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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Life, or in this case nature finds a way

(link for if the image doesn't federate)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cray (the company) often had interesting designs that probably ended up influencing a lot of sci-fi. CDC (control data corporation) had interesting designs as well, prior to that, and Cray (the person) worked there before founding his own company.

One other supercomputer line with iconic looks is Connection Machines which are IMO some of the coolest looking computers ever made.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yep, I think it's from Helsinki market square – and not sure if this needs to be said but not taken by me 😅

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yep, I also think the French in general don't really appreciate Finnish coffee culture, if their presidents reaction is anything to go by. Still one of my favourite pictures.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Not sure if that's a thing in France, but alternatively to plant milk for lactose intolerant

  • Lactose-free milk (there are versions with lactose removed instead of broken down, that aren't sweet and taste basically the same as normal milk)
  • Lactase enzyme taken together with the coffee, to break lactose down

I don't really see plant milk as the lactose-intolerant variant, but a vegan option, but that might just be due to the fact Finland has lactose-free milk available as an option basically everywhere as milk is such an important part of the coffee culture.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep, and truth be told if I had the option of paying 90 € for an actual physical copy without microtransactions, DLC instead of having all content in the game from launch, no online access required and no copy protection on the disc, I'd gladly pay that. 100 € even, if it's a particularly good game.

But I have zero trust in that being the case with the increased prices, it's just going to be the same thing we now have, more expensively.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

In Helsinki they have a specific emergency vehicle for clearing tram tracks. It's especially busy during winter as snow takes away some space from the parking and cars tend to start taking space away from the trams.

Article is in Finnish but hopefully automatic translation can get enough across.

https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000005983508.html

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

CEOs: Finally using software is like talking to an intellectual equal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I could say precisely the same about standard pencils – you have to constantly be sharpening it if you want properly dense handwriting. Mechanical with .2 or .3 and you don't even have to rotate it to get a sharp edge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

1st one, with either .2 or .3 lead. That also happens to be what I main for writing already.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Old-timey equipment has it's own feel – and when the city has a matching aesthetic it can indeed be fairly convincing replica of what it might've looked like. Cars tend to be a giveaway, another is fashion, but just the b&w already does a lot (like in the following example).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yep – planning to get a Fed 1 at some point as well, I tend to like shooting with rangefinders the most as they're so quick to focus. Maybe some more recent Zorki/Fed variant as well.

 

First tests with medium format, with the new-to-me soviet beauty. Finally got my hands to a economical flatbed capable of medium format, in this case an old canoscan 8000f. It doesn't have recent drivers, so my current workaround is a VM running Win 7 – might write SANE drivers for it at some point if it doesn't prove too difficult a task. Resolution is low (2400dpi) but enough for medium format since there's more to work with (I already have a dedicated machine for 135), and it's not like more recent flatbeds are much better in terms of real optical resolution. What these have got going for them is the price, got mine for 15 €.

 

First time trying caffenol. Development turned out relatively well, though the film was underdeveloped – also there were some issues with fixing since I wanted to try using a salt bath instead of proper fixer (the real fixer had gone bad). Ended up having to use actual fixer anyway and as a result the film ended up a bit foggy.

Overall I'm still happy with the results but will probably stick to Xtol and Rodinal for now.

 

Turns out it was just some sham poo

 

'cause he was UN-professional

 

Housing is something people need, and is similarly a necessity like food or electricity. It needs a lot of money to keep in a livable shape, plus constant attention, and will lose its value if just left in place. As such it's not an investment, unless the market isn't working like it's supposed to.

When there was the long period of "low inflation" after the 2008 housing crisis, it's because we didn't consider housing prices a part of the inflation – if housing getting more expensive would've been taken into account we should've never had such a long period of low interest rates. If rents going up is inflation, appreciation should be as well.

As such, housing getting more expensive should be considered a bad thing, as it leads people to mistakenly see it as an investment. People will then "protect" their investment by trying to prevent new projects etc. Nobody would get angry if bread was cheaper the next day, just because they already bought it yesterday.

EDIT: apparently I've been a bit misinformed. I'm not from the US, but EU (Finland) and have understood that our indices don't really include owner-occupied housing in the calculation, but only the direct costs like energy and rent with some weight – which was at least partly the case, but there would seem to be some changes coming. Thanks for the enlightening replies, I'll have to read a bit more into it.

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