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Swipe to go back can be implemented in frontend.

It's been a couple of years since I used it, but I think the Ionic framework has this feature.

https://ionicframework.com/

And to make it more interesting, Sweden also has the letter "å", but it's in the 27th place in the alphabet (followed by "ä" and "ö"). In the Danish/Norwegian alphabet, the letter "å" is the last letter of the alphabet.

Anyone still feel the pain when Google discontinued its RSS reader?

Yes, but mostly because of a lost opportunity.

I was working on my own web based reader when Google made a significant upgrade to their reader. It was similar to what I had made, so I thought it would be foolish to compete with Google and stopped working on it.

I wonder where RSS would be now if Google had not discouraged potential competitors.

Looking at the site it seems to be a (static?) HTML and shared "main.css" and "main.js" files. Both files can be cached by the browser, so it only needs to download a few KB of compressed HTML for each page. I don't think we would notice much of a difference in the navigation from one page to another if they used content preloading

It's how we used to make websites before SPA, and it's refreshing to see that it still makes a noticeable difference even on today's powerful CPUs and high speed networks.

What if FTL is not possible? In that case the attack will take a long time to reach us, and in the meantime we will be much more advanced technologically and could potentially defend ourselves.

In sci-fi we see warp drives, worm hole travel, phasers, photon torpedos and energy shields around ships. But what if none of that is possible? In that case, we might even have the technology to defend ourselves today if we manage to detect the attack in time.

It's a huge risk for a civilization to attack us. Even if they have capabilities that are beyond our technology, there might still be limitations based on the laws of physics. And if they attack us, they risk a response.

Originally, the "o" on top of the letter "Å" was a lower case "a", because the sound could be written as "AA". Over time it transformed into a circle.

Some names today still use the double a, like the Norwegian football player Martin Ødegaard. In that case it is pronounced the same as the "å" sound. (not too far from how an American might pronounce the "o" sound in "for")

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.

Yes, it's #176 on his list of countries:

https://www.onceuponasaga.dk/journey

The client then searches through the list to see if the desired email is in the list or not.

The initial prefix check would probably reduce the amount of lookups necessary, as it would only be necessary to do a deeper search if the prefix matches.

It is my recollection as well. Most applications used VB, Delphi, MFC etc. that all had the "native" OS look and feel. There were some exceptions like WinAmp and others, but from what I can remember most applications were more consistent than today.

It doesn't work for me either (Android+Chrome)

I often prefer enums over booleans for this. It seems more readable for most cases, and can be extended with new values.

This:

    isRegistered: true

    accountStatus: "UNREGISTRED"

My guess is that he wants to be compensated for the time he spent. There's a lot of content on that site, and making a bit of money is a good motivation to keep updating the site

I would prefer to use a neutral <h> tag, that was proposed in the xhtml2 specs. It always made more sense to let the browser infer the place in the hierarchy.

It's related to how older versions of Windows/Office handled Unicode in general.

From what I have heard, it's still an issue with Excel, although I assume that Windows may handle plain text better these days (I haven't used it in a while)

You need to write an UTF-8 BOM at the beginning (0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF), if you want to make sure it's recognized as UTF-8.

The same location (Andøya, Norway) has also launched over 1,200 sounding and sub-orbital rockets of various configurations since 1962.

As others have explained, the news here is a rocket reaching orbit

My guess is that it was hosted on a physical server on campus, and they didn't want to pay IT to support it during winter break.

It is probably easier to just close it down to avoid handling all the angry phone calls if it would happen to have an issue during the break.

I liked Settlers, but I was much more invested in the Caesar/Zeus/Pharaoh series of games. Maybe it was due to the historical context.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250215014709/https://simonschr...

I subscribed to "CU Amiga" and "Amiga Format". I kept them for a long time, but had to throw them away when I moved a few years ago.

It's also the official name in several non-English countries, including variants like the French "soleil"

https://idiot.vitebsk.net/i43/sun_english.htm

Another link with more information about Arpanet (1973)

https://www.norsar.no/about-us/history/arpanet

I think knowledge was more localised to certain universities or researchers.

Norway was the first country outside of USA to be connected to Arpanet in 1973 to share seismic data, but the universities did not gain general access until 1983.

I posted submitted a link to a story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42655568

Things that you know and have internalised don't occupy your brainspace

Some "10x" developers are extremely productive because they know the software stack inside and out.

There are also "10x" teams where they share an institutional knowledge of the software stack and are constantly improving and finding more efficient ways of solving a problem. When someone finds a better library, more efficient CI/CD or establish new code practices it is easy to apply it when they have a single stack to focus on.

It's hard to replicate this in teams where they are responsible for 10 micro services, each written in their own language and using different software stacks that are more "optimal" for some use case.

RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself

The readers often cache the result for all users of the same feed. The only exception are readers that are running 100% locally. In that case using Etag or Last-Modified will make each request cheap and manageble.

Interesting I was not aware of that. I was told the reason was that in addition to a different format, the drive was more flexible so that it could adjust more dynamically. But it seems that you could store it more efficiently and get similar results on PC.

That said, I found a forum post that claimed an Amiga could store 1MB (1.1 in the comments) on a DD disk (standard size is 880k on Amiga, 720k on PC). So perhaps an HD disk could have been formatted to store over 2MB? I wouldn't be surprised if there were some drawbacks to this method that makes data corruption more probable.

Ref: https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=102630

The whole world ran on 1.44mb

There were small pockets of Amiga users that could store 1.76mb on the same floppy disk due to a different type of hardware

I accidentally hovered my mouse cursor over the images, and saw a detailed description. It may have been generated by AI, but it's a nice touch that was not expected

You are right. I got the two mixed up.

It's not all of Europe. The airports in Norway are operating as normal. One of the airlines reported booking issues on their website, but I haven't read about any other issues.

Some international flights have been delayed or canceled of course, depending on the route.