leisesprecher
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- Comment on Delectable 22 hours ago:
Germany has Spaghetti ice cream, but that’s at least real ice cream just made to look like spaghetti.
- Comment on elucidating 🤌🏼 6 days ago:
Well, actually you’re kind of wrong, at least in some contexts.
So I’m not sure, how that works in other countries, but here in Germany, a large bid for some public contact has to parrot the requirements. The process includes a bloke essentially ticking all of the boxes in their request, and if you say (just for example) “we will deploy that in our k8s cluster” but they require a cloud ready solution, the bloke will not tick the box. Yes, that’s incredibly stupid.
Apart from that, who reads the bid texts? Not technical people, but bean counters and MBAs. The technical people on the other side are only asked for comment, they have no say.
I wish you would be right, but in a world full of people desperately trying to justify their existence, fluff is essential.
- Comment on elucidating 🤌🏼 1 week ago:
Most “professional” writing is just a bunch of phrases interspersed with a few chunks of information.
I’m involved with bidding and grant proposal stuff for software and it’s 90% empty words. I draw two diagrams and a page of text, sales deletes 60% of the text, misinterprets the rest and then puffs it up to 30 pages.
- Comment on biodegradable 1 week ago:
And reusable!
- Comment on Nature is blunt. 1 week ago:
I’m still not sure, what exactly the journals are actually doing.
Like, in all seriousness, what service do they provide? Just hosting the platform for anonymized reviews and basically a blog for the actual articles? That should cost maybe a few millions each year, yet this sector makes billions in revenue.
- Comment on Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives 1 week ago:
Train nerds are a weird bunch.
Please never change.
- Comment on Tensors 2 weeks ago:
It’s all just pointers with semantics attached.
- Comment on Coming up with new names is hard 2 weeks ago:
Most names are essentially just landmarks of some sort.
Hamburg is derived from Hammer Burg, simply meaning hammer castle.
Part of Hamburg is Altona, which is lower German for all too near, because it’s really close to Hamburg.
East of Hamburg is Lübeck, which is means “settlement of the lub”, whoever the lub were.
Even farther east is Warnemünde, which is located at the mouth (Mund) of the river Warnow.
Said river is getting pretty wide a bit upstream, which gave the city of Rostock its name (“where the river gets wider”).
East of that: Stralsund. It’s the sound (the water kind) of Strela.
And so on and so on.
- Comment on Coming up with new names is hard 2 weeks ago:
Germany has Katzenhirn - cat brain.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make 3 weeks ago:
That’s one of the reasons I lost almost all interest in games.
It already costs an arm and a leg to stay somewhat on top of the hardware requirements, I can’t justify to myself also investing hundreds of hours into essentially busy work.
I don’t enjoy fetching Fred’s uncle’s magic shovel of doom from a stupid generic dungeon 4h away.
Maybe I’m weird, but I use games more like interactive movies. I want a story, not some artificial and ultimately pointless “challenge”.
- Comment on "Proving them wrong": After raising minimum wage, California has more fast-food jobs than ever 3 weeks ago:
What really baffles me here is that in essence, what happened is exactly what free market economics would have predicted. If you can’t find people for low paying jobs, you increase wages and will get more workers. That’s literally economics 101, like, the first or second page in an economics book.
- Comment on "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!" 3 weeks ago:
My school was barely 15 years ago, but we also had a thin book handed out to us in 7th grade or so that contained charts and references for pretty much everything in a very condensed form. Periodic tables, formulas for math and physics, chemical and physical attributes for a bunch of materials, … And the entire ASCII table for some reason.
That was in Germany during the 00s and I still have that book, and three or four copies I stole over time.
- Comment on For a few beautiful hours, The Borderlands movie's $90m flop wasn't the worst-reviewed film of the summer 3 weeks ago:
High Budget movies are not art, but an industrial product.
As I wrote before, there’s a ton of money in these movies. If nobody is reading these scripts before making them, then someone isn’t doing their job.
- Comment on For a few beautiful hours, The Borderlands movie's $90m flop wasn't the worst-reviewed film of the summer 3 weeks ago:
I’m still not sure, how in the last years so many high profile dumpster fires were made and released.
Critical acclaim aside, that’s not the metric studios go for, but so many movies were just garbage from the very start. How does this happen? Movie scripts go through so many hands and take forever to realize. Did nobody notice how bad they were? There’s a ton of money at stake, why are not even the managers concerned about this?
- Comment on Age 30 3 weeks ago:
I never really got the idea of having one hobby and letting that define you.
I’m gardening a bit and I’m not very good at it, if I need some woodworking done and feel like it’s a reasonable difficulty, I’ll do that myself (badly) etc etc.
I don’t want to spend all my free time doing one thing, that’s what I do as a job already.
- Comment on Will The People Who Say They Love Cinema the Most Come Back to the Movies? 4 weeks ago:
It’s about a feeling, not facts.
