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Switching on airplane mode might switch off wifi, but "being in airplane mode" does not mean wifi is off, because wifi is still allowed in airplane mode.

I'm just saying this here because I thought for quite some time that airplane mode means no radio signals from the phone.

> Your (b) is an especially tendentious phrasing.

Yes, you are right, it was maybe a stupid phrasing, I'm particularly annoyed by it and I should have given a better example (but I disagree that you cannot distinguish tap water from bomb ingredients. Of course you can. And I did even talk about the stupid 100ml limit, which is apparently the threshold you need for bombs. And they will lift the limit soonish, because apparently the counter-terrorists have won).

Anyway, let's take a better example: I'm not allowed to bring weapons in the cabin because they are a safety risk. This is an understandable risk, they will enforce it (not by asking but by searching), and if you still end up with a weapon in the plane and disturb the flight, you will for sure end up in jail.

If your cell phone rings loudly during take off, you will politely be asked to turn it off. If it rings silently, nobody will ever care.

> Being able to temporarily “unplug the cable” from a wireless device is a valuable feature, even if it’s no longer required by regulation.

But airplane mode means that wifi is still enabled/possible for quite some time.

I'm always amazed that the following things are true at the same time:

a) Cell phones not in airplane mode are supposedly a safety concern for airplanes.

b) Tap water I bring from home is a supposedly a safety concern for airplanes.

c) I'm asked to turn my cell phone off or into airplace mode during take off but nobody really cares.

d) I'm strip searched for tap water before entering the gate.

> This is not about hiring, it is about what you are allowed to call yourself, i.e. what you are allowed to write into your CV on your buisness card, on your Web site or use for self advertisment.

If my job title is Software Engineer, then this is of course what it written on my business card that my employer prints for me.

> Job adverisments in German almost exclusively use the term "Software-Entwickler"

This is just not true.

This all might very well be, but it does not reflect reality. Everybody calls himself Software Engineer, nobody calls himself Softwareingenieur.

As if Google Deutschland would not hire you as a Software Engineer (or SRE, ..) if you are missing a B.Sc. (or did it in a non-technical field) but everything else is perfect.

> This article is laughable. Google already has Meena and Lambda which are the same thing and arguably superior.

If Google really has two products in-house which are better than ChatGPT, and they are not able able to make them proper products for the outside world (for what ever battles they are fighting internally) they are even more fucked.

But the funny thing is that Google already has not one but two products for the same thing.

"Software Engineer" (without German translation) is used as an official job title by many German companies and the German linkedin is also full of people describing themselves as Software Engineers. This is the first time I hear such an objection.

> I guess I have a fairly cynical take on this. I think this just exposes that AI is fundamentally going to undermine the value of education in certain fields. The fact some tests can be "cheated" by AI really just suggests that some skills have little to no value in our future AI-prevalent world.

If you think about it, most of the stuff you learn at school (beyond reading and writing) has not much value apart from certifying that you are not stupid and compliant to do stupid tasks.

This is (from the perspective of the state) good money laundering, because you pay taxes on it.

These registers are only for legal entities (at least in Germany). And it has nothing to do with doing business.

> Problem as always is, its all talk and (almost) zero enforcement in Germany.

I have the exact opposite impression. Even in small start-up, every new external supplier will be judged whether the is any customer data processing in the US. People are super afraid of Google analytics. If you use the Google Fonts on your website you will get an cease and desist letter in no time from scummy lawyers. You pratically need an external company to manage your cookie banner because it is a legal risk.

Well, they are to quite some extend. But on the level of the owners / shareholders.

Note that before 1cp-LSD there was 1p-LSD. My impression was that 1cp-LSD, 1v-LSD, and 1d-LSD was published precisely the moment the previous *-LSD was banned. So it is quite likely that somebody already has a successor of 1d-LSD in his drawer.

What I find quite interesting is that Germany seems unable or unwillig to ban all *-LSD formulae. They are able to ban structural groups, but for LSD it is always quite specific when the new law is published. As if somebody is interested in keeping LSD access open.

That is, quite interestingly, what Germany is doing with LSD-like substances. They banned, in this order with 1 year between, 1p-LSD, 1cp-LCD, and 1v-LSD. 1d-LSD is currently (openly and seemily legaly) sold in Berlin.

I'm wondering whether the 1.1MJ/kg takes into account that the heat used for cement production is often used for heating nearby households.

> You can also do it later on.

In Germany it is tricky to do it later and is a taxable event.

> Ouch, that MacBook Pro 13" chassis makes me hurt.

It is just the previous MacbookPro 13" with the M1 replaced with an M2. The Air is better in all regards if I read the spec correctly.

The M2 as well, unfortunately.

> I don't eat particularly healthy

Because it is about the amount you eat and not about eating healthy (whatever that means anyway).

> I'm from Germany and sold my ETH at the peak some time ago with a profit of ~80k. It was a very strange feeling to receive that completely untaxed, as everything else is taxed here.

If you buy a car (let's say an oldtimer) and sell it for more money than you bought it after one year, it is also tax free.

Real estate is also tax free after two years (or ten years, depending on whether you have lived in it).

If old apps no longer run on newer iOS versions for whatever questionable reasons, then we would have a different discussion.

But what happens here is that Apple demands updates although these apps still work.

Edit: And if I understand this correctly, they only look at the date when the app was last updated. Just doing a version bump suffices to fulfill their check. There are not technical requirements that need to be fulfilled.

When you are buying shares on the stock market, you are not giving money to a company but to the previous owner of the shares.

Or you can just handover your voting rights of your shares to some NGO.

This seems to be build on the (IMHO wrong) premise that non-investing it will somehow change the minds of these non-sustainable businesses, where in reality, by investing into a business, you get voting rights to actually influence in which direction a business is heading.

Thinking about it the other way: By not investing is such non-sustainable companies, only the people who don't care will do. And they will actually get the companies are a discount.

> Again, the point is that the non-mobile URL redirects to the mobile URL.

And I would argue that this is not only the point but the problem we are talking about. It makes the m. pages appear all over the Internet although they are less suitable for some devices (they are, I'd argue, even less usable because, e.g., the page history is missing when you are not logged in).

> You're not making sense.

The use case is: I go to the standard wikipedia page, browse a bit, and then I want to give out links to the standard wikipedia page of a specifig article.

This is currently not possible without editing the URL if you are on mobile. And I dont understand why wikipedia is refusing to fix this.

> In Germany salaries are the same as 2 years ago

Not in tech.

It was doing push/ret, ie. pushing stuff (addresses) and then returning to the pushed address. Or popping stuff without pushing before (saving the return address of something) and storing it somewhere.

That is of course perfectly legal, but not something you see in normal programs. In the end, it really helping me to understand how the stack works, but the first time I saw it, it was super confusing.

> I got something infected with a virus named Romania.856 (I will always remember this name)

For me it was Tai-Pan.438.A. I printed out(!) the disassembly code and studied it for weeks. I remember the stack modifications (not matching push/pop instructions) were super troubling for me to understand because such tricks were not really explained it the normal books.