jgb1984

"The total cost of immigration for the period 1995-2019 for the Netherlands was 400 billion euros."

Quote from the conclusion of one of the studies mentioned here: https://miwi-institut.de/archives/2028#:~:text=The%20researc....

I can only speak for my own region in western Europe (Benelux / Germany / France), for us mass immigration especially from non-EU countries has a very high financial and social cost. So high that both in Belgium and the Netherlands there is a large majority to be found in favor of drastically reducing immigration, recent polls show. However in almost all west European countries you've got governments doing the exact opposite of the people's will. In my own country, Belgium, we've got a very generous social security system and as such we attract a lot of immigration that is not interested in working (and/or simply very low skilled, often illiterate).

Among non-EU origins we're at 44.5 % inactivity, not studying nor working, (!!!!!) which is the worst score in all of Europe. Belgium itself is of course partially to blame because our social security system is too flexible, too generous and does not push to work.

Mass immigration from strongly divergent cultures is damaging western society, causing higher poverty, more crime, and rampant feelings of alienation, tearing at the fabric of social values and cohesion. Look at Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden... Go for a stroll in Brussels or Frankfurt, have a look at the numerous ghettos there. Mass immigration is a lose-lose thing, both for the host country and for the newcomers who often sign up for a life in abject poverty.

Same here! I'll keep using X and openbox for as long as I can. It's the way I've been using Debian the past 20 years. Dwm, pekwm, fluxbox, openbox, so many cool windowmanagers... X works perfectly fine for me since ages, Wayland brings no benefits to me it only removes useful software that I enjoy.

More disturbing to me is how loud it gets when you're actually on the airplane. The plane itself is very loud, that can't be helped I guess, but the crew seemingly has to shout irrelevant things at you every five minutes through that awful megaphone style onboard speaker system. For the millionth time some safety instructions, then welcome this, goodbye that, please buy perfume, please buy lottery cards, please reserve a shuttle taxi, and so on.

All very loud, and combined with a sound quality that reminds me of a 20 bucks portable radio makes for a miserable experience.

I vote for quiet airplanes in addition to quiet airports!

I've been using Debian as my daily driver on desktops, laptops and servers since Debian Potato (around the year 2000).

My desktops often last over 10 years on a single install, upgrading from one release to the next, without a hitch.

Debian is the best! For me it's the highest quality operating system with a super impressive governance organization behind it.

Cheers to another 30 more years!

Anecdotal: I've been into pc's for 30 years. Each failed harddisk I had over those 3 decades was announced in advance by increased sounds, lowered performance and SMART warnings. In all cases I was either capable of retrieving all the data before the thing died, or at least managed to recover most of it.

With SSD's, the failure was always sudden, zero warning, and resulted in 100% data loss.

My most important files live on traditional spinning hard disks and will continue to do so (and backups, of course).

Knock on wood.

Why is the choice always portrayed as if it's either cloud, or on-prem / colocation ? Those are two extremes. At work I use dedicated physical machines from Hetzner. If I need an extra one they deliver it in a few minutes, and thanks to Ansible it's provisioned within a few minutes more. Hetzner keeps an eye on the hardware and replaces disks, PSU's and the like if needed.

I wouldn't often advocate to do colocation or on-prem since that indeed comes with a whole set of headaches, but renting dedicated physical servers like we do offers a lot of flexibility, with very little overhead, at a price/performance ratio that makes AWS look like pure extortion.

Not entirely correct since neovim never stopped merging upstream patches from vim. So what happens in vim does influence neovim.

jewish state, islamic state. They have more in common than you would think. Religion poisons everything.

As a European, this whole concept is mind boggling. Just show me a price for a service or an item, and I'll pay it. The listed prices for us already include any taxes and charges.

If you're having a nice meal and you're satisfied with the service delivered you can leave a little extra. But there's no pressure or expectation to do so.

I remember visiting NYC and being baffled by how the hamburger listed at $ 5 ends up costing $ 12 in the end.

