It is, which is only 2,500 Calories (like, the ones on food)

It’s a crappy system where kcal and Calories are the same thing even though they sound like they are off by a factor of 1000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie?wprov=sfla1

I don’t think the Speedrun is close to as hard as the steel soul 100% one

The average reddit user is a bot

Oh holy shit that isn’t satire

Big In Bruges energy

I thought Bruges was super fucking cool, but I love the idea of hating on it like the movie does

Headphone jacks. They certainly still exist but every device I owned that made sounds had one in 2015, no longer the case

No EU passport for me sadly, just a visa. If I could get one I super would want to.

We is my partner and I. Very much a team effort.

great question. I think giving yourself some grace has been a hard but helpful part. Like you will probably not have the bandwidth for keeping the house as clean, the working out, the self improvement, etc etc. Just even giving myself extra time to go to the store and extra space to make boring or meh meals has helped.

Beyond that, all the stuff you’d expect. Putting yourself out there. Listening. Money never hurts (and can help fix certain problems). Friends (from afar and close) are huge.

I began volunteering shortly after arriving and it helped make me a friend circle. I love hanging with them and already can’t wait for Thanksgiving here!

Hey, I did that!

Engineer in my 30s. We packed up and left the US after I got a job in the EU (pre 2nd trump). It’s been awesome!

Super hard some days, lots of learning, cultural norming, work, job problems, language learning, social circle building, but it’s very fulfilling and I think it’s a better lifestyle fit for us.

Highly recommend it if you can swing it. And if you do, jump all in.

Fuck me that is so perfectly on the nose

I was just jokingly rederiving a train instead. I think automated cars is mostly really silly

The safety systems would work perfectly if the cars could communicate, or more robustly if they could be mechanically linked together for the “easy” (highway) portion of the drive. Imagine a lane with nose to tail cars all doing exactly the same thing. At exits (predefined stops) you could get off to change or stay on the same one. Put a little station there with bathrooms and food.

Maybe we could even replace that highway lane with steel tracks and the tires with steel wheels for lower friction.

Damn you just always re-derive the train

I’ll assume the gym membership part is some large chain US gym or something? I couldn’t disagree more.

I have a membership to a smaller gym and it’s a great deal in my opinion. Cancel anytime, no deals, no discounts, just a price and access to a facility. It’s one of the most pure and simple subscriptions I can think of.

I agree with your take on this. I think 1M is way too low. But 1 Billion… It’s a bit easier to imagine the “you can’t or the dictatorship will seize something” idea.

The reality is that the wealthiest people usually influence the most

I was a process engineer in an aluminum plant. While I didn’t directly work in remelt, this is correct as I understand it.

20:1 is the net energy usage for new aluminum smelting:recycling.

Recycle your metals please.

It’s normally used in alcohol specifically to refer to liquid with low fermentable sugars remaining, typically meant that it’s been fermented “fully”. Beers like Japanese lagers have both low fermentable and (mostly) non fermentable sugars left (and are tasty)

Source: former process engineer in a brewery

Bikes! I live in Copenhagen and they’re everywhere of course. I love seeing people at a big train station taking pics of cycle parking being overfull

Oooo as someone who has seen the movie and never read the book, any sales pitch for me for the book?

I’d say that was a lot of what I was interested before I got into this. Car work, house stuff, fixing small appliances and machines. It really piqued my interest from a young age and that’s still by and large true today.

Without getting on too high a soapbox here, I’ll say that job opportunities for me have been plentiful in this career path, and I’ve gotten to work in a lot of different places. We even moved permanently from the US to the EU because of it.

I feel automation is more stable and more hands on than comp sci or software, but that comes with more in-office or field/plant work and less working from home or the beach. The actual work is a lot of PLC/SCADA/HMI stuff, lots of importance in understanding complex electromechanical systems and how they need to work. Of course, like any field, there’s good and bad jobs in it. It does fit the way I like to think and work quite well though.

I think comp sci could be a good field too, like you said: depends on the niche. But it, like many other things, will be around in some capacities for a long time

Well, I guess I sort of have?

I’ve been an automation engineer for my whole career. Transitioned to software engineering at a big company. That lasted like a year. I hated it the entire time. The stupid scrum/agile workflow shit, the politics, the drama. It was very very cushy, pay and hours wise. Very low responsibility and truly if I was good I could do my work quickly and then just fuck around. Long lunch breaks, early days, etc.

But I was totally miserable. I’m back to automation now :)

Looks like a fun festival! It’s a weird juxtaposition to see, I like it. I’ll find an æbleskiver stand eventually (more common in the winter) and snap a pic for comparison 🥳