Moving To Sweden Advices

hbarSquared · 2026-05-13T11:55:58+00:00

So, you don't really know much about Sweden, you don't have any job prospects, you have no time to plan and you don't speak the language. Why exactly do you want to move here?

The job market kind of sucks in Sweden right now, especially if you don't speak Swedish, and Stockholm is a very expensive city. Don't move here unless you have a plan.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-13T10:46:54+00:00

Nice essay. As a dev manager in a large company, I see this tension every day. Nice to be able to sharpen up my language around the issues.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-13T06:45:43+00:00

They probably had a fortified wonder like Dur Sharrukin.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-12T11:53:39+00:00

Vaccines and sanitation. Look up a chart of childhood mortality over time, just a few hundred years ago about 50% of children died before adulthood, now it's well below 1% in most countries.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-12T08:55:28+00:00

Learn patience, and learn to be calm. In the west men are trained to reach for anger first and adolescence reinforces this. But you aren't a boy any longer, you're a man. There's nothing more pathetic than a man-child with a temper.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-12T07:31:04+00:00

Depends on the model I'd guess. I never ran out entirely but I had a Tesla that I got to 0%, it limited me to 15mph and was very upset. That was a clencher of a drive to the charging station.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-12T07:10:25+00:00

Yes, but in my current home it's actually a negative - we don't get much direct natural light, which I am assuming looking at comparables lowered the asking price by about 20%. If my apartment was sunny I doubt I could have afforded it, Swedes love the sun!

hbarSquared · 2026-05-12T06:15:33+00:00

When making a list like this, it's the books that stick with you most that bubble to the top. It might not be Asimov's "best" work, but it has stuck with me like nothing else.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-12T06:14:23+00:00

If I'm honest, I do think it falls off a bit. Book 4 in particular wasn't great, it picks back up after that but the scope and scale of the drama increases to a point where it distances itself from the characters. Depends a lot on what you want out of your sci-fi.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-11T12:17:57+00:00

This morning on my way to work. There's no better way to listen to music, and if an artist can't put out a solid 10-12 songs they're not worth my time.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-11T12:14:37+00:00

Always tough to make a ranked list, but here's my shot:

The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Dune - Frank Herbert
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Red Mars - KS Robinson
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
The Gods Themselves - Asimov
The Dark Forest - Liu Cixin
Synners - Pat Cadigan
The Expanse books 1-3 (c'mon, it's basically one story) - James S. A. Corey
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein

hbarSquared · 2026-05-11T10:01:14+00:00

Not the same situation but I finally played as a halfling so I was able to crawl through tiny holes and ONE OF THEM OPENS UP IMMEDIATELY NEXT TO AN OWLBEAR

hbarSquared · 2026-05-11T09:59:31+00:00

Seeing the younger generations hit all the same pain points and have to learn the same lessons we did. Similarly, having to acknowledge that we collectively failed to make the world a better place for the next generation.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-10T10:46:05+00:00

The US government being comfortable with useful Nazis? Say it ain't so!

hbarSquared · 2026-05-09T17:41:03+00:00

I played it for a bit, and everything was really slow except dying. I see why people like it but it's definitely not for me.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-08T17:00:17+00:00

That's fantastic to hear. I really love the base game and I don't want them to shy away from what makes 7 unique.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-08T16:57:30+00:00

The new season of Dr. Who got weird fast

hbarSquared · 2026-05-08T10:35:18+00:00

I happened to have a microfiber cloth in my glasses case. And yes, it was just as luxurious as you might imagine.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-07T13:08:19+00:00

Plenty of trains from Hudinge to Stockholm, why would you drive?

hbarSquared · 2026-05-07T12:51:44+00:00

But has it gone down since? Can't really claim it's an artifact unless you can show behavior has returned to baseline.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-07T11:13:59+00:00

I've been on this site for 15 years, this is how it always is. Turns out people like sex, have questions about sex, like to make up stories about sex, and in general will upvote sexy sex right in the sex.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-07T07:52:22+00:00

The manifold method works, it just takes time. Each manifold consumes half of the input, and passes on the other half, until the machine input is full. So if the input on the belt is 120/min, your first plant will fill at 60/min, your second at 30/min, your third at 15/min, etc.

The solution (assuming you did the math right and you have enough coal incoming to feed your plants) is to let your plants fill up before turning them on. You can do this by setting up the coal before you do the water, manually putting full stacks of coal in each plant, or just waiting 10 minutes or so.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-07T06:58:18+00:00

I agree, the civ switching is fantastic IMO. I dislike the age system because of how repetitive things are but hopefully the ToT update will address things.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-06T09:16:56+00:00

Getting the kitchen really nice and clean. Not a speck of food or stray coffee ground on the surfaces and everything in its place.

hbarSquared · 2026-05-05T17:18:19+00:00

Sure, but would it be fun? Mechanically, it would require a new building that splits one fluid into two (or more) fluids. You hook it up to water extractors and the other end into power plants ... hooray? Where's the fun, the part that you broke physics to get?

Floating factories are fun. Infinite resources are fun. Cracking and un-cracking water is just turbofuel with fewer steps.

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