stnikolauswagne (u/stnikolauswagne)

stnikolauswagne commented on Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck electrek.co/2025/03/13/te... · Posted by u/croes

FirmwareBurner · 10 months ago

>but up immensely compared to France and the UK (which do not)

Do not what?

>do you have a decent dataset on #sick days by any chance?

I mean just google. For example:

https://www.nzz.ch/english/why-europes-appetite-for-work-is-...

stnikolauswagne · 10 months ago

>but up immensely compared to France and the UK (which do not)

Have decent sick pay, france seems to pay 20%, UK like 10ish%, makes complete sense that such countries would have less sick days.

>I mean just google. For example:

This is the kind of mediocre dataset I dislike, going to their datasource ( https://gateway.euro.who.int/en/indicators/hfa_411-2700-abse... ) half of germanys neighbours have not reported data for 2022, the graph they use for "EU" seems to just use the data from 2020 and stretch it over to 2022 because thats where the WHO dataset ends.

For example if you check out slovenia in the dataset they have a huge spike in 2022 (similar to germany) but went down a lot in 2023, Germany has no 2023 data so we can't say whether germany went down based on the WHO dataset.

Two papers linked in the article show germany going down to at least 2021 levels in 2023, yet this does not seem represented in the graph.

stnikolauswagne commented on Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck electrek.co/2025/03/13/te... · Posted by u/croes

FirmwareBurner · 10 months ago

>German winters are nasty, cold, and damp

Worse than Nordics/Scandinavia or neighboring Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Poland? They don't have winter clothing in Germany?

> If your company acts like a typical American one, I can well see a culture clash.

Most of German workers work for German companies following German laws and German culture, not American companies. So why twice the sick days versus EU neighbours?

stnikolauswagne · 10 months ago

>Most of German workers work for German companies following German laws and German culture, not American companies. So why twice the sick days versus EU neighbours?

Which EU neighbours are we talking about? A cursory check shows them to be up by like 20ish% compared to czechia and poland, (which have decent sick pay) but up immensely compared to France and the UK (which do not). If #of sick days scales with % of sick pay it would make perfect sense for germany to be on top, do you have a decent dataset on #sick days by any chance? I was unable to find consistent data on this.

stnikolauswagne commented on Integrating AI scott-fryxell.github.io/b... · Posted by u/sfryxell

koakuma-chan · 10 months ago

Has your mind ever held a system so complex, it wouldn't fit in two million tokens? My hasn't.

stnikolauswagne · 10 months ago

Easily, I have a somewhat working understanding of the SAP version we run in my head, LLMs love hallucinating columns or endpoints that do not exist. I‘m sure the full SAP documentation easily clears 2 mil tokens. And thats not even touching our own codebase.

stnikolauswagne commented on Russia: Citizens must turn off home surveillance because Ukrainians are coming theregister.com/2024/08/2... · Posted by u/rntn

RandomThoughts3 · a year ago

I would like to believe it too but western economic sanctions have overall done little. Russia is still finding takers for its gas (India and China notably but even European countries are still actually buying through third parties). It has found new allies in Africa. Plus it’s highly likely they will end up with territorial gain one the dust settles.

The war also highlighted some weaknesses and a general unpreparedness of the western allies.

The cost in human lives was high but I’m not convinced you can really call it a strategical defeat at this point sadly.

stnikolauswagne · a year ago

If this is not a strategic defeat then I struggle to think of what a defeat would actually look like. Ukrainian Troops entering the Kremlim?

They managed to: -get Sweden and Finland to finally join Nato

-completely demolish their entire military export potential

-lose half their warchest because they kept it in foreign banks

-lose all kinds of prestige the „mighty“ russian military had

-severely diminish the arms stocks they had left over from the soviet union

-lose the flagship of one of their fleets to a nation without a navy

-publically had one of their mercenary companies march on their capital in revolt

In exchange the land might gain from this is going to be completely devastated from the war.

Compare all of this to the 2014 fiasco where they ended up with crimea in exchange for some minor-ish sanctions,

stnikolauswagne commented on Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity axios.com/2023/12/31/elon... · Posted by u/doener

LanzVonL · 2 years ago

How do you figure it costs billions to run? Sounds like a crazy number. Millions, maybe.

stnikolauswagne · 2 years ago

For starters twitter is settled with about 12 billion in expensive debt as part of the purchase which cost about a billion of year in interest alone [0].

[0] https://gizmodo.com/twitter-elon-musk-debt-interest-social-m...

stnikolauswagne commented on ChatGPT’s system prompts github.com/spdustin/ChatG... · Posted by u/spdustin

jetrink · 2 years ago

It's unexpected to me that they repeatedly list recipes alongside lyrics as a special case, since as I understand it, recipes are not copyrightable, at least in the United States. Is this not the case in all countries? On second thought, I wonder if it's for another reason like preventing the system from reproducing inedible or dangerous recipes that people have planted online.

stnikolauswagne · 2 years ago

See [1] there was a recent scandal where some sort of ai app recommended a recipe that results in deadly chlorine gas as a (by)-product, I can definitely see why LLM-halucinations could be super dangeorous with recipes, I‘m unlinkely to kill someone if ChatGPT suggest a method in a module that does not exist.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-sav...

stnikolauswagne commented on “Magic: The Gathering” is officially the world’s most complex game technologyreview.com/2019... · Posted by u/dtx1

raffraffraff · 3 years ago

Can someone explain how this is any better than pay-to-ein games?

stnikolauswagne · 3 years ago

My argument would be that it caps out at a certain point where more money stopes equalling higher win%, I have played a lot of high level magic tournaments and budget was never really something that impacted the meta game at the higher levels.

I always compare it to something like golf, my nearest golf club is 1500€/year, the equipment would probably be another 500 or so, does this make golf a play-to-win game or just an expensive hobby?

E: Ironically the thing thats most pay-to-win about magic is the way tournaments used to be ran, being actually competitive at a decent level involves 1-2 trips to different cities on the continent a month, with the occasional trip to a different continent thrown in. In my competitive years I spend like 1k/year on cards, pulled in 2k/year in winnings and spent probably 8k in flights and hotel costs.

stnikolauswagne commented on YouTube mega-star MrBeast seeks 10-figure valuation axios.com/2022/10/25/mrbe... · Posted by u/609venezia

rogerkirkness · 3 years ago

10x revenue multiple is not crazy for content. Content has zero marginal costs like software.

stnikolauswagne · 3 years ago

In a vacuum that is true, but for MrBeast in particular his entire shtick around content is „look at me spending outrageous amounts of money on this video“, there are probably Holywood movies out there that have a better revenue/cost ratio than some of his stuff.

stnikolauswagne commented on Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar twitter.com/foone/status/... · Posted by u/thunderbong

shakezula · 3 years ago

> Sunday = 1

Animals. Absolutely barbaric.

Everybody knows we should index lists starting at 0. /s

stnikolauswagne · 3 years ago

Time to start a movement to consider saturday the as the beginning of the week!