The first one is closer to the original Finnish pronunciation (Finnish spelling is basically IPA), but we don't mind if you use the second one. There's no confusion with other words, especially if you otherwise speak English.

I'm not sure how exactly the (relative) humidity percentages translate to human perception, but from the experience as a Finn, the effect of humidity varies a lot. When you toss water on the stove, there's your familiar (for /. audiences) heat pipe effect: evaporation at the stove, condensation on your skin, meaning a rapid burst-mode transfer of heat into you. But this only lasts a couple of seconds, and you'll generally spend minutes relaxing in the moderate heat in between tosses.

The ideal temperature and humidity also depends heavily on the size and build of the sauna. Smaller ones are generally fine with lower air temperatures, presumably because the heat pipe effect will be better focused.

Of course, ideal humidities and temperatures really come down to preferences, and the watering frequency also provides a lot of control, there's really no need for extreme heat if that's not your thing. IMHO, the sauna is first and foremost about relaxation, even a kind of meditation, and presumably that's an important factor on health.

Not quite. It was WTF from the beginning, as these were released like 5 years after the introduction of x86-64. I got an Atom board in 2010 and I remember the mess of making extra sure it's 64-bit, as new 32-bit models were still being made.

This. I'd say the problem is made worse by the closed appliance culture that artificially distances users from developers, even if we have the open source movement to keep things alive. To consider things literally, a "digital native" should be someone who speaks ones and zeros fluently, i.e. having some level of programming ability, and not just in a school/test environment, but applying it in the real world.

Breast? That's just a silly cone.

A summary that uses "bandwidth" in its correct, technical meaning? Heresy!

Well, four is, like, twice a prime, so nyah nyah nyah!

Came here to see a reference to real, non-USB Memory Sticks. Was disappoint.

Well, I'm afraid my idea of "cool" was thousands of years old when I first got into it, so I guess I'm a lost cause anyway ;)

(I got my math symbols after my first year of working as a full-time teacher, way after my first degree, so it's not exactly some drunken teenage idea. That was over 10 years ago. I never used the word "cool" because I think it refers to something trendy and ephemeral. However, I also don't believe that growing up means losing everything that's fun and playful.)

This. My signs are rarely visible, even most t-shirts cover them, and I don't exactly go around flaunting them. It's a personal thing that tells something about me, for those who like to know. It's also a kind of joke about the perceived disjoint between those who have tattoos and those who work in education or research. That said, I've seen a surprising amount of ink in the teachers' lounges, and one of my most inked friends is an elementary school teacher; the university people seem more conservative than teachers in this sense, in my experience.

Some people might prefer an expensive suit or a fancy car to maintain a certain kind of image, and they don't seem to get the same kind of hate -- though that kind of image is usually associated with a status that attracts haters for other reasons.

It's pretty hard to go about your life not giving any kind of impression. If you avoid giving one at all, then chances are that others will come up with all kinds of false impressions.

I'm a math/science guy, and I have math symbols on my arms. If I ever regret my affection towards math and science, I might as well have some skin torn off.

Besides, the capital Sigma works great whenever somebody asks me "Are you series?".

I used to do modelling on a supercomputer. That's like supermodelling, right?

Next thing they'll tell me is that there's genes in them thar vegetables.

It would certainly be interesting if the tunnel project helped balance out the drastic price/income/tax differences between Finland and Estonia, similarly to what has happened between Sweden and Denmark to some extent. Booze runs to Estonia are a national pastime in Finland where alcohol is heavily taxed and monopolized, while many an Estonian spends their weeks working well-paid jobs in Helsinki. Of course, our government is doing everything to curb the booze runs in the name of national health, intra-EU free trade be damned. Meanwhile, a lot of Finnish entrepreneurs are moving South to enjoy a more business-friendly taxation.

You know these two are the same thing? It's just a matter of coordinate transformation. Isn't the scientific name of a regular bear, like, Ursus Cartesius?