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clan··on The Joy of Folding Bikes
Copenhagen has fairly decent public transportation and biking is quite common.

Bikes are allowed basicly everywhere: https://dinoffentligetransport.dk/en/how-to-travel/bicycles-...

Caveat: Bikes are not allowed in the Metro during rush hours 07:00-09:00 and 15:30-17:30. But it is allowed the rest of the time and has 24H service.

You should also know that the greater Copenhagen area is covered by "S-Trains" which are running on dedicated (not mainline) tracks. So metro-ish.

The S-Trains have dedicated space for bikes: https://youtu.be/hgfOxNRAktI

So even bumblebees can fly if you let them.

clan··on Slop is not necessarily the future
I respect your opinion and especially your honesty.

And at the same time I hope that you will some day be forced to maintain a project written by someone else with that mindset. Cruel, yes. But unfortunately schadenfreude is a real thing - I must be honest too.

I have gotten to old for ship now, ask questions later projects.

clan··on Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
Word works very well without surprises if you have learned how to use templating and proper headers - the semantics. Big if!

I will claim most people still just do selections and change font/weight.

So what is good design? Something which enforces our geeky ideas of a base font? Or something which let people easily do what they want to do and get work done? Who should get the least amount of surprise?

Design is taste. Taste leads to principles. Principles makes things easy. Design is also compromise. Compromise is hard. Design is hard.

clan··on Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs
Almost. To such a degree I would call it a very dark pattern.

There is however one very good argument for. Currencies with very high volatility. Think extreme inflation. If you accept their conversion you know what you pay in your own currency. You have then mitigated a risk. If your own currency is volatile then you might gamble and win. If the foreign currency is volatile you will usually win by paying in the foreign currency. If both are volatile then it is a blind gamble.

The important part here are the settlement dates. Your bank usually do not calculate the exchange rate of the eaxct purchase time.

That is the excuse for the "service". But it is still not wanted and I consider it evil.

When traveling places with rampant inflation you will notice that sellers always negotiate 2 prices. One in the local currency and one in what is considered an easy to use hard currency such as USD or Euros. Forgeries and less cash flowing around has made it harder to use other less know but otherwise hard currencies.

So sellers never care what currency you choose to settle in as very close to zero sellers have multiple accounts on the same terminal. And those who really need it will always negotiate in different currencies.

You might have experienced something like this at times when visiting Argentina or Turkey.

So the "service" is only there for those who want to understand what they pay in their own currency or mitigate a settlement date. And will pay for it!

Local terminal holders rarely care. But the ATM mafias (such as EuroNet) do very much so. Because they actively are playing the mitigation game and are allowed to add fees.

I strongly feel this field should be very heavily regulated. But too much money is involved. And if you look at where VISA and MasterCard are located you will understand that is not a regulation happy corner of the planet.

clan··on 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
That is what I am suggesting with the Atto adapter.

Infiniband is way faster and lower latency than a NIC. These days NIC==Ethernet.

clan··on 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
As Jeff states there are really no Thunderbolt switches which currently limits the size of the cluster.

But would it be possible to utilize RoCE with these boxes rather than RDMA over Thunderbolt? And what would the expected performance be? As I understand RDMA should be 7-10 times faster than via TCP. But if I understand it correctly RoCE is RDMA over Converged Ethernet. So using ethernet frames and lower layer rather than TCP.

10G Thunderbolt adapters are fairly common. But you can find 40G and 80G Thunderbolt ethernet adapters from Atto. Probably not cheap - but would be fun to test! But ieven if the bandwidth is there we might get killed with latency.

Imagine this hardware with a PCIe slot. The Infiniband hardware is there - then we "just" need the driver.

clan··on RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD
This actually makes me happy! I must be getting old!

It truly is a bad one but I really appreciate Kevin Day for finding/reporting this and for all the volunteer work fixing this.

