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Comment · 7 days ago
It was a silly comment, for that I apologize.

As for the hate: I don't think anyone denies his accolades in business. This is about him personally intervening in an active war - sabotaging a countries ability to defend its civilian population. And then lying about it.

If you think unrelated success in business ventures absolves an individual of any responsibility, even when we are talking about war crimes, then that is the aspect about Elon where you and everyone else disagree on. Not about whether flying cars or landing rockets are cool. We all think those are cool.

Comment · 8 days ago
This reads so much like Elon posting from an alt-account.
Comment · 16 days ago
I have no idea how you could interpret my comment to think that I'm trying legitimizing bombing civilians.

The parent said "public outcry saw this tactic end".

To my knowledge, it didn't end. That's why I asked for sources and explained how Dresden happened at the very end of the war, where they still employed the tactic, that OP said was ended because of public outcry.

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Comment · 2 months ago
To be fair though:

"That code is horrible! Who the hell wrote this?!"

git blames

sees their own name

Isn't that an experience everybody makes? For me it was like a year into working professionally. And I feel it's part of being a professional to know that you're not going to remember it in the long term and therefore provide proper documentation of why you did what.

Comment · 3 months ago
Fair enough, you're not a fan of how modern buildings look. But how is that extremely insulting to you?
Comment · 3 months ago
Can you elaborate what you mean?

Are you against the idea of European cooperation in general? Or against the implementation?

If there is to be European cooperation that goes beyond heads of states talking to each other, you're going to need some kind of space where they can do that. Using that building as a symbol seems like an obvious choice albeit not a very creative one. Really struggle to see how that choice can be "extremely insulting".

Comment · 3 months ago
"more or less dead when I was old enough in the early 00s"

Think it was just your peer group then. It's still very much a thing. Did it in my youth twice, once at 16 years once at 18 around 2010. I know my cousin who is >10 years younger than me also did it sometime in the last 5 years. Among my peers it was fairly common but it was not done by the majority. If I'd have to guess I'd say 10-20% did it at some point towards the end of highschool.

We also did party trips but that's just a different kind of trip and doesn't really mean the other thing is dead.

Comment · 4 months ago
I don't want to discount your experience or judge that particular event. I just disagree with calling for authoritarianism in response to that.

Happy that you are happier :) I'm German, so in general I find it refreshing when people manage to live peacefully with each other without having a rule for every single thing. Obviously a dog endangering children is not such a case.

Comment · 4 months ago
You may have a point but you're discrediting yourself by using extreme hyperbole.

Authoritarianism would be you and your family getting picked up and interrogated sometime at night for this critical comment you just made.

And saying "crime is legal" when referring to cars parked on the sidewalk or you having had a bad experience with a neighbours dog? I think if you reflect a little you'd realise that these are the kind of "crimes" you probably have committed yourself countless times.

Comment · 5 months ago
Tell the agent that they should just find and name the right document. Not retrieve it for you.

Write a program that retrieves the document based on the recommendation.

Comment · 5 months ago
What claims are you talking about?

I've never heard or read anything about the EU planning on investing money in Mistral. They're a private company. They're French. It honestly sounds kind of absurd.

Comment · 6 months ago
https://regelrecht.rijks.app/

I think that's the project.

"Modern calculation engine as a building block for the entire government. In collaboration with the Benefits Service (Dienst Toeslagen). Can we develop a general calculation engine for the government? This project explores how such a system could help in executing complex regulations for citizens and businesses, for example, when calculating benefits."

Comment · 6 months ago
I'm pretty sure that if you build your PWA in a way it works offline through caching (which is easy if it's just a static website), you could host/serve it temporarily and just install it once.

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