It's not just repairing cars, I told a coworker I replaces the fuse in my Bosch blender and he looked at me as if I was insane. "But what if it catches fire?" was his reply.
Dragging my team to the nearest maker space for a teambuilding exercise as soon as I figure out how to convince HR to pay for it. People need to know things do not catch fire if you repair it.
I was not aware of that, thanks for sharing!
It does explain why I have seen more indian recruitment in EU from India and China since our backlog or naturalization process is only 5 years of living in the country and then 1-3 years for the bureaucracy to manage the application.
This is why Sholtz and Marcon are having a bit of a public disagreement.
Germany really do not want to send soldiers to Ukraine. For a whole lot of internal very German reasons their military is not in a good position for armed conflict.
And this one on Germany's very cumbersome procurement tgat is part of why Germany is not keen on rearmament (apart from the obvious: they know what they did) https://youtu.be/8jDUVtUA7rg?si=Du6Rrq2TolbIIaw5
that said Macron is at the moment the only European leader outside of the Baltics that is keen on sending people to Ukraine.
Given that we (Sweden) have been the preferred partner with Norway for NATO winter training exercises since the 1980s and our entire military strategy was based on "Nato will protect us if Putin invades" you are not wrong.
What changed was USA having people like Trump and the Republican party talk about not protecting NATO countries anymore. It made us realize that we can't continue to count on US help as the premise is based on the US having absolute control of the nuclear weapons, but loading them on NATO ally dual capable airplanes to launch the nukes.
If Europe is not convinced that the US will not share the nukes as agreed, then Europe has to actually rearm and might even casue a nuclear proliferation with France and UK restarting their nuclear programs.
so yeah it changes and not changes the geopolitics.
Sweden joining means they have lost the Baltic Sea as the only entrance is now controlled by two NATO countries.
Finland Joining has helped lock down the Baltic sea but most importantly is a staging ground for cutting logistics to the largest military complex on the Kola peninsula.
This war is not just about Russias energy politics, it's also very much about their need for more maritime access.
THis map shows where Russia has their ports, and now 4 important ports are pretty much neutralised. Kaliningrad, St Peterburg, and the Krimean Naval Complex are all locked in by NATO countries which means a naval blocade of Russia is very very easy and would completely render their navy's impotent. THe fourth one is on the Kola peninsula and this is why Finland is important as a staging ground to attack the railways to make the Murmansk complex isolated and within medium range missile range from Nelim and Kirkenes.
THis leaves Petrapavlovsk-Kamchatskiyiv (North of Japan) and Valdivodstock (Next to North Korea) the only Free Water ports that are not affected by NATO.
Now the biggest issue is to get those that train to come back. A lot of Russians chose not to, same with Indians, and Japanese. China has an extensive espionage network focused on keeping track of exchange students and make sure that they fall in line. Much more so than any other nation.
have a friend from Malaysia and they had this smart idea that if you study abroad and get a PhD or Masters (as I understood it) your entire student loan would be forgiven. Again people didn't move back, so the last I hear was that they tried to make it contingent on moving back to Malaysia. My info is abitout of date since it was a pre pandemic conversation I had with him.
Japan did the same thing before and after the world wars.
This is not really that new or strange. India has been doing the same thing.
Russia as well.
it's standard practice to send people to more advanced countries to train and then have them come back and start companies based on what they have learned. this is why Patents only really work in local regions or within a Nation.
the biggest difference is that China has been so much more blatant and in your face with it, especially in the military technology sectors.
Red V-Raptor S35 XL has 16.5 stops of dynamic range with 250-12,800 ISO.
ARRI Alexa 35 has 17 stops of range with 160-6400 ISO.
Both use rolling shutters, both have native ISO of 800. Alexa has better low light noise reduction at higher ISO, but Alexa is sharper and has better dynamic range in low light since it uses 8K to 4K down sampling.
The real difference is in the colour straight out of the chip and how the workflow is for DIT on set.
