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I kind of don't imagine a workaholic having online gaming scandal about paying someone to run a game for them and then doubling down on that, but well, I was already told before I lack imagination.

I would be very happy with Windows 7 on manufacturing side - lots of CNCs that are still in use and supported by manufacturers are still on Windows 98.

Hungary probably due to Orban, while Slovakia has ultra-nationalistic party in coalition.

I would evade Germany, Austria and also Italy in general, due to common racism against slavic people.

I don't know where you are from, but at least in Slovenia if you see someone running for EU parliament you know he is basically retiring from politics.

EU parliament has no actual power, EU is basically ran by EC and ECB.

For comparision with Tesla, with my little 15 year old clio it's like this:

1. There is mandatory service with technical exam yearly. Few days before it I call my mechanic, drive car to him, then pick it up next day. He changes the oil, brake pads if they are getting bad, tightens a few nuts. Usually I pay less than 100€ for that, but price varies heavily by car model/mechanic/location.

2. I go change the wheels before and after winter (we have to use separate ones for summer and winter there due to snow). Again, I call the mechanic, drive the car to him same day, chat for 15min, then he is finished. Around 120€ if I need new wheels, just 40€ if previous season ones are still good.

Every so often a bit bigger service is needed (if exhaust needs to be replaced or something else). In this case the car stays at mechanic over weekend, maybe max 4-5 days if he needs to order parts he doesn't have in stock.

Average it's less than 400€ yearly and less than a week of downtime in total per year.

Similiar to Slovenian - we have 400 dialects, grouped in 7 larger groups based on similarity. Given that there is only like 2 million speakers that may feel like a large number, but it's a consequence of rather hilly geography.

Differences between some of them are rather extreme, especially Prekmurje dialects feel like their own language - so we need to fallback to "book" Slovenian when talking with people from different regions.

Spare parts for clios are there practically free, since it's so common - also mechanics like them, since older models are very simple to service.

Largest parts I had to replace so far were exhaust (60€ for part) last year and exhaust hatch (I don't know if that's the correct english term for that, 80€ for part) this year. Brake pads I had to change twice so far, but it was also pretty cheap.

With my mother I have a joke that rebuilding my clio from scratch would probably cost me less than tire change on her merc.

The only annoyance I have with it is that it's eating through light bulbs at annoying pace, since electricity in the older clios tends to be a bit funky. But okay, that's a 5min change usually.

Here I believe we disagree a bit about what engineer means.

The best math book for a software engineer imho is Concrete mathematics by Knuth (of TAOCP fame).

Problems in it are a bit tough to chew through though.

Linear algebra doesn't have many preconditions - so being used to math texts is much more important for it than having some pre-knowledge.

Easiest to start will be either Linear Algebra done right by Axler or Linear algebra done wrong by Treil - try both, they take very different approaches to introducing the subject, so one of them may be compatible with you.

After finishing either of these I heartily recommend you Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces by Halmos - it's way more abstract, so I cannot recommend it as first introduction to LA, but it proves its results in very beautiful and a bit uncommon way. It's probably my favourite book from undergrad.

I really appreciate this one from 4.18:

Certain menus were not being properly translated when switching languages in the app. You know what they say about menus — they’re most helpful when you can read them.