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It's been a trend in Denmark for many years to find and grow old seeds. I'm not sure if they ship overseas, but I'm sure if you ask them nicely there is a good chance.

Aurion, a mill with a web shop: https://www.aurion.dk/

Kornetshus, a knowledge center on seeds: https://kornetshus.dk/

Both are highly recommended.

Re:Mastering Emacs on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @03:36AM (#37232891)
I'm made the transition from Vim to Emacs. I now primarily use Emacs with Evil mode and still use Vim for quick edits with the Vim configuration as a subset of my Emacs configuration. It's the best of both worlds. The Emacs text editing platform is on another level regarding automation, integration and productivity. I have my own config, but I recommend trying the Doom Emacs configuration system if you want to get up and running quickly.

I have read the book and it is the best Emacs book I know of. Highly recommended.

Re:WordPerfect for UNIX (1992) on Monday July 18, 2022 @06:00PM (#32144526)
You should try some modern terminals fx.:

- Contour https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour

- Wezterm https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/

Both fast terminals with modern features and cross platform. Also checkout Notcurses:

https://notcurses.com/

Here is a video of the Notcurses demo running in a terminal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY

Re:Deepfaked Voice Enabled $35M Bank Heist in 2020 on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:48PM (#28881498)
"My voice is my passport, verify"

Sneakers 1992 https://youtu.be/-zVgWpVXb64

Re:Cozy is a modern audiobook player for Linux on Monday September 07, 2020 @04:24AM (#24397630)
For Android there is Voice: https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/Voice
Re:Bugs That Became Features on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @12:35PM (#20942018)
Message transfer agent
Re:Who Killed Lard? (2012) on Friday April 26, 2019 @04:40AM (#19755703)
Come on, I must have been raised in another Denmark from a parallel universe then?

Fedtemadder (lard on bread) is an essential part of the danish smørebrødsbord (open sandwich table). It is common to use lard instead of butter on speciel occasions, like Christmas for example. And it tastes great :-P

All the download links are down at the moment. Here's a torrent link:

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Re:Show HN: Search icons visually on Sunday February 10, 2019 @09:33AM (#19127888)
Well it did suggest 2 icons of presumably corporate scrum meetings...
Re:Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:55PM (#19042190)
One of my all-time favourite chiptunes from 1996:

Funky Stars aka Hybrid Song

https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

Re:Updated Debian 9: 9.7 released on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:13PM (#18985413)
I run stable at work and on my private workstation and laptop. Minimum downtime, it just works. I install my bleeding edge, i.e Haskell, Python, Emacsen, Firefox etc in my home directory. Best of both worlds. A stable base system and the newest application and environments on top.
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm? on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @08:36AM (#18238340)
Xiaolin Wu's algorithm for antialiasing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaolin_Wu%27s_line_algorith...

Very simpel in concept and applies to all continues functions...

Re:How to get kids to pay attention on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @11:13PM (#17460629)
I second this. I'm a father of a 5½ year old boy. Like the grandparent said, I try to treat him as an adult with no experience, knowledge or skills and with a plastic mind.

Small kids have an instinct to learn: they follow you around and copy your behavior. It takes great responsibility to shape the future of a person. And with your own flaws replayed in front of you, you change, you become a better person because of it.

I remember that age. And I loved when I was doing stuff with my dad. Before I was 7 I had worked with wood, handled the axe and knife, welded metal, messed with bikes, capsized a boat, tied knots and shot rifles. I wasn't good, I didn't contribute, I was just given small tasks to free my dad to do the real work. I felt I was on the team, and I learned a lot.

My father always answered all my weird questions, and if he wasn't able to, he looked it up and told me at bed time.

When I was 12, and enthusiastic told him about a game have played on my Commodere 64. He listened and was understanding of my enthusiasm. Then he said: "But did you program that game?", and I replayed "No, of course not...". And my Dad replayed: "So you are only running other peoples programs...". That sentence is the reason I'm in IT and reading this site...