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Re:A Look at Firefox Forks on Sunday March 16, 2025 @04:56AM (#43377719)
Mullvad is Swedish for "mole". Mull is a word for soil, and "vad" seems to come from "vada", wade. So translated it would be "soilwade".

To me, it sounds like just another word.

Re:Apple M3 Ultra on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:08PM (#43270816)
According to what source? Passmark says otherwise[1]. The fastest Intel CPUs have both a higher single thread and multi thread score in that test.

[1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

Re:Dust from Car Brakes More Harmful Than Exhaust, Study Finds on Saturday February 15, 2025 @11:46AM (#43059916)
Don't most EVs use regenerative braking though? That should offset their weight a fair bit I imagine.
Re:A Washing Machine for Human Beings, from 1970 on Thursday November 28, 2024 @02:46AM (#42263365)
I'm a man but washing and using conditioner will take a lot longer than 2 minutes. I have very long hair though.
Re:Ask HN: What do you use to backup your VMs? on Saturday September 28, 2024 @01:39AM (#41678155)
LVM snapshots + rsnapshot, saved on btrfs disks on each server, then btrbk[1] for pulling backups to remote storage.

[1] https://github.com/digint/btrbk

Why do I need to turn off my adblocker to see the map?
Re:My Rude-Ass Car on Thursday November 02, 2023 @06:08AM (#38111264)
Even a racing driver can't beat ABS on asphalt in a controlled setting.[1] On dirt roads or ice the story might be different.

[1] https://youtu.be/ERE9EtOWZMU?si=s35N-IzuyPLuEoKD

Even a racing driver can't beat ABS in a controlled setting.[1] Imagine a regular driver trying to brake in an emergency situation.

[1] https://youtu.be/ERE9EtOWZMU?si=s35N-IzuyPLuEoKD

It is probably using cell broadcasts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast
Re:A Company of One on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:32AM (#37388544)
> There's no real practical way to prevent someone from accumulating wealth if they wanted to continue to do so.

Not within a capitalist system, no. There are other systems though.

Re:GPS on Sunday June 04, 2023 @04:22AM (#36183964)
> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Here's what it looked like before the announcement: http://web.archive.org/web/20230302172255/http://txti.es/

Input markdown, get a web page.

Re:GRML – a Linux distro for system administrators on Monday June 06, 2022 @02:30AM (#31637765)
I've used Finnix[1] for recovery tasks in the past. Having a good Linux distro on a USB stick makes me feel ready for any (most often self inflicted) computer emergency. It's the sysadmin equivalent of a Swiss army knife.

[1] https://www.finnix.org/

Re:Swisscom to discontinue MMS service on Thursday February 10, 2022 @09:20AM (#30286306)
Yup, the parent comment is incorrect. SMS longer than 160 characters (in GSM 03.38 encoding) are split into multiple parts, each a maximum of 153 characters long, 7 characters are used to glue the parts together.
> Globalism and mass immigration is the destructor of culture.

In what way? It might change the cultural landscape but that happens all the time, even the most nationalistic state does not have the exact same culture it did 100 years ago. Old culture will go away to make place for a new one, or rather, culture is always evolving.

> You can forget about that for a while and play the game of the inevitable failure of multiculturalism, but it will always fail, you will always destroy society, and from the ashes, a cohesive, homogeneous people will reemerge to build back from the ashes of your stupidity as has always been done

Do you have any examples?

Re:Show HN: Lofi.cafe on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @09:47AM (#26807000)
I'd go for "listening now" or "currently listening". I also assumed the "room" was the what I see now is called "station".

Counting the listeners in a station instead of visitors site-wide would be kinda neat though, and "room" works well then I think.

edit: or maybe "in the cafe" for site-wide visitors? That should be clear and has the same feeling as "room".

Re:Religious fervour is migrating into politics on Sunday March 28, 2021 @10:10AM (#26610539)
How did you arrive at that conclusion? With the decline of organized religion, could one not suggest that religiosity is very much something people can be without? Or are you referring to already religious people being unsatisfied religiously?

I'm in a very secular country. Non-religious people are... non-religious. I don't believe there is anything that "replaces" religion in most people's lives. If you're not religious, you don't necessarily have metaphysical needs, and I think most people here don't.

Regarding religious people: they meet with eachother in church and other constellations as usual. Nothing is keeping people from practicing their religion, but they can't assume most people will empathize with their views, which is true for many different standpoints in life, not just religion.

(I did not read the article as I was paywalled, I might have missed the context of your comment)

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