rpadovani

> AI helps organize what has already been written by humans and was technically self-evident from our work.

I am not 100% sure about the "self-evident" part here.

To your point: yes, AI doesn't come up with new axioms. But then we enter the topic of "math is invented or discovered?". Each of the discoveries are logical consequences of the axioms, but that doesn't mean they were "self-evident", especially for humans.

If everything was already self-evident, AI would just be a useless tautological machine. However, I think it is more than just that

As everything, there are compromises and prices to pay.

In case of fil-c, it is about 1.5-4x slower performance, and a memory overhead.

So, let's not present it as a panacea to all problems: there could good reasons to use it, but it isn't a magic trick.

Eh, Italian has it tho.

"(Lui) è un dottore", "(Io) sono un dottore".

"Un" is the indefinite article.

Subject is usually dropped, thus the brackets

My company pays for taxi from my door to the airport and I still take the train, unless I am leaving before dawn.

There is both a rational environment choice in that, and a nice feeling of being part of a humming crowd

> Nobody in EU is saying the EU should clean up others' mess around the world

That's literally what the top poster said.

Your points make sense, "EU should reopen Hormuz" is laughable

> "None of the database guides I followed had warned me about the dangers of exposing a docker containerized database to the internet."

This prompts a reflection about, as an industry, we should make a better job in providing solid foundations.

When I check tutorials on how to drill in the wall, there is (almost) no warning about how I could lose a finger doing so. It is expected that I know I should be careful around power tools.

How do we make some information part of the common sense? "Minimize the surface of exposure on the Internet" should be drilled in everyone, but we are clearly not there yet

Because English is not the mother tongue for the majority of the people, and correctors fix typos, but not swapped words, unless you use something like Grammarly.

Pointing out mistakes is fine, being emphatic while doing it would be great

They still do switches, what remotes are you referring to?

I believe you paid 70 euros. I just wanted to highlight that, beginning 2013, that's not a problem anymore thanks to the semesterticket.

Beginning 2013, there is the semester tickets for students, which is twenty euros per month.

Before that, 70 euros? Where were you living, Freising?

Two external rings were around 50 euros at the time, and many students rent inside the (old) 4 inner rings, or the first external one if you study in Garching

Ah, but then your first comment is highly misleading, because when you talk number, readers assume cost per year.

You are basically saying that living in Europe in a university city cost anything between 6000 and 20000 euros each year.

Maybe a bit high, but I think I can agree.

But living is a cost all around the world, and universities in Europe add a very low overhead on top of it, while universities in US can easily triple your cost of living, so I still don't see your point

Uhm, what?

If you live with your parents, and the university is free, where does that number come from?

And if you don't live with your parents, you live with others students, spending 600-1000 euro month for living, how do you reach that numbers?

I count 10 European companies on this list, and 20 US.

Maybe is not as bad as you think?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...

You know that you _choose_ to be a policeman, right? Is not that you are born a policeman.

I can definitely say all killers are rotten inside, and it's a blanket statement.

Do you have any sources? According to Wikipedia, this regulation applies only in Australia, UK, and Taiwan.

Germany and Italy have the latches for sure.

I am curious on how this will reflect on the Ukraine invasion: as far as I understand, Wagner was a huge source of soldiers on the front lines.

I am sure this coup, however it will ends, is a major source of distraction from the war. Meanwhile, Ukraine is pushing east: will they be able to use this coup to liberate some territories?

CWA was using the Exposure Notifications from Apple and Google[0].

Exposure Notifications is not an app, but a framework and a protocol, and CWA was an implementation of it, hooking in the features developed by Apple and Google for iOs and Android

[0]: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/blob/ma...

A bit more than 2 years: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fire-destroys-ovh...

I thought it was less than 12 months...

> - You have to register your current address with the local authorities (anmeldung) after moving into a new place. By itself this seems fine, but it also seems to bea prerequisite for a lot of life necessities like getting health insurance and a mobile phone number.

True. However, this is the case at least in CH and IT as well (in IT you will probably have also a visit from the local police to check that the place is up to some standards), I grow up thinking this was common in EU - isn't it?

> If you are in Germany and run a website, you need to have an Impressum on your website that states your address.

Kinda: if you run a _commercial_ website. My blog doesn't have my address.

> - There is a "Stop and Identify" law (Personalausweisgesetz) that requires you to be in possession of an identity document, and hand it over instantly when asked to by any authorities, with substantial fines for noncompliance.