THe major difference I think is that Arri is already easy to use and slots in to the Hollywood human knowledge base and workflows while RED was mostly used by indie filmmakers, documentarians, Youtubers, and Silicon valley people (if you work at Apple in the US you can buy RED cameras cheaply through company benefits). This pretty much created a different culture of what images should look like around the two cameras. an Alexa camera sets you back close to 80K and a fully equiped RED sets you back about 44K. So its easier to buy it and use it while hollywood rents it on the day for the shoots.
You can get a RED to look like it was shot on Alexa and vice versa in post processing today, but the people who work with the different cameras have different cultures of what is "cinematic" image.
and you have to consider that train-stations are older and have better layout to get people on and off trains than airplanes that have tighter security even on inter EU travel for EU citizens.
One thing that is really annoying with traveling in EU via train is that there is no simple way to book tickets even with InterRail/EuroRail app. I did a vacation where i traveled around between Netherlands, Germany, Denmark Sweden and Poland back and forth and if you want a reserved seat you have to order it in advance for Poland and have your paper tickets sent to you in your home country 2 weeks in advance.
If you are in Poland you can do reservations the same day.
An other problem with reservations is that they are only for the train you have reserved on, and in Germany and Denmark there is a high probability that your train will be delayed to the point of being replaced with a train with fewer cabins, meaning you won't have a seat.
Might not sound like a big deal but on a trip from Copen hagen to Berlin that is 7 hours or a trip from Berlin to Katowice that is 8 hours, not having a seat is fast becomming an issue.
You simply wont get business people to travel with trains like that. EU seems to have made the decision that inter european travel by train is for young people in their early 20s and goods containers.
But within European countries the internal travels are usually not a problem and quite nice. Except in Southern Sweden. The commuter trains are a complete mess and has been ever since it was privatized.
Here's my European personal finance software on Apple Macs and iPads journey.
I used to use MoneyWiz but it couldn't handle both American, Irish, and Swedish bank or investment accounts. So I outgrew it quickly.
Then I did it manually in Excel, and Later Moneydance that is really a great product. That said it didn't really work for me due to my undiagnosed ADHD brain. There is some automation in Monedance but I never got forex exchange rates or Stocks to work like I wanted automatically. I know you can get it working but for some reason I never got it to. THey later got some automation for a 2 euro subscription fee, but it cant handle my Irish or Swedish banks only American banks.
If you are in to privacy then Moneydance is the software for you, they are really big on not wanting your data which is refreshing. It really is a great software, Im just not Neurotypical enough to use it though. https://moneydance.com/
Now I am using Banktivity that handles all European and American banks, with automatic updates. https://www.banktivity.com/
I love it. It just handles stuff for me, and my ADHD brain feels in control of economy again...
Thanks! Easy onboarding is definitely needed. We're all technologists here and we don't mind wonky UX with lacking documentation.
The name Mastodon is unfortunate, Twitter is a better name as Tweeting became a verb, not sure how to verb Mastodon without it becoming a lewd euphemism. "Hey I Mastodonded about that" erhm... you did what now?
People go to where they might be able to build an audience.
This works exceptionally well on a centralised systems like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, Soundcloud etc.
Mastodon has federation, and at this point just me saying those two words, have already went above the normal users head. They do not care about peer to peer, choosing servers, and whatever federation means. They care about Reach, Friends are there, and ease of use. Period.
Users care about how easy is it for me to use, does it get me the audience reach I need, and how easy is it for me to moderate my audience.
Companies, & freelancers need to know that they get the reach they need to build their businesses.
Politicians, agencies and government agencies need to know that hey can reach out with their messaging. I mean Twitter is a tool for international diplomacy and disaster warnings in times of crisis.
Twitter can do that because they hav 500 million users.
Facebook can do that because they have a billion users.
WhatsApp has almost 3 billion users.
THe way to "sell" Mastodon to power users and super influencers is that you tell them they can run their own instance and have greater control than what they have through twitter on moderation and who can interact, that makes it interesting to start running it as a side project.
Dragging my team to the nearest maker space for a teambuilding exercise as soon as I figure out how to convince HR to pay for it. People need to know things do not catch fire if you repair it.