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- Comment on I also have an opportunity to study abroad in Iceland. Is that also a good choice? 2 days ago:
Students visa allows part time, don’t remember the exact hours but around 18 per week I think. Employment prospects are pretty nice when going into hospitality or tourism but I’ve been out of the country for a while so I don’t know how easy it is to get a job. There’s also some work for disabled kids to be found, you could also find a role in your field if it’s a high demand field potentially. Also Icelandic in just not expected of people since it’s hard to learn so I wouldn’t worry about that.
- Comment on I also have an opportunity to study abroad in Iceland. Is that also a good choice? 2 days ago:
Little higher is a bit of an understatement.
- Comment on I also have an opportunity to study abroad in Iceland. Is that also a good choice? 2 days ago:
I’m from Iceland, if you go study in Iceland you’re guaranteed Northern lights. If you buddy up with someone with a car you can see plenty of sights since Icelanders in Reykjavik don’t go out too much but are very often up to going out to the country. If you like camping Iceland has amazing camping grounds, mornings are cold but camp sites have often heated kitchens and hot showers. Requires a tent, sleeping bag and inflatable mattress and a car.
Easter uni break is a whole week, budget for renting a car with other students who are staying in Iceland to go to more distant places.
Downside is that is pretty expensive, especially compared to Hungary. Hungary has shit rail but Flixbus can get you anywhere you want with less money and comfort.
Both very good options.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 1 week ago:
No anime on the list means they’re just uncultured.
- Comment on Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French: 3 weeks ago:
Next topic: When and when not to pronounce a consonant as schwa /ə/.
Spoiler: It depends
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 3 weeks ago:
Latin American Spanish might disagree so both sin and thin pass. Book came out before the languages split after all.
- Comment on One of the lowercase m is actually an r + n, and the other isn't. 5 weeks ago:
Ah, improper keming
- Comment on Is this true? 5 weeks ago:
Why not both? -your average dark souls enjoyer
- Comment on Buying new trends is a choice 1 month ago:
Gaming industry collapse doesn’t sound good, I’ve been liking indie games a lot.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 1 month ago:
Not gonna deny it. I’m very happy that at my company we’re good enough to do the code gatekeeping so the code doesn’t become shit. Judging from a bunch of devs I’ve worked with they’ll write themselves into a corner using AI at the speed of sound instead of asking for help on how to restructure.
- Comment on Reform UK unveils massive £50bn welfare overhaul to scrap PIP 1 month ago:
This reminds me of when the government cut benefit payments for at home caretakers so it pushed a lot of people to get services that are waaay more expensive.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 1 month ago:
My take is that right now we’re in a software building boom. Making software is a lot cheaper now but maintaining software not as much. I think programmer numbers right now have flatlined but will probably grow in the future as we write more software.
Pivoting to trades is a much safer choice and healthcare will be a guaranteed job security because of demographic changes.
- Comment on Would hammering websites on black Friday actually cost companies money? 1 month ago:
Without some proper security issue to take advantage of such as a very intense custom search and automating it with a script to spam it while cycling IP addresses you’ll not get anywhere.
A single person doing something expected continuously is unlikely to be able to spend $1 of capacity at pretty much any website.
If you want to make a dent you need to aim for around 100k small requests a second that actually hit the database and not just cache.
The issue is that if you want something they can’t cache you have to be logged in, but if you’re logged in you can be blocked. You could target small/medium businesses but that’s probably not the ones you’re after.
- Comment on Those damned leftists!!!1!! 1 month ago:
It’s not far off from the time I was living with a gay throuple and one other in a 100m2 apartment.
- Comment on Time for therapy 1 month ago:
If my kid does something cool I do a “impressed” face
- Comment on Time for therapy 1 month ago:
As an autistic person I used something similar to learn how to smile.
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 1 month ago:
I agree, I’m used to the opposite now but “pulling on the content” like you do with smart phones makes more sense.
- Comment on The kids are alright 1 month ago:
Just tried it, it can go in and out without touching because I have a big mouth.
- Comment on Guys Did I Get Scammed? 1 month ago:
Security code / 3D secure is not mandatory. It’s in theory enough to make a purchase but will be flagged for potentially fraud very often.
- Comment on This Is Why I Sit Down To Pee Pee 2 months ago:
This is what I stay on Lemmy for
- Comment on I built a free game where you try to beat a couch at timing the market. Over 80k plays later, the couch usually wins. 2 months ago:
That one would be almost impossible to beat unless you recognise the the boom/bust cycle. It sounds interesting
- Comment on I built a free game where you try to beat a couch at timing the market. Over 80k plays later, the couch usually wins. 2 months ago:
I would like a slider mode. It’s very hard to do any sensible strategy with an all or nothing approach. If market goes up by 30% I want to progressively sell and vice versa
- Comment on Weapons for defense only 2 months ago:
Technically SAM systems are purely for defence but to get a complete set to defend you need a lot more than just anti-air.
Defence deterrent is based a lot on potential counter attack so if you don’t have a counter attack potential it’s kinda safe to attack you. Nuclear bombs are an example of this, they are the most aggressive and destructive which makes them very effective for deterrence.
One thing Ukraine has shown is that fortifications are super important which are purely defensive. But to guard a long defensive line without a massive standing army you need a crapton of drones which can be use both offensive and defensive.
- Comment on How often is normal to masturbate? 2 months ago:
I’m a man in my 30s and I do around 5x per week.
- Comment on OG Console wars 2 months ago:
This post was written by average red team enjoyer. Reds haven’t won anything since antiquity because they’re so inferior to Blue/Green. Even smooth brain green team supporters know this.
- Comment on I agree with don 2 months ago:
Skill issue
- Comment on The way my partner eats avocado. 2 months ago:
You need to introduce your partner to spoons.
- Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 3 months ago:
Major platforms already have a large portion of bot content. Online articles in Google searches are mostly bots. It’s trending upwards but there’s still a lot of human created content left. I would stay away from big tech social media to avoid bot content.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 3 months ago:
I guess it’s hard to explain how a program is a work of art and use the doctor’s note analogy but calligraphy and readability are definitely factors. Maybe if we’d consider a hypothetical note where you can’t do anything yourself but an idiot intern has to read it and follow the instructions exactly on what to do?
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 3 months ago:
Empire total war on release, the battle AI was absolute garbage to the point where you can just start as the Netherlands, walk over to Paris and take their country.
Before everyone researches fire by rank you could just spread out the infantry and have 2x firepower. Cavalry charges straight into you, pathfinding was so bad that you’d have a single column of men moving through a wide area. Fucking loved it though, it was a grand strategy spectacle and naval battles felt intense.
I had fun unlocking the pirates via config file edit and spamming out general units from a single buccaneer sword infantry and took over all of the Americas.