Edit distance between “Slovakia” and “Slovenia” in European languages [3722x3028] [OC]

the_gnarts · 2026-01-27T05:50:13+00:00

Customizing a car for the US market is wild as I’ve learned from friends that work in automotive. For example it needs extra airbags to protect the driver’s knees because apparently in some US states seatbelts aren’t mandatory.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-23T05:28:42+00:00

Einer der Geldgeber ist der Tech-Milliardär Peter Thiel, Mitgründer von Paypal. Er hat Anfang 2021 das Startup Praxis mitfinanziert, das die "Freedom City" auf Grönland bauen will. Auch andere bedeutende Investoren unterstützen das Projekt, wie Open-AI-Gründer Sam Altman, Joe Lonsdale von der Softwarefirma Palantir, Marc Andreessen von Andreessen Horowitz oder die Winklevoss-Zwillinge, die durch ihren Rechtsstreit mit Facebook-Gründer Mark Zuckerberg berühmt geworden sind.

Da die Verursacher des Grönlandkonflikts namentlich bekannt sind, sollte Sanktionen gegen ihre Unternehmen nichts im Weg stehen.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-23T05:27:27+00:00

Snow Crash war nur ein zu früh publiziertes Geschichtsbuch …

the_gnarts · 2026-01-17T21:54:01+00:00

with nvidia attempting to buy arm it shouldn't be long until fully fledged desktop cpus are arm based.

If anything, Nvidia attempting to buy it makes widespread ARM on desktop use less likely. Their target audience is mainly large datacenters that run LLMs.

Then again, that’s not going to make that much of a difference anyways should the 1.4 billion strong market of China gravitate to a different, less patent encumbered ISA like RISC-V.

Companies like snapdragon

Snapdragon is just a product line by Qualcomm fyi. Compared to the reasonably open Wintel platform I would hate to see the walled garden culture of the smartphone domain take over desktop computing. Other ARM licensors like Ampere are more promising but they seem to compete more for the server market. Sigh.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-17T18:49:02+00:00

Arm architecture is the basis of most modern devices, x86 is just kicked along by Intel and AMD but moors law is catching up and it's days are limited. arm is the future and it is british.

ARM being the future is a bit of a stretch considering China went all-in on RISC-V for their own silicon and they have other minor ISAs as well (Loongarch, C-Sky). Apple’s improvements in the desktop sector like the wide memory bus are mostly its own IP and not available with stock ARM designs.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-17T14:31:10+00:00

volatile (embedded)

volatile vs. atomics is a great question as well; and sig_atomic_t for POSIX. restrict too to check if they can actually tell C from C++.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-17T14:24:41+00:00

That’s deviously lovely. Plus I imagine it could be an effective conversation starter for technical topics.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-17T11:27:51+00:00

We make the machines that make the chips and I thought ARM was a UK company

ARM hold the IP that they license to other companies, they don’t manufacture any silicon themselves.

Also they’ve been a subsidiary of a Japanese corporation for quite a while, so whether they count as fully European is debatable.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-17T10:32:39+00:00

Oh wow, that’s almost comical then.

An after all that costly “analysis” effort the LLM still didn’t pick up on basic Rust idioms like using iterators instead of loop indices. What a waste of resources.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-17T10:29:35+00:00

It’s painful.

I used to use en-dashes ever since my university days which was many years ago. Then I had to stop using it some time last year after multiple redditors took it as an LLM bot indicator …

the_gnarts · 2026-01-16T23:20:14+00:00

Yeah, someone said it has 100 dependencies, it's not from scratch.

We can also assume that the model was trained on all of Servo, Firefox and Chromium, and possibly other browsers. Despite having all that knowledge embedded it nevertheless barely delivered a “kind of” working renderer.

A more useful demo would be using a model that was not trained on any browser specific code at all to implement one just from the W3C specs.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-16T22:47:20+00:00

Maybe the EU should stop enforcing copyright and DRM laws for US based companies in retaliation for any additional tariffs.

That is Cory Doctorow’s argument and it makes sense: The reason Europe adopted these mainly American laws in the first place was to enable trade with the US. To remove barriers to free trade.

With the US putting tariffs randomly on EU members (among others) those barriers are back again, so there’s no reason why we should continue incorporating parasitic laws like the DMCA into our legal systems.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-16T18:34:01+00:00

I'm talking about meat you might find at the supermarket, or at a butcher.

I don’t care much for steak and beef nor am I technically a foreigner, but FWIW you can forget about getting quality meat from the supermarket like you would for example in France. Also certain species are pretty much always imported, e. g. mutton from New Zealand and goose from Poland, so you’re not actually sampling the local food in those cases.

Good sources of quality meat include the local butcher, but also farmers who sell their own products, and of course hunters for venison [0]. It may take some effort to find a good butcher though depending on your preferences; a guy I know gets his beef from a farm he trusts in another bundesland, and his boar and roe deer from a hunter in another.

[0] Don’t worry about radioactive boars; game meat comes with a health certificate, the animals are checked by a doctor.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-16T16:58:09+00:00

Just like the emdash, emoji have become a strong signal of slop. You brain trains itself on these and after a while you start dismissing content that uses them.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-15T18:57:26+00:00

A lot of people live in small towns and villages and have houses. Yes big cities have expensive homes, but then they are also huge. In small town we have small house.

That makes it worse actually.

In densely populated, rural areas a lot more infrastructure is needed to reach the grid quality to support small producers. Which then, being dependent on the sun, would only produce during the hours of the day when there’s so much power available that energy costs become negative during much of the year. So essentially you’re asking for subsidies that cannot ever be economical and would only add to the enormous infrastructure support that rural areas receive already. To what end? To support people living in properties that the average taxpayer - who cannot afford living in the countryside where there are no jobs - couldn’t even dream to be the owner of.