There is no mandate to have the ID card with you in Germany. In Italy there is. You must provide your identity to the authority over request, but you can also have your ID at home.

> - Wi-Fi portals always seem to have a great deal of personal data entry before you can get on the Internet. Apparently there were previously laws that put a great deal of liability on whoever ran a Wi-Fi network, which meant that businesses were naturally loathe to offer one.

True and incredibly annoying. Things have slowly improved, but a lot still request too much data.

[citation needed]

Of course, there is no way to know exactly how much tax fraud there is, but it doesn't seem that tax fraud in Germany is particularly high: https://www.taxobservatory.eu/repository/estimating-internat...

Germany is the second to last country for IM apps usage in EU, with a mere 60% [0]. It is also the second to last country for social network accounts, with 47.7% of the population being on a social network[1].

Cash is still king[2].

Germans care about their privacy - maybe not everybody has clear all the implications of modern applications, but you cannot dismiss the care of privacy with just saying that your experience on a bus doesn't match this.

[0]: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ISOC_CI_AC_I_...

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ISOC_CI_AC_I_...

[2]: https://www.bundesbank.de/en/press/press-releases/payment-be...

The editor will be free, and they will monetize the network features (or so they say)

https://zed.dev/faq#how-will-you-make-money

No, that's the fancy part. You pick up a barcode reader at the entrance, something like [0]. When you pick something from the shelf, you scan it, and put in the cart. You don't remove the stuff from the cart until your car, so you can already fill up your bags in the cart!

[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Barcode-...

In Italy, it has been years, if not decades, that in a chain of large supermarkets there is a system where, when you enter the supermarket, you can pick up a barcode reader.

While you are doing your shopping, you scan your products. At the exit, you scan a QR code to end the shopping, you pay, and off you go.

The huge advantage, apart from no queues, is that you don't have to remove stuff from your cart, making it way, way quicker.

You can have a “random” check where everything will be scanned again by a real cashier.

The minimum wage is 2080 euro / month in Germany, so anybody offering you less than that is not following labor laws.

The unemployment rate is ~3.0%, so the shortage is not due to salary.

The population is growing old, there is a huge influx of high-skilled people, and the young have access to good education: this means that there are a lot of new job created by high earners, but there aren't enough people to work them all.

Hear, hear. Unfortunately, social outrage is a good way to have attention from big companies. So, of course, it has become a fraud in itself.

That's... illuminating. Really. It's a sad take, but could completely be true.

It's not "I am a engineer, thus I deserve to have more", it's "I deserve more, what part of my life can I use to say this?".

And this is why I say that I understand the economics behind it.

Still, it doesn't mean I _deserve_ a high salary: I totally get why I get it, but I don't work harder, or studied harder, or really did anything more special than 95% of the population.

So, while I am able to earn more, I am happy to share part of it with the society as a whole, and this is why I am happy about my level of taxes, compared to the services provided.

There are wastes? Of course there are! So many! But the solution to "governments waste money" is not "less money to the governments", is "more accountability".

This is of course my view of the world, but I still haven't found anybody that explains why my job deserves to be in the top 5% earner in my country, apart from being just a consequence of the fact that my job scales to billions of users due its very nature (that is completely inconsequential from the choices I have made), while other jobs have physical limits and they don't scale.

> (work for almost 2 decades as an engineer just so you can afford the average one family home - what a joke!)

I really don't understand this take. Why so many engineers feel entitled to have more than the average working Joe? If you are employed, our work is not risky, doesn't consume all your energy or your time, and so on.

I fully understand the _economics_ behind our salaries, but I am more than happy to give 45% of it to the society as a whole, so also who cannot afford the economy of scale (e.g., nurses, teachers), can still have a decent life.

I really cannot grasp the individualism about "I know how to write code, I deserve a better life than 95% of the population".

Uhhh, I am just now writing a blog post “Blogging in 2023”, and it's a personal reflection on why I blog on my domain instead of using a social network.

And my personal answer is: I blog for myself, and knowing that things will be public forever force myself focusing more.

I write mainly about technical stuff that annoys me, or solution to problems I faced and didn't find a solution on the internet.

Sometimes people write me an email asking for some clarification, and my supposition is that people find my blog 'cause they have the same niche problem.

About following other blogs: RSS or mailing list subscriptions. I use hacker news to find interesting blogs.