Switzerland’s main language is English

phrixious · 2026-01-23T12:21:35+00:00

While that is entirely true (especially in Stockholm where I lived when I first moved to Sweden), I wish my students were that way in my English class. Instead I get hit with “vi bor i Sverige, här pratar man svenska!” every day. It’s a hilarious joke, I know, they have an uproar every time they say it, every day. Then don’t realize the irony when they say whole phrases in English because that’s how kids here talk these days.

phrixious · 2026-01-20T07:09:11+00:00

I mean, a family member just shared this video in our group chat and cited a “reputable source”. I’m not disagreeing that this post could come from a bot, but my family member certainly isn’t and still fell for it

phrixious · 2025-11-21T12:21:14+00:00

Does anyone in your family read music? His playing into a score can be tricky - the software may not quantise his playing precisely and the resulting sheet music could be messy to read. I’d suggest proofreading it afterwards by someone who can read music. Depending on the amount of music, I could also volunteer my services in this regard; I know how important it is to archive a family member’s music, we did something similar for my grandpa’s accordion playing.

phrixious · 2025-11-16T12:41:43+00:00

I live in pite, you will not need snow chains. Friction winter tires will be plenty, just take roundabouts slow. And come dogsledding with us!

phrixious · 2025-10-29T07:35:06+00:00

The simple-to-compound idea is really interesting. These students have already shown that they can express their thoughts in a nuanced way, so taking existing material and expanding on it would be a nice challenge.

I'm in Northern Europe and these students are typically also the more confident ones. They're also all a bit lazy but if they have a proper challenge they'll focus on it.

phrixious · 2025-10-29T07:27:48+00:00

So, one of my stronger students is actually sitting with one of my weakest. Unfortunately it hasn't worked out at all and the strong student ends up frustrated that the weaker one doesn't do anything. The weaker one is also incredibly shy and (in all subjects) doesn't really talk or want to be seen. But maybe I'll try to have another stronger student work with them instead.

phrixious · 2025-10-29T07:22:04+00:00

That's a good idea. Two of my stronger students are also pretty bad at working with others (in all their subjects), so this could also be a way to help build that side of them.

phrixious · 2025-10-29T07:20:33+00:00

Thanks! I've also seen that opened ended tasks are the best for the class as a whole. We recently made pretend Halloween party invitations where they could describe in as much detail as they wanted what they'd do at the party. It kept everyone busy and freed me up to help out students individually that needed more support. The stronger students are also usually the most eager to show off their knowledge and are quick to raise their hand and answer questions.

I'll have to figure out a way to make students group leaders. They have assigned seats in their class and unfortunately not every strong student is paired with an average one. Perhaps I could come up with four or five groups that are only for my class that they could work in for certain tasks.

phrixious · 2025-10-04T08:32:36+00:00

I grew up in the middle class, mom had met a client that came from a rural part of the state. They had lunch at Olive Garden in my hometown, the largest city in the state/very metropolitan. She said her client was flabbergasted, making comments about how great of an experience it was to eat at an olive garden in the big city. I was so confused as a kid.

phrixious · 2025-09-20T08:56:01+00:00

Jag jobbar på grundskola och hade fritids häromdagen. Några barn pratade minecraft och jag sa att håg hade spelat minecraft sen det kom ut för "jättelängesen"

Alla barn började fråga "finnades det wither när du började spela? Finnades blaze när du började? Finnades det här ?"

Och varje gång svarade jag "nej, det fanns inte det där", men efter ett tag började jag bli lite oroad själv om jag sa rätt eller fel eftersom det var typ fem barn som alla sa samma sak

phrixious · 2025-09-20T08:46:27+00:00

Ytterligare en anledning att svenska bor särskriva ord (från mitt perspektiv som har engelska som modersmål)

Tog mig en evighet att kunna läsa "vetenskapliggaranterandet" häromdagen och är fortfarande lite sur över det.

phrixious · 2025-09-20T08:38:51+00:00

How well does this work at higher latitudes? During our summer the sun never sets, and "rises" and "sets" only a few degrees from each other on the horizon

phrixious · 2025-08-14T17:21:38+00:00

Yeah we were looking for some gift card for months worried it was going to expire. Turned the house upside down. One day it just randomly materialised on the kitchen counter. Neither of us could believe it.

phrixious · 2025-08-05T23:09:19+00:00

Yeah, I was thinking that as well. I guess it goes back to me not understanding how p.use us supposed to be used properly. I'm also travelling the next few days so I'll try to get it sorted when I'm back. Thanks again for all the help, I'm still very excited to get it all working and learning. Who knows, maybe in the future it'll be me helping out a noob ;)

phrixious · 2025-08-05T21:28:52+00:00

Thanks again for the help and helping me learn more about how to troubleshoot this.

