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It's because it is spelt Türkiye, not Turkiye. It is the official name used by organs like the UN, the United States Department of State etc but that doesn't mean you can't be using Turkey. It's like Taiwan, which few people refers to as "Republic of China".

The good thing is that Türkiye is pronounced almost like Turkey, so you're saying it almost right ;)

Ah, memories of quiet summer days in Western Australia! No emergencies as far as the eye can see. The wind feels like a hair dryer in the face. Ah yes, a summer day in the sticks.

One of the real-world problems right now is that there are lots of places where it's not easy, practical, convenient, fun or even possible to charge. We have had an EV for four years and there are some trips where you end up standing at some boring industrial area because you can't make it to a better charger (one with for example decent food, or a playground). Or you have two choices: stop here now, queueing for 30 minutes because 4 out of 8 chargers are offline, or drive a bit further on fumes to get where you would really want to charge but, because there is only a single charger at that place, be prepared to call the towing company because if that charger is broken then you're not getting anywhere else today.

And while you're making those calculations in your head, carefully weighing each % of remaining charge against factors such as wind, rain and speed, you drive past tens of not hundreds of dino-soup stations that you cannot stop at because they don't have a power outlet you can plug into.

Blood-alcohol levels are typically measured as permilles in some countries, like Sweden. 0.2 ‰ is the legal limit there. Also used in some countries in Europe to denote the grade of slopes (as in warning for steep hills).

Never seen permyriads, though.

I've been guilty of using not only permille but also permyriad (‱) in certain work where it made sense …

SI prefixes could originally be combined like that: it was perfectly fine to say one hectokilometre. Such usage is now deprecated, though. You'd have to say 0.1 megametre instead.

Having experience from emergency departments in two different countries with "Medicare for all", it seems pretty much the same everywhere. There are two cohorts that make up the frequent flyers: the old and the drunk/addicts. The former get sick often and when they get sick they don't recover well; the latter end up in problematic situations like falling asleep outside in winter, getting in fights, overdosing or similar.

Surely even banks/countries that do not have a stronger auth method require at least a password for login?

Very easily obtained, though: just call +46856485160 and ask for it. They also reply to questions like "okay, so did this person have any siblings and what were their parents' names?" and "who else lives at that address?" and so on.

I have needed to provide information for a visa application including family history on dead half-relatives from a branch of the family tree I have very little contact with. It was a breeze. Names at birth, later marriages, dates of death and everything that I had no idea was given without delay (as stipulated by law).

We don't even need to speculate about it. In for example Sweden, everyone's tax return is public information. You just call the tax office and ask how much income someone declared last available year.

From my experience they learn from the older kids as soon as they start school. At least in my culture. My daughter came home saying "shit what the fuck" (in English, despite English not being the native tongue of the locality) one day. And now she will curse like a pirate when she hurts herself. But she already knows they are words that people attach special meaning to: she avoids them when "not needed", for example. Except when she wants a reaction, which she never gets from me at least.

We don't use many such strong words ourselves, but like with many things she learned on her own in the cultural melting pot that is public school.

I don't mind using "×" myself in these cases. "6 × 950", and had I been writing properly I should have been using non-breaking spaces.

You mean "boils"? I guess boiling is a form of cooking …

They are separate grids: not synchronous, not stabilising each other. Most of the interconnections are HVDC links. Wikipedia has an article on synchronous grids of Northern Europe.

The decommissioning of several large generating stations in southern Sweden has indeed affected the effective transmission capacity from the north.

"Residual current device". It detects current leaking to ground; essentially it prevents you from killing someone by throwing a toaster into the bathtub.

I find it a bit hard to understand the drama. A private company failed to deliver some speculative future technology according to expectations (and/or agreements?). Doesn't that happen all the time? If it is so important to have this supercomputer, isn't it the (US) government that "failed science"? Eggs in baskets and all that.

I think it's because most tech jobs are not in tech. If you work for a bank, you work for bank. If you work for a fashion retailer, you work for a fashion retailer.

I've worked for a big pension fund and it was exactly like one imagines. Many meetings, a quiet office, slow and boring. I've also worked for small tech-focussed companies with technical nerds as founders; they were rather different, with music, dogs, vodka and late nights.

Oh and age matters too: after I had a kid, the late nights and vodka were not something I had the energy for.

That data centres in Sweden pay almost no electricity tax (5 SEK/MWh if I remember correctly) while consumers pay 36 is not popular with everyone. The map doesn't show that Sweden is divided into four areas. SE1 and SE2, the northernmost two and where some data centres are, have prices that most days are in the single-SEK/MWh range while in SE3 the prices might be tens of times higher. SE4, the southernmost area, has even higher prices due to the fact that (1) power is exported to markets where it is even more expensive and (2) because plants have closed down. The transmission capacity between SE3 and SE4 tends to be maxed out (as evidenced by the fact that prices differ).

AWS is in SE3, where the electricity is tens to a hundred times more expensive than for Facebook in SE1.

Limits on transmission capacity. If the cables had been bigger, costs would have been more or less the same.

As a Swede, I've never been as cold as in Australia in winter! My Australian friends can't believe -20 degrees is survivable, but the thing is that our houses have a different temperature on the inside ;)

In Hobart I once lived in a place that had radiators. I made the mistake of keeping the place comfortable and it cost me $700 of cheap hydro power in a fortnight.

That seems strange to me. It doesn't seem very unusual to me to use the "pro" laptop for actual work, and running a process that takes 20 minutes does not seem like a made-up use case at all. I don't know enough about fans to understand why they can't force more air through the laptop. My MBP gets too hot to touch when I rebuild a particular Docker image while the amount of air wafting out is not particularly impressive… but at least the machine looks good ;)

Do not worry; I pay for you! Seriously, I presume that enough people pay that making it harder to circumvent the paywall is not a problem. Yet.