Thank you for the kind words my friend. I enjoyed contributing to TinyKVM during my time at Varnish Software. It is nice to see that you are able to present and share it with the community.
My partner and I love the "single-stair multifamily" building "Leilighet" that we live in Oslo, Norway. It was built in the 1920s and has 3 levels with each level having 3 units. We enjoy the people that we live near and we really appreciate that our son is able to be around so many people in our immediate community. For the most part, we are always seeing someone that we know when coming and going.
We have an access road behind the building that is between the building and the green space. This access road is gated and is used by all of us residents (especially the kids).
The green space has plenty of things to share (garden areas, berries, fruit trees, barbecues, tables, chairs, etc...) My 5 year old son has a lot of friends who live in our area and he's able to just be himself running around, climbing trees, digging in dirt, and exploring his world within a safe community.
The density and use of space is much more efficient than what I was previously used to in the Pacific Northwest. During the last five years of living in Oslo, we have only needed a car when visiting friends at their cabins. I feel privileged to live a car free lifestyle.
As a student of Bokmål (for immigration and integration), Nynorsk is an ongoing mystery to me.
I think that I'm still at the A level (A1/A2). My auditory processing disorder adds an extra variable that I'm still learning how to work with as an adult. If anyone (in Norway) knows of someone who has or is interested in APD (https://www.statped.no/horsel/andre-utfordringer/auditive-pr...), please reach out to me.
Anyways, always happy to see Norwegian related news in HN.
Had a remote meeting with someone from Finland today. She speaks a bit Swedish, so I speak Norwegian and we can understand each other. Then today some other Norwegian joined in on the meeting, but she's from western Norway with a heavy dialect, and we had to switch to English for everyone to understand each other, heh.
Nynorsk isn't so bad once you get used to Bokmål. When I come across it in writing, it just seems like everything is spelled wrong. (am an immigrant as well)
It won't be such a mystery forever - at least not for reading. I struggle with many of the dialects down there (but then again... I'm listening to folks around Trondheim and I know others think that dialect is weird, too)
I'm in my 50s now and emigrated, but as a Norwegian child growing up in Oslo/Fredrikstad (both bokmål districts) I absolutely loathed the forced Nynorsk classes in the 80s/early 90s.
It absolutely felt as a political box ticking exercise, and a complete waste of time - I readily observed that people were struggling enough with bokmål as it was.
Never had a single use for it after leaving school.
As for the dialects, 100% agree
- they are very very different indeed.
A fun and relevant challenge would be to read some works by Jon Fosse, who was the recent Nobel Prize winner. He writes in Nynorsk. It's just different at a reading level (writing it is different, since there are some different grammar rules with it.)
For an easier challenge, there's the comic artist Jens K. Styve, who makes a newspaper comic ("Dunce") good enough that even the national newspapers didn't mind that it was in Nynorsk.
Nothing, but if you want to write a terminal user interface with eyecandy insofar as that's possible in a terminal, Charm's libraries and tooling is an option.
In Oslo, Norway we are currently paying about $300/mo for full time child care (it is more like kindergarten). That’s the maximum out-of-pocket that parents have to pay for a single child.
Our taxes contribute to the kindergarten system and the government requires that all children from the age of 1 have a right to attend. We have hundreds of both private (owned by the government) and public (for profit) kindergartens in the Oslo area. So it scales well and benefits the entire community and local economy.
I wish the US could experience what we have here in Norway.
> private (owned by the government) and public (for profit)
I think these may be inverted - public is what is owned by the government, private is for profit.
Nonetheless, children being raised by the state is not a positive. As a parent you get to see your child for a couple of hours a day during the week and for two full days during the weekend. Not ideal to be honest.
My parent’s waited 12+ months for a replacement bumper for their Tesla. They eventually decided to just trade it in for a new SUV. My dad is the kind of man who takes excellent care of things, and keeps vehicles in perfect condition.
If Tesla was able to provide the replacement parts I imagine they would have kept the car, but the waiting and poor communication from Tesla was the deciding factor to go back to a SUV.
Aside from some scaling issues, it still is a great solution for having real-time insight into the performance of Varnish and the cache.
We even went as far as writing a Golang version of the VCS server to better handle some of the scaling challenges. I don’t remember the exact library that we are using to call into ZeroMQ, but the CGO overhead was minimal.
I don’t remember the exact details, but the Oslo municipality has a program that will provide home owners a grant to replace their inefficient wood stoves.
Statistics Norway might have some interesting data on how many households burn wood.
Thank you for the kind words my friend. I enjoyed contributing to TinyKVM during my time at Varnish Software. It is nice to see that you are able to present and share it with the community.
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