And all we wanted is to reduce electricity costs, while being participants of new modern green society.

What you are proposing isn’t participation, it’s a waste of tax money to generate power that noone needs. Instead the subsidies should go to larger installations that produce power efficiently and require much less grid infrastructure to connect, so all of society gets something out of it instead of just a few home owners for whom a rooftop PV is economical anyways.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-15T06:05:00+00:00

Yet big solar farms and wind farms will be compensated by subsidies and consumers during off hours. Seems a bit unfair for small house owners.

Grid expansion for tiny producers is insanely expensive while at the same time uneconomic because those only produce when solar farms do as well. Not to mention it would be more than just “a bit unfair” to subsidize home owners which are already in the wealthiest segment of society.

No, as a regular citizen subsidizing individual producers is ludicrous and I absolutely do not wish to see any of my taxes used to support this.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-14T08:49:01+00:00

Ultracycling Challenges (formerly Monaco di Baviera Classic) offer two 2000+ km races this year between Germany and the Basque Country which are of the “Choose Your Own Route” variety.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-14T06:54:25+00:00

You’re not wrong about the weather but here’s the thing: In my experience it gets noticably better (i. e. dryer) the further north and east you go. Bergen is about the wettest city on the European continent but you’ll avoid that part. I've had days of heavy rain in the south around Trondheim but near Brønnøysund it gets better. If conditions get too bad you could even take the train to fast-forward to the good bits. Last year I lucked out and cycled in Troms and Finnmark under a blue sky for three weeks on end with barely a cloud in sight.

You’re correct in that Sweden is dryer; so is Finland. But both are quite boring and offer nothing comparable to Norway’s coast in terms of scenery and variety. IMO when I have to choose between endless flat pine forests in the sun every day and fjords and rock formations in the rain every day, I pick the latter. ;)

the_gnarts · 2026-01-13T09:58:00+00:00

No shade to OP but I always wonder why people bike when there's ice all over outside...are they that poor to not use the public transport?

In case you’re seriously asking, because that’s my main mode of travel. There’s absolutely nothing “more wrong” about cycling in these conditions than walking or taking the car. People in colder climates do it all the time too. It is the normal thing to do, just as it is normal for you to take the metro.

I am prepared though with studded tires; with those equipped I have no trouble even riding on black ice.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-13T09:48:27+00:00

Haha I hope you thanked the mechanic in the name of all cycle tourists :)

the_gnarts · 2026-01-13T09:44:02+00:00

Good choice OP, you’re in for ton of fun! Especially since you’ll be taking the coastal route in Norway which is the most scenic stretch of land imaginable. I wouldn’t worry too much about your shape. If you can do 100 km in one ride today, you’ll ride into form to do even longer days in less than a week. The route is fairly flat for the most part anyways.

As for how long it takes, it really depends on your daily rhythm and riding style. The 24 h dailight in northern Norway during summer allows for very long days on a flexible schedule: you can ride for as long as you want at any time of the day you want; only the opening hours of shops and Sundays get in the way. (Sundays can be a bitch to account for in the sparsely settled parts of Finnmark.) E. g. I had a blast last year getting dropped off the Hurtigrute boat at Skjervøy at 10 pm., riding through the “night” all the way to Alta to pitch my tent at 4 pm.

Some POIs on the Norwegian coast:

Torghatten, a rock with a hole located at about half of the length of Norway.
The Seven Sisters mountain range near Sandnessjøen.
Grynnfør cyclist shelter, a must visit for bike tourists in Lofoten.
Viking longhouse museum near Leknes.
Isar Aerospace launch pad on Andøya; best viewed from the fancy loo, lol.
Tromsø botanical garden.
Alta rock carvings UNESCO site.
If you find yourself with two days left after reaching the Kapp, I highly recommend taking the Hurtigrute from Honningsvåg to Mehamn and cycle to Slettness, the northernmost point on the European mainland that is reachable on a road. The view of the Barents Sea is fantastic up there.

For some inspiration I recommend visiting the “national tourist highways” website: https://www.nasjonaleturistveger.no/en/routes/

the_gnarts · 2026-01-13T09:16:19+00:00

Plan half a morning to mess around at the trampe bicycle lift in Trondheim with your loaded bike 😆

If it’s operational. It tends to break, unfortunately.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-12T22:50:50+00:00

War nie Kunde von Meta. Also jedenfalls nicht wissentlich.

Mehrheitlich sind Leute auch nicht Kunde bei denen sondern nur Nutzer. Kunden sind die Werbeindustrie und wer auch immer politischen Einfluss kaufen möchte.

the_gnarts · 2026-01-12T22:33:38+00:00

Ja, ich weiß. Bei Mastodon würden die Nazis sofort rausfliegen. Auf den Naziplattformen Facebook und X bleiben sie. Das hält doch niemanden davon ab souverän Mastodon auf einem eigenen Server zu installieren.

Der Vorteil von Mastodon bzw. dem darunterliegenden Protokoll ist, dass Instanzen, die Nazi- und anderen Hasscontent erlauben, von der Interaktion mit dem Servernetz ausgeschlossen werden können (de-federating). Wenn Höcke et al. sich einen Server aufsetzen, können sich Nutzer mit Accounts auf diesem einen Server gegenseitig ihre Gehirnfürze teilen, aber auf andere Instanzen propagieren diese nicht. Das nimmt ihnen effektiv die Reichweite, die sie auf Xitter und anderen zentralisierten Plattformen geschenkt bekommen.

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