Hacker News: mads

New comment by mads in "Male and female brains differ at birth"

mads — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:55:02 +0000

This cant really be a surprise, can it?

New comment by mads in "Musk Vaulted to the Top of Diablo IV. Everyone's Asking Where He Found the Time"

mads — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:19:35 +0000

K-Hole insomnia, I would assume: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

New comment by mads in "Ask HN: What is Elon Musk's world view?"

mads — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 11:40:55 +0000

The man is a drug addict, so I dont think you can expect much coherence there. Clearly demonstrated also by that guy also who analyzed his tweets, who could even extract data like the downward tolerance spiral musk was in.

Vikings Settled in North America in 1021AD

mads — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 09:51:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58996186

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632584

Points: 16

# Comments: 0

New comment by mads in "Trump refuses to rule out using military force to take Greenland, Panama Canal"

mads — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 09:03:59 +0000

Thats like threatening to use military force in the great bakeoff.

New comment by mads in "Trump declines to rule out using military to control Greenland, Panama Canal"

mads — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:35:18 +0000

That convicted drug dealer or smuggler Greenland guy with the maga cap in the video he shared encapsulates this very well.

New comment by mads in ""AI" on a Calculator (2023)"

mads — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 05:35:58 +0000

I remember having the 1541 disk drive for my C64 play tunes.

New comment by mads in "Tesla reports 1.1% sales drop for 2024, first annual decline in at least 9 years"

mads — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:36:05 +0000

That truck always reminds me of that Simpsons episode, where Homer designs a car.

New comment by mads in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

mads — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:23:01 +0000

Thats some top 1% shit

New comment by mads in "Tesla reports 1.1% sales drop for 2024, first annual decline in at least 9 years"

mads — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:17:57 +0000

"price of butter"

New comment by mads in "Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds"

mads — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 07:38:37 +0000

Red meat does make you fart more though. I cant imagine thats healthy for people around you.

New comment by mads in "Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?"

mads — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 07:35:42 +0000

So Barcelona homelessness is going up and Los Angeles homelessness is going down? The only reasonable conclusion must be that the homeless are relocating from Los Angeles to Barcelona. It is only a question of time then.

New comment by mads in "I am starting an AI+Education company"

mads — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:56:07 +0000

I am getting Jehovah's Witness vibes from it.

New comment by mads in "How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust? (2017)"

mads — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 12:55:09 +0000

There is a US ton? My God...

New comment by mads in "Internet speed record 402M Mbps achieved using standard optic fibre cable"

mads — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 05:22:28 +0000

So 201 trillion baud with 4-QAM modulation..

New comment by mads in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

mads — Sat, 25 May 2024 05:15:47 +0000

3333801

Just managed to login. Had one person on my contact list and he is dead...

Copenhagen's 400-yr-old exchange burns down

mads — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:27:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/f9ec9d26-81eb-40d9-9127-737f2d498c75

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40049985

Points: 27

# Comments: 6

New comment by mads in "How do computers calculate sine?"

mads — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 05:08:40 +0000

Back in the 80's, when I made demos on the C64, we also used pre-calculated sines. I remember going to the library to get a book with the values.

Billionaire Owner Hides as Legal Review Sparks over Danish Waste Landslide

mads — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 07:19:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/looming-waste-landslide-disaster-prompts-legal-review-in-denmark-1.2024209

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39065431

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mads in "The curious case of hybrids in watchmaking"

mads — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 18:02:52 +0000

I have one of those Ulysses Nardin phones in a drawer somewhere as I was working on the software part of it back in the days.

The mechanical charging mechanism on the phone was basically a gimmick. You would probably have to shake it around for a few days to get the phone to even start again, if your oligarch plane crashed in the desert and your phone ran out of power.