allendoerfer

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Comment · 3 days ago
Switzerland is a member in EU treaties, pays into the EU budget, temporarily pegs its currency to the Euro when it has to, is surrounded by the EU.

Switzerland is the opposite of a state being "without the EU".

Comment · 28 days ago
What do you have against multi-agent reinforcement learning systems and why do you think they are not AI?
Comment · 1 month ago
That would be the French. Germans will answer in English, if they notice any hint of an accent.
Comment · 1 month ago
Having secure browsers, encryption etc. actually clearly benefits the world. No “but think about the children/terrorists” please.
Comment · 2 months ago
Research has shown that people like to walk counterclockwise (right to left) through supermarkets, which is why they are arranged like this for maximum profit.
Comment · 2 months ago
"I may have been early, but I am not wrong!"

"It's the same thing, Michael! It's the same thing!"

Comment · 5 months ago
How?
Comment · 6 months ago
> In my team, my rule is: if it’s better than what’s on master, you approve and merge.

This causes unnecessary code changes later on, code changes mean new code, new code has bugs. The team should try to get it close to perfect on the first try instead. They won't, but that should be everyone's target. If that sounds impossible, then the PR was to big.

Comment · 7 months ago
ChatGPT thinks, that in the US social security makes up about 30-40% of the retirement income of a typical American, while the German system makes up about 80-85% of a retired German. Home ownership rate in Germany is also way lower.

Germany is an outlier in that there is no capital backing for that generation whatsover. The problem has been known for 30 years, they just chose to ignore it.

Comment · 7 months ago
Here in Germany they also ignored the demographics, so our social insurance systems (retirement but also health) are heading towards a catastrophe, because there is no capital backing them. They are fundamentally relying on the next generation being bigger or at least equal. This has turned them essentially into Ponzi schemes. The taxpayer has to jump in, making the state less and less able to do anything at all. Of course they now collectively avoid responsibility and slowly milk the young - their own children - dry.

It is truly the most egoistic generation ever.

Comment · 1 year ago
What if the user wants to use the file outside the browser, where they do not have access to the HTTP headers?
Comment · 1 year ago
Images almost always do.
Comment · 1 year ago
What about file extensions?
Comment · 1 year ago
Cultural imperialism.
Comment · 1 year ago
> My prediction is that junior to mid level software engineering will disappear mostly, while senior engineers will transition to be more of a guiding hand to LLMs output, until eventually LLMs will become so good, that senior people won't be needed any more.

A steeper learning curve in a professional field generally translates into higher earnings. The longer you have to be trained to be helpful, the more a job generally earns.

I am already trained.

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