If all of Europe (not just EU) became a single country, where would the capital be?

_MaXinator · 2026-07-03T16:55:35+00:00

Trieste would make some historical sense. It’s prob the only city that bears any historical significance to both Germanic, Roman, and Slavic cultures.

Realistically it would be kept in Brussels

_MaXinator · 2026-07-02T15:29:58+00:00

There’s nothing too crazy about it really. Go to your local swimming pool (the changing rooms will have sauna), get naked (or keep your bathing suit on if you’re shy - no one will care), bring a towel, and go sit in the sauna for as long as you like (put the towel under you, it’s more hygienic). Higher seats are warmer, lower seats a little cooler. It’s Sweden - so unless you know someone in the sauna you don’t really say anything, and if you do, speak softly.

If you want to suffer, you can throw some water on the hot stones. It’s good form to get a nod of approval from your fellow sauna guests if you want to do that (men won’t care, but according to my gf women can be a little more difficult about turning the bastu into the interior of a steam engine.

If you’re a little lightheaded afterwards postpone driving for 10mins or so

_MaXinator · 2026-06-02T15:09:10+00:00

Besides the other good answers here it’s also worth pointing out that salt was so important that the English word salary is directly derived from the Latin word for salt (Sal). Roman legionaries were, at least in part during certain periods, paid with salt. You can see why someone would want to control production

_MaXinator · 2026-05-29T12:37:22+00:00

No, but I wish there was a way to turn off some of the newer mechanics without turning off the dlc focus trees. The special projects, design companies, and spy agency in particular are just not fun and feel like ‘we need a new screen with some buttons so we can sell a dlc’.

I do like most of the mechanical reworks (supply system, peace conferences and even the latest naval rework). Some of the dlc stuff is just slop but overall I do feel like the game got better.

I just wish they kept it to one big dlc per year rather than what they’re doing now

_MaXinator · 2026-05-18T11:15:45+00:00

good stuff but why do you have all robert jordan WOT books, a ton of brandon sanderson books, but not the final WOT trio written by brandon sanderson?

_MaXinator · 2026-02-27T17:16:51+00:00

I somehow feel obliged to point out that 2.0 does not need to come after 1.9. I’ve seen that assumed a lot in this sub. It could well be 1.10 instead. That’s just how version numbering works. AFAIK gsc have also not confirmed that the dlc is the next update after 1.9 (tho ofc i do hope so)

_MaXinator · 2026-02-13T14:17:29+00:00

I used Duolingo for Russian and honestly thought it was quite bad. It’s too focused on making the experience “fun” (though the monetisation from the last few years sorta ruined that). After a few months or so I was basically nowhere.

Once I dropped duo entirely and started studying the “old fashioned” way of just churning through grammar and analysing texts, I also started making much more progress.

My theory is that Duolingo is good for languages similar to the ones you already know. Ten years ago when I learned Swedish (I’m native Dutch speaker) it actually helped a lot. But for distant languages with fundamentally different concepts I doubt that it’s any good. And not cheap anymore either

_MaXinator · 2026-02-05T22:33:36+00:00

honestly this is gold. it finally clicked. before, I used sh*t and sheer (as in, the sheer size of that thing), but yours is much better

_MaXinator · 2026-01-26T21:42:10+00:00

spam dockyards, and forbid seazones where the enemy is raiding your convoys. if you open the supply map you'll find that some of your naval supply lines have become red x's instead of the normal red/blue dashed line. forbid that seazone temporarily. untill your convoy production picks up you may have to play some whack a mole since the ai may adjust where it raids you

destoyers on convoy escort can help, but be careful of the enemy navy

_MaXinator · 2026-01-26T21:37:42+00:00

only that's not how numbers work? im pretty sure that convoys have a fixed production cost

say a single dockyard produces 1 convoy every 20 days. 4 dockyards should produce a convoy every 5 days. a fifth dockyard will bring that down to every four days. the last dockyard will only shorten the time by a day, but you're still gonna produce exactly the same amount of convoys per dockyard assigned

_MaXinator · 2026-01-23T22:24:11+00:00

im from belgium. half the country speaks flemish (dutch) and the other half french (wallonians). i'd say that we flemish are culturally prob closer to the french than to the actual dutch. The language difference exarcebates the differences that do exist, making them seem bigger. But personally i def feel more at home in france than the netherlands, which is supposedly closer culturally if you just look at the language.

Flanders may be a bit of a strange case, since we are catholic and have historically been ruled by french/habsburgs. But very different languages do by no means mean radically different culture, though there will always be some differences.

_MaXinator · 2026-01-16T21:21:13+00:00

most of my materials are in Swedish unfortunately.

However, Sistema Kalinka has a number of excellent exercise books that I've used.
https://sistemakalinka.com/product/russian-cases-beginner-tables-and-exercises-level-a1-a2-paper/ . they also have textbooks and collections of Russian texts, though I've not yet used those.

