samirelanduk

Re:America's nuclear arsenal to cost $946B over next decade on Sunday April 27, 2025 @09:37AM (#43811834)

This was true before missile defense systems started becoming a factor. If 1500 is an effective deterrent, you need 1500 multipled by the inverse of whatever percentage of those bombs your adversary can plausibly stop.

Show HN: Penumbra – Open-Source, Offline-First, Encrypted Notes App

Posted by samirelanduk on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @09:07AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://penumbra.app/about

Built this to try out the File System API - currently seems to be supported only by Chrome. It's a basic notes app for saving notes locally, encrypted, and can be used as a PWA.Repo is at https://github.com/samirelanduk/penumbra.

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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet domain outlive... on Friday October 27, 2023 @07:43AM (#38037252)

In the UK, "America" always refers to the USA. North America and South America together are called "The Americas", never "America". It may be different in continental languages.

Re:Ask HN: Is Facebook Dying? on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @07:02PM (#30861928)

They both had a direct competitor that had been stalking them for years before implosion, and neither were as well established or well funded as Meta/Facebook.

Django IRC Channels Migration to Libera.Chat

Posted by samirelanduk on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @01:59PM
from the djangoproject.com dept.

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/may/26/django-irc-channels-migration-liberachat/

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:54AM (#27047669)

I don't think there were any reports online until December 31st.

Django 3.2

Posted by samirelanduk on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:58AM
from the djangoproject.com dept.

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/apr/06/django-32-released/

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Re:When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com on Thursday June 25, 2020 @06:54PM (#23646700)

Probably not tbh - the cost/benefit of getting such small amounts of money versus enormous reputational damage is not remotely worth it.

Nobody knows what an 850% increase is, so please stop saying it

Posted by samirelanduk on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:24PM
from the samireland.com dept.

https://samireland.com/writing/percent-increase/

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Re:Size of node_modules folder when installing the top 100 packages on Thursday January 09, 2020 @06:39PM (#22007068)

It says MB on the y-axis label.