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by nforgerit 3y ago
That is the theoretical construct in the German system. However the differences are fading and to me it does not seem to be like German universities, as actors of (self-proclaimed) highest art in their topics, are doing very well. Btw: Thou
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by nforgerit 3y ago
They do, but at least 15ys ago at university of Karlsruhe (which they laughably renamed to KIT at that time) people could circumvent most of the programming tasks. I looked up the current curriculum a couple of months ago, and they at least
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by nforgerit 3y ago
German here. Austerity? Over-regulation? An oligopoly of tech-incompetent local enterprises? Just guessing here. As a student in 2007, I started being an avid follower of what Big Tech was doing and was flabbergasted that local tech enterpr
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I think in the future I'm gonna open my sources as science fiction literature with "hypothetical" installation notes. Prose is not yet prohibited, is it?
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by nforgerit 3y ago
German here, trying not to sound too polemic: Is it known if this initiative (and other "acts" like AI Act) is lobbied for by SAP, MS and the likes? To me, this looks so much like an attack by enterprises against startup competiti
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Thing is no EU startup cares about gatekeepers as long as scaling up in the local market is as bureaucratic as it is. And the fact that EU politicians are proud about the results of their proactive regulations is just.. wrong.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
> “The fact that Threads is still not available for EU citizens shows that EU regulation works,” said Christel Schaldemose, a Danish lawmaker, according to Politico last week. I like the EU, I really do. But this logic is helplessly flaw
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Somehow I knew that this question would come up, questioning the "progress" makes me a heretic. So last 2-3 months I subscribed to ChatGPT4 (and much longer to Copilot), worked through most of the HN threads on tips and reviews, p
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by nforgerit 3y ago
> It's like relying on a calculator. You still need mental math skills to know that 91 * 10 can't equal 2511. Similarly, when GPT starts hallucinating, it helps if you have a high sensitivity to smelling it out. Well, at least
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Can't find it anymore but I've watched a documentary claiming that Henry Ford and other car makers, oil companies and tire manufacturers in US and Europe lobbied city mayors over 100ys ago to get rid of perfectly fine public trans
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by nforgerit 3y ago
IMO lots of accidental complexity with no real value (in most use cases). I saw myself disagreeing frequently with pre-defined charts and creating an own chart just for one use case is better done with kustomize. It might make sense though
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Not exactly sure what they're thinking and certainly don't want to produce conspiracy theories but with their track record of the past 2 decades of "promising moonshots, not achieving much" and their recent ideas (weaken
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Never heard that "Deutschlandtakt 2070" (lol) depends on electrification of all railway tracks, to be honest. Would be interesting to read up on that, so if you have a source, I'd be glad to read it!
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Yes but make no mistake: German car manufacturers will make the German governments lobby for whatever they find value in when time goes by. They've recently invented the funny term "Technologieoffenheit" as an abstract concep
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Well climate scientists have collected more proof than ever in the last 2 decades to back the models and predictions. What we see is _measured_, not just opinion. And if you happen to read a bit about how biological systems, the weather sys
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Hm, I do get why people trying to be optimistic always bring up examples from the past to extrapolate that "humanity will always find solutions". What I don't get is that the same people simply overlook that we're not t
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by nforgerit 3y ago
How is that more than a superficial label if western democracies behave like big hypocrites? - Starting dubious wars against foreign nations? We've had Afghanistan and Iraq. - Spying on and criminalizing citizens? We're having Fiv
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Can't help but think that our governments are prepping for very harsh times coming up. Sorry for the pessimistic view, but this is what it looks like to me.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
C'mon it wasn't that bad. npm was a fun experiment on what could possibly go wrong with putting leftpad into a single package. For me it's still by far the best runtime to do anything event-alike/http/json/web.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Finally I got a clue to how the next Ted Lasso season is going to look like: He's going to coach remotely having everyone happily wearing a VP. Joke aside: It's mind-boggling how Apple uses product placement to hammer pictures in
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My mom's watching and soap is just not my kind of taste
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by nforgerit 3y ago
There's a difference between me deciding which payment method I use for service X and having service X decide into which tracking networks they put me in. Additionally, Mullvad showed how to use cash via regular post to pay 100% anonym
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by nforgerit 3y ago
So are we all now officially complaining about that it stinks where we've SEO-sh*tted for two decades? Good, then let's get rid of this ad network dystopia which never worked as advertised (they show me special offers for a frying
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by nforgerit 3y ago
My 2 cents on AI-assisted code authoring: First time I got my hands on Github Copilot some time ago, I intentionally chose something "odd" (so no CRUD API in X, Kafka stuff, sorting algorithm) so I chose to re-create some Excel sh
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Does it run Doom?
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Only decisions got significantly less erratic and somehow weekly newsletters are suddenly written in form of a haiku.
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by nforgerit 3y ago
Chaotic maybe pre-covid. But with the pandemic, the skyrocketing energy prices, the housing problems and the numerous Ukrainian refugees things got really bad for the local government. The latest low was that they weren’t able to held demo
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by nforgerit 3y ago
I'd say 20th century Berlin always was an island of craziness. In the roaring twenties, it became both a poorhouse (hyperinflation) and the city with the wildest parties and openly queer communities. After WW2 the story is that the All
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There's this story the ex-mayor of Berlin once told that there was a streetlamp directly in front of Rotes Rathaus (townhall) which was enlightened day and night and he couldn't figure out for a year or so who was responsible for
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At least some good news. What's annoying to me is that we could've been there 5 years ago. And still have a competitive industry for renewables.

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