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sokols··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
A Fabulous Debt by Robin Wigglesworth
sokols··on Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
To use Python/Java you have to download and install an OS. (Though some versions might run on bare metal)
sokols··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Yes, because when you sell it, you get cash and profit. Profit is taxable, in Germany they tax it with 25% + Solidarity Tax + Church Tax (if you are a member of a church). After, you can go ahead and buy another fund, but in between you "shed" a significant amount of money.
sokols··on Artemis II is not safe to fly
For the Apollo spacecrafts:

> The paste-like material was gunned into each of the 330,000 cells of the fiberglass honeycomb individually, a process taking about six months. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCOAT#Apollo_Command_Module

sokols··on How far back in time can you understand English?
Albanian, managed to understand till 1300. Then it gets more germanic i think, though I speak a bit of German as well, the characters make it a bit difficult to parse.

“Swie!” is interesting, I understood it somehow naturally. In Gheg Albanian we say “Shuj!”, which means “Be silent!”.

sokols··on The Contagious Taste of Cancer
> but if cancer were easy for the immune system to deal with nobody would die of it.

This made me think, whether it would somehow make sense that cancer cells on another host would be detected by the immune system of that host. Theoretically, these immune cells have different “initialization parameters” so to say and maybe they could show affinity to the foreign cancer cells.

But then again I am not an expert and this is just a pure speculation.

sokols··on Danish postal service to stop delivering letters
It’s the other way around, DHL is owned by Deutsche Post AG.
sokols··on A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt
Pileus (plis) can be found amongst older Albanians (especially on the north) to this day.
sokols··on Germany eyes 10% digital tax on global tech groups
The same way they calculate the VAT for Germany.
sokols··on Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9
Congratulations on the successful launch!

> .. I’d listen to the Voice of America..

I grew up listening to VoA as a kid as well, I was born in a then not so developed part of the Balkans. Sometimes I have the feeling that the ordinary Americans don't have a clue about the impact VoA had in the countries like ours.

sokols··on World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial
This might be related with the case of Richard Scolyer, the Australian pathologist diagnosed with Glioblastoma. He was receiving some kind of experimental treatment for it.
sokols··on Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)
This is exactly what I understood from the article. Your explanation didn't add anything extra.
sokols··on Bunkers in Albania
Yes this is a widely circulating anecdote. That Minister was Mehmet Shehu[0], an interesting character in his own right.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Shehu

sokols··on China lands Chang'e 6 sample-return probe on far side of the moon
I heard the news on BBC World Service for example.
sokols··on Ask HN: Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives?
Hetzner has a product which is a managed Nextcloud instance basically.

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

sokols··on How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain
That's strange, I remember those forms were trilingual, 12 years ago. German, English and French.
sokols··on Apache Superset
Metabase is great, I use it with a Oracle Database.
sokols··on German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation
They are required by law to provide the information once a year, for free. The complaint here is that the “free” report contains less information than the paid one. Information which could affect a decision about a loan or maybe a decision of some landlord about a prospective tenant.
sokols··on Tutanota is now Tuta
In (Gheg) Albanian means fear
sokols··on Yugoslavia's Digital Twin – When a country's internet domain outlives the nation
> Because that is what countries do when a part of them rebels and starts doing terror attacks on police.

Kosovo War happened later, not during the above mentioned period.

sokols··on Yugoslavia's Digital Twin – When a country's internet domain outlives the nation
> On the other hand Albanians, as an ethnic group, had unprecedented political autonomy (Kosovo) and language rights in Yugoslavia.

It lasted for merely 15 years, from 1974 till 1989 when Milosevic and his clique brutally removed it. This autonomy was always a thorn in the eye of the serbian establishment and they never stopped their efforts to undermine it, which they succeeded in 1989.

sokols··on Yugoslavia's Digital Twin – When a country's internet domain outlives the nation
> I agree with you on the ethnic Albanians though - they never made sense in Yugoslavia, the state of the South Slavs. Kosovo should be part of Albania and the Serbs need to shut up about it already.

That was the intention of the people gathered around Bujan Conference [0] during WWII. But their decision was replaced with another one later which was more "marxist".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bujan_Conference

sokols··on Ask HN: Videos explaining math intuively for children 6 to 10
My 7yo son has used extensively this app [0], albeit in German, but it seems that there is a version for the US too:

[0] https://anton.app/

sokols··on Citus 12: Schema-based sharding for PostgreSQL
There is Oracle RAC Sharding, but AFAIK it works only at a partition level.
sokols··on Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged deepfake
It seems Kemal Kilicdaroglu (the main opposition candidate) is accusing Russians for the deepfake video.

He tweeted in Turkish and Russian https://twitter.com/kilicdarogluk/status/1656705798557384727

sokols··on Deutschlandticket for regional bus and rail services to be offered for €49/month
It excludes ICE and IC trains, other regional trains like RE or RB and local means of transport (Trams, Buses ad U-Bahn) are included.
sokols··on Frankfurt rail work damaged fibre, causes global Lufthansa check-in system fault
Interesting, most of the Nord-West area of Frankfurt was affected, residential cable internet failed but LTE/5G network of Deutsche Telekom didn't function as well.

edit: related tweet from Deutsche Telekom

https://twitter.com/deutschetelekom/status/16258248409249505...

sokols··on Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
Well, if we go by the logic you stated, a meteorite may fall down to my head now while I am exiting my work place.

Anyway, I think there are enough alternatives to donate. Where I live, a local relief organization is collecting donations for Turkey and Syria. Then there are UN agencies who do that etc.

sokols··on Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
You can donate here: https://ahbap.org/disasters-turkey

It's an NGO that currently is crowdsourcing donations for the relief.

sokols··on BundesMessenger, a secure messenger for Germany’s public administration
Yes you can.
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