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@tom_nuttall @IsabellaMWeber Actually the recklessness of the government's spending seems to push some people from the conservative camp towards the AfD.

@IsabellaMWeber The "infrastructure" shown here is not military-related, but from the new Sondervermögen. There is no meaningful definition of "austerity" that can reasonably be applied to this government's fiscal policy, surely you can see that.

Yes, because this is about everything other than defense spending and security related infrastructure.

@goinggodotnet Which models will you try first?

Here is my setup with an M3/256GB and M4/128GB. I have tailscale setup for ssh. Hopefully soon I will be running a split model across this cluster using Kronk.

@GergelyOrosz The way I interpret this is that they were texting while she was sitting with the board. That's why they couldn't have a call.

Also: maturity and knowing when spending more time is worth it. You can see eg Mira and Sam did not do a call to talk (it would have been more time) Satya (running a trillion-dollar company) invested his time to talk and minimize misundestandings and sort things (which he did) x.com/GergelyOrosz/s…

Looking at these these texts published between Mira Murati and Sam Altman (as part of the OpenAI trial): the (only?) adult in the room at the time was Satya. Texts, emails and everything written can be used in discovery, like now. Satya simply picked up the phone and talked.

@tom_nuttall Maybe he is mostly disappointed with his own party and the SPD. I think his failure so far to get things done exhibits the fact that the German coalition politics model is far past its prime. Time to free legislation from coalition constraints, as seen in Switzerland!

"No chancellor before me has had to endure anything like this," says Merz in an interview to mark his first year in office. It's just one of several statements that reveal a politician who appears to be serially disappointed by his own electorate. spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…

@Jera_Value No te parecería raro si ya huberias estado en un motel barato de una zona rural. Nunca antes había visto tantas cucarachas 😂🪳

📊 Si te vas a la pestaña de “stats”, esto es lo que te encuentras: Está guay, sí. Pero lo que más me ha llamado la atención no es eso. Es la cola larguísima de hoteles malísimos en Norte América 😂 Algo raro pasa ahí

🏆 ¿Cuál es el mejor hotel del mundo? ¿Y de España? Pequeño hilo off-topic sobre la nueva herramienta de @levelsio para comprar hoteles con IA. En concreto, me ha llamado la atención su pestaña de estadísticas. Tiene cosas bastante curiosas. Os dejo la web al final 👇

Recommendation if you (have to) use golanglint-ci: If you add new rules, try them out on the Go standard library first! That code is beautiful and if your rules flag a lot, maybe reconsider your rules.

@stevesi The employees in these supermarkets will probably be heavily unionized, public sector style. Not sure if US customers will be willing to endure this kind of customer attention. Maybe those who emigrated from socialist countries and grew up with it 😁

@awesomekling @ladybirdbrowser I think having many many potential users sponsor you with small annual amounts (e.g. $10) might be a good thing.

Who should we ask to sponsor @ladybirdbrowser? We're a nonprofit building a new browser from scratch. In the process we're putting web standards to the ultimate test: implementation! We're always looking for more sponsors who want the open web to thrive. Suggestions welcome!

@awesomekling There's April's Fools in Sweden? I hope...

I am so tired of computers and programming in particular. I need to find something else to do with my life.

@dnlkntt Driving this in Germany means never finding a parking lot...

Model Y vs Cybertruck 😳. The size difference is huge. #tesla

@levelsio @Wardlangely There is this chain of labs called Joaquim Chaves Saude (jcs.pt) where you can easily get appointments for blood work, without prescription or whatever. At least back in 2023 when I was in Portugal.

