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gerikson··on The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors
Would you consider Burgundy at the time part of France?
gerikson··on MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco
Very cool images!

What lens are you using? Does it have to cover 135 format?

gerikson··on Watch AI materials-science and bioscience abilities closely
Are you asking for humanity to be wiped out so you can win an argument on the internet?
gerikson··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Unfortunate choice of words, implies these people are being literally murdered...
gerikson··on Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
I am in ##hntop on Libera.
gerikson··on The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved 220 years ago today
"Neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire" -- Voltaire, allegedly.
gerikson··on Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe
Since the late 80s, Sweden has a system where on the first day when you're off work due to illness, you're not paid ("karensdag").

I started working just before this system was put in place, and there was so much sick leave claimed that people were seriously wondering why Swedish workplaces were so unhealthy. A year after the reform, the numbers fell precipitously.

gerikson··on Jqwik updated to instruct agents to delete Jqwik tests
the project is licensed under the EPL

> 5. No Warranty

> EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, AND TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Each Recipient is solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using and distributing the Program and assumes all risks associated with its exercise of rights under this Agreement, including but not limited to the risks and costs of program errors, compliance with applicable laws, damage to or loss of data, programs or equipment, and unavailability or interruption of operations.

gerikson··on Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks
This is Søren, not Emil.
gerikson··on Why is this site named Antipope?
Maybe the drunken sysadmin had a more classical or historical education than most.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope

gerikson··on The sigmoids won't save you
Past results is no guarantee of future performance.
gerikson··on M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan
The creators of this app either didn't watch Evangelion or are huge fans. Hard to say which.
gerikson··on Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
Dubai's brand (before the war) was "you're welcome to come here to make money, but criticize the government and you're out". I'm sure there's a ton of young influencers who don't know the first thing about the place to not have internalized it, but I remember a spate of articles and books about 15 years ago of Westerners falling afoul of the local laws and losing everything.
gerikson··on Tennessee is about to make building chatbots a Class A felony
Finally someone taking AGI x-risk seriously.

cf. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5CfBDiQNg9upfipWk/only-law-c...

gerikson··on Number in man page titles e.g. sleep(3)
GNU has its own documentation format called 'info'.
gerikson··on Number in man page titles e.g. sleep(3)
> (... less common section numbers)

One very important section number is 5 - it's for file formats. So if you forget the crontab format, you need to invoke `man 5 crontab` to read about it.

gerikson··on The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
The "cathedral" in ESR's essay wasn't proprietary closed source, it was the GNU project.
gerikson··on Scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in quality
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gerikson··on Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80
> The computer contained about 18,000 vacuum tubes, which were cooled by 80 air blowers. More than 30 meters long, it filled a 9 m by 15 m room and weighed about 30 kilograms. It consumed as much electricity as a small town.

Surprisingly light though...

gerikson··on The government uses targeted advertising to track your location
There's also the possibility that we, as consumers, demand that the political system solves this issue with robust privacy legilsation that prohibits any entity from tracking our phones.
gerikson··on The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph
Argh the liberal admixture of different units (mpg, kg, L, hr) in the first table really brings home that this is a UK piece.
gerikson··on Who smeared Richard Feynman? (2014)
Would Teller have had to mail Hoover though? Or just let the concerned people know that Feynman was unsuitable.
gerikson··on .Beat Swatch Internet Time
The swatch.com website still shows @beats in the upper left corner.

I am unsure whether Swatch still markets watches with digital displays.

gerikson··on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
I have read a lot of Asimov. That's why I said there's better stuff out there.

Even his contempories were better - Bester and Simak run rings around him.

gerikson··on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
Or don't. There's so much more better SF out there.
gerikson··on What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
And live in a country where they use these in their alphabets.
gerikson··on Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
They also, in many camps, used the inmates as slave labor.
gerikson··on Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time (2024)
(2024)

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230513

gerikson··on The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
Did my own research, and the Swedish police has decided not to continue with the complaint:

https://omni.se/assanges-anmalan-mot-nobelstiftelsen-laggs-n...

from 2025-12-19

Machine translation in part:

> The report contained no information indicating that a crime had been committed. Therefore, no preliminary investigation is being initiated, Rikard Ekman of the police told AFP.

gerikson··on The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
Thanks for posting the link to the PDF. I've long tried to find the specific references to the legal grounds for the complaint.

You don't happen to have a reference to the status in the Swedish legal system? The police are responsible for referring this stuff to a prosecutor, and that status should be public.

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