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Maestri's claimed first ascent and his compressor route made the history of Cerro Torre controversial, and the later removal of the bolts added to this controversy. However, the unfortunately now deceased climbing prodigy David Lama also had his own scandal on the compressor route while sponsored by Red Bull.
I've heard a variation of the story where the police took them away (i.e., "arrested" them) to protect them from what was becoming an angry mob.
My understanding is that there are three mobile networks in North Korea: the normal one used by the citizens (they have smartphones made specifically for North Korea), one used by the government/military and one for tourists (requires a local SIM card only available in a specific hotel in Pyongyang).
The last one is connected to the internet and this is why you can see (or at least before the pandemic could see) Instagram posts from North Korea.
I have no idea if this information is still or ever was completely true though.
There's a somewhat dated but very interesting AMA on Reddit by an American teaching computer science in Pyongyang:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ucl11/iama_american_...
Reading about the internet knowledge possessed by North Korean students, I'm always surprised how they supposedly also manage to be some of the most cunning and evil actors when it comes to hacking.
I get the impression that you think VW is Chinese, or am I misunderstanding your comment?
VW is the world's largest auto maker and it's German.
In my neck of the woods it's called "journalist units": three soccer fields, five blue whales etc.
Somebody even created a website to facilitate conversion but unfortunately the TLS certificate has expired and Cloudflare now blocks access.
Article in Danish: https://ing.dk/artikel/lynch-nu-kan-ogsaa-journalister-faa-s...
This is a very controversial topic in Europe where Florence Bergeaud-Blackler's book about how the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to infiltrate European institutions is seen either as a conspiracy theory fueling Islamophobia or a dangerous problem that has to be dealt with to protect society.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-french-academic-payi...
One of many useful features of LINQPad is the output visualizer ("Dump"). Granted, there are now NuGet packages (very likely inspired by LINQPad) that can do something similar in a console app but LINQPad is interactive, allows drill-down and can export to formats like Excel. It's such a productivity boost.
The database integration is also great and allows me to write ad-hoc SQL queries using LINQ.
Brian Harry did something similar in 2018 when he was a corporate vice president at Microsoft: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brharry
The asteroid belt is between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter so the Voyagers traveled through this before reaching their first mission goal, Jupiter.
The SRP Authentication and Key Exchange System does not send the password from the client to the server. This scheme is supposedly used by Blizzard when authenticating users in some of their online games.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2945
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18461/how-secur...
The brand name 'The North Face' is inspired by mountaineering where the north face of a mountain often is the most interesting but also difficult side as it's always in the shade (in the northern hemisphere). E.g., the Alps have the famous classical north faces of Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses which are climbed by only the most accomplished mountaineers.
It always irks me when 'Mount' is added as a prefix to a proper mountain name like 'Mount Annapurna', 'Mount Ama Dablam'. Should it then be 'Mount Mt. Everest'?
There are early finds of Homo in China but these do not predate the finds in Africa.
Neanderthals and Homo floresiensis are not early ancestors and they lived at the same time as modern humans emerged. I believe that Neanderthals are a subspecies of Homo sapiens so they were able to interbreed with modern humans.
The Danish bespoke train IC4 has entered the chat.
The Copenhagen metro runs 24×7×365. It's also a driverless system.
Previous year (presumably the second consecutive La Niña event) the winter was exceptionally dry in the Alps leading to the current unprecedented snow and ice situation in that area so at least that year the snowfall was very limited.
The article states that the predictions should't be regarded as forecasts so obviously some years might not have the expected changes, but in addition the only expected effect of La Niña in Europe seems to be a drier autumn on the Iberian peninsula so I'm not sure how you arrived at your statements.
In Denmark electric power consumption of homes have decreased by 10% in 2022. Apps that provide the variable hourly rate today and tomorrow are increasingly popular, and they are used to plan the best time to perform tasks that require electricity.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/danskernes-stroemforbrug-er-...
In the article the TikTok spokesperson explains this:
“It’s not logging what you’re typing. It’s an anti-fraud measure that checks the rhythm of the way people are typing to ensure it’s not a bot or some other malicious activity.”
I believe that the duplicated post you see in the dreadful forum is the accepted answer. It's displayed right after the question but also on the timeline of all the posts. For a long time this confused me a lot and I still find it jarring.
It's originally written in LISP and this is why it's a single C++ file. However, I believe that it's now being maintained in its C++ form.
A famous case of this is the Danish man Victor Cornelins that was born in St. Croix but at the age of seven was brought to Denmark to become part of a human exhibition as a "negro kid" to attract visitors. His birth name was Cornelius which is not unusual in Danish so Cornelins must have been a simple writing mistake. However, this lapse is negligible compared to the racism he was subjected to.
Or 128 bits. FORTRAN has a REAL*16 type (quadruple precision floating point number). I encountered this at university in a physics department that studied non- linear systems also known as chaos theory. Rounding errors can quickly become a problem in these systems.
You have a timestamp in the future for example the time when a session at a conference starts. If to want to store this as UTC you will have to convert it from the local timezone of the conference location. You can always go back from the UTC timestamp to the local timestamp by performing the reverse conversion EXCEPT if the conversion involves daylight savings and the rule changes between now and the event in the future. While rare, daylight savings rules sometimes do change. I guess even local timezone offsets might change once in a while. When this happens the conversion back from UTC to the local time will be wrong unless you keep track of more than the UTC timestamp.
Medellín in Colombia sometimes described as the city of eternal spring is known for its perfect climate. In addition it's a very vibrant city.
Thanks for this tip. I usually resolve this by opening Teams in the browser and find the image I need to see. It's very disruptive that an important UI feature randomly (or perhaps reliably) fails.
Denmark recently killed four suspected pirates in Bay of Guinea (actually five as it was later discovered). The Danish forces were fired at while trying to apprehend the suspected pirates so you can argue it was self defense and the intent was not to kill.
https://www.reuters.com/world/danish-frigate-kills-four-susp...
I agree that downloading symbols can be oddly slow but you can just turn it off, or only turn it on for specific modules. It can be helpful to have symbols for library code to troubleshoot bugs but typically you only need your own symbols and they are already on your computer with your binaries.
I don't have an iPhone but I've always been shooting RAW on my phones and then processed the photos in LightRoom. As soon as I use one of the "lenses" on my phone (like "night shot" or "panorama" or even "wide angle"/"tele") I only get a JPG. The RAW file is only created when I shoot using the basic camera. This is the case for my current OnePlus but also previous phones (Google, Nokia).
Cases 5 and 10 in the article are actually ambiguous. In each case there are two ways to draw lines to separate the high and low points and a naïve algorithm will just hardcode one of each like it's done in the article. This isn't a serious problem in the two dimensional marching squares algorithm but the same problem can lead to holes in the surface generated by the three dimensional marching cubes algorithm.
During a visit to Washington University I had the opportunity to work with this flaw in the algorithm and I ended up publishing a scientific paper about the subject. I then went on to write my thesis (in Danish) where I worked more rigorously on how to deal with this. It's so long ago that I almost forgot so reading about marching squares again was a nice trip down memory lane.
https://martinliversage.blob.core.windows.net/publications/1...
https://martinliversage.blob.core.windows.net/publications/1...
Some trivia: ‘Vindriktning‘ is ‘wind direction' in Swedish.