In many cases, because both overlap with geographical features: the Carpathians in Romania, the Pontic-Caspian steppe in Ukraine, the green mountainous Portugal north of the Tagus vs the flat "montado" landscape to the south.
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I think the larger point is: in Linux, some things are complicated but most things are possible. On Mac and Windows, some things are easier but many things are impossible.
So there's definitely a tradeoff. But since I have to use this tool for the majority of my waking hours in order to make a living, the ROI from taking a bit longer to solve an issue and then having it solved virtually forever makes Linux a better proposition IMHO.
Current generations were sold on the promise that you can be what you want. That you have the right (and almost the duty) to follow your passion. In reality the game is rigged. The article points this out correctly, in my opinion, and conveys the bitterness that comes from unveiling this illusion.
Among the writers and curators in my social circles (I would add artists, musicians, actors, …), there is a tacit agreement that if you want to pursue such careers, you have to (1) come from wealth, (2) marry a banker, (3) live frugally. I perceive some sense of happiness, or at least peace with oneself, mostly from the ones falling under option (3), even if they have by far the toughest lives.
Of course, there's always the promise of (4) become tremendously successful, but I don't know anyone who made it. And (5) give up and perform a job that people are willing to pay real money for.
Personally, I support high inheritance taxes to balance things out a bit. I think it's healthier for everyone. Those trust fund kids are in a permanent struggle to live up to unrealistic expectations and I'm not sure that's so great.
As for the natural wines detour, it feels quite weird for me. I don't see how they're much different from craft beer in 2005 or nutmeg in the 1500s. There are perfectly good wines for under 5€, drink that instead. If your friends are looking down on you for that, find new friends, seriously.
Look, I think it's great that this thing exists and grateful that you mentioned it. I may even suggest it to some of the French-speaking juniors I work with.
It does not, however, address the issues of the person you were replying to. And I know because I'm in a similar position to them.
My choice is "US International with AltGr deadkeys". The deadkey behaviour in simple "US International" is very annoying for programming: you have to double-tap every key that could be an accent, such as single quotes or backquotes.
If your laptop is not too locked down, maybe you can try the AutoHotKey portable version. Unfortunately in one particular corporate laptop I couldn't even run non-whitelisted executables so that was out.
A bit of googling gives me the explanation of "ferreira" being an old word for "iron mine", which to be honest is coherent with modern portuguese forms like "pedreira", toponymics ("ferreira" is a common place name), and the way names come about (João da Ferreira would own or work in the iron mine, or just come from one of the villages where there was an iron mine).
Can't argue with it being confusing. It takes some effort in the beginning until one day you realize that your mind blended with the machine.
Stuff takes space, stuff adds clutter, some stuff requires administrative overhead, most stuff requires maintenance.
I prefer tiny apartments in central neighbourhoods than bigger ones in the suburbs. Stuff enters into that equation. I can't afford a big house in Kensington. So OK, if I could afford a big house in Kensington plus a couple of pied-à-terre, maybe I wouldn't worry so much about stuff. I could have an extra room for a corkscrew collection and hired hands to deal with it. Stuff staff.
I added the "certain level of wealth" qualifier to make it clear that I didn't mean to claim that being burdened by stuff is a universal experience. It's a problem tied to abundance, like obesity and information overload. This level of wealth is much lower than what most people would consider "wealthy".
Unless I'm intimate with someone's present, pressing needs, the only gift I'll dare to buy another adult will be food, drinks, or experiences.
If you need a corkscrew, the only one you'll ever need is a double-stepped waiters corkscrew (I own a Creuset [0] which is fine but there's plenty of cheaper alternatives). They're small, last forever and work for every tight or crumbling cork you might have to deal with.
I guess that if you buy very expensive wines and like to drink alone, you may find some use in a fancy contraption I've seen used in Burgundy this summer which allows you to pour wine while keeping the cork in the bottle [1]. It is expensive, high maintenance and fiddly.
Everything in between, I really don't see the point.
[0] https://www.lecreuset.fr/fr_FR/p/wt-110-sommelier-double-lev...
Yes, in a good year.
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Only in the Americas. And we all know how that was made possible.
Still, from my experience in India (mostly in and around Delhi) what you get is not an occasional honk, it is a permanent infernal cacophony that pierces through your skull day and night.
Yes, you don't overtake if you don't have visibility because of a hill or a bend. That is enforced by traffic regulation and road markings in Europe and most of the places I've driven. And yes, that means that sometimes you get stuck behind trucks for a long time but it also means that nobody gets killed.
I was considering using Mailjet, but from the docs it looks like the inbound processing is not as sophisticated as Mailgun: we can't set inbound routes dynamically according to the destination email address.
Yet. Because you're still on compliance and procurement whitelists. If UK's regulation are no longer up to EU's standards, UK drops out of the whitelist and any supplier there jumps off the fast-track into the slow lane of "compliance audit". Spoiler: that's the point at which the contracting manager drops you for your far less able competitor that's hosted in Dublin or Amsterdam.