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Comment · 1 month ago
„There's something feral in us that comes out from time to time“? You write this, as if this is just human and inevitable. But in my experience it’s a matter of character. People can train their body and they can work on self control. I really wish more people would try to become a better person.
Comment · 2 months ago
They don’t think, that they are killing innovation! I was told that they measure „innovation“ by „patents granted“ - and if you see it that way, only big enterprises can be innovative! And i bet most bureaucrats never worked at a startup!
Comment · 3 months ago
That’s why i‘m using claude to literally write everything for myself! I cannot fix software-problems in my car or my fridge or my heat-pump. But I can start by replacing my own infrastructure!
Comment · 3 months ago
I came to the same conclusion and normally i don’t write about it. Beiing one of the few who pays 250€ to get my family vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 every year here in Germany (i have to pay because our „StIKo“ doesn’t recommend the vaccination) kind of makes me hesitant to talk about it.
Comment · 4 months ago
If you want to be an authoritarian ruler, truth is the first thing you have to eliminate! If noone knows what is true, a leader can tell you what to believe! Science is our method to determine truth! A führer cannot have that!
Comment · 4 months ago
So you are in a totally different place now :-)
Comment · 4 months ago
“When Fascism came into power, most people were unprepared, both theoretically and practically. They were unable to believe that man could exhibit such propensities for evil, such lust for power, such disregard for the rights of the weak, or such yearning for submission. Only a few had been aware of the rumbling of the volcano preceding the outbreak.”

— Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

Comment · 6 months ago
Hahaha! Have fun! I‘m doing the same - together with Claude Code. Since August. With https (mTLS1.3) everywhere, because i can. Just my money, just my servers, just for me. Just for fun. And what a fun it is!
Comment · 8 months ago
Happens a lot to highly reasonable, well written texts without orthographical errors.
Comment · 1 year ago
So countrys with free education, universal healthcare, 24 days of mandatory vacation and a retirement age of 63 are loosers?
Comment · 1 year ago
More speech! The signal vs. noise-ratio shifts. So access to information will become more difficult. More disinformation and outright nonsense will make it more difficult to get to the valuable stuff. Ok - let‘s see how that works!
Comment · 1 year ago
I’m not setting boundaries - and I think you will notice when to shift! When noone and no book seems to teach you anything new about a certain topic. When you read the latest book and think, „hmm yes, but i think they omitted a and b and c and in reality this isn’t so nicely separated and way more nuanced“. Then it is definitely time to shift your attention to a different topic. I’m doing this for decades now - and i think lots of others too. You will never learn all about everything. But it’s fun to try :-)
Comment · 1 year ago
That‘s exactly why i like AI too. I even let them play roles like „junior dev“, „product owner“ or „devops engineer“ and orchestrate them, to play together as a team - with guidance from me (usually the „solution architect“ or „investor“)! This „team“ achieves in weeks what we usually needed months for - for 2.40€/h*role!
Comment · 1 year ago
„This renders the meaning of significance-testing unclear; it is calculating precisely the odds of the data under scenarios known a priori to be false.“

I cannot see the problem in that. To get to meaningful results we often calculate with simplyfied models - which are known to be false in a strict sense. We use Newtons laws - we analyze electric networks based on simplifications - a bank-year used to be 360 days! Works well.

What did i miss?

Comment · 1 year ago
Ok is this about a reactive app with with a local database automatically synced to a remote db? All fully encrypted (at rest and in transit)? I thought this is what everyone does nowadays! We built an app like this in 2019 - yes - it was a bit of a challenge with the encryption but the „syncing data“-part is what every litte multiplayer-game has to deal with like forever now. Seems i‘m out of touch with the current state of affairs. Nice article though!

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