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Snoddas··on How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
I hope so.

It's hard finding a good Command & Conquer server nowdays

Snoddas··on Meta caps internal AI token spending
Since I'm almost never interested in the formatting I run all pdf files through pdftotext from the Poppler library before llm use.
Snoddas··on Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
I realize I've missed a lot.

Someone should write an Emacs guide for people who haven't meaningfully touched their .emacs since the early 2000s

Snoddas··on Siri AI
I think you are wrong.

They never asked for one becase they never imagined being able to afford one.

The amount of administration organizing a normal household takes I suspect most would be glad to leave to someon/something they trust and that can be held accountable.

Today that someone needs to be a person (imo). But who knows, a startup may be plotting accountable digital assistans as we speak.

Snoddas··on AI is killing B2B SaaS
Your experience isn’t representative. Mine isn’t either.
Snoddas··on Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition
This brings back memories. I used CoyoteLinux to surreptitiously share my ADSL connection with my SO. This was against my provider's ToS at the time.
Snoddas··on The Palindromic Hat-Trick
Having one digit numbers count as a palindromes takes away most of the amazement.
Snoddas··on The history of cataract surgery
They tried to up-sell me when I was in the chair during surgery. (sweden)
Snoddas··on The history of cataract surgery
My mom got angry and asked why no one had told her how wrinkly she'd gotten.
Snoddas··on Destination: Jupiter
You may also enjoy Farewell Horizontal K. W. Jeter, takes place on a giant floating cylinder
Snoddas··on European Cloud, Global Reach
The trust is gone. Even if the dems win the next election, we now know that the US isn't stable enough to handle one rouge president.

With the massive cost of shifting infrastructure, those scared away by the current US administration is mostly gone for good.

Snoddas··on Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
This calendar is what we work after

A useful addition would be to show weekdays/weekends with a localization option for holidays (Here in Sweden we have 5 days off this Q2)

Snoddas··on Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)
You must be of size medium to small then because legroom is definitly an issue for me, especially for longer flights and I'm just 180cm. (just below average hight)

Or alternativly you can afford better seats than me.

Snoddas··on Is the world becoming uninsurable?
It will have atleast be > than zero, and doing it every year instead of giving it away to some overpriced CEO will it will accumulate.
Snoddas··on Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021)
Probably sarcastic as the temperature of Nairobi is quite moderate. A quick web serach states that the average summer temperature is

Average High: ~28°C (82°F) Average Low: ~14°C (57°F)

Snoddas··on Show HN: Retronews – TUI for HN and Lobsters emulating classical Usenet readers
I see it's read only

Is it possible to launch a browser for writing replys/comments?

Snoddas··on Parsing Awk Is Tricky
Both will get you where you want to go, but I don't think the usecase for perl and awk are the same.

I reach for awk when my bash-scripts get a bit messy, perl is/was for when I want to build a small application (or nowdays python).

But both perl and python require cpan/pip to get the most out of and with awk, I just nead awk.

Snoddas··on The Cheapest NAS
The common solution is having an UPS and a NAS that supports graceful shutdown when the UPS detects powerloss
Snoddas··on In Praise of 5-Over-1 Buildings (2019)
Here is another example

https://www.sarakulturhus.se/en/303172/The-Wood-Hotel-by-Eli...

"In the 20-story wooden house, there are 205 modern hotel....."

Snoddas··on First-in-human implantation of bionic device to halt Crohn's disease (2023)
quantify enough
Snoddas··on First-in-human implantation of bionic device to halt Crohn's disease (2023)
No it won't. Proof myself
Snoddas··on Ask HN: What to do with text from old, unarchived, online forums?
Not OP, but I used to do this regularly in the early '90s.

I accessed Usenet from my university, printed it very cheaply, and brought it home.

My home PC didn't have any internet connection until a couple of years later when I could afford a 9600bps modem.

As to diskdrives, when I started our uni-workstations could'nt read a dos/win3.1 disk

Snoddas··on Reasonable expectation of effectiveness for large dog lifespan extension
probably because biohacking has a reputation for being rather expensive

A nbc news clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc5CRvzzywU

Snoddas··on This is what the year actually looks like (2018)
I chuckled a bit when he used Richard Feynman as an example of someone 'not crazy'.

I read somewhere from one of his collegues (parafrased) "Of course he's crazy, but not in the bad way"

I suppose 'eccentric vs crazy' is a on a subjective sliding scale

Snoddas··on How do HN users go about meeting significant others?
A friend told me to get down to "The Pub" on friday as she would bring someone she thougt I ought to meet.

I was a year or so out of a 15 years relationship by then and she knew I had started to 'look around' again

Snoddas··on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
Besides any privacy issues, a someone that wears glasses full time the 4hour battery limit makes this a no starter
Snoddas··on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
I'm terrible at remembering names. This would be so useful on when attending workrelated functions.

Privatly I only hang out with the same 5 people or so, so there I manage

Snoddas··on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
I learned about Ray-Bans in the early 80s because that was what Jake and Elwood Blues wore.
Snoddas··on Large Crack Spotted in Roller Coaster Prompts Its Shutdown
Had a fatal incident last week in Stockholm

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/woman-killed-after-rollerco...

Snoddas··on Every position of Rubik's Cube can be solved in twenty moves or less
Does it follow that every permutation of a rubik's cube can be achieved in 20 moves or less?
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