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AnnoyingSwede··on Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Lab Modification
Proof reading means reading the text and pointing out errors in wording, spelling and punctuation. Peer-reviewing would using the same fundamental data and redo the experiment/mathematics and hopefully come to the same conclusion as the original author.
AnnoyingSwede··on Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Lab Modification
As many i started reading the paper from a non biologist perspective, then hit the comment section here to see the Steve Bannon references. That man has a whole carddeck up his sleeve. Question: Is it illegal to release misleading material like this?
AnnoyingSwede··on Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
WOW!!! :)
AnnoyingSwede··on Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit
Nice work dude!!
AnnoyingSwede··on Ask HN: STEM toy for a 3 years old?
My boy turned 3 in Feb this year, and he spends weekends with me since me and the mother have broken up. Disclaimer: I havn't read all the literature out there on how to best parent but took a few pages out of my own upbringing (both good and bad). As a kid my parents were far from rich, so i didn't have a lot of toys and the one i had were often handed down to me.

On my Do-list:

- overwhelm my kids with all toys appropriate for the age (+1 year) but supervise him when playing with them. I keep giving him things until we don't have any more room for toys and then force him to pick out stuff he no longer want, which we give to less fortunate kids. Teaching him empathy at a early stage seems appropriate to me.

- Teach him that everything can be modified. I bought him a ride-on car that we progressively have modified with proper tires, disc-brakes, carbon fiber spoilers and details, wrapping. He loves his car, and have developed a love for vehicles. He can now name most common and some exclusive cars as we walk down the streets. He can also spot the difference between steel, aluminum, brass and his interest in powertools have caused me to buy kid versions of many of the tools we commonly use when we rebuild his car.

- I got him Duplo that he loves (trains, cars and generic blocks). People will downvote me for this but I reached out on facebook for Lego a month ago and we received a lot. I've explained that if i ever see a piece in or near his mouth i suspend his right to play with it for the duration of the weekend, and since he is with me only on the weekend i keep an eye on him every second. So far, so good. At this point he is building and adding to stuff we build together and i see clear improvements in his ability to place even the smaller parts every week. Initially he kept asking me to put pieces together as soon as it didn't work the first time but now he tries 6-7 times before i have to pry it out of his hands to do it for him :)

- i tried to explain our solarsystem and he is showing extreme interest in videos about space, rockets, moon/space walks so it's become a small tradition that i replay SpaceX latest achievements and failures when there is any news.

- I have avoided only selecting toys/areas of interest/gender-based toys and try to give him everything from musical instruments, balls, frisbees, toy-kitchen, dolls. Whatever he chooses to play with and show interest in, he gets to do.

- music-wise i expose him to everything from classical music, rock, hiphop, children music to break-core and classic EBM/EDM. Lucky for me he sidetracked into EDM, so to sponsor this interest in dance music i got some vintage synths, sequencers and drum-machines he loves to play with next to his acoustic instruments.

My Don't-list is short and basically just contains stuff i don't want him to see when he has screen-time:

- i try to avoid the most brain-dead stuff, like repetitive viewing of the same videos. Videos about counting and colors are all good stuff but at the point when he knows it, it makes little sense to show it to him again, and i try to find interesting videos that drives a conversation about what we are watching, as we are watching. I avoid endless playlists and allow him to tell me what he wants to see, as i help him search for appropriate videos.

AnnoyingSwede··on Trump offered to pardon Assange if he denied Russia helped leak Democrats emails
Well that's pretty standard procedure with Donald, right? Needless to say Donald Trump does not need another impeachment-trial so denial is expected but based on similar situations (his denial of knowing people he later have to confess to knowing) this seems very likely. This POTUS is all about "I'll scratch your back, if you scratch mine".
AnnoyingSwede··on CGA in 1024 Colors – A New Mode: The Illustrated Guide (2015)
8088 was the second cpu i coded assembler/machinecode on, and mode 13 was naturally my favorite mode until fatter graphic adapters came around, but let's not forget that this was actually achieved in mode 4, if my memory serves me well. Mind blown.
AnnoyingSwede··on How to Exit Vim
I just wish i could upvote this more! :) Love the Jira way!
AnnoyingSwede··on Show HN: Nodetube – Open-source YouTube alternative with image and audio uploads
Cool to see a youtube alternative. Registered and became the 60th user, however it seems a bit slashdotted already with upload of my first video hanging at 99%, "About" link gives internal error, profile picture not being able to upload. Like the initiative however, keep it coming and hope https://nodetube.live/ will stay around, however understand if you will need ads to make it work financially soon.
AnnoyingSwede··on Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
I still check out slashdot.org / reddit.com / flashback.org (Swedish)
AnnoyingSwede··on Nordic Quack (2009)
It's not only Donald Duck, it's a random collection on Disney clips. The only "bizarre" thing about it, is that every year seconds are cut away as the removed clips are no longer considered politically correct.
AnnoyingSwede··on Fact-check: Five claims about thorium made by Andrew Yang
Agree, that's what it is.
AnnoyingSwede··on Fact-check: Five claims about thorium made by Andrew Yang
I wish there was this much backlash against Donald Trumps fictional claim that the sound of wind-turbines caused cancer, but i am assuming that this bulletin was commissioned by someone that rather nitpick on Yang for opening a door, than the current presidents attempt to slam working doors shut. Not to make this political, but Yang brings a lot to the table that others ignore afraid of being scrutinized.
AnnoyingSwede··on Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
Nice to see SSL enforced ircd. Coming out of Dalnet, Ircnet and Efnet the only short-coming i really found in IRC was the fact that most networks until very late promoted clear-text transfers. I might even pass by your network this evening to revive that feeling /me once had :)
AnnoyingSwede··on Liander caused 2000 euro damage when placing smartmeter
Thanks mate. It sucks having to complain like this, but it seems it's one of the few ways to confront giant companies like Liander and make them do the right thing.
AnnoyingSwede··on Is true hacking dead? What we lost
TL;DR: Hacking is more alive then ever.

