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hjalle··on LANDrop – Drop any files to any devices on your LAN
It's using webrtc for a p2p connection, see https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop/blob/master/docs/...
hjalle··on Swedish pension giant loses $1.1B from US banks’ collapse
Not that I know of. However they sold their shares in the somewhat stable swedish banks Handelsbanken and Swedbank in the hunt for the more exotic, nieche bank stocks.

The CEO of Alecta even said in an interview that the 50%+ drop of "First Republic bank" isn't a loss because it hasn't been realized yet. It wouldn't surprise me if he had to leave before the week is over.

hjalle··on Swedish pension giant loses $1.1B from US banks’ collapse
4th largest shareholder in SVB

4th largest shareholder in Signature Bank

5th largest shareholder in First Republic bank.

Lets call it 3 out of 3.

hjalle··on Large nordic hotel booking system under ransomware attack
"We have got the bitcoins and are now transferring them to the bandits. We expect that the bandits soon will decrypt the files.", yet they are really struggling to decrypt the files.
hjalle··on “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
Not if the research involves the reviewing aspects of open source projects.
hjalle··on Dark’s new backend will be in F#
Quite a shitty accusation, isn't it?

Without knowing anything regarding the specific details, I would be pretty surprised if investors wouldn't be ready for both ups and downs.

hjalle··on QuickBit Data Exposure Incident Report [pdf]
Exposed Mongodb instance found on shodan, https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/quickbit-databa...
hjalle··on Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…
Young people? They only give to living people but my impression is not that most laureates are young

Edit: 72 years in average across all prizes, although first half of 20th century was lower.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37578899

hjalle··on Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms
It's 20 million tonnes per year according to the source https://www.unccd.int/actions/united-nations-decade-deserts-...
hjalle··on Robots.txt as a Security Measure?
Yes, no doubt.
hjalle··on Robots.txt as a Security Measure?
Funny experiment and perhaps also useful, but there are crawlers with good intentions[1] that still may ignore the disallows. I don't know of anyone else than the internet archive though.

[1] https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...

hjalle··on [dead]
2018 years revenue "exceeded $25 million", now serving about 30-35 million queries per day (https://duckduckgo.com/traffic)
hjalle··on A 220b spreadsheet app in HTML/JS
Am I missing something or isn't the "+" unnecessary? i.e. a[i]+-~j = a[i]-~j
hjalle··on Understanding the math behind 0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (2012)
Isn't that the same?
hjalle··on Volvo signals 'end of the solely combustion engine-powered car'
Couldn't you get at least a simpler drive train if you only used the engine as a generator?
hjalle··on Volvo signals 'end of the solely combustion engine-powered car'
Almost 3 years ago the CEO (Håkan Samuelsson) said that he did not believe in pure elecric cars but rather hybrids[1]. Will be interesting to see if that still holds or if he has changed his beliefs.

[1] http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/rena-elbilar-tror-vi-inte-pa/ (translated, https://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=...)

hjalle··on SQL Notebook
Yeah, LINQPad is great! I use it for so many weird cases, everything from rather complex scraping with phantomjs to trying out things like regexs. I've saved small scripts that make it easier to get into new projects, such as making lists of files that have been changed the most and people who have the most commits etc.. Really recommend it for .NET devs.
hjalle··on How can I see a friend's specific comment on a popular post?
How is it possible that a 6 step procedure requiring substituting two id's is required to find a reply to a comment you that has been made?
hjalle··on U.S. launches cruise missile strike on Syria after chemical weapons attack
Looks like 6 dead

https://www.thequint.com/world/2017/04/07/usa-attack-syria-g...

hjalle··on Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return on Investment Than Oil
Just over $2? 95 octane costs around $1.5 (13.5 SEK) per liter. Still a lot more than US though.
hjalle··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)
A bit off topic, but please add support for hectares and liters.
hjalle··on Show HN: A database of everything (over 55M keys)
Netbase/pannous seems to be cool but I guess it still got some work to do as it's suggesting Bonn as capital of Germany, unless I'm misinterpreting the statements. Kind of weird result from Google when you search for: "bonn capital germany". For me, it displays the wiki summary of Berlin but the link goes to Bonn. Does it usually work like that?

Edit: It was the Bonn Summary of wikipedia

hjalle··on Kattis Problem Archive
Im pretty sure that this is a public version of the platform that has been running at KTH (royal institute of technology) for years. It was used as a test suite as well as performance test for assignments there for the CS school.
hjalle··on North Korea Owes Sweden €300m for 1000 Volvos It Stole 40 Years Ago
Thanks! Had to take a look at this and just a ZZBop mentioned he got sentenced to prison, but as I understand not really because of bribing as that was just a cover up for himself.

Apparently it was Fallenius himself who in court told that the money he took from ABB was going to be used as a bribe, but the court did not agree and sentenced him for tax fraud instead. See http://www.svd.se/abb-direktor-domd-till-fangelse , (Swedish)

hjalle··on North Korea Owes Sweden €300m for 1000 Volvos It Stole 40 Years Ago
The whole Kreuger empire rise and fall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Kreuger) is pretty interesting, but it was still a loan. He did the same thing to plenty of countries, the largest being Germany at $125m.

I've not heard about that bribe, would be interesting to read more about it. You got any more information about that?

hjalle··on A beginners guide to thinking in SQL
What will the id become in that query when you got multiple people with the name? Null?
hjalle··on Announcing TypeScript 2.0 Beta
Id love too see partial classes.. It would be so helpful combined with generated classes. Do anyone know any alternative to partial classes with the same functionality as partials in C#?
hjalle··on The cave divers who went back for their friends
Sounds fairly high with a regulator failure rate of 1%, especially if it is well checked, isnt it?
hjalle··on 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results
Finding it a little suprising that C# is still decreasing in popularity, despite Microsofts recent efforts:

2013 - 44.7%

2014 - 37.6%

2015 - 31.6%

2016 - 30.9%

hjalle··on Microchip Technology to Buy Atmel for Nearly $3.6B
Out of curiosity, what does "something Nordic" refer to?
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