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It's not just repairing cars, I told a coworker I replaces the fuse in my Bosch blender and he looked at me as if I was insane. "But what if it catches fire?" was his reply.
Dragging my team to the nearest maker space for a teambuilding exercise as soon as I figure out how to convince HR to pay for it. People need to know things do not catch fire if you repair it.
So that's still somewhere between 6600 to 11000 people in the US alone. Assuming a range of 1/300000 to 1/400000 out of 331 million US Citizens...
So while rare, its not impossible to run in to.
I was not aware of that, thanks for sharing! It does explain why I have seen more indian recruitment in EU from India and China since our backlog or naturalization process is only 5 years of living in the country and then 1-3 years for the bureaucracy to manage the application.
This is why Sholtz and Marcon are having a bit of a public disagreement. Germany really do not want to send soldiers to Ukraine. For a whole lot of internal very German reasons their military is not in a good position for armed conflict.
I recommend this video on French defence strategy https://youtu.be/n5eUh3_eo9E?si=k19OmbQiGVdw2LXB
And this one on Germany's very cumbersome procurement tgat is part of why Germany is not keen on rearmament (apart from the obvious: they know what they did) https://youtu.be/8jDUVtUA7rg?si=Du6Rrq2TolbIIaw5
that said Macron is at the moment the only European leader outside of the Baltics that is keen on sending people to Ukraine.
No, it has already increased, but not due to Sweden and Finland joining. the increase was a direct response to Russia invading Ukraine.
https://www.uso.org/stories/3518-one-year-later-how-the-uso-...
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_136388.htm
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
But in same time European allies has also increased their NATO soldiers.
Given that we (Sweden) have been the preferred partner with Norway for NATO winter training exercises since the 1980s and our entire military strategy was based on "Nato will protect us if Putin invades" you are not wrong.
What changed was USA having people like Trump and the Republican party talk about not protecting NATO countries anymore. It made us realize that we can't continue to count on US help as the premise is based on the US having absolute control of the nuclear weapons, but loading them on NATO ally dual capable airplanes to launch the nukes.
If Europe is not convinced that the US will not share the nukes as agreed, then Europe has to actually rearm and might even casue a nuclear proliferation with France and UK restarting their nuclear programs.
so yeah it changes and not changes the geopolitics.
Sweden joining means they have lost the Baltic Sea as the only entrance is now controlled by two NATO countries. Finland Joining has helped lock down the Baltic sea but most importantly is a staging ground for cutting logistics to the largest military complex on the Kola peninsula.
This war is not just about Russias energy politics, it's also very much about their need for more maritime access. THis map shows where Russia has their ports, and now 4 important ports are pretty much neutralised. Kaliningrad, St Peterburg, and the Krimean Naval Complex are all locked in by NATO countries which means a naval blocade of Russia is very very easy and would completely render their navy's impotent. THe fourth one is on the Kola peninsula and this is why Finland is important as a staging ground to attack the railways to make the Murmansk complex isolated and within medium range missile range from Nelim and Kirkenes.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1h5ZK8Z4Ft06VV4ifg6...
THis leaves Petrapavlovsk-Kamchatskiyiv (North of Japan) and Valdivodstock (Next to North Korea) the only Free Water ports that are not affected by NATO.
Real Life lore has a gret video on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9Phc9ArpU
Now the biggest issue is to get those that train to come back. A lot of Russians chose not to, same with Indians, and Japanese. China has an extensive espionage network focused on keeping track of exchange students and make sure that they fall in line. Much more so than any other nation.
have a friend from Malaysia and they had this smart idea that if you study abroad and get a PhD or Masters (as I understood it) your entire student loan would be forgiven. Again people didn't move back, so the last I hear was that they tried to make it contingent on moving back to Malaysia. My info is abitout of date since it was a pre pandemic conversation I had with him.
Japan did the same thing before and after the world wars. This is not really that new or strange. India has been doing the same thing. Russia as well.
it's standard practice to send people to more advanced countries to train and then have them come back and start companies based on what they have learned. this is why Patents only really work in local regions or within a Nation.
the biggest difference is that China has been so much more blatant and in your face with it, especially in the military technology sectors.
Yes. But No.
