dranudin

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by dranudin 1mo ago
> Perhaps the tendency to complain is a necessity to achieve a high level of efficiency. I am pretty convinced about that. Especially after having lived and worked in other countries where people like to complain less. If people will jus
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by dranudin 3mo ago
I was once in a museum in Bolzano, Italy. And they had the ice man mummy there (we call him Ötzi). He died like 5000years ago. And his "axe" was made of copper from some mine very far away. So even this guy probably did not know h
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by dranudin 3mo ago
The A/C cannot keep up the load, due to the exteme heat. So they decided to just not cool one part of the building, to be able to keep cooling the other part .. It is now interesting who was in which part ;)
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by dranudin 3mo ago
I don't think it is changing the goalpost. The law prevents more than half of Germany's inhabitants from installing ACs, because they are renters. Also landlords cannot just install AC just fine. If you just own an appartement, yo
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by dranudin 3mo ago
There is, unfortunately. You cannot install AC, with an outside unit, without approval of your landlord. Lots of people are renting, e.g in Germany. Of course, one can get an indoor unit an seal the window. But it is heavy and takes up a lo
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by dranudin 3mo ago
Yes :D
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by dranudin 3mo ago
I can second this. Our company and department was all-in on AI. And since the token-based pricing came in, we got an email from IT that tried to explain that most developers don't know how to choose models and that the cheap models sho
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by dranudin 4mo ago
Old people will be the majority for the foreseeable future, though. To be honest, the only strategy that I currently see for young people is waiting and growing old, unfortunately..
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by dranudin 4mo ago
I got a dustmite allergy directly after a Covid infection. Also, I got no proof but it made me suspicious if there could have been a connection..
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by dranudin 4mo ago
A guy at my company (very old company, we need to maintain our software for 30+ years) gave a presentation about how they used opus 4.6 to onboard people, like giving new team members access rights etc. Then another guy (even higher in mana
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by dranudin 5mo ago
They do heavily outsource to India, though. At least for their electronic control units..
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by dranudin 5mo ago
They are guessing much more than computer scientists would think, typically . A structural engineer does not know: the peak wind force, what the ground under the bridge is really made of, what the actual tensile strength at the weakest piec
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by dranudin 5mo ago
However, people born before 2008 smoking around you, affects you, as well. If they want to protect people they need to ban it for everybody..
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by dranudin 5mo ago
If there is a jump of inflation in the US it might very well spread to my place (EU), as well. It is interesting for me, as I am interested in economics and finance. So it sparked my curiosity, at least.
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by dranudin 5mo ago
I very much hate Schufa for the way they calculate your score (which until very recently was not even disclosed). But hey, at least they don't sell my income data to random private companies. In fact they do not have my income. Just cr
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by dranudin 6mo ago
My grandpa (ww2) was one of them. He helped my father dodge the draft, when he was supposed to go to military service.
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by dranudin 6mo ago
sure, nobody would ever speak English as a second language ;)
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by dranudin 6mo ago
It'd be great if this could one day be a real alternative to Elsevier. Today, professors and postdocs are doing the peer-review for Elsevier, for free. They can do that because they get a paycheck from the government (through universi
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by dranudin 6mo ago
In Germany. I have a degree in mechanical engineering and am thus allowed to call myself an engineer, even though I write software professionally. Colleagues who have studied computer science cannot, as it is not considered an engineering,
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by dranudin 7mo ago
I guess most just did not have a car before...
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by dranudin 7mo ago
I noticed something similar at my work. The CEO is hyping AI, but at the same time free access to the big models was taken away and rate limits seem to be much tighter..
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by dranudin 7mo ago
Will they also do tax refunds on unrealized losses? This seems hard to do in reality..
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by dranudin 8mo ago
The roi is unfortunately not the same if you earn your money in euros and need to pay your taxes in euros. At one point one has to do a forex trade and that will be a loss for the euro investor
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by dranudin 8mo ago
New Balance and Brooks make shoes in "wide". I like them very much. Also their normal shoes are wider than Nike or Adidas. In the past, like 10 years ago, I used to wear adidas shoes and they fit. Now, the new ones are way too tig
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by dranudin 9mo ago
I could imagine being a car mechanic or a welder. Repairing my car is a little hobby of mine and I could imagine doing that full time, if programming work would stop paying my bills.
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by dranudin 9mo ago
Me too :). Mostly engineering systems for programming Edge Devices used in factory automation. The user usually runs windows, the edge device linux.
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Microsoft updates flexible work expectations to three days a week in the office(blogs.microsoft.com)
14 points by dranudin 1y ago|3 comments
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by dranudin 1y ago
No never. They taught us some type of preletters in cursive, in kindergarden, as a stepping stone to real cursive. We never wrote print in elementary school. However, the kindergarden and elementary school were catholic institutions. Most p
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by dranudin 1y ago
Well, I was never taught otherwise. However lots of the other kids later in high school had developed another way of writing. So me writing cursive, now, as a grown man, is a little strange. I still write with the fountain pen, because it i
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by dranudin 1y ago
For me, in Germany, it was always cursive from the beginning to the end of school. We learned to write in the first class of elementary school. I still only write cursive and cannot write any other style, by hand. And only with a fountain p

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