the tax authorities is "Skattefar", "Taxdaddy" - and it's the name of their twitter account: https://twitter.com/Skattefar
EU being EU, I can only imagine there's a bunch of particular rules around research that may or may not work in the authors' favor.