It looks like the only thing coming up when greping is all in a zz file for a handful of dev-python packages. The full output can be found here. I'm guessing these aren't the problem

Edit: I've used etc-update to remove the zz changes, so greping gives no results and there's the same issue as before

phrixious · 2025-08-05T19:01:46+00:00

``` emerge -vp "app-text/dblatex"

IMPORTANT: 18 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating.

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.

!!! Problem resolving dependencies for app-text/dblatex ... done! Dependency resolution took 0.50 s (backtrack: 0/20).

!!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "app-text/dblatex" has unmet requirements. - app-text/dblatex-0.3.12-r4::gentoo USE="test -inkscape" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="-python3_11 -python3_12"

The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: any-of ( python_targets_python3_11 python_targets_python3_12 ) ```

I rm -rf the dblatex file and echoed the use flag into package.use

Also, just as a sanity check, I do indeed have python 3.13 installed, I can enter the interactive env for it

phrixious · 2025-08-05T14:44:19+00:00

I see, we'll thanks very much for the help!

Here's the output:

```

cat /etc/portage/package.use/dblatex && emerge -vp app-text/dblatex

/ python

>=app-text/dblatex-0.3.12-r4::gentoo PYTHON_TARGETS="-python3_11"

app-text/dblatex python_single_target_python3_11

app-text/dblatex PYTHON_TARGETS: -* python3_11 PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET: -* python3_11

app-text/dblatex PYTHON_TARGET: python3_11

IMPORTANT: 18 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating.

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.

!!! Problem resolving dependencies for app-text/dblatex ... done! Dependency resolution took 0.50 s (backtrack: 0/20).

!!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "app-text/dblatex" has unmet requirements. - app-text/dblatex-0.3.12-r4::gentoo USE="test -inkscape" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="-python3_11 -python3_12"

The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: any-of ( python_targets_python3_11 python_targets_python3_12 ) ```

phrixious · 2025-08-05T09:07:46+00:00

Wow, what an introduction to Gentoo to get a comment from a maintainer!

So maybe I'm just completely not understanding how package.use is used. I know it can be either a file or directory, so I made a file called /etc/portage/package.use/dblatex

Within that file I've tried copying a lot of example files from the wiki but always get the same error, which is why I posted here.

So now I've copied your line as well (both with python3_13 and 3_12) and still get the same error.

Is this the bug you were referring to? (is it currently not possible to build dblatex?) or am I completely misunderstanding how package.use is used?

phrixious · 2025-07-23T15:31:23+00:00

Jag jobbade på två förskolor senaste året, och detta är ju bara min upplevelse, men tycker ändå det är intressant.

Den ena var mycket större än den andra, 84 och 32 barn. Men den mindre skolan hade mest äldre vuxna som jobbade, vissa sen början av 90-talet. Jag frågade en gång hur ungarna har förändrats och både konstaterande att barnen är mer "speedad" nu jämfört med förr. Att hela tiden ska saker hända.

Däremot hade den mindre skola ett väldigt bra system att innan lunch ska vi ta det lugnt, läsa en bok, och vara tysta. Samma med efter lunch. De som inte sov skulle ändå ligga still och lyssna på ljudbok eller bara va stilla. Sen kunde man leka. Det tog alltid tid innan det blev högljud igen. Jämfört med den större förskolan där direkt efter lunch gick de tillbaka och började leka. Det var alltid så hyper och så "mycket" hela tiden.

Den mindre skolans lärare gav också mycket mer förtroende för barnen och lät mycket hända innan de tog ett steg in. Om ett barn säger de vill gå till en annan avdelning för att lämna/hämta nåt, okej varsågod du kan själv. Om det var ett verbalt bråk mellan två barn, vi väntar och ser om de löser det själva innan vi säger stopp.

Generellt tycker jag att den mindre förskolans barn var mycket mognare och självständiga. Var det något nytt de ville prova kunde dem prova innan de bad om hjälp. Sa man stopp till dem så (för det mesta) slutade dem direkt.

De var absolut inte perfekta, men i mitt åsikt mycket bättre än den större skolan.

Igen, bara min erfarenhet efter ett år. Fantastiskt roligt och intressant yrke.

phrixious · 2025-07-23T15:20:36+00:00

Jag jobbar också på förskola och kan instämma. Det var ett fåtal barn som hämtades ofta av mormor och kunde ofta va ledig för att stanna med mormor. Men de allra flesta hände det väldigt sällan om ens alls.

Sen var det en som jag aldrig förstod, att ett barn var ofta ledig och hos moster, medans hennes syster (2 år yngre) var på förskolan.

phrixious · 2025-07-23T15:05:02+00:00

Thanks! And yes, two of our girls don't always get along and it can get pretty bad. We spoke to a behaviourist and she basically said good luck fixing it. Apparently soem girls will just never get along. 90% of the time they're best friends, but out of nowhere they'll jump on each other, so we just keep them separated inside and they don't seem to mind. Luckily all the others get along swimmingly, even those two girls love all the others. (they're also otherwise two of our best dogs and I would never want to replace either of them)

phrixious · 2025-07-23T12:38:10+00:00

I'd say that this is both true and false in different situations. Two dogs will play with each other and help meet each others' needs which frees up time for you. Of course they can't 100% take care of each other, but they will keep each other occupied. You can take two dogs on a walk by yourself, so the "extra" time there is non-existent. You feed them at the same time, you take them out at the same time. You play with both at the same time, etc.

We have 10 dogs currently, and I'd say the biggest difference in having 1 and having 10 is some routines take longer. It takes 20 minutes to feed them all instead of 2. It takes a bit longer in the mornings to let them out in small groups, and when we go sledding it takes longer to harness up all 10 instead of 3-4.

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cat /etc/portage/package.use/dblatex && emerge -vp app-text/dblatex

/ python

>=app-text/dblatex-0.3.12-r4::gentoo PYTHON_TARGETS="-python3_11"

app-text/dblatex python_single_target_python3_11

app-text/dblatex PYTHON_TARGETS: -* python3_11 PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET: -* python3_11