Brotkrumen

So your point is that we should put spikes on the front end of cars?

Everyone who is curious? I mean did you know that you can run something on a real quantum computer for free? Go try out something new, or are we only getting excited about the newest AI slop machine release these days?

If you handle database requests naively, every request to the database may open its own connection. This is a super simple approach but will exceed the amount of connections the database can or wants to handle concurrently.

One solution is to increase your app complexity and introduce a layer that manages connection pooling or queuing.

Or you can just keep your app naive and simple and put pgbouncer transparently in front of your DB. Even for multiple apps, so instead of every app increasing in complexity, reimplementing connection handling, you just have pgbouncer.

More anecdata, but around me, the opportunities for recent grads and self-taughts are less than try were.

If I was to bet, it seems that tasks that were given to new hires are now done by senior engineers and a prompt.

A collegue claims that the difference between an MBA and a mediocre compsci grad have disappeared due to vibe coding, so the compscis grads feel the job market is tougher because of increased competition.

All I know is that it's super hard to get junior devs to not be junior anymore because they don't have the opportunity anymore to learn on easy tasks.

If I put my tinfoil hat on, one of the reasons may be in the disclaimer:

>An investment fund associated with Sam Altman held a passive investment in Software Applications Incorporated

Maybe it's just as banal as "Sam paid himself a bit more money".

That conversation reads like two consultant LLMs talking past each other.

Sounds interesting, but voice input isn't working for me there. I guess I'm too niche with my Mac and Firefox setup.

Is there a law yet, such as "The more comments you read, the probability of mistaking a comment for AI-generated content approaches 1" or something?

Uh nice! I also have very reasonable explanations why it was Russia, the Ukrainians, the Chinese or Poland!

I can even go for some of the middle-eastern countries or the nefarious Danish! Should we like found a forum or something were we can trade things that come to our minds unasked?

>C_b = (T_s - T_v) * ROC * 1/52

I have so many problems with this line

Can't find anything from anthropic like that.

Do you have any sources for the extraordinary claim that "censorship is logically inconsistent in every moral framework"? Because without further arguments, this sounds very intellectually simple.

As has been pointed out: Give them perpetual funding according to the needs of the children, not pervert unrelated systems to provide an unstable income stream.

I'm reading it as social forces making certain topics unpublishable. In his words

>facts which the Soviet government would prefer to keep hidden, is next door to unprintable.

All topics mentioned so far as "censored" have enjoyed enough publication and even being successful political platforms.

What people here mistake as censorship is usually regurgitated bad arguments being unpopular

I've mentioned 3. I've lost 2 popularity points so far. Am I being censored?

I find COVID to be an especially bad example. the whole spectrum is represented in politics.

I've seen those posts here, I've read the arguments in the comments. What is censored then? Unpopularity or pushback isn't censorship

The discourse exists though, right? Here and elsewhere. Censorship isn't pushback, bad arguments aren't either

Are we pretending now, that even mentioning these "forbidden topics" will get you banned?

Here, I'll mention some for you: eugenics, Holocaust, incest.

So please, if I don't get censored for these, please tell me what these secret topics hidden from me are!

What would those topics be? I guess they are suppressed quite well, since none come to mind.

I personally go by "Carpe Diem", as musician Taylor Swift says.

Use the 2h daily commute you're saying to join a club.

"Some eggs make give you salmonella, therefore eggs shouldn't exist"

I'm sure you don't mean your absolute statement, otherwise I need your address to build my coal powerplant next to.

We can electrify the processes, make the power grid mostly green and require industrial processes to recycle most of its water. In fact the tech exists and the legislation exists and works.

"we can't require eco-friendly alternatives to plastics because people litter" was not on my bingo sheet for today...

I don't think you are disagreeing with parent. As you are explaining, "the market" thinks nuclear power plants to be too risky and too expensive compared to other power sources, which is exactly the reason why they shouldn't be build by public agencies anymore either.

Yeah, sounds reasonable. I can't find any average heating kwh stats, but 4x is just improbable.

Heating and warm water is excluded.

I can't find any "average kwh for heating" numbers though. If the US number of roughly 10.000 kwh per year included heating, that could be roughly comparable to what the German average could be. Numbers that I find range from 14.000kwh for old homes with Gas usage to 3000kwh for modern homes with heat pumps.

Would make more sense than the US average being 4x while roughly using the same electronics.

>what it would take to get German energy consumption up to a better level

That's a good question. Prices are a good start. Consumer prices seem to be twice in G as in the US. Don't know where you get the "wholesale price is 4x in G". Most of what I can find is that wholesale is usually pretty close.

My guess of what G could do to increase consumption and thus moneys:

- Lower prices (duh). End user power is taxed heavily to subsidize industry power

- Remove mandatory energy labels on all electronics. Who really needs to know how much a TV or fridge is going to consume in power?

- Mandate "power-included" in rents. If you pay a fixed sum, you might as well leave the fridge open to cool the kitchen

- Mandate central heating and cooling. If you only pay a share of what you consume, might as well go full blast on everything

- stop subsidizing energy efficiency for new single and multi-tenant homes.

- stop building solid houses. Plywood walls are fine

Nice comparison on power prices: https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-market-report-decemb...

>An average US household uses 886 kWh per month

Oh wow. The average German household of three uses 2500kwh in a multi-tenant and 3500kwh in a single family home PER YEAR.

"This is a trade secret. We have not patented it, because it's so clever and valuable that it needs to be protected longer than a patent lasts"