I guess I was lucky: I started 15 years ago doing web development using python and django on linux, which is still my toolset today ;)

Why settle for a substitute? Just use Debian. More honest, more free, no commercial shenanigans and no snaps. I've been a Debian user on all my laptops, desktops and servers for 25 years and counting, it's the best there is, for me.

A shame they removed the .deb package. Oh well, I use gvim as my daily driver anyway.

I don't understand why anyone would still bother with Airbnb. So many headaches. I've used booking dot com, to reserve real hotels or apartments managed by real professional people, all over the world, for over a decade and counting, and I never had a single issue.

Airbnb is built on evading taxes, skirting the law and exploiting the real estate market to the detriment of the local population AND the traveler. Don't support them.

Some people value stability and gvim. I don't consider nvim an upgrade, it's just a fork with different priorities which may or may not suit you. I continue to use vim and gvim.

I came here to say the same. The author clearly has only a very superficial knowledge of python (and a large distaste for it).

Throughout my studies and career I've written c, c++, java, javascript, perl, bash, python and a little bit of go. Python for me is by far my favorite and most productive language. Expressive syntax, an unmatched wealth of useful libraries and most importantly: when I come back to code I wrote months ago I can easily read and understand it! Which can't be said of my old perl code.

I also love how python has been picking up steam lately, 3.6 - 3.11 have been splendid releases with plenty of goodies in each one.

For me gtk2 is the best one. Everything that came after was both uglier and less usable.

To be honest I doubt Elon could even write a fizzbuzz in a language of choice if his life depended on it. Nothing but hot air that guy. He's as much an engineer as I'm a neurosurgeon.

What a unique combination of incompetence, hubris and an utterly despicable personality.

So they will be forcing my few dozen terabyte ES cluster that today runs fully on dedicated physical hardware to use extremely expensive cloud storage services instead? What an awful idea!

I hope the option to fully self-host on dedicated hardware remains viable, as I enjoy the high performance, low price and full control of my own systems.

+1, I'll stick to X and openbox as long as I can

Laptops are all together awful. I can't imagine working on one for more than a few hours. My self built desktop blows any laptop out of the water in speed, comfort, reliability, upgrade / repair potential and ergonomics (obviously ignoring portability).

Tax fossil fuels? When I fill my car with benzine at 2 euro/liter would you like to guess how much of that is taxes? Same for the gas heating in my apartment. And the electricity that powers my PC. The cost of the actual fuel or energy is only a fraction of the price I pay, the rest is taxes (plain old taxes, or taxes masquerading as operating / distribution costs).

I use vim for a living. I need it to work. Always. Neovim in my experience hasn't been as stable, not by a longshot. Neovim adds things I don't care about (lua, lsp, treesitter) while taking away things that are essential to me (gvim, rock solid stability).

I see the neovim community holding up lua as a holy grail, rewriting entire vimrc configs just for the sake of it (even though a vimscript vimrc is much easier to read than a lua one) and rewriting rock solid existing vim plugins in lua, resulting often in a less stable and less feature complete plugin. But hey, it's now written in lua so it MUST be better!

I use vim for a living. I need it to work. Always. Neovim in my experience hasn't been as stable, not by a longshot. Neovim adds things I don't care about (lua, lsp, treesitter) while taking away things that are essential to me (gvim, rock solid stability).

I never understood how people consider go an alternative to python. I tried it myself for a while, and I couldn't stand the verbosity. So much code needed to do simple things, it almost felt like C again. And the error handling... Shudder.

I'm very happy python survived the 2-to-3 migration and is now thriving more than ever! Looking forward to the 3.11 speed improvements.

Go is painfully verbose and Rust painfully complex compared to python.

Uhm my brother just signed a fixed rate of 1.8% for the entire 20 year duration of his home loan. Belgium.

I've been running Debian on my desktops, laptops (testing/unstable) and servers (stable) for more than 2 decades. It "just works" for me.

It might have to do with better screening. I've read in the past that Belgium is a frontrunner in the screening for certain cancers (like breast and colon afaik). If you screen more, you will find more. Italy is quite poor and probably doesn't have the resources to invest, so ends up with lower stats.

Your first sentence is simply not true.