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Alright, buddy :-)

That being said I'll gladly accept Jamaican restaurant recommendations in Taiwan or close to Berlin.

If we're going by anecdotes, let's add mine: I've lived in 4 continents, about 15 countries, I speak 6 languages, I hold a few citizenships, I consider myself fairly cultured and n…

I moved to Bulgaria last year, and while I love the country and its... rugged and quaint people, let me assure you, tarnishing their driver's reputation is impossible. On an unrela…

> Ive learned leaving soup out and reboiling is fairly common in some cultures which is unfortunate. I know next to nothing about chemistry or biology but I do cook a lot of food, …

On a stressful day full of short deadlines and somewhat overwhelming work, thank you for the chuckle :-)

Perhaps related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus...

I stopped paying attention when the major browsers started to act somewhat against the interests of ad-blocking add-ons, some years ago. Would anyone who has kept up let me know wh…

> The Internet-circulating quote comes to mind: Planet Earth is pretty much a vacation resort for around 500 rich people, and the remaining 8 billion of us are just their staff. Th…

> Even javascript would have been better for me than Lua. Why?

On a certain level, it’s also a question of different parenting philosophy. > Stuff like online communications will come at a later age. Absolutely no reason to start explaining th…

In my experience, if you get a dog you go to the government and pay the dog tax. The dog needs to have id, be chipped, and comes with a token you put on the leash. Part of the proc…

Whenever I need some sort of quick data pipeline to modify some sort of file into another format, or do some batch transformation, or transform some sort of interface description i…

What I’ve seen being done before, not only by lefties but actually by quite a few people, is to shift your paper 45~90°, so that you’re effectively writing bottom up (right handed)…

Well it's not magic, you still need to learn the skill of how to use the pen properly to write cursive. My argument is simply that it's significantly easier to learn to have good h…

PSA for people with "bad cursive handwriting" but who would like to improve it: Write with FOUNTAIN PENS. Ideally on thicker paper, with something soft below (like more paper for e…

> I’ve made my decisions, leave me alone! Perhaps you and GP aren't really the target market for their products. Part of why, after many years of Slackware and Arch Linux on deskto…

Next year marks 20 years that I started to code for money. I've been working from home for about 5 or 6 years of those. I'm in my mid 30's so this industry is all I've ever known, …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_VJeVVfo

I believe Portuguese got there looking for a shorter route to India (money) and eventually settled the land for gold, silver, brazilwood, diamonds and sugarcane (money).

It's been decades and instantly in my head I could hear Cid Moreira's voice. I'm sure I'm not the only one :-) Watching that on Sundays, with my father, as a child. Good memories. …

Oh, I see, you'd like to immigrate to Europe. In that case, I'd suggest looking at the multiple options for immigrant visas, the rules for which vary country by country. I believe,…

What do you mean with expat? You'd like to get an employer in the US that sends you to work in the EU on their behalf?

In software engineering there's rarely an objective way to answer "better" or "worse", it's more often a question of trade-offs. An ORM is the choice to trade some performance and …

When storing data, particularly when stored in a relational model, it's quite often better to make sure the data is properly normalized[0]. However, normalized data in the way that…