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slu

578 karma · joined March 2, 2012

I'm an easy going guy from Denmark.

I've been dabbling with computers for many years and, unsurprisingly, I ended up working as a Software Developer and later as an IT consultant. I have a wide range of competencies and experiences in the field of computers and software development. Currently, I'm using those to develop infrastructure and solutions in the cloud, specifically AWS.

Besides computers, my main interests are beer tasting, cooking, reading books, traveling and watching movies/tv-shows (drama, comedy, sci-fi, action, fantasy).

https://slu.laguz.dk/

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slu··on What it's like to live in the most liveable cities in 2026
The Economist Intelligence Unit's latest Global Liveability Index names the world's top cities. We asked residents to share the everyday experiences that make their hometowns such exceptional places to live.
slu··on Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings
Nice. I've been using https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im for a while now. It would be great with a comparison.
slu··on Perlsky Is a Perl 5 Implementation of an at Protocol Personal Data Server
Cool, I'm going to play with this. Looks like a well-written project, and I love this statement in the readme: "it started as a joke and then quickly got out of hand".
slu··on Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free
This looks great, will have to check it out. I've always been interested in computer graphics, I even wrote a ray tracer when studying for my master. It was based on the, then, brand new book "An Introduction to Ray Tracing" by Andrew S. Glassner et al. The book is now free to download: https://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/an-introduction-to-ra...
slu··on Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core
Google Street View link showing the murial: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nfSzrb3CFPKowZ4p9?g_st=ac
slu··on Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers
As a Dane, pikaday reads a little funny, because "pik" is a vulgar slang term for penis, equivalent to English words like dick or cock.
slu··on How I am deeply integrating Emacs
The "Mastering Emacs" is great. But, you don't need it to get started, instead check https://www.masteringemacs.org/reading-guide
slu··on LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users
In Denmark there's 4 weeks for the mother (right after giving birth) and then 24 weeks for the mother and their partner each, i.e., a total of 52 weeks. It's also possible to transfer weeks between the parents.
slu··on Data investigation: Childhood vaccination rates are backsliding across the U.S.
"Among the states collecting data for the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, 68% of counties and jurisdictions now have immunization rates below 95% — the level of herd immunity doctors say is needed to protect against an outbreak."
slu··on Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos
Somewhat similar to https://geocities.live/news.ycombinator.com
slu··on Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?
John Oliver explained it (Pig Butchering) very well: https://youtu.be/pLPpl2ISKTg?si=yHwqzMX0r2h4mKl-
slu··on Show HN: Aldi Price Map
After about 25 years in Denmark without earning money, ALDI closed all shops here last year.
slu··on How I built a date picker
"Monday is the first day of the week according to the international standard ISO 8601, but in the US, Canada, and Japan, it's counted as the second day of the week." - https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/monday.html

I've always thought of Monday as the first day of the week. It's the day that starts the workweek (and school week) and Sunday is part of the weekend.

slu··on Cool but obscure X11 tools
Tgif is one of my all-time favorite X11 programs. It's used to create vector drawings, and I could whip out nice infrastructure diagrams etc. so fast using it.

See http://bourbon.usc.edu/tgif/index.html

slu··on HTML5 game written in 0 lines of JS
No, because comments are not code, thus they are stripped before counting LOC.
slu··on The Girl Who Turned to Bone
I read the article using the Dolphin Browser on Android, and I did not see any popup...
slu··on Poll: What is your age?
I think the "Please don't abuse this option..." has had the opposite effect than the OP wanted...
slu··on Standups are Poisonous
Who's dictating 10 o'clock? Standups can be e.g. just before or after lunch, or in the afternoon. The team should be able to agree on a time that works for everyone. And if that really is impossible, then use Skype or similar to include people who are still at home.

A six person team should be able to be done in less than 10 minutes. If someone gets off topic or rants on about details, stop them, and perhaps suggest a meeting afterwords.

You solution totally ruins the dynamics of the standup.

slu··on Show HN: What's Your Browser's Age?
Yeah, mine is too. Guess they shouldn't have showed HN...
slu··on Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe
I've never had a single crash (of Console2) on my Win7.
slu··on Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe
Looks sweet.

I currently have to use Windows at the customer I'm working for. I've installed Console which gives tabs and better copy-n-paste on Windows. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

I'm not sure if clink and Console will work together, but I'll have to try it.

slu··on A Brief History of Spreadsheets [2004]
No mention of sc http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10699
slu··on A Brief History of Spreadsheets [2004]
You can download the original VisiCalc executable here: http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm

It runs nicely under dosemu - here in a terminal on my Ubuntu 12.04 pc: http://i.imgur.com/CjcYt.png