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I'm in Berlin where there's a glut of offices which are all sitting empty. I'm living next to a top line historic renovation/office space and it took them 8-9 years to complete the renovation at probably an astronomical cost and now it's been sitting empty for a year or so.

This financial model is also the main reason why it's so hard to convert these buildings to residential. Somebody has to eat the markdown.

> lowering the rent would force a revaluation

Commercial leases are often for say 5+5 years, so once you lock it in, you know for sure what the property revenue is going to be for the next so many years. Your uncertainty equation has collapsed.

I think the main insight here is that commercial real estate is an entirely different animal than the residences that you may be used to.

You can apply this same reasoning to the "back to the office" pushes done on behalf of the institutional investors who have exposure to large commercial properties in inner cities. That too is a financial house of cards built on assumptions and vibes.

> much harder road

Given that we have 2+ in each high street in Berlin, it seems it's not that difficult.

So that answers the question as to who's buying SpaceX stock…

> a larger number of people than we thought are participating in the same delusion

Congratulations, you have just described high finance.

The whole goal is not to write off the value of the property which you have to do if you rent it for less money than initially planned. That's not that difficult to understand is it?

Europe should have a sovereign model on its content and languages that is trained with renewable energy and published as open source.

This looks like a good step in that direction.

It's amazing and we should hope for more apps to be stewarded by a person like this.

> They understood the issue immediately.

I'm guessing this is not the first time this happened to them.

I use Ian's (Fast) Knot and that's good enough for me.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

I felt that FCP was underpowered for compositing and grading so I switched from paid FPC to unpaid Resolve. But I don't really edit that much. Resolve is good enough for me for now.

One of the best things that happened to me is my boss giving me a crash course in advanced SQL at my first job. In the database we used at work, he gave me increasingly difficult questions to answer with queries.

It was a great foundation and has served me well to this day.

The people doing the complaining are usually not the people doing real work in these tools. You can always find some loud voices somewhere.

Passkeys are not going to fix this. The only thing that will fix this is some kind of notarization backed identity that people can go to as a recourse.

The EU Should force them to do this.

Anybody and everybody could use a mature LaunchDarkly alternative.

Will we become Musk's slave or Altman's slave?

> the tooling is decades behind

For all the academic interest the language has, it seems very few of those people want to do anything foundational to make the language more ergonomic and more relevant.

Isn't the article mostly saying that SPARC sucks?

I'd expect political escalation for something like this but given that this is Germany, who knows.

Given how amateurish German IT operations is, there is no guarantee whatsoever there will be a post-mortem nor whether it then will make it out under 3-6 months with all the necessary approvals.

I guess that explains all the AI boosting they do.

I'm guessing everybody in this interaction is an adult.

> that highly paid programmers in the US also brought in a ton of profit

In Germany for instance I've seen many a company that treated their programmers as a cost center and they actually were (probably a mutually reinforcing self-fulfilling prophecy).

Too many instances of programmers being deployed in such a way that I couldn't possibly see a way that they would get back even that meagre investment that was being made. Fully irrational dev teams doing useless busy work.

Most German "startups" used to be replaceable with Zapier and Pipedrive. That has probably only gotten worse with the advent of LLMs.

Premature abstraction is the root of all evil.

I've read more than my fair share of these tutorials, and I'd like to be proven wrong here but I don't think I've ever seen one that explains what the point of these functional constructs (similarly with Applicative etc.) is.

"You can do IO now." So what? I could do IO before that as well.

Very rarely are practical explanations discussed. Even if they are discussed, the treatment is shallow and useless.

It happens all the time. For a brief period I understood musical notation and rhythm and then it was gone. Similarly I had a time in my life where I knew by feeling whether a French noun was le or la.

I'm afraid that atproto will suffer from Bluesky's irrelevance. Not sure if that's a valid fear.

The entrenchment here is ridiculous. The average software engineer does not care at all about their vcs or their forge and their knowledge of both is extremely shallow.

For the people who want to do their work and get on with their life, it does not really matter that much.

The same thing happened to Twitter. All the online properties we used will be gutted and sunsetted eventually. The only thing we can do is move on and slash and burn a new pasture.

18 years is a good run as far as these things go.

Azure is the MS Teams of clouds.