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My guess is that you are talking about Slovakia here.

My weak Slovak makes it hard for me to research facts, so I tend to rely on my wife; but I understand that unfortunately the parkland is not "left on its own".

The state fells a lot of timber in the parks. They use the borers as an excuse, but cut down more than they need to control them.

There's yet another sad story for forests among the negative externalities from the transition from socialism. There were and still are large areas of land divided up and owned by general public, which has a legacy today, see [1].

One opportunist where I live went and bought as many of these as he could, often cheaply off old people and made bank by letting people come and fell the forest on them. You can see it all around here - big swathes of bare earth cut through forested hills/mountains with no regard to sustainability. It really upsets me.

[1] http://4liberty.eu/land-consolidation-in-slovakia-chance-for...

Also did this in cryptography + coding theory class back in university days.

Our final exam had a practical code breaking test where we had a bunch of utilities and had to crack 3 different cyphers. I've always recounted it fondly.

Yes; I have a Kofola from the tap once in a while with a Langos at the nearby market. It does taste better.

Australian living in Slovakia here.

Definitely agree on the sweetness factor. It is also the same with Vinea, which others have mentioned here. I am not a soft-drink person really, but it is more refreshing by virtue of not having such a sweet syrupy vibe.

My kids like Vinea and I feel better about giving it to them now and then, than I would with Coke, which to me is mouth-puckeringly sweet.

I liken Kofola to a mix between sarsaparilla and cola.

Nice setup.

A while back I moved to Arch with Xmonad, dmenu, tmux etc, but for about a year now, my workstation has been the same tools on top of Ubuntu Server. I have an Ansible playbook that I can apply to a fresh install and have almost my whole working environment ready to go - just a few things I haven't got around to including/automating.

The great thing about running this kind of setup is that you need a deeper understanding of Linux to do all the things that you would otherwise rely on a fully-fledged DE to do for you. For me, this has translated into greater fluency on servers, because my daily driver more closely resembles one.

Thanks for the heads up on the consultation process. Just sent my email.

What do you mean by computer nerd neck? I do shrugs, which hits the traps, but I find my neck is a bit thicker too.

Front squats isolate the quads more - I prefer to do back squats, then isolate smaller groups with quad extensions and hamstring curls; the latter being good for the glutes too.

Throw a few heavy deadlifts in there. You'll develop some hard glutes.

I wish I knew about this when I wrote Scala (albeit briefly). It's one of those "ill posed problems" when debugging - what is the implicit from a third party library that is not in scope that makes this work?

There is also the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK).

If you want to try a stripped down version on your local machine, kubernetes-core can be installed into LXD containers via conjure-up with a click of the fingers - nice for playing around.

Opta data cost is nothing compared to RunningBall (also part of the Perform group).

RunningBall is all the real time data - you pretty much can't run an in-game book without it. It practically runs the in-game betting world.

When I was a kid, my parents kept a bookshelf with a vast library of National Geographic issues. I used to read them at random in idle periods, and I specifically remember the Koko's Kitten edition.

I never realised that she was still alive.

Makes me wonder though, in the internet age when people aren't in the habit of giving over large physical spaces to things like Nat Geo or Encyclopedias, how much getting information in this mode is diminished; as opposed to dog-on-surfboard social media snippets.

Australian living in Slovakia here. Shout out for Bryndzové halušky.

I remember this happening for chips from the first step revision of Nehalem.

When the demand for the i7 920 was way up, there were a bunch of better chips sold as such.

Savvy overclockers knew which batch numbers they were and sought the particular runs.

I totally agree. That book was a cut above. The back-in-time view through the Ter'angreal was inspired.

I also really enjoyed the prior book, when Mat's luck runs hot leaving Tar Valon.

I loved this series when I was younger. I am still fond of it, but I have read so much more that is better now.

It slows to a tedious chore, particularly around the Knitting Circle leaving Ebou Dar with the Aes Sedai. All that is pretty obvious grinding to quota from the author.

If you want some next level fantasy, check out The Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson. Few stories have so emotionally buffeted me. It is brutal, macabre, tragic; but also redemptive, funny, clever - dazzlingly imaginative.

