syklemil

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!⁩ ⁨⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the way things work in Norway and I expect in most other European countries is that you don’t get a citizenship for just being born here, but if you’re born and raised here, then by the time you’re of school age you’d have lived here long enough to become a citizen, and unless your parents isolated you, you shouldn’t have any problems with language requirements.

  Basically the system here is “stay here for long enough and make a bit of effort for integration and sure you can become a citizen”.

  Of course, the far right loves to portray this as “unrestricted immigration” and make it harder for people to do that, or even live normally, get education and services for their kids, etc. And then complain when the result is people who feel that the system isn’t working for them, or who have trouble because they’re uneducated and poorly integrated anywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One rather obvious reason is that society has a lot of greybeards in general. The baby boomer generation was named that for a reason, and people have been living longer on average. Lots of countries are struggling with the demographic effects. There’s no reason to expect that tech or something even more specific like FOSS would be exempt.

  Another aspect here is that FOSS is still kind of new in society. There’s just more people who have had the chance to age into FOSS greybeards than when those greybeards were young. (And they were thus likely to a lesser degree blocked by entrenched greybeards when they were getting started.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be a bit more generic here, when you’re at government scale you’re generally deep in trade-off territory. Time and space are frequently opposed values and you have to choose which one is most important, and consider the expenses of both.

  E.g. caching is duplicating data to save time. Without it we’d have lower storage costs, but longer wait times and more network traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s essentially a weathervane or thermometer. You can indicate the state of a country by it.

  At this point the US has joined the ranks of, well, grim theocracies. Not that the people at the top in the US worship anything but Mammon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Year's fireworks accidents kill five in Germany⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And it is, of course, all guys who died.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, like the -berg names (e.g. Stoltenberg), it’s likely the family farm if you go far enough back. My family has a name that’s an island and the settlement on it. Taking a profile picture next to the town sign that’s also our last name is pretty common (for a name of a few hundred people).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, doesn’t seem to be a thing in Norway, but it could probably be revived for the countries that did that. Like Sheryl Copywriter or Ross Youtuber or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of last names here are frozen patronyms (e.g. at some point some dude named Hans had kids; now there are lots of people calling themselves his son, Hansen) or place names. I kinda like the place name bit: Just give kids last names to a place they have a connection to. Where they were born or conceived or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird flu⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given how much antibiotics they pump into livestock it wouldn’t be that weird.

  But yeah, less intensive animal farming would likely also reduce spread & impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird flu⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve been making flu vaccines for a long time now, and the flu has always been a virus that comes in various strains so you need to renew the vaccine frequently (usually once a year, as opposed to other vaccines that can last you a decade), and the medical industry needs to know which strains to make vaccines for.

  Part of the thing with covid was that it was novel, and the vaccines were as well, because they needed to be not just developed fast, but deployed fast.

  This isn’t the first time H5N1 is making the rounds, and there have been vaccines for it for over a decade. Depending on where you live, your country may have a stockpile of vaccines or just ordered one.

  The problems humanity will face with the virus is one of uneven distribution of vaccines due to uneven distribution of wealth, poor health care policies, and science denialism / vaccine conspiracy nightmares.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazil shuts BYD factory site over 'slavery' conditions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, there really is talk of tariffs several places to neutralise the price advantage that the Chinese subsidies result in. The Chinese want to promote their domestic auto industries, but so does any other country with an auto industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nearly done with Trails in the Sky. Apparently it’s getting a remake in 2025, which I guess might make it more attractive to Kids These Days, but really I suspect is money and effort that could have been better spent elsewhere—the remastered version is pretty good IMO