Red V-Raptor S35 XL has 16.5 stops of dynamic range with 250-12,800 ISO. ARRI Alexa 35 has 17 stops of range with 160-6400 ISO. Both use rolling shutters, both have native ISO of 800. Alexa has better low light noise reduction at higher ISO, but Alexa is sharper and has better dynamic range in low light since it uses 8K to 4K down sampling.
The real difference is in the colour straight out of the chip and how the workflow is for DIT on set.
THe major difference I think is that Arri is already easy to use and slots in to the Hollywood human knowledge base and workflows while RED was mostly used by indie filmmakers, documentarians, Youtubers, and Silicon valley people (if you work at Apple in the US you can buy RED cameras cheaply through company benefits). This pretty much created a different culture of what images should look like around the two cameras. an Alexa camera sets you back close to 80K and a fully equiped RED sets you back about 44K. So its easier to buy it and use it while hollywood rents it on the day for the shoots.
You can get a RED to look like it was shot on Alexa and vice versa in post processing today, but the people who work with the different cameras have different cultures of what is "cinematic" image.
btw this is a good comparison https://wolfcrow.com/red-v-raptor-s35-xl-vs-arri-alexa-35-wh...
and you have to consider that train-stations are older and have better layout to get people on and off trains than airplanes that have tighter security even on inter EU travel for EU citizens.
One thing that is really annoying with traveling in EU via train is that there is no simple way to book tickets even with InterRail/EuroRail app. I did a vacation where i traveled around between Netherlands, Germany, Denmark Sweden and Poland back and forth and if you want a reserved seat you have to order it in advance for Poland and have your paper tickets sent to you in your home country 2 weeks in advance.
If you are in Poland you can do reservations the same day.
An other problem with reservations is that they are only for the train you have reserved on, and in Germany and Denmark there is a high probability that your train will be delayed to the point of being replaced with a train with fewer cabins, meaning you won't have a seat.
Might not sound like a big deal but on a trip from Copen hagen to Berlin that is 7 hours or a trip from Berlin to Katowice that is 8 hours, not having a seat is fast becomming an issue.
You simply wont get business people to travel with trains like that. EU seems to have made the decision that inter european travel by train is for young people in their early 20s and goods containers.
But within European countries the internal travels are usually not a problem and quite nice. Except in Southern Sweden. The commuter trains are a complete mess and has been ever since it was privatized.
Yes, I agree. But if things go south with starting up. Failure is a possibility, it's good to have something in your back pocket no?
Thanks!
Here's my European personal finance software on Apple Macs and iPads journey.
I used to use MoneyWiz but it couldn't handle both American, Irish, and Swedish bank or investment accounts. So I outgrew it quickly.
Then I did it manually in Excel, and Later Moneydance that is really a great product. That said it didn't really work for me due to my undiagnosed ADHD brain. There is some automation in Monedance but I never got forex exchange rates or Stocks to work like I wanted automatically. I know you can get it working but for some reason I never got it to. THey later got some automation for a 2 euro subscription fee, but it cant handle my Irish or Swedish banks only American banks.
If you are in to privacy then Moneydance is the software for you, they are really big on not wanting your data which is refreshing. It really is a great software, Im just not Neurotypical enough to use it though. https://moneydance.com/
Now I am using Banktivity that handles all European and American banks, with automatic updates. https://www.banktivity.com/
I love it. It just handles stuff for me, and my ADHD brain feels in control of economy again...
Thanks! Easy onboarding is definitely needed. We're all technologists here and we don't mind wonky UX with lacking documentation.
The name Mastodon is unfortunate, Twitter is a better name as Tweeting became a verb, not sure how to verb Mastodon without it becoming a lewd euphemism. "Hey I Mastodonded about that" erhm... you did what now?
How would you go about a rebrand of Mastodon?
People go to where they might be able to build an audience. This works exceptionally well on a centralised systems like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, Soundcloud etc.
Mastodon has federation, and at this point just me saying those two words, have already went above the normal users head. They do not care about peer to peer, choosing servers, and whatever federation means. They care about Reach, Friends are there, and ease of use. Period.
Users care about how easy is it for me to use, does it get me the audience reach I need, and how easy is it for me to moderate my audience.
