@Erdrandbewohner@social.tchncs.de Ich hatte einen Chef der sagte „Wenn du mehr Gehalt möchtest, gehst du doch woanders arbeiten?“ So gesagt, so getan.
Ich hoffe im Endeffekt sind jetzt alle glücklicher.
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In the ICE heading home with my kids, an employee from a not to be named major tech company was sitting in the family compartment (which is highly inappropriate) next to us, while trying to have a semblance of a work day.
Not having a privacy screen and trying to dial into all kinds of calls from a moving German train (not very successfully of course), isn’t very good on opsec, so I can tell you about their EMEA performance down to the numbers in the dashboards.
I just saw Project Hail Mary and thought it a waste of time.
You’re looking at Ryan Gosling’s face for three hours while he cracks cheesy jokes and does fake science. The runtime isn’t justified by any plot event.
Why bother with American movies at all? It’s not like they have anything to say.
@Erdrandbewohner@social.tchncs.de @isotopp@infosec.exchange > Wenn du nicht fünf Tage die Woche arbeiten willst, kannst du ja gerne gehen!
Also ist genau das passiert. Ich sehe kein Problem.
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@monoxane @jj @amyisard @arianvp @noodlemaz You don’t need real time. It’s not as if we have any real time data in Berlin for anything.
Also the algorithms by now are more than tractable and the volumes of data that you’re talking about quite modest.
I read some stuff by Zitron a while back and even back then it seemed untenable and divorced from reality aiming mostly to score points with an audience that's more than eager to believe him.
Another branch of leftism that's found it easier to retreat from reality than to try to actually do the work.
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/ais-biggest-critic-has-lost-the-plot
I dug up my old Hero Quest set and sent it on to Berlin. Looking forward to playing this with my kids properly.
We had no idea what we were doing back then but it still was tons of fun. Also the satisfaction for my mother that all the things she saved are now being used again.
In the train my kids were like: "Dad, what's the ugliest city in Germany?"
I had to think a bit and started, "Well, I haven't been to that many places yet, but it probably is somewhere in Eastern Germany… but no it's Mannheim, definitely Mannheim."
Type a wrong password and get faced with an immediate 20 minute (!) cooldown.
Germans: How else are we supposed to guarantee your Datenschutz rights?
> Railway, a cloud infrastructure provider that is generally regarded to be ‘friendlier’ than the likes of AWS
Corollary: If your infrastructure provider is so "friendly" that it's trivial to do all kinds of things, it's also possible for a coding agent to drop your production database.
Also this does not look like some kind of fly-by-night, pre-PMF startup. There's no excuse for not having the basic separation of tenants in place at this point.
Strong arguments not to use HTTP to have your reverse proxy talk to your application server. Who knew that FastCGI was so solid?
https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies
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This is glib but no less true for it: "The Faster You Go, the Wronger You Get" It's unclear who will be able to internalize this lesson now if they weren't able to do it previously. While it has become even more important it has in no way become easier.
Competitive advantage is still there and it's fundamentally the same.
Het is lastig te beschrijven hoe belangrijk en consequent Karin Spaink en haar schrijven waren voor Nederland en voor de digitale wereld waarin ook ik opgegroeid ben.
De beste manier om het te snappen is het lezen van dit afscheid waarin veel van waar ze voor stond bij elkaar komt.
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With the referendum as an excuse Berlin’s far right parties found common cause and were able to push political placards everywhere for weeks (normally not allowed).
With the continued rollback of cycling infrastructure, the political positioning here could become a flashpoint but it’s hard to see.
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Then after hearing the number of misrepresentations or untruths approach a frequency of one per sentence I stopped listening.
Every country gets the digitalisation it deserves.
After putting the kids to bed I run down the street to Utage most evening for a nightcap.
This sake “Kino 2” comes from a brewery in Mie that I seem to have walked past last November. It’s a super interesting sake and a funny coincidence.
