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As someone who was CEO at a German company with more than 10 people: this absolutely overblown. Some people just want to larp US-style at-will firing power fantasies.

It's actually surprisingly easy to still fire people, you just have to have valid reasons: employee didn't come to work, employee works badly (Schlechtleistung), employee yells at customer, lack of work to do at the company etc. You just have to create the paper trail and follow the clearly defined process for firing (i.e. it has to happen at least two times, and you had a stern talk with the employee about it (Abmahnung).

You can also still fire employees without given cause in the first (up to) 6 months of employment.

What you definitely can't do is discriminate against employees, e.g. fire pregnant women because they are pregrant, fire migrants because they are migrants and so on. You have to have an actual, factual cause.

Also let's be clear with the concept of Scheinselbstständigkeit: This is simply a hedge against companies engaging in tax fraud by pushing people to be self employed when they really aren't. Scheinselbstständigkeit only triggers if a person gets over 80% of their revenue from a single customer, over a longer time, and has other things that hint at employee status, e.g. an own desk and company mail account, has to ask for holiday and so on. Simply having a large contract for e.g. 4 months with a single customer won't trigger Scheinselbstständigkeit.

Worth pointing out that you "only" get <= 270GB/s of memory bandwith with those Macs, unless you choose the max/ultra models.

If that is enough for your use case, it may make sense to wait 2 months and get a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU, which will have the same memory bandwith, but allows for up to 128GB RAM. For probably ~half the Mac's price.

Usual AMD driver disclaimer applies, but then again inference is most often way easier to get running than training.

OTOH: "One in four 2020 Tesla Model 3 failed the Danish periodic inspection in 2024" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42838855

The EU company I work for is pretty security conscious and already implements this almost completely (the exception being a few industry specific niche apps). What do you think would be missing?

As a US company, Cloudflare already has to follow CLOUD Act etc. right now, so yes.

That's all purely a social construct - e.g. almost nobody on the planet outside the US watches football (or Cricket in the UK/India, or ...). Football is a thing in the US because it is a thing in the US: You can bond with your peers around it. The objective technicalities of the sport itself have nothing to do with it.

There are actually many many people who are both socially anxious and extraverted. Really not uncommon. It doesn't look like that because introversion and social anxiety are so often mixed up - just like in this article. Keep in mind those psychological concepts are defined by the inner workings and motivations of people's minds, not by behavior observable from the outside.

Introversion: This person gets energy from being alone or with close friends in a routine situation. (Not the same as being lonely, mind!). They feel attracted by situations and environments promising those situations.

Extraversion: This person recharges by mingling with other people. From small talk at the water cooler to larger social gatherings. They feel attracted by social gatherings, and want to be part of them.

Social Anxiety: This person is anxious in social gatherings (of people not being close friends or family). They have feelings of inadequacy about themselves as social beings, and fear being devalued for acting wrong or - worse - being wrong.

Those concepts are related but not at all the same. Persons being both extraverted and socially anxious long for social situations involving new people, but at the same time feel inadequate of being in them. Or ruminate about their behaviour afterwards. Or actively try to get comments of positive validation from their peers during or after the gathering.

At the same time people can be introverted and not socially anxious at all. I have a colleague like that: loves working alone, doesn't need companions even for longer, more demanding projects, but at the same time has zero qualms leading a team, talking to customers, going in front of unknown audiences. It just exhausts them.

Introversion and Extraversion are concepts involving motivations: What situations do people feel attracted to.

Anxiety is essentially about fear of inadequacy, or perceived lack of agency about a situation. So not about motivation, but about a concept of self.

There are, of course, feedback loops enabling correlations like the introversion + social anxiety one. Children (adults too, for that matter) have multiple avenues of gaining validation and positive experience in live, e.g. social competency (as colleague, parent, friend, community member,...), physical performance (sports, crafting, ...), intellectual performance and so on. If they learn that they are good at a thing, they tend to do that thing more often, because the experience of competency feels good. They will experience these kinds of situations more, and thus gain more competency in these kinds of situations.

Now if a child is often ill, and can't go play outside with their peers, it won't do nothing inside, but instead probably be reading or drawing or crafting. So it will not learn social skills at that time, but will get better at drawing and crafting. If it already had a tendency to introversion, that tendency will probably get stronger.

OTOH imagine a child that was very socially active in early childhood, but then , around 12 years old, the parents moved and the child had to change schools, and got bullied in the new school. This kid probably was extraverted and now gained strong feelings of social inadequacy, of not belonging, of being somehow different or wrong as a person. They will still feel attracted to social situations, but thanks to their experience of being bullied, this will feel very stressful to them. Extraverted and socially anxious.

Is that much? I use a German competitor, Contabo, and they offer 32TB even with their entry-level VPS for 4.5€ plus taxes.

Even less, the median household income is 80k: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/p60-28...

The proper definition will clearly mean the model, not the model instance.

