The European commision sure wanted TTIP to happen, so there’s that.

because they sell cars to China

For how much longer? Can German cars even still compete with the Chinese, or has that ship sailed already? Come, buy the best engineering of yesteryear! Yay!

China heavily subsidizes EV manufacturers (and production in general), plus they have cheaper environmental and labour standards… it’s not like there’s a fair market EU companies can compete in without some sort of handicap.

Hah. Volkswagen is in trouble right now because they fucked up the transition to electric cars completly. What do you think will happen now? That’s right, we the (German) people will have to save them now, with our money. Basically the same shit as a subsidy, just later in the process. Kinda like what the Chinese do, just the really stupid way.

Oh, and of course, it will be everybody’s fault but their own.

It probably doesn’t matter. This type of battery is not all that interesting for things like electric cars, rather more so for things like grid energy storage on a massive scale. Think 1000s of these in a large building, getting charged during the day with excess solar energy, releasing it into the grid at night. Stuff like this is what has been missing to make even better use of renewables.

Too easy.

1. “Tubthumping” by “Chumbawumba”. It is easly the most annoying and obnoxious song, and the lyrics are so stupid.

IF the wizard feels particularly generous, I have more:

2. “Hey Soul Sister” by “Train”
3. “All Summer Long” by “Kid Rock”
4. “Dragostea Din Tei” by “O-Zone” (the maya hee maya ho song)

There are so many more, but just thinking of them makes me angry, so I’ll stop.

STOP DOING C++

• Templates were not supposed to make your error messages explode into unrecognizable gibberish
• “Yes, please generate 5000 pages of garbage instead of an understandable error message!” - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

Look at what compilers have been demanding your respect for all this time:

???

They have played us for absolute fools.

Over my rotting, worm riddled carcas.

Nighr City is just so good!

There is this restaurant on a volcano on Lanzarote, in the “Parque Nacional de Timanfaya”, where they cook with the heat from the magma below. I am sure you could cook a pizza with that, as well.

“Will it blend?” - in today’s episode, Larry Ellison, massive waste of skin and resources.

DOOOOOMMMM!!!

RANDOOOOOOOOOM!!11

BEAT THAT PETAR MOLINEXU!

If you’re already working 40 hours a week, focusing on stuff out of hours is going to be hard. I know this all too well!

I was thinking more along the lines of ‘nightshift’. 😀

There are a lot of jobs that require out of hours support, specifically those that aren’t tied to business hours. In tech at least, many of the sites and services you use are built off the backs of software engineers that are paged at 5am because latency is a little higher than normal.

There is a very easy solution to this dilemma: pay someone to stand ready at off-hours.

Are there really people who don’t know where the clitoris is, or is that just a meme?

I mean ofc, one of those two sides are their employers them.

FTFY.

They are still using Reddit, so one has to wonder if they have not abandoned sanity and intellect a long time ago.

the…rapist? 🤔

I read “Tuccan chicken” and was wondering how much meat is on those. Hah.

Because it is bullshit. HR have no clue how to find good candidates, and whoever hired them to get a new hire had no idea what the new hire should be able to do and so just gave HR a few buzzwords to work with. But even if they had been given a good job description, they are basically muppets.