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dreinhardt··on How messed up was Germany's energy policy?
People also bought toilet paper against covid.
dreinhardt··on How messed up was Germany's energy policy?
That has already happened. Try looking for Schwesig and her Klimastiftung, and that’s just a tiny part of the picture.
dreinhardt··on Bureaucratic processes typically involve a person new to the process
But it goes wrong very often actually (meaning the outcome is non repeatable). Most of the time you don’t find out, but if there’s two or more people doing the exactly same process (application for getting something out of say a government institution). You just need the forms to end up with different clerks to get two different outcomes.

This is why in Germany the common wisdom is for say claiming disability, you will always have to reject the first ruling, no matter what. You will get a better result the second run through (maybe even reject that, too).

Imho it’s the curse of complexity. But there is little incentive for bureaucratic institutions to „refactor“ their processes, as it would mean less headcount.

dreinhardt··on The trimodal nature of software salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021)
> Plus all the taxes to feed people who don't want to work.

That’s a very bad representation of the German reality of long term unemployment caused by the lack of availability of jobs.

The majority of welfare recipients in Germany are working people who are underpaid and/or underemployed.

What your taxes are really paying for is keeping the economic system with the largest low-wage sector in Europe going.

Think about that before yapping about „people who don’t want to work“.

dreinhardt··on Food security and the coming storm
With virtually all Hungarian mass media owned by Orban and his cronies he still had to resort to straight up burning opposition votes to win.

The only interests this wannabe dictator will secure are his own.

Go move to Hungary if you find autocracy so appealing.

dreinhardt··on Assassination of Boris Nemtsov
Nice whataboutism, bro.
dreinhardt··on What are your company's anti-values?
Anyway it’s not working, as I guess we can agree the Netflix client apps are pretty bad products probably not even C-level quality…
dreinhardt··on What are your company's anti-values?
It matters because someone has to decide what A- and B-List performance means. And the performance ceiling will shift if people put in 60 hours constantly. They will get more stuff done (assuming all else being equal) and soon your 40 hour A-List performance will have degraded to B level and now you’re either pressured in also doing the unrecorded overtime to get as much stuff done, or you are fired (you’re B-List now since someone is beating your performance by around 33%).
dreinhardt··on Viaweb's First Business Plan
In a world where 99% of people don’t reach that level of success and the ones that do owe much of their success to luck (right time, right place, right parents, right friends, right idea). Looking at someone like this can inspire envy.

Combine it with a personality that comes with high regard for itself (maybe justified, but easily perceived as arrogance).

And there you have it - a very hateable human (being a white male, etc. probably doesn’t help, either).

dreinhardt··on Simula One – Linux VR Computer
>> You could now take your workplace with you wherever you go.

The capitalists dream - the workers nightmare.

dreinhardt··on A hacker group has been framing people for crimes they didn't commit
Can anyone from India share their perspective on how the state of Indian democracy is?

Because this state level evidence planting makes it sound like a dictatorship.

dreinhardt··on Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
Yes of course because I believe in free speech and any form of access control on broadcasting means is CENSORSHIP like in the PRC. /s
dreinhardt··on Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if they were native apps
I went with Gnome boxes and installed windows xp. After 20 minutes of trying to get sound working I found out that the automatic configuration select ‘none’ for audio backend.

Worked fine after selecting ‘spice’, pulse audio didn’t work tho but also didn’t result in an error. Apart from sound everything worked out of the box, tho.

I did all that to run some old music training software that only came in 16 and 32 bit versions.

dreinhardt··on Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good fortune of rich friends?
In a finite world of limited resources, how couldn’t it be a question of how much?
dreinhardt··on Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good fortune of rich friends?
There is a sound argument that to create wealth you need a society. We all contribute to it and if we didn’t there wouldn’t be a society and even if you had a billion dollar or a few tons of gold you couldn’t get anything.

At the point where the concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny fraction of members of society becomes detrimental to the functioning of our society it is necessary to redistribute before society stops functioning.

How you feel about isn’t very important.

dreinhardt··on 2021 Letter
Democracy - not really needed for a liveable life /s
dreinhardt··on “Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs
You need education to know that.
dreinhardt··on Review of “Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?”
Log4j
dreinhardt··on Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter
Which mod mic do you use? The QC35s have the extra small plug so I thought most mod mics would not fit.
dreinhardt··on Summary of C/C++ integer rules
Which is why sane languages of the time had a bitfield type.
dreinhardt··on Summary of C/C++ integer rules
It’s funny that you would end up with a similar conclusion for other parts of the language (e.g. operators) as well. Just a gigantic set of inane rules everywhere causing you to constantly be in danger of introducing bugs and portability issues.
dreinhardt··on FlexBuffers
As i understood it, this is not about being faster, but about being more memory efficient.
dreinhardt··on What It's Like to Work on Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat
There is a good episode of Dan Carlin‘s Hardcore History podcast that might serve as a starting point: https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-61-blitz-...
dreinhardt··on Essential Phone, available now
Just write an android app that emulates an iPhone.