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New comment by sokols in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

sokols — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:39:05 +0000

For the Apollo spacecrafts:

> The paste-like material was gunned into each of the 330,000 cells of the fiberglass honeycomb individually, a process taking about six months. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCOAT#Apollo_Command_Module

New comment by sokols in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

sokols — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:57:00 +0000

Albanian, managed to understand till 1300. Then it gets more germanic i think, though I speak a bit of German as well, the characters make it a bit difficult to parse.

“Swie!” is interesting, I understood it somehow naturally. In Gheg Albanian we say “Shuj!”, which means “Be silent!”.

New comment by sokols in "The Contagious Taste of Cancer"

sokols — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:57:26 +0000

> but if cancer were easy for the immune system to deal with nobody would die of it.

This made me think, whether it would somehow make sense that cancer cells on another host would be detected by the immune system of that host. Theoretically, these immune cells have different “initialization parameters” so to say and maybe they could show affinity to the foreign cancer cells.

But then again I am not an expert and this is just a pure speculation.

The difference between onshore and offshore RMB (CNY and CNH)

sokols — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:51:39 +0000

Article URL: https://corporate.visa.com/en/products/visa-direct/blog/the-difference-between-cny-and-cnh.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847001

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Garmin autopilot lands aircraft without human assistance

sokols — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:14:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Emergency-in-Colorado-Garmin-autopilot-lands-aircraft-without-human-assistance-11123768.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367654

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by sokols in "Danish postal service to stop delivering letters"

sokols — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:09:40 +0000

It’s the other way around, DHL is owned by Deutsche Post AG.

New comment by sokols in "A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt"

sokols — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 21:03:28 +0000

Pileus (plis) can be found amongst older Albanians (especially on the north) to this day.

ETH Zurich Develops 3D Printed Heart Patch to Support Tissue Regeneration [pdf]

sokols — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:02:52 +0000

Article URL: https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/main/news/eth-news/2025/08/250805-mm-pflaster-fuer-herz/250701_MM_Herzpflaster_EN.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933540

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sokols in "Germany eyes 10% digital tax on global tech groups"

sokols — Fri, 30 May 2025 12:28:22 +0000

The same way they calculate the VAT for Germany.

The ongoing story of seconds on the taskbar

sokols — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:30:54 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250421-00/?p=111095

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780440

Points: 20

# Comments: 3

New comment by sokols in "Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9"

sokols — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:57:43 +0000

Congratulations on the successful launch!

> .. I’d listen to the Voice of America..

I grew up listening to VoA as a kid as well, I was born in a then not so developed part of the Balkans. Sometimes I have the feeling that the ordinary Americans don't have a clue about the impact VoA had in the countries like ours.

New comment by sokols in "World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial"

sokols — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:50:58 +0000

This might be related with the case of Richard Scolyer, the Australian pathologist diagnosed with Glioblastoma. He was receiving some kind of experimental treatment for it.

New comment by sokols in "Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)"

sokols — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:17:35 +0000

This is exactly what I understood from the article. Your explanation didn't add anything extra.

Nuclear fusion: New record set at Chinese reactor EAST

sokols — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:47:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Nuclear-fusion-New-record-set-at-Chinese-reactor-EAST-10258284.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42917662

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sokols in "Bunkers in Albania"

sokols — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:58:40 +0000

Yes this is a widely circulating anecdote. That Minister was Mehmet Shehu[0], an interesting character in his own right.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Shehu

New comment by sokols in "China lands Chang'e 6 sample-return probe on far side of the moon"

sokols — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 06:24:24 +0000

I heard the news on BBC World Service for example.

New comment by sokols in "Ask HN: Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives?"

sokols — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 10:16:02 +0000

Hetzner has a product which is a managed Nextcloud instance basically.

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

New comment by sokols in "How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain"

sokols — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 07:10:57 +0000

That's strange, I remember those forms were trilingual, 12 years ago. German, English and French.

New comment by sokols in "Apache Superset"

sokols — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:00:18 +0000

Metabase is great, I use it with a Oracle Database.

New comment by sokols in "German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation"

sokols — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:17:26 +0000

They are required by law to provide the information once a year, for free. The complaint here is that the “free” report contains less information than the paid one. Information which could affect a decision about a loan or maybe a decision of some landlord about a prospective tenant.