Companies, & freelancers need to know that they get the reach they need to build their businesses. Politicians, agencies and government agencies need to know that hey can reach out with their messaging. I mean Twitter is a tool for international diplomacy and disaster warnings in times of crisis.
Twitter can do that because they hav 500 million users. Facebook can do that because they have a billion users. WhatsApp has almost 3 billion users.
Mastodon official has 8 millon. https://mastodon-analytics.com/ Total fediverse number of users is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lol I dunno.
THe way to "sell" Mastodon to power users and super influencers is that you tell them they can run their own instance and have greater control than what they have through twitter on moderation and who can interact, that makes it interesting to start running it as a side project.
You got my curiosity, where mIght I find more info on this? It sounds really interesting.
It is also their first Vision generation, and it is spec:ed more closely to a Mac Pro than anything else really. Which makes me think of this as a devkit to see what devs are going to do with it.
100% agree with you on targeting PCVR Gaming, which is why I am a bit pissed off that they just dragged in wine as an abstraction layer. It means they are not really committing to working with gaming companies, they just want the fruits of their labour and can at any time just yeet that layer out of the OS.
They could have come with Wine at the same time they did Rosetta 2 but they chose not to. Had they done that, then I would have been less suspicious of their motives.
Hi, actual mac gamer here, I use Geforce Now to play games. Got myself a founders edition account and while I would have liked to have access to all my weird little indie games, the major games I play is on it OldWorld, Generation Zero, Stellaris, Timberborn, Elite Dangerous, etc..
Apple is never going to be taken seriously by the PC gaming industry, there is to much old wounds from being burned by Apple. So the next best thing as a MAc Gamer is to go with a streaming game service and run parallells for weird little indie games.
the only reason they are opening up for gaming on the Mac platform now is the Apple Vision system.
There is no VR games for mac, VR Chat is not for mac. To get Vision any traction they need to have Entertainment on it. Or Porn. But Apple is staunchly anti-Porn.
But we all know that their new VR movie recording system is going to be used for porn more so than birthday parties.
Might it be that because they know that their own morals and ethics are so fluid that they therefore think than everyone else is the same and thus has to be surveilled to be sure to have "performance...? Just a thought....
what many rollerball users dont know is that you can take a Mont Blanc roller ball refill, which is by most rollerball users considered to be one of the best rollerball writing experiences, and place it in a Pilot G2 with out any issue.
you'd get a 200+ dollar writing experience for about 8 dollars. https://unsharpen.com/pilot-g2-montblanc-hack-200-pen-for-7/
You could also do this with a fountain pen buy buying a gold Diplomat 149 replacement nib and put on a Jinhao 159 Mont Blanc "homage pen" (pirate copy). and use mont blanc ink in that pen. Gold Nibs are not cheap but they are about 150-200 usd, but when a pen could easily be 1000-10000 usd in the extreme high end then that's a bargain https://www.instagram.com/p/ChJSq-Iv6HE/
Why would you do this? Because some people like to have good writing tools without paying an extra premium.
if you ever write a lot with pens then using a Fountain pen is a dream to write with on good paper. I always used to get a cramped hand from using rollerball pens, gels were a bit better but not much.
Tried a Lamy Safari, a "cheap" for fountain pens at least (23 euros), and I have never looked back. I love writing by hand now, and take every opportunity to do so. It's just so much more fun writing when your thoughs can just slide out from your hand on to paper.
Daily drivers are my Lamy Aion (a 80Euro pen)with my Safari as a backup.
only ad I ever clicked on was a Swedish guy selling human meat for consumption. "Eat a Swede" a company in the lab grown meat space.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE-z6DQv5yg
But yes Ads are more about brand awareness than to actually get you to buy stuff.
Not this SPAC, https://www.avanza.se/aktier/om-aktien.html/1206860/acq-bure... It's mostly owned by Swedish Pension funds.
Hi,
I would highly recommend Perun on youtube for more in-depth insights on the economy, logistics, and management of the Ukraine war. https://www.youtube.com/@PerunAU/videos
He's either Australian or New Zeelander, and somehow very involved in defence procurment and war economy, but he's very private about his life. Has enough respect in his analysis to get retired General Ben Hodges the former commanding general of the US Armed Forces in Europe to agree to an interview. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hodges
Why is Perun my first go to choise? He's excellent at summarising and contextualising several different sources, is not alarmist, and very sceptical to both Russian, and Ukrainian claims and prefers to try and verify as much as possible. Also his dry wit and humor makes an otherwise boring power point presentation very good as a podcast.
