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Most Swedes have Swish (mobile payments) so fleamarkets etc. mostly require that. Before I had my Swedish bank account set up (so six years ago) and thus BankId & Swish I often had to get my partn…

Anyone correcting my Swedish is in a target rich environment!

Not like the g in jraphics then? :D

Interesting; I don't recall hearing it pronounced like that from my Polish colleagues, so perhaps it's something about the Germanic languages specifically?

Who's judging? I'll save that for when my Swedish är lite mindre dålig! It's just a little strange that the "b" somehow transforms into a "p" when "b" is a…

> the b in debt English speaking Swedes often transform this silent b into a spoken p which is about as awkward a result as you're imagining.

'zactly :D I don't want to be too harsh though; I definitely think the attitude of rolling out something simple that works is a solid approach when compared with the gold-plated second-sys…

> I entered the workforce about 9 months ago Right or wrong, it takes a certain amount of chutzpah to put forth such a definite opinion after less than a year in the workforce. What OP probably mis…

Location: Stockholm (remote or hybrid) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, AWS, Linux, technical writing Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in…

This is just a by the by, but in British English "feeling poorly" mostly means that you are ill. Amusingly it's become slightly euphemistic, so if someone is "a bit poorly" th…

> Using its influence for political power, that gave it short term power but destroyed it long term. I'm no fan of organised religion, but this is a pretty wild take to me. "The church&qu…

VT220 terminals used to have an explicit "compose character" key - afaik it was handled in the terminal firmware, so not necessarily an OS thing at all if we're being picky. Upvoted for…

The data has to be decrypted at some point in order to display it... unless we're envisioning FHME hardware in the monitor as well - honestly I think we're well across the threshold into fan…

That's a big stretch for the premise, but... There's no value to it in circumstances where you control all the hardware processing data, so "everyday work in an OS" - only if that …

Ah, I stand corrected. I couldn't listen to the examples last night so I have egg on my face this morning :)

That link (like the Wikipedia article) is talking about the mechanism by which the bell is rung, not what is rung out on them i.e. they are not ringing the changes.

Interesting, but the wikipedia article states that " they play slowly moving tunes, not the continuous change ringing of the English tradition " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi…

Not bell ringing - change ringing. Most places they play a tune on them; our ringers work out mathematical permutations instead. Edit: ...and I should add: Sayers was quite reactionary, preternatura…

Sayers, mentioned here in passing, wrote probably the only detective story explicitly called out (as an introduction to change ringing) in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (a mighty 20 …

Ok, but the equivalent for me was in the very early 1980s and I lived in an English village outside a small market town. Their library certainly didn't have any current in-depth book on the compu…

I'm not sure, were you contradicting me in the first place? I just thought your point was a bit cynical and I'm giving you my more positive spin on it.

Sure, but most people just want to go to the pub and watch TV. It's still exciting that for the ones who want to do something the horizon has expanded.

I agree entirely; just because VC focused startups are eager to "rub some AI on" their products doesn't mean that AI itself is boring; it's incredibly cool! Some of the application…

> I enjoy the camaraderie of being around others who feel that way too. But... they're still there. They're a little diluted, but I've not yet worked somewhere where I had no like-mi…

Sure, but the volume of information was tiny compared to what was available in printed form - whereas it's the reverse now.

The biggest gap was information - though I think you have to go back a bit further really. Until the late 90s if you wanted to know about a topic you generally depended upon printed material or direct…

I'm very skeptical of the article - it sounds to me like classic "good old days" thinking¹. It's certainly true that IT has grown vastly since those good old days, but there has al…

Not sure what you mean specifically, but generally the organisations doing screen-scraping¹ would prefer to use compliant APIs as they don't require anything like as much maintenance (bank adds a…