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pgsandstrom··on Ballmer Peak
The most danish movie ever made. It gets an extra layer if you are at least somewhat familiar with the hedonistic aspect of danish culture (at least in contrast to swedish culture).
pgsandstrom··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Uncensored
Anyone with a multi-GPU cluster at home that has given it a try?
pgsandstrom··on Panic of 1873
> that lasted from 1873 to 1877, continuing until 1879 in the French Third Republic and in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Reading the entire sentence makes it clearer.

pgsandstrom··on Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July
My impression is that the US is more vulnerable to climate change than Europe. While Europe has heat waves, the US has a hurricane problem that simply does not exist in Europe, which can result in horrendous societal damage.
pgsandstrom··on Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb
Or when they get sick, or hurt, or...
pgsandstrom··on Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want
Could you break it down for someone who isnt in the know?
pgsandstrom··on Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become 'AI-first' app
You might not fully grasp what Grindr is all about...
pgsandstrom··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
I try to stay humble when predicting the future. But there is just no way there will be a literal military invasion. Trump would never risk a bunch of american dying on the ground, it would be terrible optics.
pgsandstrom··on How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work?
Maybe they just want access to the specific companies? Like, you get hired by the company. You hand over username/password/vpn-info to them. Then they have a way inside the company and can try to steal information, install backdoors, whatever, with very low risk of getting caught.
pgsandstrom··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
I added the custom instruction "Please go straight to the point, be less chatty". Now it begins every answer with: "Straight to the point, no fluff:" or something similar. It seems to be perfectly unable to simply write out the answer without some form of small talk first.
pgsandstrom··on Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)
What, you think the article was written by AI? Why?
pgsandstrom··on Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux
I've coded on linux for a decade now, but always used windows at home. Just last week I switched from windows 10 to ubuntu on my media computer since it cant upgrade to windows 11.

I open up firefox, go to youtube, and immediately notice that 30% of all frames are gone. Hardware acceleration isnt working.

I put the computer to sleep and go make dinner. When I return my wireless keyboard cant wake it up, I have to hard-reboot the computer to wake it up.

I ask chatgpt about solutions to these problems, and it start spitting out terminal commands that end up making no difference.

In my experience, 2025 is not yet the year of linux. I'll try again in 2027.

pgsandstrom··on Software development topics I've changed my mind on
Agree. People who join a project and insist on changing the default styling configs are insane weirdos. But people who dont want to use any styling solution on a project with several developers are EVEN MORE insane weirdos.
pgsandstrom··on Software development topics I've changed my mind on
> Most programming should be done long before a single line of code is written

I'd rephrase this to something like: Most programming should be done before 5% of the code is written. Because "no plan survives contact with the enemy". I often develop a plan, work for just a tiny bit, and realize some new constraints. It's after that point that you should construct your grand battle plan.

pgsandstrom··on Sweden is a nearly cashless society – how it affects people who are left out
I work at a swedish bank. We spend very much time and effort to prepare for different situations such as that. Some preparation is required by the EU Dora act: https://www.digital-operational-resilience-act.com/ (yes I know that HN hates all EU regulations)

Being a cashless society does require some extra emergency planning, but I feel confident that Sweden has prepared as well as you could ever expect for such a crisis.

pgsandstrom··on Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn
I'm pretty sure its a joke. It's based on the thinking that "the government" is trying to remove all our pleasure of life, such as smoking, eating meat and drinking. The joke is to compare the pleasure of sitting on the toilet with these vices.
pgsandstrom··on Who Killed the World?
I think it is interesting that a majority of the changes happened between the 50s and the 70s. I guess it might be attributed to post-war optimism and the golden age of capitalism that lasted just about the same era.
pgsandstrom··on [dead]
The article mentions a few points that I consider more likely explanations:

1. Being autistic makes you not consider what is "normal" as important.

2. Autistic people are more likely to spend a very large amount of time online.

pgsandstrom··on I switched to Vim – and it took me only 6 years to learn it
VSCode has a really great neovim-plugin that I'm currently using. Best of both worlds: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia...
pgsandstrom··on Microwaves Not Made in China
Swede here. We fear a chinese hegemony as well.
pgsandstrom··on Biden proposes 30% tax on crypto mining
I love this argument. "Can you define EXACTLY what you want to ban"? I'd say a significant part of all criminalized activities can't be EXACTLY defined. Somehow we still manage.
pgsandstrom··on The new science on what ultra-processed food does to the brain
I think it helps to look at it from another perspective: We are seeing a trend of certain health problems that are related to what we eat. We notice that a certain type of food is the root cause. Our currenty categorization of foods isn't helpful in finding the issue. The best label we have found for this type of food is "ultra-processed".
pgsandstrom··on The Power of the 0.1x Developer: Unsung Heroes of the Codebase
In the book "Masters of doom", at least during the doom era, Carmack seemed like a really bad collegue. Very, very demanding and complete lack of social tact. The book gave the impression that he wanted everyone to be as commited as him, and his commitment was extreme.

Obviously this was a few decades ago.

pgsandstrom··on The dating app paradox
I have a somewhat unrealistic dream that someday dating apps will be viewed the same way as roads: Essential infrastructure that needs to be handled by the public. A government developed dating app whose only goal is to help people find healthy relationships. All my american friends balk at this. But as a swede, I dont think it is completely impossible.

The completely impossible dream would be that we as a society stopped using dating apps and just met away from the keyboard instead.

pgsandstrom··on Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)
I can appreciate a book being obscure or dragging things out when it is trying to give the reader an aesthetic experience. But this point seem to be one that would easiest be communicated clearly and succinctly.

Or is the point "there is so much mystery in these systems that perhaps there is room for an explanation for consciousness"? Maybe then I would be more sympathetic.

Or perhaps I should just read the book before condemning it :)

pgsandstrom··on When America first dropped acid
In your experience, how common is this? I must know at least thirty people that have meditated for over 15 years, and none have mentioned open-eyed hallucinations.
pgsandstrom··on New insights into neural end-of-life
I would guess it's just like a very complex dam bursting. Nothing intended, just side effects of very complex systems no longer functioning properly.
pgsandstrom··on One in five young Americans thinks the Holocaust is a myth
I guess you mean to say that we will go back to centralization since nothing decentralized can be trusted, with how easy it will become to fake facts. But that's assuming that the consumer primarily cares about truth. If that was the case, we would not be here to begin with.
pgsandstrom··on OpenAI's misalignment and Microsoft's gain
This article read to me like someone tryint to shoehorn "non-profits sucks" into an otherwise interesting narrative.
pgsandstrom··on Tutanota is now Tuta
And "to sound the horn" in swedish :)
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