@Wardlangely But private blood work isn't available either

I was never able to do blood tests when I asked for it in Netherlands Doctor asked "why? you're not sick?" Then I tried in Portugal (at Germano de Sousa) but they never picked up the phone or when they did were so slow and unhelpful I gave up, they also require a doctor prescription btw The first place I could get my blood tested was Thailand in 2018, I just walked into Bumrungrad and asked for it, amazing experience Last few years we just fly to Brazil and do it here, the nurse comes to your home/hotel at 8am and takes your blood, same or next day results online I find it funny I keep having to fly out of Western Europe to do blood tests, they make it impossibly hard to do them Which is retarded

@goinggodotnet I see affordable fiber internet. 😉

Tell me you're not in the States without telling me you're not in the States

@mitsuhiko Codex is quite good in cleaning up behind itself if that is included in the prompt ("clean up behind yourself, don't leave non-code files, Docker images, ...").

My least favorite feature is that LLMs love to use "python3 -m py_compile" to validate python syntax and then create a bunch of __pycache__ folders

@mksgraz @Kosak_Daniel Ich glaube es hat auch damit zu tun, dass je kleiner eine Gemeinde ist, desto mehr regiert der gesunde Hausverstand.

@Kosak_Daniel Ist keine Frage der Größe, sondern der Effizienz der Organisation. Dass sich da sie SPÖ in den Beispielen schwerer tut überrascht mich jetzt auch nicht wirklich.

Wer argumentiert, dass mit der Größe einer Gemeinde die Verwaltungskosten sinken, der sollte einen Blick darauf werden: Altlengbach: 3.200 EW, 363 Euro Verwaltungskosten pro EW/Jahr Neulengbach: 8.600 EW, 500 Euro Verwaltungskosten pro EW/Jahr St. Pölten: 60.000 EW; 608 Euro Verwaltungskosten pro EW/Jahr Wenn das gewünschte Ziel von Gemeindefusionen die Reduktion von Kosten ist, dann wird man das damit nicht erreichen.

Claude, asked to modify C code: “Let me use a goto-based approach instead.” Happens to the best of us.

@thorstenball Needs more homework 😉 But srsly, quite impressive, have you measured her input tokens/sec yet?

Big issue in our house: 8-year-old running out of books. Four library cards and she's running out. 30 books in 3 weeks. Including first two Harry Potter books.

@guillermocarone @Dr_Diogenes88 Try to post it again on BlueSky or Mastodon 😜

@Dr_Diogenes88 Yes, I’m actually surprised I haven’t seen any comments yet siding with the squatters and saying what a terrible person I am for wanting to invest in real estate

One more "funny" story about the Spanish administration. This one is very recent. I purchased a small shop with squatters inside. I started the legal process to kick them out (BTW, you need a lawyer to do that, you can't file the paperwork without one). Six months later, the judge ruled in my favor. But here comes the "funny" part. The squatters needed to be legally notified of the judge's ruling, and they had 20 days after receiving the notification to appeal. But officially notifying someone in Spain is not like in the movies. You can’t just say, "Hey, are you John Smith? You’ve been served." The person receiving the notification needs to be legally identified, signature, ID, etc. The squatters in my shop were undocumented immigrants, no papers, so technically the police could not identify them and therefore couldn't officially notify them. The judge said it was the police's responsibility to notify the squatters. The police said there was no way to formally notify them without documentation. And this went on for months. MONTHS AFTER THE JUDGE HAD RULED IN MY FAVOR! Eventually, the police were able to kick them out because they managed to collect proof that they were using the shop to sell drugs. It was part of a widespread mafia operation. So I got my shop back, not because it was my property and it was illegally occupied, but because I was "lucky" that the dummies in there were selling drugs. The entire thing lasted 18 months and cost 5K€ in legal fees, plus the cost of restoring the space after it was returned to me in a deplorable state (see the photos), plus all the months I was not able to use or rent the place. I think cases like these are particularly delicate because they put the concept of private property on the line. And without the concept of private property, well, everything falls apart.

@Cristi_latin Es fácil culpar a Hacienda y a la gente q trabaja allí, pero el problema es la ley.

