apelapan

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by apelapan 2y ago
Laptop worker here. Have participated/been present in butcher of sheep and pigs and helped out making sausages a couple of times. It was fine. An interesting experience. There is a lot of skill going in to it, so I couldn't do it
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by apelapan 2y ago
If there was a nice "bathing house" per 1000 people, as suggested in the article, that would make it at most ten minutes walking distance for me. I could absolutely see myself shifting some of the weekly showers in that direction
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by apelapan 2y ago
They pay surprisingly low salaries in their Stockholm location. Stated salary band for senior software engineer is 62-69 kSEK/month. That means a post-tax take home of about 45kSEK and a small one bedroom apartment in the general neigh
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by apelapan 2y ago
If you are in the cloud, you are going to need a team that understands cloud networking, storage, deployment, security etc. You will need enough people to maintain support rotations and survive normal churn. It seems like many people/o
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by apelapan 2y ago
What way of spelling of Gaza do you prefer?
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by apelapan 2y ago
Also not quite the same as rotten! And, I would hazard a guess that the consumption ratio of inlagd-sill to surströmming is at least 1000:1, maybe 100000:1.
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by apelapan 2y ago
Most commonly it is pickled herring. I don't think rotten herring is a thing in any broader circles. Homemade bäsk is usually much better than factory made Bäska Droppar, if you enjoy the taste of wormwood more than just being slapped
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by apelapan 2y ago
The European system often contain some American components. Perhaps the French a bit less so. This has turned out to be a major problem, as the US has used their re-export restrictions on components to block very significant parts of planne
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by apelapan 2y ago
If there is bad blood leading up to the termination, then I guess so. I haven't witnessed that more than once or twice in my career. Most people make an extra effort to end on a positive note, both with colleagues and managers. Of cour
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by apelapan 2y ago
The termination period in a Swedish employment contract certainly applies in both directions. If you have three months notice period in your contract, your employer could sue for loss of income if you don't honour that notice period. I
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by apelapan 2y ago
There used to be at least one airport in a tribal area in the US, that had the timezone of the reservation (not same as state) but the DST of the surrounding state (not same as reservation). Can't remember the code for it now, had a lo
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by apelapan 2y ago
It doesn't maintain constant altitude over sealevel! You can't give it a compass bearing and have it follow that in a perfectly straight line!
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by apelapan 2y ago
It makes sense on some level, but it would be better for everyone if they instead mandated open source for all legally mandated and/or safety critical software and open schematics/specifications for all related hardware.
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by apelapan 2y ago
Eh, no? One car being objectively faster than another does not mean that it is more fun. And even if one vehicle is more fun in some total measure, it will not be fun in all the same ways as all other fun vehicles. There are plenty of peopl
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by apelapan 2y ago
Not wearing a uniform when you participate in war doesn't make you an illegitimate target, it makes you an illegal combatant.
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by apelapan 2y ago
Why is it "hokey" to do register studies where you explore correlations and test various confounders? I'd say it is an extremely valuable , indispensable even, item in the scientific toolbelt.
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by apelapan 2y ago
The A380 has higher ceilings than other planes. Doesn't help the knees but makes it feel a lot more airy.
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by apelapan 3y ago
That pattern seems to be repeating for a lot of country subs. I guess for most people from $country, the general topic of $country is so broad it becomes a bit meaningless. You end up with lots of expats whining about that it is hard to fin
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by apelapan 3y ago
With a variable width font you can't use spaces for alignment...
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by apelapan 3y ago
It is very common for Swedes to not fully and properly understand the general logic and mechanisms of our tax system. The general principles in play are that 1) any benefit is taxed according to its equivalent cash value. (How much money wo
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by apelapan 3y ago
Yep, major savings from those two things. But then someone in this efficient office decides to automate a few more workflows and spend 200k building a digital paper form that is used four times per year and misses a crucial field so that is
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by apelapan 3y ago
Did the computer revolution really make things that much more efficient? Great savings and new possibilities on many fronts, but also enormous expenses and a whole lot of lost flexibility and individual agency. I'm sure it is an effici
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by apelapan 3y ago
Even if the troops on base are under American jurisdiction, it's not like America is an entirely lawless country. Put thousands of young people anywhere and stuff will happen. Some people will behave badly sometimes. Given enough time
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by apelapan 3y ago
Not quite "full access to all bases". More like "meaningful access to many bases". It would be rather silly to join an alliance and not at all allow your allies to store/access/manage equipment and house troo
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by apelapan 3y ago
There are different ways of counting, but according to the NATO method Sweden was supposedly[1] almost at 2% for 2023 and will be above for 2024. [1] https://www.regeringen.se/artiklar/2023/09/regeringens-budge
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by apelapan 3y ago
Rectangle.app of course! The native window management features in MacOS are Windows XP-level-crappy.
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by apelapan 3y ago
Insubordination is definitely grounds for termination in Sweden. One of the easiest and fastest ways to get your self fired. Your boss tells you to unpack a crate, you say no, boss tells you "f*ck off and never come back". Perfect
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by apelapan 3y ago
Long functions are not hard to grok, if they have a logical flow and stay reasonably close to a common level of abstraction (which can be high or low, doesn't matter). You just read top to bottom and follow the story. 20 files with 20
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by apelapan 3y ago
To evaluate the model, you need to look at millions of people over multiple decades. How well the model works (or doesn't) has no bearing on the enthusiasm for striking at a particular workplace. As I wrote in my comment, it is not sur
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by apelapan 3y ago
The unions are not "offering" any alternative compensation to the workers, than what Tesla are. There are certain minimums in a collective bargaining agreement, with regard to salary and insurance cover, but as far as I know Tesla

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