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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Most likely not, we're already having trouble with adblue (basically just urea) freezing, especially in the northern parts. There was recently some piece of news where a repair shop in Lapland was up to their neck in repair orders for emissions control systems due to frozen adblue liquid.

Practically all washer fluid sold in Finland uses some alcohol as the deicer, typically just your normal denatured ethanol. I'd also think having urea in the washer fluid would wreak absolute havoc on some parts that get exposed to it – I'm under the impression that it's quite nasty stuff for many different materials.

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.

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

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).

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.