Hay que derruir Hacienda y cambiar la mitad de funcionarios por IA: 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 “Dado que mi último tweet despertó tanto interés, aquí hay otra historia “divertida” sobre la administración española. Un día revisé mi cuenta bancaria y vi un cargo de 590 € que no reconocí. Después de 20 minutos de conversación telefónica con mi banco, me enteré de que Hacienda había incautado el dinero. Me dieron un número de caso. Empecé a llamar para entender por qué. Nadie me lo explicaba por teléfono. No podían verificar mi identidad a distancia. Tuve que ir en persona. La siguiente cita era en tres semanas. En la cita, me dijeron que un local comercial de mi propiedad estaba siendo utilizado como vivienda. Ilegal. Les dije que lo había vendido un año antes y que, cuando era mío, lo alquilaba como trastero. 20 m². Un cuarto diáfano. Dijeron que tenían pruebas y me mostraron fotos. Las fotos no eran de mi tienda. El edificio tiene tres tiendas a pie de calle: 1, 2 y 3. El inspector las confundió. Tomó fotos de la tienda 1, pero escribió la tienda 3 en algunos formularios. La infracción había ocurrido tres años antes. La Tienda 1 recibió notificaciones repetidas y no hicieron nada al respecto. Cuando llegó el momento de cobrar, le cobraron a la Tienda 3. Ese era yo. Las fotos mostraban una cocina y un dormitorio. Mi tienda era un solo espacio de 20 m². Podrían comprobarlo en los registros públicos de la propiedad. Dijeron que necesitaban una inspección. Próximo turno disponible: dos meses. Repetí que ya no era dueño de la propiedad. No podía dar acceso a algo que no era mío. Escalaron el caso. Durante el año siguiente, recibí tres llamadas. Cada vez tuve que explicarlo todo de nuevo. Siempre me preguntaban si podía conseguir que el nuevo propietario me diera acceso. No lo conocía. Dijeron que me llamarían de nuevo. Finalmente, alguien de alto rango me llamó. Dijo que sería la última vez que me llamarían si no estaba dispuesto a cooperar. Dije que no podía hacer lo que me pedían, por mucho que lo deseara. Dijo que no podían hacer nada. Y ASÍ FUE COMO PERDÍ 590 €, pasé 10 a 12 horas en llamadas y visitas, y llevé este asunto en mi cabeza durante más de un año.”

@guillermocarone @LogginsAddie Con cosas así, no hay que sorprenderse que la tasa de natalidad es una de las más bajas de Europa.

@LogginsAddie Correcto. Nunca he dicho que lo fuera, solo he expuesto mi caso. Lo que creo es que el sistema no está preparado para gestionar casos aislados ni excepciones. Es complicado, incluso hasta comprensible a veces, pero eso no hace que el impacto sobre estos casos sea menos real.

Want to hear an even more surreal story? I was a freelancer in Spain, making 4-5K€ per month. Then my son was born, and I was forced to take at least 6 weeks of paternity leave. During this time I would be paid around 900€/month (regardless of how much I made). A good portion of my income came from ongoing monthly contracts that didn't require daily involvement on my part, and I arranged with my clients to do more work upfront and then catch up when I came back to make up for my time away. HOWEVER, to my surprise, my accountant told me the Spanish system did not allow me to create invoices during my paternity leave. I asked if I could give up my paternity leave "benefits" altogether. The answer was NO. So for a while there, I was forced by the government to stop generating 4-5K€ for my family and instead take the 900€ they so kindly were giving me.

@mksgraz @FranzSchellhorn Es ist leider für linke Populisten sehr vorteilhaft, solche schädlichen Regelungen einzuführen -> das Problem wird schlimmer -> Leute wählen linke Populisten -> das Problem wird schlimmer ...

@FranzSchellhorn Weiß außerhalb unserer Regierung ohnehin JEDER!

Warum Mietpreisbremsen das Gegenteil dessen bewirken, was die Politik verspricht. 👇👇👇👇