All I had to do was "freebsd-update fetch install && reboot" on my systems and I could continue my day. Fleet management can be that easy for both pets and cattle. I do however feel for those who have deployed embedded systems. We can only hope the firmware vendors are on top of their game.

My HN addiction is now vindicated as I would probably not have noticed this RCE until after christmas.

This makes me very grateful and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside!

clan··on Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
Try a larger n.

They are more than capable. I have just looked at what BMW, Mercedes and Audi have on offer. Then compare what Zeekr and Xpeng has on offer (7X, G9). Quality wise they feel the same or even better.

While I agree as a "complete car" the full package might not quite be there yet. But that is from a European perspective as they mostly are focused on their home markets. But this is changing. This is then simply iterating for product/market fit.

Personally I find the major problems in chinese cars are the software. That is the easy fix and they are getting closer with each iteration.

So much that today I would choose a Zeekr 7X but choose to postpone as the software was too annoying (adaptive cruise control, lane assist, sign recognition, auto brake, audio cues).

The big loss we have with EVs are servicability. But that is a universal problem with all automakers.

clan··on A Love Letter to FreeBSD
You said it better at first: Standardization.

Posix is the standard.

Docker is a tool on top of that layer. Absolutely nothing wrong with it!

But you need to document towards the lower layers. What libraries are used and how they're interconnected.

Posix gives you that common ground.

I will never ask for people not to supply Docker files. But to be it feels the same if a project just released an apt package and nothing else.

The manual steps need to be documented. Not for regular users but for those porting to other systems.

I do not like black boxes.

clan··on A Love Letter to FreeBSD
I can sympathize. It makes sense.

But...

As a veteran admin I am tired of reading trough Docker files to guess how to do a native setup. You can never suss out the intent from those files - only do haphazardous guesses.

It smells too much like "the code is the documentation".

I am fine that the manual install steps are hidden deep in the dungeons away from the casual users.

But please do not replace Posix compliance with Docker compliance.

Look at Immich for an unfortunate example. Theys have some nice high level architecture documentation. But the "whys" of the Dockerfile is nowhere to be found. Makes it harder to contribute as it caters to the Docker crowd only and leaves a lot of guesswork for the Posix crowd.

clan··on A brief look at FreeBSD
Exactly. When it works it is great.

I stick with a single 43" 4K@60 but it was a bit of a challenge to get on the happy path:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/intermittent-scanline-fli...

All systems can have issues. But the more widely used systems are at an advantage.

clan··on A brief look at FreeBSD
I daily drive FreeBSD on my desktop with KDE. It is not as smooth as Linux and requires a little more tinkering compared to Linux. But I love it!

The killer features for me:

- The pf firewall. Rules you actually understand!

- Jails! When you cannot have Zones this will do.

- Native ZFS. Stable, mature, safe and with all the features you can dream of.

- Linuxulator. Binary compatibility with Linux if need be. Can be put in jail as well.

- pkg/ports. I really like it but I might have been indoctrinated.

- Networking stack. Good. Stable. Makes sense to me.

For a nice graphical UI Linux is more smooth but if you are willing to tinker it can work. As Linux gets all the attention you will see stuff such as Chromium lag behind.

I can understand that can scare people off. But FreeBSD feels like a comfortable old glove for me. I will suffer the minor holes. My beard has grayed and my hair line is non-existant.

If waiting for a laptop I would perhaps wait for FreeBSD 15 for much needed improvements in WIFI. If you want fast WIFI today you need weird hacks routing through a Linux VM[1]. It works rather well but it is honestly a bit clunky.

[1] https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox

clan··on Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall
Sounds like Basilica of San Clemente[1][2]. One of the many many many "hidden" gems of Rome. Highly recommend visiting it!

