This is from a speech King Harald V of Norway gave in 2016. I think it has aged remarkably well:
Norway is high mountains and deep fjords. It is vast plateaus and coastal archipelagos, islands and islets. It is fertile fields and soft heathlands.
The sea meets our shores in the north, west and south.
Norway is the midnight sun and the polar night. It is both harsh and mild winters. It is both warm and cold summers. Norway is a long country, with people living far apart.
But above all, Norway is people.
Norwegians are people from Northern Norway, Trøndelag, Southern Norway – and all the other regions of the country.
Norwegians have also immigrated from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Poland, Sweden, Somalia and Syria. My own grandparents immigrated from Denmark and England 110 years ago.
It is not always easy to say where we come from or which nationality we belong to. The place we call home is where our heart is – and that cannot always be defined by national borders.
Norwegians are young and old, tall and short, able-bodied and wheelchair users. More and more Norwegians are living beyond the age of one hundred. Norwegians are rich, poor and somewhere in between.
Norwegians are girls who love girls, boys who love boys, and girls and boys who love each other.
Norwegians believe in God, Allah, "Altet" [Ed.: roughly "the whole" or "the universe"], and in nothing at all.
Norwegians enjoy Grieg and Kygo, Hellbillies and Kari Bremnes.
In other words: Norway is you. Norway is us.
When we sing "Ja, vi elsker dette landet" [Ed.: Norway's national anthem], we should remember that we are also singing about one another. Because we are the people who make up this country. That is why our national anthem is also a declaration of love for the Norwegian people.
My greatest hope for Norway is that we will succeed in taking care of one another.
That we will continue to build this country on trust, community and generosity.
That we will feel that – despite all our differences – we are one people.
I remember when having as little code to maintain as possible was an engineering goal. My professors were adamant that code reuse was a virtue. I had "less code = less bugs" drilled into me.
I'm sure the new way is better though, given how much my boss seems to be tracking my token usage these days...
Interesting, but I quickly uninstalled it after (1) it asked for permission to record keystrokes across all application and (2) registered global keyboard shortcut Option+Space without asking me.
Personally, I’m selling my U.S. stocks and bond holdings in my pension portfolio. Partly because I see them as a risk, and partly for moral reasons: I don’t want to support what I see as the current U.S. oligarchy. I'm also sad to say I've also bought 4 Teslas until I realized how bad things are, but I'll send no more money in that direction from now on, and I try to convince people I know to do the same.
Our company cloud infrastructure at Azure has already been replaced by VPSs at Hetzner in Europe.
Making advanced multiphysics simulations and optimizations accessible through a simple web interface and AI chat agents. I’m building SimuPort (https://simuport.com
) to lower the barrier to running and iterating on complex simulations. I’m interested in hearing from anyone who has needed these kinds of simulations in practice (e.g., optimizing airflow in devices, analyzing thermal–structural interactions in prototypes) or who has experience with tools like Ansys, OpenFOAM, COMSOL, SimScale, or similar. What worked, what didn’t, and what’s still missing?
tldr; Adding key examples to a specification makes it much easier to understand.
I learned programming with Pascal at university. It had a very formal, math-like syntax, complete with BNF-style grammar.
The next course used the famous K&R book (The C Programming Language), and what a breeze that was! It taught by showing lots of relevant, working examples.
Since then, I’ve realized that while examples aren’t a substitute for a clear specification, well-chosen examples make specs far easier to grasp.
>Notable because often when people complain of degraded model quality it turns out to be unfounded - Anthropic in the past have emphasized that they don't change the model weights after releasing them without changing the version number.
It's almost as if companies whose bottom line depends on shilling the [CURRENT HOT THING] will lie to you!
Instead of using appeals to authority to silence critics as "conspiracy theorists" spreading "misinformation", the influencers should maybe apply some reasoning and thinking.
A deep investigation by NRK reveals the identity of 'Darcula', the elusive developer behind Magic Cat — a phishing tool linked to scams in over 100 countries and hundreds of thousands of stolen bank cards.
Norway is high mountains and deep fjords. It is vast plateaus and coastal archipelagos, islands and islets. It is fertile fields and soft heathlands.
The sea meets our shores in the north, west and south.
Norway is the midnight sun and the polar night. It is both harsh and mild winters. It is both warm and cold summers. Norway is a long country, with people living far apart.
But above all, Norway is people.
Norwegians are people from Northern Norway, Trøndelag, Southern Norway – and all the other regions of the country.
Norwegians have also immigrated from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Poland, Sweden, Somalia and Syria. My own grandparents immigrated from Denmark and England 110 years ago.
It is not always easy to say where we come from or which nationality we belong to. The place we call home is where our heart is – and that cannot always be defined by national borders.
Norwegians are young and old, tall and short, able-bodied and wheelchair users. More and more Norwegians are living beyond the age of one hundred. Norwegians are rich, poor and somewhere in between.
Norwegians are girls who love girls, boys who love boys, and girls and boys who love each other.
Norwegians believe in God, Allah, "Altet" [Ed.: roughly "the whole" or "the universe"], and in nothing at all.
Norwegians enjoy Grieg and Kygo, Hellbillies and Kari Bremnes.
In other words: Norway is you. Norway is us.
When we sing "Ja, vi elsker dette landet" [Ed.: Norway's national anthem], we should remember that we are also singing about one another. Because we are the people who make up this country. That is why our national anthem is also a declaration of love for the Norwegian people.
My greatest hope for Norway is that we will succeed in taking care of one another.
That we will continue to build this country on trust, community and generosity.
That we will feel that – despite all our differences – we are one people.
That Norway is one.
Video of the speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQtLxYde-rw