What’s the difference?

The Aalborg IKEA store was inadvertently an emergency shelter a few years back during a severe snowstorm. In a short time frame a lot of snow started falling, completely blocking all traffic (I was out of town that day and a 30min flight home turned into a 30 hour nightmare. It was bad). IKEA staff and the few customers that couldn’t get home stayed the night and got to choose any bed in the store they wanted to sleep on.

I remember seeing this image a decade or so ago, so no AI. But no idea about the story behind it.

It feels like history is repeating itself. The movie Amsterdam made me aware of the Business Plot of 1933 and I was surprised about how much it mirrors the political landscape in the US today.

And neatly organised the data in Jellyfin. Completely out of my control.

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Det er flettet ind i straffeloven:

§ 241. Den, som uagtsomt forvolder en andens død, straffes med bøde eller fængsel indtil 4 måneder eller under særligt skærpende omstændigheder med fængsel indtil 10 år. Er forholdet begået i forbindelse med spirituskørsel, overtrædelse af færdselslovens § 54, stk. 1 eller 2, særligt hensynsløs kørsel eller de groveste hastighedsovertrædelser, anses dette som en særligt skærpende omstændighed.

I think they finally fixed it in Denmark. That would be called hazardous driving and someone just got 4 years for killing someone due to it. The sentence was reduced since he showed remorse, could have gone all the way up to 10 years.

The dark ages were from the 5th century to the 10th century while the first mention of the guillotine is from 1210 (as a hypothetical device)

Often the non-smart hospitality TVs don’t have the more advanced features you’d want for a home TV like HDR and the like, but I gotta admit that one looks quite decent. Can’t see any Dolby Vision support though.

Yeah, Vondelpark is also the only place I saw them (and the picture looks like it too), but I am just a tourist too (albeit a frequent one).

The screen bulge alone in that pic is at least 3 times wider than my TV. It’s amazing what 2 decades of technology can do. Now, if we could just figure out how to make an LED TV than didn’t have a network card…

The explanation for why it’s in English is likely that it would be foreigners eating pizza in the park. Amsterdammers would probably just take it home to eat.

They’re winning so hard that we ignore some pretty bad stuff they do like lootbox gambling for kids (not that they’re alone in that)

I miss old Futurama.

Yes, but I’m also looking in some other EU countries. With the freedom of movement it is not much harder to move to another city in EU than internally in Denmark.

I graduated in 2022 with an MSc ComSci and have been without a job since new year. I think my ghost rate on applications have been around 60-70%. And let’s not even talk about how few job posts there are in the first place…

The few I do hear from replies “what an amazing resume! We have though decided to continue with other applicants.” Number of first interviews: 1. Number of second interviews: 0. Number of applications: I lost count.

You can edit the post. Notice that the screenshot doesn’t have a thumbnail for the screenshot.

We got a DNS-based censorship law in Denmark ages ago. It was strictly for blocking child pornography. Today the list also includes: Unlicensed gambling sites, piracy, as well as a handful of sites that “doesn’t contain CSAM or other obviously illegal content” (old source, but nothing has really changed except probably the amount of websites on the list)

Censorship will never be limited to what it was first set in motion for. It is just too powerful and it is too tempting to not expand it to cover other “nuisances” a government or its lobbyists might have. If the barrier of entry is just adding a new string to a list, they’re gonna add that string to the list.

And if you want to circumvent it you just point your DNS to Quad9, Cloudflare, Google, or any of the DNS services that doesn’t implement the filter (including at least one Danish DNS service), so in essence it is pretty useless for the target groups it’s meant for.

It would actually be interesting to see the distribution of patches over the age of the code it was applied to.

The sane ordering outside iso8601 revolves around the most significant bit. When you ask for the time, 34 minutes is usually not significant in any matter in written contexts since you could be reading it more than an hour later. Hence hours are more significant than minutes (verbal can often be an exception, “20 minutes past” can be enough context if someone asks for the time). But the “time” part of datetime is always more significant than the “date” part. The year is least significant since that one changes the least, then comes month, and lastly year. In many contexts knowing it is 14th of September is enough. In chats it might even be enough to say “14th” if you’re talking about a date in this very month. But due to the timespan between writing and reading, minutes more often than not is meaningless without hours, hence hours become more significant.

Of course HH:mm dd/mm/yyyy is inferior when it comes to computer parsing due to iso8601 being the easiest to sort. (And because of Americans it is the only format to cause no confusion). But it is going least significant first in the sense that you are presented with year first, something that is often redundant in human-to-human interaction (depending on context you might say year is more significant than time in the case of wanting to know when an article was released, but you know, there’s always more exceptions than rules).

So to sum it up: Use whatever date time format you want as long as you use a format fit for the context it is used in. Unless you’re saving it to a database/directory/etc. Then use iso8601 so I can easily sort it.