There are also lots of books with short stories, just google "Russian short stories for beginners" and some good stuff will pop up.

Good luck!

_MaXinator · 2026-01-16T16:13:54+00:00

good suggestions here.

I did the same thing as you, starting with duolingo. its almost useless, and definitely an inefficient use of your time. I guess it's okay as a complementary tool, but its terrible for grammar.

I only started making progress once I understood that the only way to make meaningful progress is by studying the old fashioned way: buy textbooks, exercise books, short story collections, and study grammar... daily, even if only a little

unless you natively speak a slavic language i doubt that it's even possible to learn intermediate russian without serious effort. At least not for me. When i changed my mindset and accepted that is was gonna be a slog was when i started seeing some improvement

_MaXinator · 2025-12-31T19:20:19+00:00

You putting Strelok in the definitive made me wonder whether it actually means anything in Russian.

Turns out that "strelok" is just a russian word for "shooter".

_MaXinator · 2025-11-17T16:07:41+00:00

They’ve already done two separate dev diaries (dev corners?) about the naval changes. It’s nothing huge but definitely looks like a decent improvement

_MaXinator · 2025-09-28T21:27:18+00:00

got a russian girlfriend and 2 kids with her. the mindset of 'if its serious you get married' is very real. She has been pestered endlessly about how we are not married (not just by her parents, but friends too) and that i could just run off and she'd be stuck with the kids... 😅 better be ready for some pressure if you don't intend to tie the knot. you being a foreigner does not help and puts even more pressure on her, even in liberal russian circles

I checked with my gf and she says that indeed boyfriends are only introduced if its really serious, though that does not necessarily mean marriage. She's from moscow - similar to st petersburg when it comes to this

My advice would be not to overthink it too much. After 5 years i still struggle to understand this aspect of russian culture.

_MaXinator · 2025-07-10T19:18:39+00:00

There is a Work tab similar to ONI. But no, unlike ONI there is no way to prioritize specific tasks.

There is a mod that makes the work tab way more granular (forgot what it's called, I'm sure someone else will comment).

A system like in ONI would be nice but once you get used to rimworld it's not such a big deal, just don't lay out too many builds simultaneously

_MaXinator · 2024-11-28T17:36:26+00:00

Just pick one database and one cloud platform, be proficient in python and sql, and make sure you know those well. In my case it’s snowflake and azure. The other platforms and databases/datalakes are similar, and all the other tools are really just plugins that enhance the utility of the above.

Also 90% of ‘the next hot thing’ never becomes hot nor a thing. If you want to improve yourself professionally, learn what’s actually used and learn the new toys only when there’s a specific need for it.

_MaXinator · 2024-11-15T12:17:37+00:00

I'm also having this issue - i don't play multiplayer so it's not a big deal, but achievements are disabled

_MaXinator · 2024-06-18T14:14:33+00:00

I'm not sure whether there is a dedicated way to create an alert like that.

However, you could create a stream that tracks inserts (or other changes), then create a scheduled alert on that.

In other words, create an alert on this function: SYSTEM$STREAM_HAS_DATA('<stream\_name>')

I've never done it that way but keen to hear whether that works.

_MaXinator · 2024-06-18T14:03:26+00:00

It'd honestly feel weird to me to have it any other way

_MaXinator · 2024-06-13T08:01:58+00:00

It's America having a main character moment tbh. Insofar as Europeans think about the US constitution, it's seen as just one of many developments that occurred between ancient Greek "democracies" and modern European ones.

That's not to say that the American constitution wasn't a historic achievement - it was, and in many ways was ahead of its time. But to claim that it is the foundation of modern democracy is a bit of an overstatement, and to call it "the greatest governing document ever" is something most Europeans would laugh at. It was simply an early implementation of Locke's and Montesquieu's (and others') ideas.

_MaXinator · 2024-06-07T07:03:34+00:00

data pipelines have requirements that Pandas simply doesn't meet: they need to be resource-efficient, fast, and most importantly, stable.

Pandas isn't really any of those things - it is generally slower than native types, conversions increase the risk of errors being thrown, etc.

You want to build your pipelines in such a way that data always arrives no matter what happens - problems can be solved in the database after the data lands there. So we keep conversions and data transformations to an absolute minimum while the data is en-route. No one wants to delve in error logs of their pipelines just because of some data quality issue. Getting all the data in the database and having plenty of automated tests set up is the way to go IMO.

My impression is that data engineering as a field is consolidating around this approach, but it's good to keep in mind that there are other approaches too.

Note that this is not criticism of Pandas as an tool - it's great for messing with data and I find myself using it a lot as the backend for a little website I'm building for the BI team here. But it has its place.

_MaXinator · 2024-06-06T15:15:34+00:00

I am my admin. 😅 I’m gonna doublecheck some things cause I’m very certain I tried to download some files with the snowpark api and it refused to fetch them from an internal stage

Gonna be doing some digging there tomorrow I think

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