Or you can go on a virtual tour[3]

[1] https://www.basilicasanclemente.com/eng/

[2] https://maps.app.goo.gl/zpXpQuxQLUvE5TLA9

[3] https://www.basilicasanclemente.com/eng/a-virtual-tour/

clan··on Mr TIFF
Perfectly pure happiness:

"The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story." from the man himself[1]

...but let us not ruin a good story with the truth. Remember why earth was built. The "real" answer might then be flowing in the ether.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27...

clan··on MinIO stops distributing free Docker images
Reasonable.

That seems to be the key word.

One camp argues: Expect nothing. Move on.

The other: Could they - with very little effort (reasonable) - have choosen a more palatable route.

There must be a middle ground between the nihilists and the pampered.

clan··on Greenland’s national telco, Tusass, signs new agreement with Eutelsat
What irony?

The Danish king has zero power. Yes, he needs to sign the laws. Should he refuse, the next law he would see was his removal.

We have been lucky enough to have reasonable people give up power without bloodshed.

Have a word with the French how it goes if not. Can we find other examples of revolutionary wars? Something more close to home?

I sadly see no irony. None at all.

You love a strong man. A negotiator-in-chief. You think that is a president. Learn from the Germans. They replaced a monarch with a toothless head of state (look how I gracefully avoided the Austrian Painter). Most Americans do not even know the difference between the German President and Bundeschancellor.

What you are arguing for is a litteral king. Call it what you want. You will soon enough find out how hard it is to get rid of cetralized power.

clan··on Greenland’s national telco, Tusass, signs new agreement with Eutelsat
What do you think is happening now?

With fewer friends the super power ends up simply being a power. A more volatile world.

Brilliant minds thought up the Marshall plan. It secured the world. Nothing less! The world.

Did it come with a price? Yes. But what the protectionist do not get today as they dismantle the system is that is might actually have been cheaper than the alternative while remaining the leader.

Those who think that governments should be run as a business are delusional. They think we buy F35 because they are the best. The sales proves it! They will never realize that SAAB had better and more fitting options for us. They will never understand that we did pay some protection money. It is not a simple Luca Brasi situation. It is more subtle.

Ou friend is gone so we will try to do that. We have to. Now you understand that might not actually be to your advantage.

clan··on When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone
I sort of get your point. But it is not a given.

Everybody tries to maximize their budgets.

Less taxes is not the default. You will most likely get something else.

When extractive profits is involved you will never get a cheaper bridge unless there is fierce competition. Tenders are narrowly defined so you do not see the offers that you can build 2 bridges for the price of one.

In good markets governments keep the bridge building market hot enough so you have the supply ready for the next large projects. That is what keeps the price of big infrastructure projects down.

Hence there is a very good argument for not simply returning the tax dollars.

I do believe in Free markets. But I do believe in good governance as well.

A good example around here is that the knowledge and lessons learned from building the Storebælt Link[0] made the Oresund bridge[1] get in pretty much on budget. Whereas German political fuckery delayed the Fehmarn belt project[2] and will go hugely over budget both due to missing momentum but also due to inflation

[0] https://sundogbaelt.dk/en/about-us/finance-economics/constru... [1] https://sundogbaelt.dk/en/about-us/finance-economics/constru... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarn_Belt_fixed_link

clan··on When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone
That was a very narrow definition of a public good.

Not preventable? (Excludable)

Not limited in supply? (Rivalous)

What can even be defined as a public good. Can air even be a public good by this definition? Even arguing in good faith I cannot wrap my head around this.

A hospital? Limited capacity even with socialized medicine. Not a public good?

Is this just an (to me) alien and extreme libertarian viewpoint I cannot fathom or am I missing something deeper?

The concrete example stands. But a world in which we do not consider bridges a public good seems rather dystopian to me. I grant you that some of those might be private. But considering all to be private and just with a handwave acknowledge that most are publicly funded seems... Odd...

clan··on Greenland’s national telco, Tusass, signs new agreement with Eutelsat
Damned if you do.Damned if you dont't.

