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by nforgerit 5mo ago
Congrats, this is the stupidest thing I’ve been reading all day. And that includes the orange man’s post.
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by nforgerit 1y ago
This is a very superficial perspective. Disclaimer: I disdain both BSW and Afd. You're basically falling into "the populist trap" in which they take a fact or something true and wrap it with a lot of BS and conspiracy theorie
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by nforgerit 1y ago
Oh McKinsey had a name for that program ("Leap"). I once worked at a "Telco Enterprise Startup" in Berlin founded by them. They essentially lied about any anticipated KPI potentials and let their "tech" people
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by nforgerit 1y ago
Not an expert either, esp. because I'm too young and socialized in West Germany with family ties to Thuringia, though. What always struck me was Eastern Germans' tendency to practical things (and an enormous creativity in fixing b
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by nforgerit 2y ago
I'd suggest browsing through ourworldindata.org's energy section. It is an absolutely astonishing accomplishment what China has built with slashing PV and battery prices as well as production capacities in recent years. Dynamics a
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by nforgerit 2y ago
Whilst I agree with most of the points, author is making here I cannot help but make a small snarky remark that we, as a dev community, have been talking and dreaming about those talking points since the advent of html5 which is roughly 15y
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by nforgerit 2y ago
Not at all. E.g. Germany requires housing projects to build "enough parking lots" for newly built flats[0]. The result is that flats either don't get built at all or "green surfaces" (or playgrounds) get transformed
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by nforgerit 2y ago
Parent was discussing systematic issues and I was answering to that. In fact, what I'm getting downvoted for (the problem of outsourced over-engineered regulations that frequently contradict each other) is openly discussed, at least in
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by nforgerit 2y ago
The problem is that those regulatory committees always put some kind of idealistic nonplus ultra standards into the regulations without respecting the real world. "Sorry kids, no kindergarden here for you because the regulator requires
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by nforgerit 2y ago
Think of it as people who feel more frustrated than other by being interrupted in their thinking process. From my anecdotal evidence I think one can map different psychological spectrums like ADHD or autism to them liking or disliking such
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by nforgerit 2y ago
Also energy efficiency significantly improved, no?
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German gov't to introduce "recognized services" for cookie decisions (PDF, de)(bmdv.bund.de)
1 points by nforgerit 2y ago|0 comments
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by nforgerit 2y ago
Our governments are a swamp of incompetence concerning anything "Information age". But still my fav story is from the private sector: In order to "merry" digital and paper form data, they set up a system to send paper fo
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by nforgerit 2y ago
German government will print out all messages on paper and hire thousands of civil servants to read each message. It's gonna be a Beschäftigungswunder.
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by nforgerit 2y ago
I once had the opportunity to watch two crows attacking a swarm of sparrows. I've never seen birds hunting birds before so it made me watch the whole scene for 3-5min and I was baffled how the crows systematically 1) induced chaos tryi
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by nforgerit 2y ago
You hit the nail. It's been almost tragically funny how people frantically tried to juggle 5 bars of wet soap in recent 2 years solving problems that (from what I've seen so far) have been already solved in a (boring) deterministi
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by nforgerit 2y ago
I'll call it the Volkswagen Trap, or more general the ICE one-way street
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by nforgerit 2y ago
The main problem is not even the ice wasteland which northern Europe would be but the dramatic temperature gradient to the Mediterranean which means storms and weather extremes we've never seen before.
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by nforgerit 2y ago
Stefan Rahmstorf[0] has been talking quite a lot about this in the recent 3-5 years, with a rising urge over time. This paper perfectly fits what he was telling about AMOC in a Keynote a month ago[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org
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by nforgerit 2y ago
I'll be getting downvoted for it but imho Ms never really cared about creating good software products and has been shoveling (at best) mediocrity through their wildly successful sales channels and through developing a stranglehold on p
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by nforgerit 2y ago
Why care if you got monopoly-alike power?
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by nforgerit 2y ago
We jokers are tired as well
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by nforgerit 2y ago
Why do you think not being willing to put resources to comply to rules equals to intentionally "spying on their users"? How come you think the rules assert that businesses are not able to spy on their users without their consent?
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by nforgerit 2y ago
German here. + I like the right to be able download my personal data dump on platforms - cookie banners are a total pointless waste of everyone's time - institutions and organizations use "data protection" and "privacy&q
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by nforgerit 2y ago
The best thing I can say about evaluating LLMs for code is that they reminded me of the infinite monkey theorem.
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by nforgerit 2y ago
Don't fret. What people call AI these days is just a gigantic economically unsound bullshit generator (some underlying ideas might be valuable though) that passed very stupid tests. It is brutally marketed like blockchain & crypto
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by nforgerit 2y ago
German here. It's actually true that you see a lot of "public intellectuals" that publicly tell how bad they were at math. I only realized that when Merkel as chancellor back in Covid times, after numerous meetings with other
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by nforgerit 2y ago
When I learned programming as a teenager, I was using one of the C++ classics which, of course, taught OOP and Inheritance as a magic silver bullet. When I then finished the book and its examples, I wanted to do my own exercises and went th
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by nforgerit 2y ago
I absolutely agree. I learned the hard way that they cannot be trysted and will use the different communication channels to their own advantage. Still kind of shocks me as a German who usually went with “they do weird things but you can gen
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by nforgerit 2y ago
It opened up plenty of loopholes to avoid taxes and quit social systems, starting from healthcare, pensions etc. to all those little extras that allow you a tax avoiding setup which is impossible for regular employees. It also incentivizes

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