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Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:09AM (#50114706)
Corps. And you do have past and present of reading spelled the same and pronounced differently.
Re:Kicki: A DECsystem1060 – Interim Computer Museum on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:48AM (#49874106)
That's Peter's old machine! Used to be in the care of Stacken, the computer club at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. It's named Kicki because of the dual CPUs (KI KI). She had a sister named Katia ("a ten" in Swedish is "tia" and she had a KA CPU).

According to DEC you could only run one KI CPU, and then changed that when challenged to MAX two CPUs. So briefly she ran with three.

Re:A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum on Saturday September 19, 2026 @12:23PM (#49767832)
Nothing else than a bit of prompting went in to this.
Re:Jellyfin 12.0 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @12:06AM (#49605516)
I have a lifetime pass as well, but switched to Jellyfin years ago.
Re:Live map of public transport in Belgium on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:30PM (#49600124)
The app for public transportation in the Stockholm region give real time location updates for its busses, and station-to-station updates for tram and commuter trains. With the constant delays for the operator in my area it is invaluable for catching busses.
My guess is that the whole project including the selection of chips was made by an AI.
A bunch of us old salty sailing nerds were actually discussing Decca Navigator System¹ the other day that was still very present in the 90s on the ships we were sailing. Now all replaced and removed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decca_Navigator_System

You should.
Re:Intelligent Terminal 0.1 on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @02:07PM (#48373883)
This describes how you turn off telemetry: https://github.com/microsoft/intelligent-terminal/blob/main/...
This kind of data was shown by late Hans Rosling and his foundation Gapminder¹. He gave a Ted talk² about similar subjects as well, and I find him an excellent lecturer.

¹ https://www.gapminder.org/

² https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w

But you can go 1500 miles on a full tank, so with electricity you have to account for three times as many vehicles as well (given the stated range is correct)
Re:Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad? on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:12PM (#47988861)
What did you do to start getting traction for senior positions? You were struggling in the beginning of the year.
Re:The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It on Thursday April 30, 2026 @11:49AM (#47964292)
> In the past, a job that would have given me two months and paid $5,000 is now expected to be completed in two weeks for the same $5,000.

So you have quadrupled your income? That seems like the opposite of a collapse.

I had to look into this again. In Valsgärde, close to Uppsala, Sweden you have confirmed ship/boat burials from 600CE. At the same time as the ship burials at Sutton Hoo in England. The "Swedish" (at the time national borders were different) had more in common with "Denmark" that in turn had closer relations to England. Tröndelag Norway had less of international trade leading up to the Viking age, at least compared to Denmark/Jutland and the Baltic.
Tjelvar on Gotland are presumed to be from 750BCE, and I don't think that is the oldest in Scandinavia.
Stone ships had been burial sites for two thousand years before the Vikings came to Lindisfarne. And long distance trade has been established and given the extent of the Battle of Tollense contact between tribes must have stretched far and deep. And Britain was an important source of tin so trade routes both started and ended there.
It isn't like boats were invented in Scandinavia by the vikings. At Tanum, close to the present Norwegian border we have rock carvings dating back to 1700BCE, with prominent ships depicted. Boatrs have been important in Scandinavia for a long time.

https://www.tanumworldheritage.se/rock-carving-facts/?lang=e...

Re:JVM Options Explorer on Sunday April 12, 2026 @07:31AM (#47738467)
One of my nerd-quizzes I hade at interviews before was "what letters in what case are NOT flags to GNU ls".
Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git on Friday April 10, 2026 @12:20AM (#47713602)
À pull request is just you requesting someone to pull from you in git proper.

So the maintainer adds you as a remote and pulls from you.

Re:New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements on Monday March 30, 2026 @03:01PM (#47578343)
Yeah, those contracts are not valid here as the right to livelihood will trump that contract.

So even if you sign that clause you are not bound by it.

Re:New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements on Monday March 30, 2026 @02:36PM (#47577993)
Here in Sweden non-competes without a financial agreement is void. And those that offer some financial are probably OK, but haven't been tried extensively.

The non-competes I've signed have offered 60% of my base pay for six months (the length of the non-compete) if I cannot find a job because of the contract if the company exercise it.

They never have exercised it for me.

Re:Stop picking my Go version for me on Sunday March 29, 2026 @01:47AM (#47560693)
What hacks are you relying on that makes it impossible to upgrade to 1.25 or even 1.26?
Re:Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes on Saturday March 28, 2026 @09:40PM (#47559727)
There's a book about the sibling construction: the cat ladder. It's called "Arcatecture"[0].

0: https://brigitteschuster.com/swiss-cat-ladders

Re:Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and Nvram on Monday March 09, 2026 @12:42PM (#47311464)
At work in the 90s we gave tons of old Sparcstation 10s away. They rapidly replaced all IPX and IPS at the computer clubs around Sweden. One Volvo was destined for Luleå and was really weighted down with a trunk full of pizza boxes.
Re:AI and the Ship of Theseus on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:27PM (#47270878)
GPL was a response to Symbolics incorporating public domain into their software without giving back to the community (and Lisp Machines).
Re:Microsoft announces new "mini PCs" for Windows 365 on Sunday March 01, 2026 @01:36AM (#47204255)
1990 DEC VT1000
> soaked with tempera paint Or even etching liquid, then you need to replace the lens.
Re:I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:09PM (#47093217)
Dan Europe has a flow as discussed in the article and both the foundation and the regulated insurance branch is registered in Malta.
Re:Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026 on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:51PM (#47039434)
Was betamax superior to VHS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oJs8-I9WtA
Re:Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @02:27AM (#46971958)
In the Nordics it's very rare. There were power outages this year that lasted for more than 24h for some customers. So naturally there was a public inquiry into how the power companies let that happen.

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