Spain is more than Barcelona or Valencia. Both the North and the inner part of the country can have crude winters, specially in the mountains. The temperatures range between -22 and 116 Fahrenheit depending on the location. For comparison, Chicago minimum is -25 F, so even if the mean is lower there, some places can be still very cold. Is one of the most diverse countries in Europe.
From pleasants 20-25C to -30C in some peaks. Castilles? Snow for granted. The north? Chilly as hell. Not snowy, but the humidity fro the Atlantic will make you feel cooler than the Castilles themselves even if freezing.
Can be hard, and NOT just because of Filomena. Not all Spain it's a Mediterranean beach, trust me. Some winters in Leon can be harder than the average Winter in Poland.
How hard a Winter can be? Pick a height map of Spain... and you will deduce something by yourself.
TL:DR Spain is not just Andalusia, and the US is not just Texas.
Spain is like a condensed minigame map of the US. Remember when the Morrowind videogame looked megadiverse because of the mountains generating lots of different terrains and curves? That's Spain. You cross a mountain tunnel by car and your warm 28C degrees in May at Leon somehow shifted to a cloudy, gray sky with 15 degrees in Asturias in -literally, measured by clock- ~10 minutes.
You would think that you where somehow abducted and teleported from a UFO in the road. But no, it's just the rough nature.
And the Winters in Leon are bipolar being a dry, continental climate. So you can have scorching summers... and freezing winters with -10 degrees with ease.
So, yes, Winters outside the Mediterranean sea can be rough.
> professionally printed books for example use slightly gray letters on creme paper."
Those people are fetishizing the limitations of offset printing. You simply can't produce sharp blacks comparable to an industrial laser printer with offset printing.
> I don't think you could get "slightly gray" with a laser printer
You absolutely can. But pure black on Natural Shade (off-white or cream) paper looks much better.
Most POD setups use inkjet printers for cost reasons which results in poor print quality.
> Professionally printed books for example use slightly gray letters
This is simply an artefact of offset printing.
> Like for websites, this lowers the contrast and feels more natural for humans.
Text printed by an industrial laser printer on cream (or Natural Shade as it's called in the industry) paper looks discernibly crisper than what an offset printer produces.
> Hell, with commercial printers from the likes of Konica Minolta, the print quality for text is better than offset print.
Can you link to some high-resolution comparison scans to support this claim? I find it hard to believe that any toner-based process is going to result in a cleaner page and crisper text than a properly made-ready offset press run.
I write code exclusively in vim. Unless you want to pretend that ctags is a proprietary version of an LSP, I'm not using an LSP either. I work at a global tech company, and the codebase I work on powers the datacenter networks of most hyperscalers. So, very much a real project. And I'm not an outlier, probably half the engineers at my company are just raw dawgin it with either vim or emacs.
Ctags are very limited and unpopular. Most people do not use them, by any measurement standard.
Using a text editor without LSP or some form of intellisense in 2026 is in the extreme minority. Pretending otherwise is either an attempted (and misguided) "flex" or just plain foolishness.
> probably half the engineers at my company are just raw dawgin it with either vim or emacs
Both vim and emacs support LSP and intellisense. You can even use copilot in both. Maybe you're just not aware...
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