For those interested in the topic, I can recommend Judith Rich Harris' superb book, The Nurture Assumption[1].

It mostly deals with debunking common views on parent->child effects, but includes some material on birth order effects.

[1] https://jamesclear.com/book-summaries/nurture-assumption

Same here. I also use space as my Vim leader, so it feels natural.

Our Go code is built and tested by Jenkins. If green, the build is stored in an artefact repository. Another job is triggered to update the version in Puppet on potentially multiple targets.

The Puppet module is responsible for getting the binaries from the artefact repository, deploying them with config for the environment, running them as systemd units and shipping the journald output to Elasticsearch.

Static compilation does not obviate devops.

"Retail" bookmakers are only interested in mugs. If your betting patterns indicate someone who is wise to the market, you will be limited or shown the door. Be prepared to have arbitrage positions pulled out from under you. The game is rigged insofar as the book decides if it wants to entertain your position.

If you want to make money you have to bet against, and be able to beat the books that know what they are doing - The high limit, low margin books like Pinnacle, SBO, IBC et al will happily take you on.

Destroy Erase Improve is indeed killer. I also love Amorphis' Tales From the Thousand Lakes.

Amen. Death's Human and Cynic's Focus are on my favourites list. I will add:

Opeth - Blackwater Park.

Slayer - Seasons (1990).

Megadeth - Rust in Peace (1990).

Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray.

Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe.

Dream Theater - Awake.

Emperor - Nightside and Anthems.

Soilwork - Chainheart Machine.

Morbid Angel - Domination.

Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane.

Gorguts - Obscura and From Wisdom...

There is always nostalgia for the ground broken in the 80's, but the 90's yielded many great bands' best.

"Let me talk to your biz people to see if I'm the right person to solve your problems, and let the technical folk go over code I've written and we can deep dive on that if there is any question about my chops."

I feel you here.

With becoming longer of tooth (in the trade) comes an understanding of how to contribute value via the multitude of avenues that are not just grinding out lines at the keyboard.

I am surprised over and over at the incandescently bright young people who can wax lyrical about monad transformers, but to whom it does not occur to model a domain properly before cutting code, or who lack basic schema design and/or SQL knowledge.

I am also in the boat of having vanishingly few technical interviews in recent years, but on a good deal of those occasions it has been obvious that the interviewer is just so not the person I should be talking to.

I just bought a refurb X230 for pocket change. Threw in a SSD and more RAM, then installed Arch. I can't believe how good it is. I'm going to move to it as my daily driver from a much newer Clevo.

Same here.

I love this about Go. A router and you are off and running.

It is so simple to wrap handlers with your own middleware for auth, pre-flighting etc.

Hat tip to you sir. Bookmarked.

+1 for value. Unless you are a sales channel, every job can be generalised to creating value.

"Value is loosely defined"

This is a really worthwhile thing to think about - not only creating value, but levering it up.

If you spend the time to work/find something out, demonstrate it to others. If you change someone else's code for the better, explain why.

Minimise the cost of organisational communication - operate transparently. Pro-actively communicate your status/progress and respond quickly and clearly to requests for such.

Boost others. Communicate success upward in terms of the team - even if you did it.

This really saddens me.

I spent a week or so on Lady Elliot Island more than a decade ago, snorkelling every day. Because it is a protected area, the fauna are unafraid of people. I would dive down into these cavernous bowls of coral and be surrounded by schools of fish, rays, turtles. It was amazing.

I live in Europe now, but I always hoped to take my children there to see it one day. Seems there won't be much to see.

Very welcome news.

I discovered after doing a clean flash recently that the ability to have Google Play Services on the phone but disabled, became unavailable. I used to use it exclusively for Signal - it meant no push notifications, but I could still foreground the app for it to check for messages.

I was disappointed that I could not install Signal again, even though my phone number was registered, without Google Play.

I was preparing to walk the microG services (or similar) path, but now I don't have to.

This is how I would do it.

Take a backup and upload (encrypted) to the cloud. Factory reset in transit. Get where you are going, download and apply.

You might need some of your important numbers written down I suppose.