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IANAL, but 99% sure that the situation in Germany is that you have to identify yourself (give name, birthday, (address?)), but you /don‘t/ have to carry (or show) your government i…

With all of the tech layoffs happening right now, it sort of dawned on me that even as a software engineer I am still very much „working class“: The pay might be good, but there st…

I don‘t think this metaphorical coin exists in London, which is the location that the tweet is talking about.

I worked through large parts of PQP ([1]) with only the prerequisites that you state, as part of a Uni course taught by Aleks Kissinger. I got quite comfortable with the formalism …

Worth looking into any COSS (commercial open source) companies that you find interesting. That’s where you write the code that then others glue together - plus you can inspect the …

I think you are kinda right in that it might be very hard to get people out of homelessness, but what more housing could do is prevent homelessness in the first place. Presumably m…

Interestingly, I think that almost all of the downsides listed in the article and in the comments go away if you use a good framework for creating microservices (example for this: …

„Whenever I think a country has rules that are tyranny it is my duty to go there“ is a weird take

If you want to counteract this tendency, consider getting them into (competitive) sports. Nothing will work right away, they will have to „grind“ (train/practice) a lot, failures a…

I travel between Italy, Austria, Germany and Switzerland somewhat regularly, not rarely passing through 3 of the 4 countries for a given trip. I use the Austrian national railway‘s…

From what I can tell, the field is indeed evolving very rapidly, but I have only worked on a specific application (knowledge graph completion), so I can't give an overview over all…

I don‘t think it‘s true that there is no competition in the example you give, rather competition simply happens along a differen axis. In the open source space there are certain ch…

>Ask the average person if they'd rather pay to have the paper degree and not have to attend any classes, or get the education for free but not receive any paper credentials. You'l…

Is it really true that, in the US, many college students don't want to be there but go nonetheless, despite having to pay absurd amounts of money? Where I study, uni is basically f…