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You can travel across Japan, similar or even larger distances, with practically no delays.

As a passenger it's not always about the bare number of minutes, the problem is that I might get stranded somewhere, and train stations in Germany are generally very dirty and somewhat unsafe at odd hours.

I agree that it's a hard and interesting problem. Yet other countries seem to be managing it better, or there is something structurally different.

I read somewhere that one of the key issues in Germany is that freight and passenger trains share the same network. While a delay of 15 minutes can be wildly problematic for a passenger train (missing connections, stranding at some godforsaken train station etc.), it is virtually irrelevant for freight. Then again, that should make it easy enough to always prioritize passengers over freight, but either that isn't being done or it's still insufficient.

That's a false argument. Uranium gives you power for years, and can be sourced from multiple sellers. That is very different from a line that the other side or a third party can simply cut. Point in case: NordStream pipelines that supplied Germany.

This is very interesting, I had a similar feeling about Claude performing much worse than GPT-4. Granted, I didn't put much work into optimizing the prompts, but then again, the prompts were certainly not GPT-optimized or specific either. The problems were severe, such as it choosing the wrong side of the conversation, hallucinating weird stuff plus repeating part of the prompt, all in the same message

You got a point there. Maybe I'm more annoyed by the implementation (cost, lack of reliability, absurd waiting times) rather than the idea itself.

After my luggage went missing for the first time recently, my key takeaways are:

- If at all possible, avoid checked luggage - it's overpriced, slow and unreliable. No news to pro travellers I guess

- Luggage reimbursement is capped at a relatively low figure that hasn't increased in decades (sources vary, jurisdiction unclear when international which just adds to the point). In any case, if you're traveling with a fancy Rimowa, the luggage itself is worth that... Never put valuables in checked luggage

- The whole process seems increasingly stupid to me. A lot of conveyor belts, tracking systems etc. just to get a bag that I can carry by my own, all because the space in the overhead compartments is limited - manufacturers are working on larger compartments recently

- Some airlines are nearly impossible to contact - you might be asked to call a number in <random country> and then wait in line for 2, 3 hours then the call drops randomly (looking at you, Aegean)

- I appreciate this might be unavoidable for families, i.e. when you carry luggage for multiple people, or when you need a set of suits etc. But still, keep the Rolex on your wrist

Eastern Arabic digits are read left-to-right, surprisingly. So e.g. in license plates, phone numbers, etc. (where you read the digits separately), you go left-to-right.

When speaking the numbers, you are right, the rules are the same as in German, e.g. Fifty-one is Whahed-wa-Khamseen, so similar to German Ein-und-fünfzig.

P.S: I'm German and live in Saudi, but my knowledge of Arabic is limited, so take it with a pinch of salt.

not an issue anymore thanks to qled!

> The US has now outsourced most of the production of goods to places in other countries.

I think that is the point (or one of the points): it's not just logistics and spare capacity - it's a much more complex set of issues.

This isn't something accounting practices or "less greed" would solve, as seems to be implied in the Twitter thread.

Would you have voted for a party that spent $1b annually on mask manufacturing subsidies for masks nobody even bought? Who could have foreseen that demand spike?

I was trying to be a bit dramatic there...

Sure, it affects everything and given the complex interconnections and dependencies within production chains / networks, the cause-and-effect relationships are hard to understand and cause for concern. But given how complex and decentralized things are, I am still amazed we haven't seen worse effects (yet). I doubt that spare capacity in logistics alone would make a huge difference, because you'd also need spare parts, materials and manufacturing capacity, all of which are part of the same network.

Agreed, good point. I should have said "we have been faring relatively well [so far]"

Hm, seems like a monocausal 'explanation' of a complex problem - or let's say a mere opinion with little background information.

Given the 'hundred year crisis', I think we have fared relatively well from a purely economic point of view... So, yes, some problems may exist but I think we have witnessed a surprisingly resilient system, given how optimized everything is and how unprecedented the issue is.

I don't know if a slight price increase in graphics cards is the key issue to worry about at this point.

Keeping tons of spare capacity is neither economical nor environmentally friendly. Also, it would probably only shift the problem elsewhere.

Was trying to draw the "Cross of Coronado" from Indy Jones, got 2001 - A Space Odyssey... There goes my artist career :)

Things get really confusing when you also use SAP R/3, migrating it to S/4: "So the S/4 gets some of its data from R/3 via S3 and writes reports to R2 which are used for a consolidated view in R/3 as long as the analysis isn't migrated to S/4 which will get all data via S3."

I guess the point is: you can't really tell anyone about it, because they have died tens of thousands of years ago. So it's "bring your friends"?!

Steven Soderbergh also wrote about it and made a black-and-white version to highlight Douglas Slocombe's work. He also replaced the sound with The Social Network's soundtrack: https://extension765.com/blogs/soderblog/raiders

Sadly, the actual video seems to be gone. It was still online a couple of weeks ago :-/

Something similar happened to me when I remote-controlled a buddy's computer. This was I guess in the early 2000s when disc drives were still a thing. Opening the drive knocked over a glass of wine and caused quite a mess... Noone hurt, but also spilled wine.

I agree. Something doesn't fit. Probably because some actor is trying to get an advantage? Cui Bono?

+1. I think it is the same on spending and income: you must understand what scales with what. The number of coffee machines scales with the number of employees (and office layout), but the cloud service spend depends on many factors. If nobody ever was asked to keep an eye on that, it can run away quickly and it will be hard to regain control. I've seen people routinely reserve entire vCPUs in Kubernetes for tiny test systems, instead of 150m which would have easily sufficed.

I haven't used it, but I do share your skepticism. I ended up rebuilding the last website that was exported from it because it was horribly slow on mobile, despite it being an extremely simple site.

For a moment, I was wondering how meatballs and Marching Squares could possibly be related... d'oh :)

That's even better than the furlongs per fortnight example, which gave me a good laugh already :)

"What I cannot create, I do not understand" ― Richard Feynman

Very humbling.

Meh. According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_travel, it takes a mere 28y to get to Andromeda if you have the tech to do constant 1g acceleration. You could say that is not "communication" from a civilization point of view, but if they can send us a live messenger it would sure be interesting?!

I totally agree, I have the 13.5" and suffer from the same problem. MS Teams warns me that my audio quality will degrade because of the CPU load - on a machine that is essentially idling. Sometimes it takes tens of seconds to react to clicks (we're talking Outlook, not Paraview) when I'm in a conference etc.

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I can see why it feels this way, but often times it seems to me the opposite is true, like a phase transition: it remains a bunch of commits until at some point it 'suddenly' becomes a product, usable by the designated users, solving a problem, possibly generating revenue. Like water that cools and cools and eventually turns to ice, even though that last quarter degree didn't change the temperature a lot.

The thick leather strap of the Paukbrille ("duelling glasses") protects much of the nervus facialis. When the cheeks get severed, however, some people complain from weird effects for a while (e.g. skins starts sweating when chewing). This always seemed to go away at some point though.

> the lower and middle class started to duel in emulation of the upper class

isn't that a common effect, e.g. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/26/394339284/ho...

> customary analogous marker of status for women would be.

Perhaps speaking numerous languages, playing the Piano, dancing/ballet etc.?

For "initiation duels" (Fuchsenpartien), that was commonly the case in the past as well. However, as previously mentioned, since the number of duels ("Partien") per person is usually lower today, the total number of duels where there is a risk for a hit on the cheeks is substantially lower.

It's true that some fraternities (more specifically, groups with common fencing rules called a Waffenring) have also moved to a "Hochcomment", i.e. a set of rules where hitting the cheek is banned entirely.