pgsandstrom

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Comment · 1 month ago
The most danish movie ever made. It gets an extra layer if you are at least somewhat familiar with the hedonistic aspect of danish culture (at least in contrast to swedish culture).
Comment · 1 month ago
Anyone with a multi-GPU cluster at home that has given it a try?
Comment · 2 months ago
> that lasted from 1873 to 1877, continuing until 1879 in the French Third Republic and in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Reading the entire sentence makes it clearer.

Comment · 3 months ago
My impression is that the US is more vulnerable to climate change than Europe. While Europe has heat waves, the US has a hurricane problem that simply does not exist in Europe, which can result in horrendous societal damage.
Comment · 5 months ago
Or when they get sick, or hurt, or...
Comment · 6 months ago
Could you break it down for someone who isnt in the know?
Comment · 8 months ago
You might not fully grasp what Grindr is all about...
Comment · 10 months ago
I try to stay humble when predicting the future. But there is just no way there will be a literal military invasion. Trump would never risk a bunch of american dying on the ground, it would be terrible optics.
Comment · 10 months ago
Maybe they just want access to the specific companies? Like, you get hired by the company. You hand over username/password/vpn-info to them. Then they have a way inside the company and can try to steal information, install backdoors, whatever, with very low risk of getting caught.
Comment · 11 months ago
I added the custom instruction "Please go straight to the point, be less chatty". Now it begins every answer with: "Straight to the point, no fluff:" or something similar. It seems to be perfectly unable to simply write out the answer without some form of small talk first.
Comment · 1 year ago
What, you think the article was written by AI? Why?
Comment · 1 year ago
I've coded on linux for a decade now, but always used windows at home. Just last week I switched from windows 10 to ubuntu on my media computer since it cant upgrade to windows 11.

I open up firefox, go to youtube, and immediately notice that 30% of all frames are gone. Hardware acceleration isnt working.

I put the computer to sleep and go make dinner. When I return my wireless keyboard cant wake it up, I have to hard-reboot the computer to wake it up.

I ask chatgpt about solutions to these problems, and it start spitting out terminal commands that end up making no difference.

In my experience, 2025 is not yet the year of linux. I'll try again in 2027.

Comment · 1 year ago
Agree. People who join a project and insist on changing the default styling configs are insane weirdos. But people who dont want to use any styling solution on a project with several developers are EVEN MORE insane weirdos.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Most programming should be done long before a single line of code is written

I'd rephrase this to something like: Most programming should be done before 5% of the code is written. Because "no plan survives contact with the enemy". I often develop a plan, work for just a tiny bit, and realize some new constraints. It's after that point that you should construct your grand battle plan.

Comment · 1 year ago
I work at a swedish bank. We spend very much time and effort to prepare for different situations such as that. Some preparation is required by the EU Dora act: https://www.digital-operational-resilience-act.com/ (yes I know that HN hates all EU regulations)

Being a cashless society does require some extra emergency planning, but I feel confident that Sweden has prepared as well as you could ever expect for such a crisis.

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