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Sure, I just gave the Browser API example as evidence that the 'hallucination' problem is not gone. OP said it's like "talking to a professor" and you can use it to learn college level stuff. This is where I disagree. I did not double check my professors or text books usually.

But you need to verify everything unless it’s self evident. The number of times CoPilot (Sonnett 4) still hallucinates Browser APIs is astonishing. Imaging trying to learn something that can’t be checked easily, like Egyptian archeology or something.

I can't reproduce the "worst case" i.e. that if I ping "google.com" it gets first sent to "google.com.fritz.box". I'm on windows 10 and have a FRITZ!Box 7590.

If I ping "google.com" It just queries google.com If I ping a domain I have never visited it just does a query for that domain.

It only appends .fritz.box if I, e.g. only ping "google".

So maybe they fixed it? I also changed quite a lot of settings throughout the years.

I think I agree, if that is legally possible. I don't think apple provides any important infrastructure like Amazon, Microsoft and Google do. It's basically a luxury company. Might be bad for the people who already own iOS devices and need it to survive in one way or another (e.g. as a wallet).

Same. I was unaware that Belgium or India have such systems and often wished for them to exist in Germany, but thought that it was impossible for privacy reasons in the EU. Now it's clear that it's just incompetence or lack of funds or vision in Germany.

My guess is backwards compatibility. There might be applications out there that have a dispose method for different reasons. Symbol.dispose is literally impossible to be already in use, since symbols are guaranteed to be unique.

Russia can't win a war against NATO, so they will not attack Poland or Germany. Maybe Moldova or something. This fear mongering is ridiciouslus. They can't even win against Ukraine, for crying out loud. Poland, France, UK, Germany(, Turkey?) would together crush them in a couple of months. Add Finland and Sweden and it gets reduced to weeks. Add the US and it'll take a couple of days. (Hyperbole, but still).

They are hopelessly outclassed in all categories but nukes. And UK/France has a couple of them, so Russia can't nuke willy nilly.

But that was when we had the majority of our industrial capability in Europe and with aid from the US. We also still had open coal mines and people didn't mind burning coal and wood in masses (which was the primary heat source at the time).

But, most importantly, we also had lots of young people. The aging of Europe will be the final nail in the coffin. Who will rebuild Europe? Not the roughly 30 percent over the age of 60 (who, coincidently, ran Europe into the ground for the last 30 years+).

Yes, way more stable. At least cypress, I don't have much experience with playwright. We never had an issue regarding brittleness or stability. We do, however, get sometimes frustrated over certain API choices, like the way sessions and cookies are managed and how hard it is to keep a value throughout a test suite etc.

I'm sorry that you and your colleagues/friends were treated badly. I know that the pain is real and I can't do anything but apologize for it.

And I obviously won't defend German businesses (or for that matter businesses in general).

But believe me when I say that the average German has no problems with Eastern Europeans. Funny that you mention Romania, I work in a decent sized software company and my team lead is from Romania and beloved by us all and the company (and, as a team lead, better payed than most German engineers in the company). However, even among normal citizens, stereotypes and a sense of superiority can be found in certain circles. But I gurantee you it is a (vocal) minority. Salary for tech workers is generally low in Germany (and maybe the EU as a whole?) especially compared to the UK or US.

Racial profiling of the kind you describe is definitely not "according to German law", we have several anti-discriminatory laws on the books. But, of course, reality can't live up the ideals.

If you need help regarding those clearly illegal circumstances or situations (especially regarding police and lodging) there is the Federal Anti-Discriminatory Agency [1], which has guidelines.

1: https://www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/EN/about-discrimin...

It's a step in the right direction, isn't it? LNG can also be imported from other countries and, in the long run, gas dependence should be massively reduced once gas-powered heating is replaced by electronic heading via heat pumps or something like that.

Even if we stop paying for gas and oil right now, that won't stop the Russian invasion. They have massive currency reserves, are relatively self sufficient etc.

Whereas if we do not receive gas anymore, it would wreck our own economies, which would lead to massive unemployment, social unrest and maybe going to the political extremes in the long run.

It would basically be European suicide. We need to be strong to help Ukraine.

That being said, the day we can stop paying for Russian gas is the day we will truly be free. Germany's liberatarian finance minster called renewables "freedom energy" and that could not be truer IMO.