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ninalanyon

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In the unlikely event that you want to contact me you can do so at ninalanyon@gmail.com.
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ninalanyon··on Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)
The college police force is a US thing.
ninalanyon··on Insects don't swarm at LED lights
But it is what the title on HN says. Is it too much to expect something like "Insects swarm less at LED lights" if that is more truthful?
ninalanyon··on Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
How old was the Tesla? I have a 2015 Tesla S and the problem with these older ones is that the CPU and RAM are just not enough to run a modern browser. In fact even the very out of date browser on mine is occasionally killed by the OS to reclaim resources.
ninalanyon··on 40 °C heat extremes are no longer implausible in the Nordic countries
> July with an average of 18C° is like a dream

That's what my children (grown men actually) say. They hate those few days when it's over about 26 C.

ninalanyon··on Why Don't We Live in an Art Nouveau World?
> so ornamentation added value.

When and where was this a common thing?

I've lived and owned houses built from the 1750s to the 1960s in England and Norway and none of them have much in the way of ornamentation.

> Houses used to be built to be lived in

Of course and that's one reason why most didn't have a lot of ornamentation, the money would be spent on necessary functionality first.

Perhaps I'm just not wealthy enough.

ninalanyon··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
> Porsche

Really? With the spelling Portia it's a perfectly respectable girl's name in English, why not in German? Or are they completely unrelated? The English Portia stems from Brutus' wife.

Surely it was the name of a person long before it was the name of a thing?

Do they also forbid Mercedes?

ninalanyon··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
> the Nordic

Long obsolete except in Iceland.

ninalanyon··on If you love a website, back it up
HTtrack was great when pages were static or server side generated but now that lot are rendered by JavaScript on the client HTtrack isn't much use.
ninalanyon··on If you love a website, back it up
Do the WebScrapBook and SingleFile extensions not work?
ninalanyon··on 40 °C heat extremes are no longer implausible in the Nordic countries
It will still be cooler here than in Germany. And if the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) fails it will quickly become a lot colder than it is now.

Also the abstract talks only about peak temperatures. Those peaks tend to last only for a few days or even less in Norway, the July average where I live (about 40 km south of Oslo) this year was 18 C (0.5 C higher than normal), maximum was 32 C (for two days), minimum 6 C.

ninalanyon··on Temperature soars at Swedish grocery store freezers, one store blames hackers
The article is about Sweden so no they aren't on what other parts of the world would call minimum wages.
ninalanyon··on Electrocutions, disease and no pay: worker exploitation in Europe's datacentres
That feeble capitalist excuse won't fly in Europe. Health and Safety legislation in most (all?) of Europe requires workers to take effective safety measures for their own and others safety; it's part of the job.
ninalanyon··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
Except that none of those things are true.

A McDonald's Quarter Pounder is 86 NOK (8.30 EUR or 9.34 USD) here and 6 USD in the US, 5.40 EUR in Germany. So yes it is more expensive than the US or Germany but still not outrageously so.

The one hour train journey from where I live to the national airport is 298 NOK (29 EUR, 32 USD).

ninalanyon··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
I thought they could vote by post?
ninalanyon··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
If you can get a job here then that will go quite some way to compensating for the high cost living and housing outside the biggest towns is relatively affordable compared to, say, UK.
ninalanyon··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
Must have been a short holiday if you didn't see any of that. But it is much better than it used to be.
ninalanyon··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
A detail or two would be welcome so that we could either agree or disagree on firm ground.

I'll grant you it's not perfect, primary education is a bit lacklustre, preparation for an oil free economy is not given enough effort, etc. What were your "structurally pathetic", etc. things?

ninalanyon··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
In Norway they would be evicted pretty promptly.
ninalanyon··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
Recycled towels?

100% touch free? How does that work?

ninalanyon··on Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions
A word that has never been seen before isn't necessarily hard to understand. I'm pretty sure that any Brit would catch the meaning without thinking.

So pretty much anyone for whom the news is relevant would understand the headline immediately.

ninalanyon··on Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics
> Humans don't code anymore

I find that difficult to believe. Is there some objective evidence?

ninalanyon··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
3 million of what?
ninalanyon··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
Is it? What does that one dimensional measure even mean in today's world?
ninalanyon··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
> academic can be bookish, shy or haughty.

There's no shortage of haughty politicians either.

ninalanyon··on The Great American Rascal: Tom Sawyer at 150
Understanding something intellectually is not quite the same as appreciating it viscerally because you have done something similar.
ninalanyon··on Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027
Also road accidents.
ninalanyon··on Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027
Not much use at 60 degrees and more away from the equator.

Sunrise today was 07:31, sunset will be at 16:32 here.

On 22nd December it will be 09:17 and 15:16.

ninalanyon··on Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027
But not everyone does start working at the same hour. I went to a supermarket today that opens at 07:00 and closes at 23:00, a cafe that opened at 10:00 and closes at 18:00, and a charity shop that opened at 12:00 and closes at 16:00.

When I was working I worked from 08:00 to 16:00 with a half hour break for lunch. But several of my colleagues in the same office worked 07:00 to 15:00. All of us worked with other engineers in countries across the world. My children went to school at 08:30 until 13:30 until they were in senior high school when it was 08:00 to 15:30

The local buses start running at 05:30 and stop at 22:30.

ninalanyon··on Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027
The sun rises when it rises, it has nothing to do with the clock. How does what the clock say take an hour of sunlight away from you? It is surely your employer doing that not the clock.
ninalanyon··on Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027
> Scotland has to have GMT in the winter so that school children don't have to walk to school in the dark.

This gets brought up every time the discussion happens, yet we manage perfectly well even further north here in Norway.

Also why should people need government permission to vary the time at which they do things?

As far as I'm concerned I just want the clock to not change every spring and autumn. Institutions can surely be left to decide for themselves what working hours they have? After all shops, cafes, restaurants, bars, etc., already do that.

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