When you’re in the top 5% it doesn’t really matter where you rank

Top 5% of the world is 250kUSD (1)

Of course. My work and my friends are quite international is all. With my family I speak my native tongue.

I spend more time speaking English than my native language.

That’s a fine idea. I was going to make a floorplan, might as well do a simplified 3d model.

Did you also use it to test out colors? Or is sketchup not a great tool for that?

Hehe Waka, I know what you’re talking about. I recognise it now, even if it took a few decades. It’s why I’m moving :)

The thing is, it did leave me with this, making it difficult to turn a set of objects into a living space. So I also appreciate the more practical tips :D

Danke shön for your kindness.

How do I open the console to type motherlode ?

2nd person recommending that channel. I know what to watch tonight.

Didn’t expect a stardew valley recommendation, but will give it a try too. Can’t hurt!

Thanks, wise Owl!

Impressive :D Could just do that for the joke 🤔😄

Don’t assume you know what I like or don’t like!!

Jk ;) I think I can already decently do function and comfort, it’s theming and aesthetics that’s difficult to me. As I’m one of these people.

Wow there are a lot of gems in there. Would it make sense to pick a painting there and use it’s (dominant) colors for the walls and furniture? That way there’d be some consistency.

Is that something people do?

Thanks for the compliment. But sadly, this picture isn’t mine, I’m not at that level. I used it as a conversation starter, to get the idea across.

Sounds like the easiest way indeed. Thinking of measuring the place, creating a floorplan, and handing it over to someone who knows.

Danke

Sometimes you’ll see a piece that just says “hey, I want that”

That’s the difficult part :) I’ve never experienced that, despite having visited those stores.

A chair is a chair is a chair, to me.

You can ping yourself

The manual copy is a bit annoying, but in the end it’s maybe 10 minutes of work. Start the transfer in the evening, it’s finished in the morning.

I’m wondering if there’s a program where anyone can upload files, but can only be viewed and downloaded from the server by authenticated users.

Email does that. Anyone can send it to your mailbox, only you can download it.

In uni we always had a verbal defense for our papers. That had 2 benefits: (1) verify that the student actually wrote the paper (plagiarism and ghost writers were a thing before LLMs too), and (2) the prof could test the boundaries of the student’s understanding with additional questioning.

The obvious caveat being the amount of time it takes for the teacher to have a 1-on-1 with each student.

I have 5 copies of all my files on 5 devices, synced using syncthing with staggered file versioning. 2 of those are with friends and family who let me put a thin client at their place.

To protect against me misconfiguring syncthing, or some bug deleting all copies, every 3 months I manually make a copy and put it on a hard drive into a fire resistant safe.

The downside is that it can take a long time to form these alliances. Belgium’s record is almost 2 years (out of a 5 year election cycle).

The government is the alliance that together gets >50% of the votes. That alliance falling through is the same as government (legislative and executive) disbanding.

Usually this means (1) hand over to a care taker government to have status quo continue (2) no more changes to law.

Then a few rounds of trying to find a new >50% alliance. After that, if necessary, new elections.

The reason it works differently in the US is because first-past-the-post voting always results in a 2 party dominance system. US alliances benefit from being formed before election, join blue team or red team. Here it’s after elections, with a lot of different combinations possible.