It's one thing to know that you're supposed to develop new habits. It's another thing entirely to teach your subconscious mind to follow that up even when you're relaxing and your mind is elsewhere. The subconscious mind is a rather slow learner and doesn't adapt unless you're very persistent with it for a very long time. Also, it doesn't really care unless it gets a reward. It's not very different from training an animal, except the animal is you.

One of these days, I'm going to research Matlab type software. I keep running into references to Matlab when I'm researching computer science. I've never even touched it, and there are times when you want to calculate things like matrix products, dot products, integrals and derivatives or find simplifications or equivalents of equations, and it gets a bit clunky to try to input it all into Wolfram Alpha's search field. I imagine that Matlab would be handy for such situations.

I can be quite indecisive. I'm often paralysed for fear of making the wrong choice. I can spend ages in a grocery store isle trying to make the optimal choice. I can spend months trying to pick a vacation spot before failing because none of them seemed good enough. I often put off decisions until it's too late because I can't make up my mind. How do people make decisions quickly? My brain is overwhelmed wirh pros and cons. Sometimes I just pick randomly because I can't make an informed decision.

Good: In Norway, $65k/year is an average wage

Bad: In Norway, a third of that is taxes, the other third is rent (if you want a decent apartment within the metro area of a city with more than one room and no roommates) and the final third is food, transport and other boring stuff. For the fun stuff, you're going to have to save up, or take up a loan.

When English speakers say "Nobel Prize" it sounds like they're saying "no-bell prize". His name was Alfred NoBEL (rhymes with "cartel"), not NObel (rhymes with "oval").

Remember how old and outdated 1960s music sounded to teenage ears in the 1990s? In 2 years, a song from 1990 will sound just as old and outdated to the teens of that time. I can tell that it's happening already, because whenever I play what was hip in the mid-1990s to a twenty-something, they'll remark on how it sounds "old school"...

If we are unable to come up with laws that keep companies ethical, how can we expect to come up with laws of robotics that keep autonomous AIs ethical? Just as there are far more ways of tangling a rope than there are ways of rolling it up neatly, there are far more ways of doing the wrong thing than there are ways of doing the right thing.

I have a love-hate relationship to people who jolt you out of your misery with their mental clarity. The sort of person I'm talking about won't display empathy if you bring them a personal problem. Instead, they will ask you a completely tangential question that forces you to think rationally. They are like mental chiropractors fixing a kink in your brain's neck by snapping it into place. I love it because it's so effective. I hate it because someone is cleverer than me.

@vinzv @NathanHawks @schestowitz I frankly think identities should be transferrable between instances. I mean, it sort of isn't terribly relevant to me what instance my friend is on. I just want to stay in touch with my friend.

CAT5 of nine tails.
https://snabeltann.no/media/GyfnbhOyXZmNcLOsWu4

For some weird reason, every sound in the Japanese language is also a sound in the Norwegian language. If you read romaji with Norwegian pronunciation, it will more or less sound like correctly pronounced Japanese.

The errors would mostly be things like mute U's not being mute, and vowel clusters turning into diphthongs.

Japanese always struck me as almost Indo-European in its phonetics, if not in its vocabulary, when compared to something like Mandarin or Tagalog.

@clacke As per today, it's like this: School students really hate having Nynorsk on the curriculum because it sounds ridiculous and is hard to master for someone who doesn't speak a dialect that's close to it. Students in East Norway will often accidentally write Swedish words on their Nynorsk assignments because they're so lousy at it. Many young people want it to go away and never come back.

If you put together a game dev team of Scandinavians where the Swedes + Finns did the coding, the Danes did the story/visuals, and the Norwegians, uh... paid for it? That's my problem with Norway. We're not best at the things that I care about. We kind of suck, basically.

Our "politicians" have failed for 6 years to erect a memorial for the 2011 Norway attacks. The survivors are pretty angry about it. Nobody knows why it's taking so long. It only took 4 years for the idiots to plan the Oslo Opera House after they had decided where to put it—an opera house that nobody had asked for. Our politicians used to come from working/middle class backgrounds. None of the current lot have done a honest day's work in their life, and it shows. Worthless assholes in suits.

We may laugh at all the ridiculous diets people try, but they're a sign of desperation. We live in a society with an abundance of calorie-rich foods and lack of physical exertion, and are wired to prefer it that way. More people are becoming overweight or obese. Scientists and doctors seem to think that the problem is a lack of information about healthy lifestyles. I think the problem is that we are addicts to our unhealthy lifestyles. You don't tell an alcoholic to "simply drink less".

Norwegian archeology.

https://snabeltann.no/media/8kF-4Pj5yAJ-fnLzcE4

The Magnus Ladulas underground restaurant in Stockholm. I took this photo in 2015.
https://snabeltann.no/media/sdevvKpY0K9kb3YeN30

Someone needs to create an SMTP for the 21st century. Something that forces servers to:
- Refuse to relay a message without end-to-end encryption and a digital signature
- Require unknown senders to solve a cryptographic hash problem per message
- Require a TLS certificate from a CA on both sides of any connection
- Use 8-bit attachments (no Base64)
- Drop HTML in favor of Markdown
- Not support external embedding

KIDS: Can you read us a fairytale, uncle Friedrich?
NIETZSCHE: God is dead.
KIDS: *crying*
MOM: Why do I let you babysit my children...

@xrevan86 Another example would be "fenestra" (Latin), "fönster" (Swedish) and "Fenster" (German), all meaning "window". They all clearly took it from Latin. Something else happened with "window" (English), "vindu" (Danish/Norwegian) and "vindauge" (older Norwegian); they kept the old Germanic word, roughly "wind-eye" if decompose the word into its constituent parts.