- Comment on Mattel reportedly in talks with Illumination for an animated "Barbie" movie - Warner Bros. not involved, Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie are "not thrilled". 4 weeks ago:
Haven’t there been like 200 Barbie movies already? What’s the big deal?
- Comment on My Empire of Podsols 4 weeks ago:
Vermiculture is a perfectly legitimate hobby and I’m not weird because of it!!!
- Comment on as far as we know anyway 5 weeks ago:
Because it’s derived from the Greek kokkos, meaning berry, because the bacteria are round (like berries) and not elongated like other bacteria.
- Comment on Why many American seniors are forced to work in retirement 5 weeks ago:
Well, that’s obviously because they can’t reach down anymore to pulm themselves up by their own bootstraps! Lazy seniors!
- Comment on Technically Correct 5 weeks ago:
It’s security theater through and through.
Apart from the obvious failings of these checks, think about what kind of damage a single backpack of explosives can do to a packed airport during holiday season. You can literally put a ton of explosives on one of those trolleys, roll it into the waiting area and kill 200 people easily. No security whatsoever involved.
Reality is, most security measures are designed to keep the illusion of control. Nothing more. Penetration testers show again and again that you can easily circumvent practically all barriers or measures.
- Comment on Hermit Crab Housing Market 1 month ago:
Also, sometimes you just want a tight fit house to show what you got.
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 1 month ago:
What are you talking about?
A ship travelling to another star system will not fly as slow as Voyager and will be well outside of the solar system within decades. What kind of beacon do you think would be strong enough to ping continuously, for 3000 years, at increasingly high energy levels? We’re talking megawatts of power.
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 1 month ago:
You’re looking the wrong way, literally.
It’s not about us being found by another civilization, it’s about a sleeper ship being forgotten by us.
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 1 month ago:
, it’d be weird if we just, sent someone out into space, and didn’t ask any questions, or try to get any follow up information or anything.
I think you kind of missed my point here.
Think about the infrastructure needed to communicate with Voyager. How many people would be capable of rebuilding it, if it would break? Given something like a major war, or a pandemic, might those people die or simply be shifted to more pressing issues? Since a sleeper ship doesn’t have an active crew, stuff might simply break on their side too. Maybe an asteroid hits the dish.
I’m not arguing that it’s impossible to build technology to keep in touch, I’m arguing that those who do the touching vanish. That’s a different angle.
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 1 month ago:
And I can think of just as many ways how it can get lost.
Stone tablets break, and how can you even communicate abstract concepts like spacetime coordinates on a slab of stone? There’s a huge debate on how to communicate the simple idea of “danger, don’t dig here” on top of nuclear dumps.
Beacons require enormous amounts of power. We can barely communicate with voyager, and that thing is just outside of our solar system and we know exactly what and where to look for.
Think about hieroglyphs. Those were out in the open for centuries and only through a lucky accident we stumbled upon the Rosetta stone. Otherwise we would have no idea what these weird symbols might mean.
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 1 month ago:
Is that so? Then how is Akadia doing currently? And what’s up with the Hittites? Are the geometry nerds in Egypt still in power?
Civilization as a whole might survive, but civilizations are constantly going under. Just think about how much knowledge was lost during WW2 or after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
There’s exactly two locations in this world still having samples of small pox. Do we know that the location in Russia is still operational? They might as well lost power in 1991 and had their Diesel stolen.
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 1 month ago:
Given the brittleness of civilization, chances are the backup tapes with the exact flight planes get lost during a thunderstorm and 50 years later nobody remembers this ship even exists.
- Comment on Vince Vaughn on Why His R-Rated Comedies Aren’t Made Anymore: “People in Charge Don’t Want to Get Fired” 1 month ago:
It was clever at its time. I mean, it’s not like any of that was a secret that needed to be exposed, but it’s a comedy that clearly makes fun of a stereotype, and you can’t reference a stereotype without actually showing. That’s kind of the point.
Take any current stereotype. Muslims, immigrants, whatever, how do you make fun of the people creating that stereotype without showing the stereotype? How can you show that hate against immigrants is stupid, without showing hate against immigrants? Yes, that’s a fine line, but that’s the burden of art.
- Comment on Vince Vaughn on Why His R-Rated Comedies Aren’t Made Anymore: “People in Charge Don’t Want to Get Fired” 1 month ago:
What exactly is problematic about them?
Every single one of them makes fun of a ton of stereotypes, the entire point of Anchorman is to make fun of sexism - the sexists are the idiots!
are generally considered “problematic” today
Which movie of the last 50 isn’t? Seriously, every single movie has some problematic bits in them. Ignoring the historic context is just incredibly braindead. You can’t just put modern standards and push them onto everything.
I think, you are exactly of the mindset criticized in the article. You don’t want to offend anyone, you don’t want to risk having tastes changed, because then suddenly you are problematic. And that’s just the exact opposite of art. That’s the mindset of a subject.