It’s a different sport that originated in Mexico but has been expanding fast throughout South America and Europe.

I think Pickleball is more of a US thing

Christoph Waltz

Romania probably.

They went hard on fiber investments a decade or two ago and now they have some of the world’s best internet.

Last I checked you could get 10 Gbit for around 12€

It’s true, but I also can’t bring myself to say it!

To be honest, I wasn’t fully aware of it at the time and had been targeting a different country-specific program. For this other program I had checked that I fulfilled the requirements and put something like “eligible for program” on my CV. This seemed to help, since I got a lot of responses and we generally discussed this aspect in interviews.

Ultimately though, after getting a job offer, my current company found out about the Blue Card program and we decided together that it was the easiest path. For my country (Austria) the requirement was basically that you had a job offer which paid over the national average, which is pretty typical in tech.

I think a lot of companies aren’t aware of all of the different options, so making them aware of these can’t hurt!

I got sponsored recently through the EU Blue Card program. It’s generally targeted at what would be considered ‘high-skilled individuals’, which may or may not be applicable to your situation.

Although it’s an EU program, each country gets to set their own requirements and these can vary quite a bit. Might be worth looking into, since if you qualify it is almost always much easier than other paths.

I also think they look the better team overall, but let’s see

As a data scientist working in ML: it’s essentially all python outside of some really niche stuff

It was the only controller I could ever play first person games with!

Track-ball mode on the right TouchPad is just… chefs-kiss

I love my steam deck but I’m extremely disappointed by the TouchPads compared to the steam controller

Unfortunately you cant, that’s why they are getting thrown out and looking at paying 1500€ soon

I use opensuse (tumbleweed and slowroll) because I just wanted to try it out a few years back and it mostly just works.

If I were to reinstall today, I’d probably use fedora again, since it’s much easier to use things like Waydroid.

Also “sausage”, which is just a general term for all sausages in Europe

Mate, somebody just asked if a vehicle is necessary (since they are expensive). For you (and plenty lf other people), the answer is ‘yes’, but that doesn’t mean it is for everybody.

It’s technically a QWERTY-variant, but I use EurKey

It’s fun, but it being in Spanish kind of debunks it, unfortunately.

I used to spend some time on ocean vessels and listening to the captains of all the ships yap at each other in broken sea-english (since it’s the international lamgauage) was one of my favorite bits!

She (similar to Reagan in the US) enacted a massive shift in government/society from a more social-democratic focus to a more (economocally) liberal one. Her big goals were to privatize and financialize as much as possible.

This ended up leading to (as it always does) massive increases in inequality, with particularly rural/industrial regions suffering heavily while the services/financial sector in London boomed.

So she is EXTREMELY polarizing. Many conservatives or big-business types worship her, while for many/most others she’s seen as the worst thing to happen to the UK.

Cars in cities.

You don’t realize how insane they are until you spend time somewhere without them.

I had this too! I think my high frequency hearing is just really good.

I recently was at a wedding and only the little kids and myself (in my 30s) were really annoyed by this device the venue had which used high frequency beeps to scare away rodents and things.

Well, we’re comparing them with (electric) cars here, which are much more expensive.

I’m Großbritannien ist es schon normal, dass man beim Wochenmarkt oder bei Straßenhändler mit Karte zählt.