wildmanx

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by wildmanx 5y ago
You can't have it all. No new areas for housing and no higher buildings and keep real estate prices and rents at a certain level and more people move into the city. That's impossible. Something must give. Ideally it's a
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> Your post is bordering on propaganda. Please don't. That's not how a civilized debate works. > First of all: the problem at the core is that Berlin is pretty much built out Sorry, when comparing to other cities world-wide,
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Good for you! Glad you had some fun. And you are in the beginning of your career, can just as well post it to make yourself attractive for future employers. Better solve an actual problem that you had than to post some made-up nonsense-proj
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by wildmanx 5y ago
These 1:1200 are exceptional anecdotes that happen if you have some idealistic landlord that doesn't max out the allowed rent but rents it out at some price point that they consider reasonable, which is perhaps the rent from 20 years a
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Because a law called "Mietpreisbremse" makes it entirely unattractive to rent out. That's a strict regulation on how much rent you are allowed to take. And that's just the direct financial aspect. Once a tenant lives in
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by wildmanx 5y ago
This is not a representative case though. A few years back, I was looking for a rental in a German city with a similarly hot market. One place I looked at was not very modern but had quite low rent, so there were 300 applicants and I didn&#
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Looks to me like procrastination from doing what he actually needs to do. Which is to click on those links to find an apartment. Tech won't solve that. Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/974/
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by wildmanx 5y ago
In short, Wolfram uses this term to describe distributed local state updates of a global state space. In his particular model, the global state space is a hypergraph, and the state updates are replacements of some local subgraphs with other
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> The worst allegation IRL I've heard about him is a tendency to give the impression that he discovered all of this stuff when he did not. Yeah, but it's worse than that. It's not just that he uses his employees' work
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by wildmanx 5y ago
He is not just "creating a research institute". He basically claims to have solved all of science. Case in point: Yesterday he streamed a "History of Science and Technology Q&A" session. [1] Is it about the history o
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Not blindly though. That's also where subconscious biases live. Scientists go to great lengths to mitigate as much as possible of it. Also, the "gut" is where things like racism are rooted.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Yes there are plenty of those. And if they then blatantly state that they are not open source because they don't want somebody to build a business on their product while that's exactly what they are doing, then they lost me as wel
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> This means we ended up building completions by hand and soon, via the community. You like people to contribute for free ("build a community") but refuse to give them an actual FOSS client. This is bound to fail. There are way
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Have you missed the data breaches left and right in recent ... years?
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> The types of features we could eventually charge for are team features. You can probably maximize community acceptance if you provide clients that do not use these features as actual FOSS and only start incorporating closed-source piec
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> I really wanted to like it, too. The screenshots look great Agreed! Let's just wait for a FOSS alternative to pop up that has a few similar fundamental features. Don't need the cloud-multi-user-account-based stuff.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
"[we want a restrictive license that] prevents another company from starting a commercial enterprise off of it" versus "our terminal model code is based on Alacritty’s model code." Well done. Sorry guys, that's wher
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Other parts of the world have realized that this is impacting insects and birds and have started cutting down on light pollution.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Just open tickets for those things then. "Read Xyz book", "catch up on C++17", "brush up on advanced git concepts", "have coffee with Jim from product management", "play pingpong this week with J
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Anybody you reach out to, no matter hiring responsibility or not, has the interest of getting good people into the company, irrespective of how happy they themselves are at the workplace. Really good people are hard to come by in this marke
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> So what you really end up doing is finishing at noon some days and then procrastinating on everything while you do nothing productive or fun because you've done everything you could with your budget 100 times over after years of t
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by wildmanx 5y ago
A post hosted on a website that's unreachable saying that it's unreachable. Just my humor. Love it!
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> > Looking at many of the NFTs on popular marketplaces being sold for tens, hundreds, or millions of dollars, that URL often just points to some VPS running Apache somewhere. > This is a lie. Whenever somebody writes this, I immed
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Also guarantees that you may need to break some seal that then can be proof for tampering, warranty-wise. (Which otoh some users may not like.)
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> We've worked on something that we call package support which is adding extra metadata to > the package JSON, which allows the maintainer to provide information about their intention in terms of support. So what kind of support
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by wildmanx 5y ago
It needs to be something that requires certain skill. Maybe a dip switch inside the enclosure. Average Joe won't dare and it's too much work anyway. At least if you just try random things to get your IoT device to work if somethin
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Pointing this out was really helpful. Thanks! The reason is that the author of the original blog post failed PG's point themselves. The main criticism is the form of the blog post. Even if everything in it was true, the laptop was a
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Straw man alarm. Nobody is talking about doing that on day 1 or hour 1. She took the time months later to rant. Could invest time months later to instead improve things. Which of course won't happen if you already made up your mind on
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by wildmanx 5y ago
It's one step in building personal connections with your co-workers. It's one thing to get into a fight with somebody who is only a username on your screen. It's very different if you get to know your co-workers, understand h
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by wildmanx 5y ago
A problem is that the easier you make it to sneak in other trusted root CAs, the more you open attack surfaces which malicious parties can exploit. As a device manufacturer that uses certificate pinning, do you really want to trust whatever

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