With 56,831 inhabitants and those spread rather thinly I assume they enjoyed the years when it was both expensive and heavily subsidised. Without heavy government support I would claim nothing would happen.

Times are changing and commercial offerings starts to be viable. But the outlook of being in the pocket of StarLink is not too appealing. I think they would prefer other options in Ukraine these days. And if you notice the relations between Denmark (the only country outside US to celebrate the 4th of July) is at a record low.

Free markets you say? Tariffs I say!

clan··on When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone
The arrogance is not that they think they're the center of the universe. It is much worse.

I hear a lot of talk about how much pain you can inflict on people and how to extract the most value from that. Last I heard it was from a couple of media types discussing radio commercials. No care for their actual product for the end user - but an evaluation of how much people would suffer before tuning away.

Actual professional pride and care is sooo last century.

clan··on Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night
I agree. I am in the same boat.

However it is possible for the more technically minded without too much effort with an adapted "unattend.xml" file during setup. This skips TPM requirements account setup and a number of other annoyances.

See: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

If you take the effort to do this subsequent installations will be a walk in the park.

clan··on Ask HN: How to determine if MuseScore are fraudsters or plain idiots?
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clan··on Ask HN: How to determine if MuseScore are fraudsters or plain idiots?
I missed the references:

[0] https://www.nets.eu/segments/Pages/for-banks-2.aspx

[1] https://musescore.org/en/download/musescore.msi

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@Tantacrul

[3] https://www.martinkeary.com/about-me

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/Musescore/comments/1e4a4is/musescor...

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/Musescore/comments/16sq8tk/why_is_t...

[6] https://www.reddit.com/r/Musescore/comments/1h5pwt0/avoid_mu...

[7] https://www.reddit.com/r/Musescore/comments/ytbw01/musescore...

[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33990543

clan··on Denmark shuts multiple airports, more unidentified drones spotted
4 smaller airports in DK had visits during this night as well.

Also lights on. Still thinking coincidence?

clan··on Denmark shuts multiple airports, more unidentified drones spotted
Drones spotted at 4 additional smaller airports in Denmark during the night.

Still with lights on however.

Link to Danish story:

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/overblik-droner-over-flere...

clan··on Denmark shuts multiple airports, more unidentified drones spotted
In Oslo a 50 year old mand was arrested and his drone confiscated.

Link:

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/drone-ved-oslo-lufthavn

BREAKING now is additional drones over 4 other smaller Danish airports: Aalborg, Esbjerg og Sønderborg samt Flyvestation Skrydstrup.

Link:

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/droner-set-over-koebenhavn...

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/overblik-droner-over-flere...

(In Danish - Google Translate is your friend)

clan··on Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos
Not OP. But with an unmanaged server it is on you. You are in full control and can leave it powered off if you so desire.

Monitorering is then your responsibility. They have no login/account on your host.

For any hardware issues I have had I have simply created a support ticket. They have always been really fast at responding and fixing for me. If you report a disk and serial number it gets swapped in no time.

They have managed offerings as well. I have never used those.

clan··on SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM
I am getting old. That reference is from 1993.

I will not spoil it but for those not in the know: https://imdb.com/title/tt0107290/

clan··on South Korea's President says US investment demands would spark financial crisis
Do you understand how flat and wartorn they were? Do you wish the same for the US?

If you are willing to take such extreme shortcuts then you can emulate the new Germany.

If not then understand that trust is a fickle thing. Quick to erode and hard to rebuild. What one administration detroys cannot simply be reinstated by the next.

Maybe 100 is a bit hyperbole. But at least 50. Being a neighbor to Germany I can assure you the reconciliation was not "quick" for us to be fully restored. And we still shiver when we follow Musks friends in Germany.

I love and is impressed with Germany and Germans. But it has not been an easy path for them.

Nothing good has ever come from Europe when we lean too far to the right. Be careful in what lessons you choose to take from us.

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