Since I think you might not be european, this source is a great general european news channel, that is great at contextualising current major news in Europe and will help you understand the current cold-luke warm war with russia. Ukraine might be where the front is, but this is make no doubts about it, also a proxy war for the energy dependency of the EU and the influence of Russia in the Europe. https://www.youtube.com/@TLDRnewsEU/videos
Anders Puck Nielsen from the Danish War College is an other great analyst https://www.youtube.com/@anderspuck
Anything navy related i always go to SubBrief https://www.youtube.com/@SubBrief/search?query=Ukarine%20nor...
I would also recommend silicon curtain https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain/videos
Yes, there is an international version called Gripen C/D and it uses
Jakt (Hunt): Robot 74 Sidewinder, Robot 99 AMRAAM , Robot 98 IRIS-T, Auto-cannon Mauser 27 mm
Attack: Bomb GBU-49 Paveway II, Bomb GBU-12 Paveway II, Robot 75 Maverick, Robot 15F , Auto-cannon Mauser 27 mm.
In fact JAS 39 Gripen is a very attractive plane for many NATO countries, as it has a lower cost of flight hours at 7800 USD per hour compared to 43000 USD per hour for the F35. Cost per unit is lower as well at 45 million USD per flight package compared to 180 Million. its STOL feature is highly sought after by NATO as it is designed to land and take off from normal highways and paved roads. All it needs is 500m to take off and 600m to land. Sure the F35 can do the same on 182eters or just do a VTOL, but at a cost that gives you 4 Gripen.
Not all countries can afford to buy or even fly F35.
NATO countries already using SAAb JAS Gripen 39: - Hungary - UK - Iceland (via Czech Republic) - Czech Republic
NATO Country that want it: - Türkiye (In fact, since the US denied F35 and F16 upgrade packages, and Sweden wanted to join NATO, this desire to buy planes has been used in the negotiations to let Sweden join NATO by Erdogan)
https://ac.nato.int/search?q=Gripen https://www.saab.com/newsroom/stories/2020/august/why-gripen... https://aviatia.net/saab-gripen-vs-f-35-lightning-ii/
So is JAS better than F35? No, not just looking at the specs on paper. But it is competitive at a price point that is very attractive.
@Yegg: Just curious, but I suspect your users will not understand that this might impact login on accounts when registering using an email alias. What happens if your service goes down or is discontinued?
How do you differentiate which form fields you should offer your services on?
I saw a variation on this. Mostly with old legacy systems. At a well known grocery store chain (GSC) in Sweden they decided to outsource their IT department. Then realised that noone understood the AS/400 systems, so the outsourcing company hired the old GSC IT employees back at a much higher salary. One I spoke with basically tripled her salary as she was not interested to come back and wanted to scare off the recruiter and gave what she though was a fantasy number as monthly salary, and the recruiter accepted it within the hour.
An other guy I've spoken to, who is a retired sales person, and this is way back, he's dead now. He still got sales consultancy work from his old employer in the 1990s and early 2000's because he was the only person a very large Japanese company would deal with and refused to have their account managed by anyone else but in return they would not shopp around for cheaper prices. Apparently the guy had managed to impress during Nomenkai during the 1980s, and I think he managed to save the customers CEO's face in an unrelated matter without realising it until later.
My main grief is that recruiters in tech has no clue what they are writing in the job listing.
They also tend to reach out to you over linkedin and refuse to give you the actual job description unless you give them your email/phone-number and CV, which is just infuriatingly arrogant.
My hope is that tech job listings stop listing stuff like Must have Experience with XXX and YYY application/framework and instead start listing skills needed to be success full in the role. Tech becomes outdated so incredibly fast and we're allways learning in our jobs that it's kinda futile to list tech instead of skills.
Sure Need to know Python, C#, Assembler, that is a skill, but applications and frameworks are something that you can learn, and besides each company use them slightly different so you'd need internal training anyway.
I calculated it, living in Dublin Ireland, it's cheaper for me to just use taxis and public transport than owning a car. Im 40 years old and dont see the point in owning one.