Hacker News: strange_aeonshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=strange_aeonsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:49:44 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by strange_aeons in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"]]>ku.dk is Copenhagen University, which I would regard as accurate and unbiased.

Wikipedia cites Danmarks Statistik for the population numbers, the official government statistics.

The 2.4m is in 1900, 3.5m in 1930.

]]>Sun, 25 May 2025 21:02:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44091091strange_aeonshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44091091https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44091091<![CDATA[New comment by strange_aeons in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"]]>Around 140k emigrated to USA in 1900-1930 (https://danishvoices.ku.dk/danish-in-north-america/)

Denmark’s population was 2.4m-3.5m in that period (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Denmark)

]]>Sun, 25 May 2025 19:13:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44090188strange_aeonshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44090188https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44090188<![CDATA[New comment by strange_aeons in "Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam"]]>My Canon EOS R8 can be configured to connect via USB-C as a webcam and works perfectly.

]]>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:29:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42736432strange_aeonshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42736432https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42736432<![CDATA[New comment by strange_aeons in "Switching to the i3 window manager"]]>Sway is written in C, though.

]]>Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:45:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28432024strange_aeonshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28432024https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28432024<![CDATA[New comment by strange_aeons in "When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number"]]>That's interesting. The time on market is always listed on Danish real estate websites. And the aggregator sites also have previous listings.

]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2020 07:41:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24490413strange_aeonshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24490413https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24490413<![CDATA[New comment by strange_aeons in "Ask HN: STEM toy for a 3 years old?"]]>There are some LEGO Education products that may be relevant.

Maybe something like the STEAM Park set. It uses DUPLO bricks.

Disclaimer, I work there.

]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 13:02:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22474071strange_aeonshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22474071https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22474071<![CDATA[New comment by strange_aeons in "Beating C with 70 lines of Go"]]>Yes, it's the last column in all the result tables.

]]>Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:58:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21588440strange_aeonshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21588440https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21588440<![CDATA[New comment by strange_aeons in "Ev3dev: Debian for Lego Mindstorms"]]>The founder of the project, Ralph Hempel, works for LEGO now.

It's also used internally in LEGO.

]]>Sun, 18 Jun 2017 14:02:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580671strange_aeonshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580671https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580671<![CDATA[Imzy is shutting down]]>Article URL: https://www.imzy.com/imzy/post/imzy_is_shutting_down

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14411499

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]]>Wed, 24 May 2017 16:59:31 +0000https://www.imzy.com/imzy/post/imzy_is_shutting_downstrange_aeonshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14411499https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14411499<![CDATA[New comment by strange_aeons in "Why the Elixir language has great potential"]]>Phoenix uses IO lists for very efficient templating.

Read more here https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/elixir-and-io-lists-part-1... and in part 2.

]]>Thu, 22 Dec 2016 07:11:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13235491strange_aeonshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13235491https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13235491<![CDATA[New comment by strange_aeons in "Scala 2.12.0 is now available"]]>https://gist.github.com/djspiewak/cb72c41ac335a3a9b28b3307be... is a nice intro to the tooling/build setup.

]]>Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:30:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12864183strange_aeonshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12864183https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12864183