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by acatton 3mo ago
What is this whole thing about Europe being behind on AI? Do Mistral and DeepL not exist? Yes, I know DeepL is niche, but IMHO it is the best translation model out there.
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by acatton 4mo ago
Don't worry about the small web. Most people running the small web don't do it for others but themselves. They don't care whether they have 5 visitors or 1 million. Visitors are just the cherry on top, my main reason for main
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by acatton 7mo ago
Airbus was never born as a European giant. It was a merging of many national champions (Aérospatiale, DASA and CASA) that were each already making full airplanes. They figured out how to spread out the manufacturing later. Airbus currently
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by acatton 8mo ago
The poster is the author of the website. So I think it's self-promo mixed with "hey, look how interesting is the amount of 'bureaucracy' involved when one wants to move out of Germany"
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by acatton 8mo ago
> “AI makes it easier”, was it hard to stumble across out-of-context clips and photoshops that worked well enough to create divisiveness? Yes. And I think this is what most tech-literate people fail to understand. The issue is scale. It
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by acatton 8mo ago
> In fact firefox now allows you to preview the link and get key points without ever going to the link[1] > [1] https://imgur.com/a/3E17Dts This is generated on device with llama.cpp compiled to webassembly (aka
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by acatton 10mo ago
"When Congress passes new emission standards, [Honda] hires 50 more engineers and GM hires 50 more lawyers." The quote is attributed to Soichiro Honda, in the book Driving Honda: Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Compan
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by acatton 10mo ago
One of these features is "Active Hood" or "Pop Up Hood" which uses pyrotechnic to pop the hood of the car in case of a frontal collision with a pedestrian, thus making the front hood of the car acting as some kind of sti
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by acatton 11mo ago
> The wg.Go Function > Go 1.25 introduced a waitgroup.Go function that lets you add Go routines to a waitgroup more easily. It takes the place of using the go keyword, [...] 99% of the time, you don't want to use sync.WaitGroup,
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by acatton 1y ago
You were young without kids or any other responsibilities, so you had spare time to nerd around. Not everybody is in that position. With this requirement you would create a bias towards single parents or folks talking care of the handicappe
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by acatton 1y ago
I would create an unwarranted bias towards people working for companies doing mostly opensource. If their previous job was writing safe code for rockets and airplanes, the candidate will very likely be qualified to write embedded code for t
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by acatton 1y ago
Yeah, I'm confused by the article. Following this logic, any interview sucks because of the stress it puts on the candidate. So what am I supposed to do? Hire based on a home assignment? then the "unpaid labour" crowd will ca
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by acatton 1y ago
Another security article recommending fail2ban again... Please don't do this. Run SSH behind some layer. Some people use Wireguard, and that's okay, I prefer spiped [1] because I can run it as an unprivileged user in a fully harde
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by acatton 1y ago
Last time I checked, the sale and advertising of alcohol is highly regulated in most EU countries.
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by acatton 1y ago
I expect Lobste.rs's outage to be totally unrelated to Heroku's, just pure timing coincidence. From the last archived version of lobste.rs/about: https://web.archive.org/web/20250601002505/https:&#x2
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by acatton 1y ago
Yes, it needs to be done in a fair manner. France used to have a tax (Impôt de Solidarité sur la Fortune) which was anybody with more than X millions of assets had to pay 75% of income tax. (I believe it was 10 millions, but I could be wron
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by acatton 1y ago
There was a study in France showing that for rent subsidies.[1] In France, the state pays max(rate * rent, cap) for apartments for students, unemployed and poor workers. Usually people don't qualify for ratio of the rent, because it&#x
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by acatton 2y ago
In this example, it's easier to just do "ln -s /usr/bin/git ~/bin/g" instead of creating a bash script... But that's just my opinion.
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by acatton 2y ago
There are multiple cases in Germany (where I live). I cannot find them all, but "Pimmelgate" is a famous one where one guy on twitter (that's what it was called at the time) told a local politician " Du bist ein Pimmel &
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by acatton 2y ago
The low river issue 2 or 3 summers ago was overblown. When there is not enough water, the production can be slowed down to use less water. Regarding what happened during that heatwave, there are, rightfully so, regulations on how hot the wa
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by acatton 2y ago
Granted, I'm not a native German speaker, but that's not my understanding of the "Impressumspflicht" law, if that's what you're referring to. The law is mostly targeted at media and to some lesser extend busine
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by acatton 2y ago
How are VMs solving this issue? You cannot just snapshot them and migrate them to another provider. You'll get different local-IPv4 and different IPv6, etc.
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by acatton 2y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but AFAIK, age doesn't influence your social score, tenure does. If I'm a 30 year old with 10 years in the company, I will have a better score than 50-year-old you who got hired 7 months ago. The idea is tha
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by acatton 2y ago
Not in my circle. Usually, threatening to sue is enough. I know people who increased their severance package because they said that "they wanted to talk to the lawyer from their legal insurance before accepting any severance package.&q
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by acatton 2y ago
" Rechtsschutzversicherung ." You want it to include " Arbeitsrechtsschutz " I would also advise you to include defamation, in case somebody sue you for defaming them. Usually many legal insurance exclude "internet&
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by acatton 2y ago
> The Myth of Job Security in Germany > [...] If a company decides to lay off, for instance, 40 employees, German law doesn’t prevent this. Instead, the law enforces a social scoring system to determine who is affected, prioritizin
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by acatton 2y ago
Related: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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by acatton 2y ago
It's hard to point to a canonical documentation, it's more institutional knowledge that is gained over years of practice. It's a little bit as if you asked "could you point at the documentation to secure a linux server?&
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by acatton 2y ago
Yeah, just the cookie banner on its own doesn't inspire trust. Post-GDPR rules in the EU are clear about the Cookie Banner, providers must make it as easy to refuse cookies as it is to accept them.[1] Also, as you said, livechat cooki
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by acatton 2y ago
> finding colocation space at reasonable price is difficult these days. The author of the post seems to be living in the bay area. It's easy when the number of nerds per km² is high, disposable income is even higher, and driving a c

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