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Congrats, this is the stupidest thing I’ve been reading all day. And that includes the orange man’s post.

This is a very superficial perspective. Disclaimer: I disdain both BSW and Afd. You're basically falling into "the populist trap" in which they take a fact or something true and wr…

Oh McKinsey had a name for that program ("Leap"). I once worked at a "Telco Enterprise Startup" in Berlin founded by them. They essentially lied about any anticipated KPI potential…

Not an expert either, esp. because I'm too young and socialized in West Germany with family ties to Thuringia, though. What always struck me was Eastern Germans' tendency to practi…

I'd suggest browsing through ourworldindata.org's energy section. It is an absolutely astonishing accomplishment what China has built with slashing PV and battery prices as well as…

Whilst I agree with most of the points, author is making here I cannot help but make a small snarky remark that we, as a dev community, have been talking and dreaming about those t…

Not at all. E.g. Germany requires housing projects to build "enough parking lots" for newly built flats[0]. The result is that flats either don't get built at all or "green surface…

Parent was discussing systematic issues and I was answering to that. In fact, what I'm getting downvoted for (the problem of outsourced over-engineered regulations that frequently …

The problem is that those regulatory committees always put some kind of idealistic nonplus ultra standards into the regulations without respecting the real world. "Sorry kids, no k…

Think of it as people who feel more frustrated than other by being interrupted in their thinking process. From my anecdotal evidence I think one can map different psychological spe…

Also energy efficiency significantly improved, no?

Our governments are a swamp of incompetence concerning anything "Information age". But still my fav story is from the private sector: In order to "merry" digital and paper form dat…

German government will print out all messages on paper and hire thousands of civil servants to read each message. It's gonna be a Beschäftigungswunder.

I once had the opportunity to watch two crows attacking a swarm of sparrows. I've never seen birds hunting birds before so it made me watch the whole scene for 3-5min and I was baf…

You hit the nail. It's been almost tragically funny how people frantically tried to juggle 5 bars of wet soap in recent 2 years solving problems that (from what I've seen so far) h…

I'll call it the Volkswagen Trap, or more general the ICE one-way street

The main problem is not even the ice wasteland which northern Europe would be but the dramatic temperature gradient to the Mediterranean which means storms and weather extremes we'…

Stefan Rahmstorf[0] has been talking quite a lot about this in the recent 3-5 years, with a rising urge over time. This paper perfectly fits what he was telling about AMOC in a Key…

I'll be getting downvoted for it but imho Ms never really cared about creating good software products and has been shoveling (at best) mediocrity through their wildly successful sa…

Why care if you got monopoly-alike power?

We jokers are tired as well

Why do you think not being willing to put resources to comply to rules equals to intentionally "spying on their users"? How come you think the rules assert that businesses are not …

German here. + I like the right to be able download my personal data dump on platforms - cookie banners are a total pointless waste of everyone's time - institutions and organizati…

The best thing I can say about evaluating LLMs for code is that they reminded me of the infinite monkey theorem.