Coming from Berlin seeing the Rookvrij campaign everywhere is a bit jarring. I’m sure nobody follows these rules but still it’s nice to see that this is something people think is important.
Public health campaigns are rare in Germany where freedom trumps all else.
The nice thing about vibe coding is that apps can be made by amateurs in the literal sense of the word: people who love something.
With Strava for instance it's increasingly obvious that most of the people working on the product have never seen a road bike from up close.
In de Albert Heijn zat een meisje het koelschap met een tandenborstel schoon te poetsen.
Zoiets heb ik nog nooit gezien in Duitsland.
Locality of code, AI friendly and without needless extra tech stacks that force you to jump back and forth.
Lots of people will scoff at HTMX but that is often the case with tools that aren't hip but are used to get real work done.
https://htmx.org/essays/paris-2024-olympics-htmx-network-automation/
We dropped by the Muizenhuis gallery/store which seems to have become a phenomenon.
The craft is done with care, the stories are fun and
of course it’s a great way to milk the nostalgia for an Amsterdam that’s barely more than the whiff of a memory.
The cross between absolute gall and deep ignorance of people in Berlin putting up 64GB iPad mini 6 classifieds with an asking price of €300.
No way to help these people.
Not sure how or why but parents both in the Netherlands and Germany seem to be convinced that too much screen time is a poison for their children.
Haidt and his friends must be making a lot of money while at the same time damaging young people’s lives.
The lack of freedom of speech that is in Germany is insane.
If somebody is a cunt, you should be able to call them a “cunt” without being subject to the country’s class justice. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x4mzdcf5dzxicy7n4dvlof7p/post/3mm7okzdrvk22
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@Bot_Anix@nrw.social @freiheitsfonds@mas.to Er ist ein Wasteman wie die Engländer das so treffend sagen.
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@bkastl@mastodon.social Man kann auch echte Menschen befragen und dann erfahren, dass die Nutzeranforderungen ganz anders sind und die meiste Leute von so einem Vorgang genervt oder überfordert wären.
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Mokafe is a cute enough breakfast place in the neighborhood in Amsterdam where I was born. The coffee was lacklustre and not real worth a repay visit.
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@Lana@beige.party Why would Trump want the strait open if the USA doesn’t need oil and is exporting it anyway?
Playing Hero Quest with my kids and Critical Role’s “How do you want to do this?” every time they kill a monster is going over really well.
Lots of blades being stuck into the heart or straight down the skull.
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@anneroth@systemli.social Dann kann man auch Küchenmesser verbieten weil Leute sich damit in die Finger schneiden.
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Every referendum in Berlin has been a waste of time and there’s nothing progressive happening in the city.
The only point of hope is that all these parties are interchangeable and the vote is completely split. That could allow for some opportunities if smart political operators could be found.
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@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy @whvholst@eupolicy.social I cycled past a senior residence out in Brandenburg this week on a moderately hot day and saw the old people sitting outside. At least those were the ones who survived this one, no idea about the next.
It's possible to scan the EDEKA app when doing groceries. The result of that is more or less never a discount and an e-mail after the fact with the receipt.
I already use the app, I don't need the receipt in my inbox. Go take a look at how the AH app works if you want to see how it's done.
Honest question: Don’t they in Germany put aside money as provisions for the renovations of buildings and infrastructure in 20 years or so?
This hardly can come as a surprise to anybody.
Very funny, instructive and just outright wonderful that it's even possible to build a handheld gaming device for under 10 cents.
https://chrisdell.info/using-rust-to-build-a-1-dollar-handheld-gaming-console/
What does Mastodon think about the OpenAI Erdős proof?
It's a fair take but it ignores that it's all path dependence.
Any decision whether on the product side or in engineering cements a structure that is painful to change later. Whether you have AI helping you there or not is mostly irrelevant. It handles the more basic things but the hard choices are still hard.
Hebben we de jaarlijkse “Waarom wil niet naar Turkije op vakantie?-ruzie ook weer gehad.