TheHalc @ TheHalc @sopuli.xyz

A Brit in Helsinki who likes games, tech and burgers.

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Amazon is shitting money. They're not exactly a typical company.

Maybe for a small number of companies in a small number of industries, but most companies rent their office premises, even large companies.

I've worked at several multinational companies that sold their HQ buildings when they recognised that building management was not a core competence for them and tying up capital in real estate has a significant opportunity cost for them.

It's no skin off their noses if commercial real estate plummets in value - if anything, it would be in their favour as their rent would decrease.

I mostly use desktop mode for messing about with things like emudeck and creating and forgetting an su password.

The guy who told you to see an osteopath is a little misinformed and had things a bit upside down. Osteopathy is basically just chiropractic and has the same pseudoscientific origins.

However, for historical reasons osteopaths are very different either side of the Atlantic.

In the UK, osteopaths are basically just chiropractors with pretensions. In the US, doctors of Osteopathy are basically just doctors who went to a school that teaches osteopathic nonsense alongside real medicine, and they are licensed and operate as real physicians.

I think this instance is just the right size, and that it's local for me is a big bonus.

I don't actually speak much Finnish yet, but like Finland itself it's not like that's entirely necessary to be able to contribute to the community.

Not really.

The difference is that Oliver was a sous-chef when he was first picked up for a TV show, whereas Ramsay had been head chef at multiple Michelin-starred restaurants before he got his TV shows.

Oliver's restaurants have never been awarded any Michelin stars. Ramsay's have been awarded 17.

One of these two is a real restaurateur and chef, one of these is more of a food-related lifestyle brand.

He's a celebrity first and a chef second, unlike the likes of Gordon Ramsay, who's a chef first and a celebrity second.

He's a bit worthy and his restaurants are a bit shit, but I'm sure his heart is in the right place.

Some friends of mine saw them carry a dead rat out the back room and throw it out onto the street while they were waiting for me there.

Yeah, it's still there, but I've not been in for ten years.

Helsinki is, for some reason, full of massage parlours.

There's a neighbourhood called Kallio that was formerly rather cheap but has become much more expensive and gentrified, and the massage parlours remain. I have no idea how they can afford their rent, as I've never seen anyone going into or coming out of one of those venues.

Obviously they provide "extra services", but I don't think that can be enough to sustain them. I suspect money laundering from drug sales etc.

I'm no spring chicken myself. I started gaming on the Atari VCS, so I'm no stranger to bad graphics.

As for a third person camera, I've not actually played the game yet, but it is apparently possible to pay through the game in third person mode.

Ok. I'm just pointing out that it's a "true" RPG, so if you want to play it as a Kung Fu comedy, you can.

When I spent a little time in Malawi, people always loved it if you recognised Evison Matafale's music.

Play as a monk. Bone a bear.

Those are patents. Patents are not copyright, although they both fall under the general umbrella of intellectual property protection.

If this works at all, every material scientist in the world will be working on similar materials and manufacturing processes for them to improve the effect and make them more manufacturable.

Just ask for an extension. Professors have seen this "trick" a thousand times and know exactly what you're doing. They will respect you more and give you more leeway in the future if you're straight with them.

I can't say I know anything about the parking/car stuff as that sounds very US-specific, but I can second everything else.

Don't get complacent with the work, stay on top of it, and if you ever feel yourself falling behind, don't be scared to ask for help. Literally everyone wants to see you succeed, but the further you fall behind the harder it gets.

At the same time, allow yourself to have some fun too.

I believe I have read that it's literally impossible to copy an object's quantum state without destroying it, so in a real sense a transporter that's indistinguishable at a quantum level would be moving you rather than creating a copy and killing the original.

I remember, pre-Wifi, setting up a network over IR between two laptops to play C&C Red Alert.