I might be missing the point of his article, but describing the c64 basic coding movement as a single movement is misunderstanding it gravely. The fact that Basic was licensed by Microsoft didn't stop us, it was the the default interpreter we had to programming, which soon was replaced by masm/tasm or machine code.

More so then than today, hackers of all kinds (hackers, crackers, phreakers) were all following their own individual paths and was way less uniformed than todays movements. I believe the main reason most are focusing on OSS today was because of the dis-content we felt with the development of operating systems that slowly but surely locked us in as users.

AnnoyingSwede··on DHS Lacked Tech Needed to Successfully Account for Separated Migrant Families [pdf]
That goes for the rest of the world too, except in most countries, if children are separated from their parents the police is responsible to keep track of the kids to make sure they can reunite after being released.
AnnoyingSwede··on Found hidden safe, should we crack?
I looked into safe cracking a while back and it seems most of them are sustainable to various attacks. Instead of spending a dime on what's most likely empty safe i would make it a funny family hobby to try to break it. If they have no use of the safe afterwards i would apply more brute force, seeing they are not limited by time. Drilling a hole and inserting an endoscope would be a fast solution, but would ruin the challenge of breaking it :)
AnnoyingSwede··on Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
Any DIY skills, may it be plastering a wall, hanging a mirror, painting a wall, unclogging a waste pipe. Youtube is filled of videos from people that gets your inspiration going, and many things that seemed like a drag are actually both relaxing and enjoyable as you broaden your skill-set, and it will save you tons of money as you become more independent as a human being.
AnnoyingSwede··on Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
I agree on this, but even better, stick welding. I learned how to stick-weld in my shower (since it was the only place i could do it without risking of burning down my apartment) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Ro9VqLwfU
AnnoyingSwede··on Julian Assange and visitors were spied on by security firm for US intelligence
I find it interesting that this news was largely over-shadowed by the news that he was acquitted on the two rape-charges in Sweden (again). The so-called rapes could/should have been dropped a lot earlier as they did not amount to what generally would be considered rape (i.e broken condom in consensual sex), but they choose to do it the same day this story broke.
AnnoyingSwede··on The US nuclear forces’ messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks
Just getting my amiga/commodore 64 500 3.5/5.25 setups back up and running, 75% of data is demagnetized away. Looking around sourcing any of these formats is more or less impossible today. HOW did they ever managed to keep 8 inch disks in a read and writable stage, without exhausting possible read/re-writes?

Secondly, how does one replace a 8 inch drive (most likely MFM interfaces) with a solid state disk?

AnnoyingSwede··on Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
That's kind of a two-way wammy.. If anyone owned money to VISA or Mastercard in Venezuela, the creditcard companies would not be able to collect those debts either?
AnnoyingSwede··on Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast
Meanwhile in Sweden, 10Gbe broadband for home consumers priced at ~30 Euro. https://www.bahnhof.se/press/press-releases/2018/10/17/varld...
AnnoyingSwede··on Richard M. Stallman resigns
Then again, if someone believes a man in the sky created the world in 6 days, claims the earth is 6000 years old, ... , what stops them from defending the POTUS? Why expect logic where no other logic seems to apply?
AnnoyingSwede··on The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)
This is something every freelancer have seen. Who ever introduces you to the job rarely knows what the end-product should look like and it really proves the value of creating a minimum viable product, showing it to customer and pivot from that to where you might need to go. It this case the MVP would have been the final product.
AnnoyingSwede··on 40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, according to research
Amazon should make it easier to filter away things with long shipping.. Looking for motorbike parts that i prefer shipped from Germany (to the Netherlands) i sometime go through 20-30 products before i find a local seller. I didn't used to do this and in 80% of the cases delivery of 2 months, with some 20% shipped within days. Amazon is terrible on tracking the objects too. After waiting for 2 months, the day come when stuff is suppose to arrive, only to wait another day and find out it was not even shipped yet.
AnnoyingSwede··on JetBlue explains to a passenger how it got a photo of her face
I am curious to how this would work if 2 twins travel together. If it would mismatch or demand both to verify with a manual check?
AnnoyingSwede··on Ask HN: How to get this fraudulent copy of our website shut down?
They are using cloudflare, so that would be tough even if it was not illegal. Whois data is protected, so doubt they would respond if contacted.
AnnoyingSwede··on Julian Assange arrested in London
The word in media now is that if Obama was the president still Assange would have a better chance of getting fair treatment. This seems wrong to me. Julian served Trumps purpose by releasing the Clinton emails, making me think that Trump might actually swing on his harsh words (like he does with many other things) and grant amnesty to Julian? Takers?
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