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The EU as a whole is walking a tightrope. Its largest economies still depend heavily on the US market. If the current US regime perceives that US companies are being targeted by EU…

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I'm not sure the "a year of document processing for under 100 USD/y" is such as great thing as you think it is (at least not for European competitiveness)... It means Mistral is es…

The problem is that it encourages people to use excel for things that should never be in a spreadsheet in the first place. I mean if you're reaching for VBA, building complex Power…

It's pretty common for business contracts to just end up stuck on mainframes or scattered across various systems from vendors like Oracle (the paper trails are often thrown away lo…

Playing devil's advocate... Yeah, the ad supported model has its problems, but it also makes the internet way more accessible. If we think about it, companies and people with more …

Yes, but that's partly a consequence of how the German electricity market operates and the neglected state of its infrastructure, isn't it? Wind power and other intermittent source…

Well, many industries rely on advertising to sell their products, and I wouldn't say those industries are inherently worse than others.

I understand your point of view, and I'm not saying you don't have a point. But something tells me that you would take a more pragmatic approach if your livelihood or that of a clo…

Agree, and Cloud Run's upcoming application canvas feature appears to offer a simple way to integrate the various GCP services together seamlessly without much hassle.

Imho, I think we've gone a bit overboard with Terraform at my company. Sure, it'll automate a bunch of stuff, but only a handful of people will really "get" it. I think the rest of…

> Unpopular opinion: I blame the new age devops culture that made cloud app deployments unnecessarily complicated with k8s and cool new tech (that'd get them high profile jobs.)...…

Maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but one issue I've faced when integrating third-party external systems with Pub/Sub and Cloud Run is the lack of an easy way to throttle the d…

Same here! We're fans of Cloud Run at my company, but it'd be great if they made it easier to pull messages from Pub/Sub using Cloud Run. Sometimes you just don't want push.

I'm really excited about this as a customer. We're probably going to be able to save a lot of money because of it. So now, with the new Postgres compatibility layer and the "lower …

It will also be interesting to follow how the development of solar and wind power will affect the stability of the electricity grid and the ability to prevent large fluctuations in…

What precisely would that solve in this case? Previous attempts to nationalize companies have not, as far as I know, been a shining success?

Unfortunately, I'm not so sure there's a quick fix for this. Both nuclear, water and gas have the advantage that they're pretty massive and can store energy while they rotate. In t…

Right, solar and wind, although relatively cheap to produce, unfortunately, face challenges when it comes to energy storage. These types of industries require stability.

It's sadly not that surprising. Germany has a lot of heavy industries that require access to relatively low and stable energy prices. Furthermore, given the changed world situation…

I know I'm going against the grain here, but I'm actually looking forward to the event and plan to watch it :)

Huh, can't I get this service for free or at most $1 a month...What are you saying? :)

Interesting, it's somewhat surprising that he's the one saying this...I still don't get why Google chose to buy AppSheet. There were far better options available for them to buy. I…

This site is a bit: "4 Polacks, 6 opinions" -Frank Sobotka

Sure, but they might be the ones paying your salary today. So hard to ignore the group of people who keep you afloat? :)