Have you seen China? Northvolts demise is completely orthogonal to the concept of subsidies.

That is because we also can't actually directly perceive the yellow from that lemon, i.e. we don't possess cones that have their max sensitivity at 570 nm (yellow). Instead yellow is created in our brain by combining the data from the M and L cones: If both signal at about equal intensity, our brain calculates that to be yellow. So the perceived yellow can actually be 570 nm, or 540 nm (yellow-green) plus 600 nm (orange) or similar. Only if the distance between both wavelengths is too high this stops working.

Well the tax wedge as defined on that page measures the sum of taxes and healthcare, pensions and social security combined, not the tax alone. For a working class wage in most EU countries, healthcare plus contributions for pensions and social funds will sum up to be larger than than income tax.

It was for cvs, because rsync is old, but nowadays also filters out .git, .svn, .hg etc.

In any case this is supposed to only sync the rendered content from $(LOCAL_CONTENT), not the templates used for rendering.

If your content is static anyway, you can just rsync to deploy instead of push to deploy:

    rsync -e "ssh -p $(SSH_PORT)" -P -rvzc --cvs-exclude --delete $(LOCAL_CONTENT) $(SSH_USER)@$(SSH_HOST):$(REMOTE_DIR)

Self-hosting then essentially just means doing apt install nginx once.

That seems wrong, as most high tax countries (Denmark, Norway, ...) have full employment and very high standards of living for decades now. Do you have a source for that? Eastern European countries catching up with development don't count, see Piketty.

nitpick: dopamine means reward anticipation, the longing for the goal, not the satisfaction of achieving the goal.

Demographics (I assume you mean race?) can't be the reason. West Virgina is IIRC almost exclusively white and has a lower live expectancy than North Korea.

First, capacity factor is a silly metric to use for this. The industry uses LCOE or system LCOE, because this is about dollars per actual TWh produced, not capacity. In other words: A capacity factor of 10% doesn't matter if building 10x the amount is still cheaper.

With that said, the wind capacity factor in Germany is 20% for onshore and 40% for offshore, so even that was wrong by a factor of 2-4.

You postulated that there are periods existing where there would be no/very low combined and solar for over a month, yet you only posted links to periods of very low wind generation for less than a day.

Even better, if you look at energy flow in the EU grid for e.g. the period from 2023-02-12 to 2023-02-15, you'll see that we actually exported energy to nuclear-powered France, and imported from renewables-powered Denmark.

That's actually a proof that renewables saved the day there, because lack of wind is always only a regional phenomenon.

But politics are real, and thus are it's consequences.

Dunkelflaute simply doesn't exist. It's clearly visible in the charts of the last years that wind and solar almost ideally complement each other in Germany. Why else do you think Germany managed to stay above 50% renewables for every single month this year so far? In which season is the mythical Dunkelflaute supposed to appear?

You can't just invent a number because you like it more. Solar and Wind are cheaper than nuclear even if you go beyond LCOE and include system costs. Even the nuclear lobby acknowledges this nowadays and has switched to other arguments.

This is only because it is profitable for Germany to do so, not because of lack of capacity. Germany imports energy when there is low demand (and price) and exports when there is high demand (and price). Look at this chart: https://energy-charts.info/charts/power_trading/chart.htm?l=...

Pure anecdata, of course, but my impression so far was the opposite (same as with Gemini): The free version is so bad for me (gpt4o) that I really doubt the paid version can get meaningfully better.

* Text generation is really bad if said text is more niche than typical SEO stuff like "give me 300 words about soccer balls". Anything academic is usually wrong (i.e. full of hallucinations) or lacks/hallucinates proper sources. If I have to check everything anyway I can just use a search engine.

* Image generation is really bad if you don't just want deviantart-like content. Just yesterday I tried generating ideas for visualisations of a few topics (with quite a view different prompt approaches) and they almost all were unusable.

It is good at summing up longform content, though, but then again so am I - and I have to read it anyway to confirm there are no hallucinations...

Obviously many people use it for coding (which appears to be the low hanging fruit because code is so heavily formalized), but I can imagine that market is almost saturated by now.

Where I live these are not allowed in the classroom until 7th grade or so, i.e. when the kids have learned the skills and can then employ calculators mindfully.

Both of these points can be true at the same time (and IMO are). Tech changes society, but society should also reflect on these changes - and decide whether this is the direction we want to go, the tradeoff we want to have.

BYD started as a battery producer and still is one of the largest in the world - I can't imagine them not having considered proper thermal management for battery health. Especially since they have been producing electric buses since 2010, which, as utility vehicles, see way higher usage (=charges) than consumer cars.

Pure yoghurt naturally already contains 3-4 g of sugar (lactose) per 100 g.

That is not an argument in a nation of law. If twitter thinks this is unconstitutional in Brazil, then they can by all means sue! Courts are the institutions that rule whether that is true or not, not some billionaire with a bad day.