lime!

yeah not a good look to have pictures of space nazi soldiers on your chest

one of my favorite notes in the linked article is that the guy playing damar constantly got sugar highs from actually drinking the corn syrup they used in the kanar props.

from inside it, yeah. but the people fighting against them don’t see that part. the first book makes it pretty clear that they see the culture as a ruthless unfeeling war machine that absorbs worlds into its ideology without consent.

i mean, the Borg are just the Culture seen from outside

those costs are insane, the us one because it’s so high and the oz one for being so low. i think about 20% of our total tax revenue goes to care (health and elderly). for me that’s something like €3500.

sweden is so sparsely populated that some places have more empty houses than people. population density is about a quarter that of spain. the big cities are closer to the rest of europe, with homes going for three to four times the price of something an hour away and the rent queue being dominated by people who have been there since the 90s.

i bought a 70ish sqm apartment for about €100k two-ish hours from stockholm. in the city that would probably go for 5-20x the cost (depending on area) and have at least double the monthly cost.

as evidenced by the instance i’m on, sweden.

which of course also means that i did the normal stupid we do here and gave the amount before taxes. the take-home from that is more like €40k.

what about insurance and healthcare?

us software salaries are insanely high compared to the rest of the world, because the cost of living in SV is insanely high.

with a €60k a year salary i’m in the 90th percentile of earners in my country and it took me about two years to have enough to finance my own three-bedroom apartment on one income.

if you reverse the polarity of the deflector and set up a concentrator in engineering.

you can tap into the resonance frequency of the warp field to stabilise the wave but you’d need to disable a level of core safeguards while materialising.

the entirety of office has localised hotkeys. whaddayamean ^F is “search”? it’s for fat text!

nope, that’s an NT thing

i’ve moved to helix, partly to stop myself tinkering and partly because the reversed command model is just easier. plus it has popup helpers.

not necessarily. you could also have done a yank-paste, or a repeated action, or had a command output into the buffer.

it’s a good habit to always leave the editor in normal mode between actions, because that makes for a cleaner edit history with smaller changesets in the undo tree.

…vim is sort of like driving stick in that way.

what is even more funny about this is that the name of that directory used to be locale-dependent, so in sweden it was just called “Program”, completely nullifying that idea.

i’ve never had the time to get into emacs, would love to though.

also, some layouts have the : on its own key, and if you include the esc in vim commands you’re not using vim correctly :)

four. the ! is unnecessary. how many actions are there to save and quit in other editors? ctrl, s, ctrl, w is four. move to file, click, move to save, click, move to ×, click is six.

and that’s before we replace the wq with x.

it’s mojo jojo

thus rendering them redundant, because their strength is being bound to a single physical device. if they’re portable, they’re as good as asymmetric key pairs.