It’s true, but I also can’t bring myself to say it!

To be honest, I wasn’t fully aware of it at the time and had been targeting a different country-specific program. For this other program I had checked that I fulfilled the requirements and put something like “eligible for program” on my CV. This seemed to help, since I got a lot of responses and we generally discussed this aspect in interviews.

Ultimately though, after getting a job offer, my current company found out about the Blue Card program and we decided together that it was the easiest path. For my country (Austria) the requirement was basically that you had a job offer which paid over the national average, which is pretty typical in tech.

I think a lot of companies aren’t aware of all of the different options, so making them aware of these can’t hurt!

I got sponsored recently through the EU Blue Card program. It’s generally targeted at what would be considered ‘high-skilled individuals’, which may or may not be applicable to your situation.

Although it’s an EU program, each country gets to set their own requirements and these can vary quite a bit. Might be worth looking into, since if you qualify it is almost always much easier than other paths.

I also think they look the better team overall, but let’s see

As a data scientist working in ML: it’s essentially all python outside of some really niche stuff

It was the only controller I could ever play first person games with!

Track-ball mode on the right TouchPad is just… chefs-kiss

I love my steam deck but I’m extremely disappointed by the TouchPads compared to the steam controller

Unfortunately you cant, that’s why they are getting thrown out and looking at paying 1500€ soon

I use opensuse (tumbleweed and slowroll) because I just wanted to try it out a few years back and it mostly just works.

If I were to reinstall today, I’d probably use fedora again, since it’s much easier to use things like Waydroid.

Also “sausage”, which is just a general term for all sausages in Europe

Mate, somebody just asked if a vehicle is necessary (since they are expensive). For you (and plenty lf other people), the answer is ‘yes’, but that doesn’t mean it is for everybody.

It’s technically a QWERTY-variant, but I use EurKey

It’s fun, but it being in Spanish kind of debunks it, unfortunately.

I used to spend some time on ocean vessels and listening to the captains of all the ships yap at each other in broken sea-english (since it’s the international lamgauage) was one of my favorite bits!

She (similar to Reagan in the US) enacted a massive shift in government/society from a more social-democratic focus to a more (economocally) liberal one. Her big goals were to privatize and financialize as much as possible.

This ended up leading to (as it always does) massive increases in inequality, with particularly rural/industrial regions suffering heavily while the services/financial sector in London boomed.

So she is EXTREMELY polarizing. Many conservatives or big-business types worship her, while for many/most others she’s seen as the worst thing to happen to the UK.

Cars in cities.

You don’t realize how insane they are until you spend time somewhere without them.

I had this too! I think my high frequency hearing is just really good.

I recently was at a wedding and only the little kids and myself (in my 30s) were really annoyed by this device the venue had which used high frequency beeps to scare away rodents and things.

Well, we’re comparing them with (electric) cars here, which are much more expensive.

I’m Großbritannien ist es schon normal, dass man beim Wochenmarkt oder bei Straßenhändler mit Karte zählt.

Nothing I love more than multilingual movies where different groups speak different languages.

Language barriers (and overcoming them) is such a huge part of everyday life for much of the world’s population.

The value of the stock (which is outrageously overvalued) is solely down to musk’s personality cult. So now that it’s been announced that he should be “leaving government and going back to his companies” it led to a stock jump, since his presence is the only reason that the stock is worth a lot in the first place.

The issue is that Musk often sounds convincing when he talks about things you don’t really know much about, and there are a LOT of investors who have a lot of money but don’t really know much about anything.

I’m not sure if it’s a big reason, but one thing I noticed when living in the UK is that it seemed to be much easier for local landowners to block things from being built compared to other countries I’ve lived in.

I feel like the Thames path through London was kind of representative of that. I feel like anywhere else it would be a normal walking path along the river, but instead it has big gaps, sections that are private, or even some which are closed certain days.

Just the fact that they wanted to make HS2 go UNDERGROUND through large parts of the countryside was a wild idea.