I wonder if my face is even in their database.
I have US citizenship + SSN but never lived in the USA. I do have a passport though and visited a few times for vacations.
Readit NewsAre there any publicly traded European cloud companies that will benefit from Europe hosting more of their stuff on their own?
I looked at IONOS, but it seems they just let their cloud product rot away? The cloud backend looks outdated and lacks basic features like uploading private keys that can be used when provisioning new VMs.
I also looked at OVH, but their website and interface look like total chaos to me. I felt lost all the time while I was trying to set up a VM, and while trying to use their AI APIs.
Considering that Europe has an economy as large as the USA, it is puzzling how small these companies are. The combined market cap of IONOS and OVH is less than $10B.
Europe does not have the same market conditions as the US. The continent is divided into a gazillion amount of small countries, each with their own rules, laws, regulations, languages, customers, pension systems, healthcare systems, and taxes. Even the currency is not the same everywhere. Not to mention the cultural differences.
Pretty hard economy to survive in.
jschoe commented on Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email news.itsfoss.com/schleswi... · Posted by u/sebastian_z
> The idea of doing DOM manipulation in a language that is not Javascript
...is already possible, see for instance:
https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/wasm-bindgen/examples/dom.ht...
You don't need to write Javascript to access the DOM. Such bindings still call JS under the hood of course to access the DOM API, but that's an implementation detail which isn't really important for the library user.
You don't get it.
jschoe commented on Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwe... · Posted by u/tosh
Big day for open source Chinese model releases - DeepSeek-v3-0324 came out today too, an updated version of DeepSeek v3 now under an MIT license (previously it was a custom DeepSeek license). https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/24/deepseek/
And it still can't answer this:
Q: "9.11 and 9.9, which one is larger?"
A: "To determine which number is larger between 9.11 and 9.9, let's compare them step by step. Both numbers have the same whole number part: 9. 9.11 has a 1 in the tenths place. 9.9 has a 9 in the tenths place. Since 9 (from 9.9) is greater than 1 (from 9.11), we can conclude that 9.9 is larger than 9.11."
"Final Answer: 9.9"
I don't think anything else needs to be said here.
jschoe commented on Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal theregister.com/2025/03/0... · Posted by u/rntn
Salaries are not set according to how much you need the money. The reason US salaries are high is that US software companies can make staggering amounts of money.
SAP also makes a lot of money. It's not purely related to how much a company makes. There are German companies that generate a shit ton of revenue, but they still pay way lower salaries. The mechanism how salaries come about are much more complex than that.
jschoe commented on Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal theregister.com/2025/03/0... · Posted by u/rntn
Reading the article my biggest take away is how low executive compensations are in Germany compared to the US. The top ranking ICs at US tech companies can hit low 7 figures!
Your take away does not go far enough. It's not executive compensations. It's compensation generally, it's all much much much lower than in the US. Many Germans consider 70-90k as already making bank and a high salary that you can ride out until retirement. And the COL isn't low either and quite similar to the US. Europe is just far behind the US when it comes to salaries. Which shows that there is a lot to lose for US engineers.
jschoe commented on TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsl... · Posted by u/franky47
Not only is Dimitri an amazing engineer - he's also great at building community and event/video production. Michigan Typescript meetups and videos have a level of polish that goes over and above
In the YouTube comments he stated nonetheless that he still bombed big tech interviews, specifically the technical portion, probably because of some ridiculous LeetCode problem he did not memorize beforehand. It just goes to show how these procedures do not effectively determine who is actually a good engineer or programmer. If this guy can't land a job while achieving this, then something is not quite right with the interview process.
jschoe commented on TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsl... · Posted by u/franky47
If I had to guess, it's a file with an array of keys pressed (or unpressed) at some time interval (say 0.1 seconds). Then a VS code extension can append to the array every 0.1 second along with any key-press states at that time. The compiler updates the game state whenever this array gets updated.
However, I'm guessing this is why we see a demo of pong and not doom. Doom probably just can't keep up with this.
No idea if I'm remotely on the right track here though.
If I heard him correctly he stated that it takes A LOT to just render a single frame. It's not playable. It can run DOOM, but you can't actually play it.
But if you use a fake name and fake email, which people should be using on twitter, who cares.
Also if you self host your VPN, how would twitter know. Looks like only people using a commercial VPN will be flagged.
What you need is a VPN that provides a genuine residential IP address. It's possible to do this, but not easy to set up for everyone.