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If those numbers are just about construction, that's presumably far from the total amount of data center related spending. Not that construction is cheap, but servers including ML HW are ... expensive.

HU-Berlin. But 2006ff, in the old Diploma based program. So who knows what is is today.

It was more like 3 courses, but even so, that's less than what you linked to.

I'm also not sure it's really true? I never finished, but I had some general ed reqs in college in Germany, studying CS & maths. They were targeted towards STEM folks, but we e.g. had to learn about what different strands of philosophy imply for our professional responsibilities and such.

Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 24/09/2026

Or even never learned that there's such a thing as a printer, thinking the printouts magically appear on the desk.

Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 22/09/2026

And higher than him dying peacefully in his sleep?!?

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 08/09/2026

How close have you looked into the definition of "ornamental grasses" (from the complaint)? I sure would be in the mood for some malicious compliance after all that...

Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 03/09/2026

Ugh, I had missed that controversy. Thanks for the heads up.

Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 27/08/2026

Banking on Trump not really responding to a slightly lower scale, kinda deniable, form of attack however and using that as a wedge into NATO, maybe? Seems risky, but clearly Putin has a different risk acceptance than I do :/

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 27/08/2026

I have a hard time believing - but who the hell knows, I'm far from certain of anything at this point - that a decent sized contingent of US troops could not deter a direct attack on a baltic state, even in its self inflicted diminished state.

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 27/08/2026

Threaten sending/increasing US tripwire forces into various baltic countries unless the preparations for such an attack stop? An actual kinetic attack on a NATO country seems a lot more deterrable than idk cyber attacks, increased support for Iran, or whatnot.

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 21/07/2026

Should have said "past"...

Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 21/07/2026

And it's not like Hanania discovered a new proof in maths, which perhaps maybe kinda could be said to be orthogonal to his white nationalist past. He's writing about stuff that is closely related to what he was writing before. And even leaving that aside, it's not like he has unique insights...

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 09/07/2026

I thought that was an interesting question and tried to look for data. Unfortunately it looks like www.jodidata.org/oil/database... does have less complete gasoline consumption data for the current year, making a real comparison harder. Didn't find a more complete dataset so far...

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway

theatlantic.com

The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated

Six months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings.

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 23/06/2026

I didn't immediately parse BAP as what you meant, but as a somewhat odd old German band (that my father at least used to be a fan of). Nonsensical association, but still makes more sense than the BAP you actually were referencing... youtu.be/t6XxI8QrkjA?...

youtu.be

BAP – Verdamp Lang Her live | Köln 2023 | Rockpalast

YouTube video by WDR Rockpalast

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 12/04/2026

Am I too cynical if I wonder if this is just an attempt at buying the dip, by announcing a few hours after market open that the blockade won't happen?

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 10/03/2026

Even if you do pay attention, the window between things starting to go wrong and crashing seems quite short here...

Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 25/02/2026

Huh :) For a moment I was hoping there would be new information about the attacker, but no such luck...

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 21/02/2026

Hard to overstate the excellence of this long-read from @shaunwalker7.bsky.social on the Western and Ukrainian intelligence run-up to Russia's full-scale invasion: the Iraq War's legacy, Zelensky v Zaluzhny, the geopolitical forces that shaped what followed. Awesome work, wonderful writing.

theguardian.com

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them

Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 08/02/2026

Why are you amplifying them? You're giving them more clout by quoting them, given you have way more followers than them. It also makes it very noisy to follow you...

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 27/01/2026

And statutory Bivens. Both to deter the behavior itself and to have standing to challenge unconstitutional behavior that's not that likely to happen to the same person again (which apparently is a problem with ICE entering houses without a warrant).

Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 24/01/2026

Pretty sure it's at least two shooters. First guy draws his weapon (moves out of frame unfortunately). Then shoots, the recoil is visible, but the weapon is not. Different agent shoots ~5 seconds later, at least twice. The weapon and the recoil are visible.

Same "agent" shoots, recoil is visible, but weapon is not.

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 15/01/2026

Only had a few acquaintances that work(ed) at Palantir. I think all had an immigrant background and did it purely for the money and career advancement. Think all left well before now.

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 15/01/2026

Because you already have a cool last name. Can't be that cool.

Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 14/01/2026

It's probably from all the chest thumping afterwards :(

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 14/01/2026

Boy, did it confuse me at the time I wanted to move to the US that non-immigrant visas include visas that allow living and working in the US...

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 13/01/2026

It's also possible that they actually care about the investigation to some degree, but are just not able to understand that pushing someone with some integrity too far will lead to that person resigning in protest. They seem to have some genuinely hard time understanding people with principles.

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 13/01/2026

How on earth is this an exclusive? It's been the friggin argument calendar of the supreme court since 11/12/2025 and has been granted certiorari 07/03/2025...

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 12/01/2026

Didn't we learn in some deposition that he actually doesn't control his account but that somebody else does all the tweeting for him?

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 09/01/2026

I think people (including journalists) are also, not unreasonable given e.g. media matter's experience and twitter's troll armies, afraid of Musk to a degree they aren't afraid of Pepsi's CEO.

Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 08/01/2026

How realistic is it for local authorities to get access to evidence via subpoena or such?

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 05/01/2026

ISTM that's one thing to argue for an LLM that's asked such questions in a "1:1" context, but a different one for something like grok in a public twitter thread.

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 22/12/2025

I still occasionally see them at dry cleaners and similar places.

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 18/12/2025

I'd guess one goal is to make naturalized citizens afraid of participating in the political process. If, in retaliation for speaking up, you're dragged into court to fight a bogus denaturalization, many, quite reasonably, won't.

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 16/12/2025

I think for 3) the relevant question isn't whether it *can* be helpful. It pretty obviously can. The more relevant aspect is for how many folks it will actually be a net benefit and for how many folks it leads to less training / skill attrition, which in turn makes effective use of AI less likely.

Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 14/12/2025

Even if, in the happy case, the power density is "safe", if they can target an entire solar installation on earth, they also can target a much smaller spot. Which, pretty much by definition of needing to deliver enough energy to boost an entire solar install, would be ... intense.

Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 11/12/2025

Even if such deployments were realistic, why would we want to do so in space? Just deploy the friggin automation on earth and build the whole stuff much much more cheaply. This is a phenomenal exercise of a solution in search of a problem.

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 09/12/2025

It's all a plot by big dry clean.

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 21/11/2025

Centering Disturbed Cranks

Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 20/11/2025

I'm not sure the issue is lack of AI subtlety here - it seems more a case of leadership requiring crystal-clear adherence to some tenants (i.e. Musk is the greatest human ever). That doesn't leave room for subtle dog-whistling.

Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 04/11/2025

Am I confused or does the article actually not substantiate the headline at all?

Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 01/11/2025

Doing road trips in the US, after moving here from Europe, really was rather enlightening. Driving for hours, seeing no gas station and just a few other cars (during daytime!) is basically not possible in large parts of Europe.

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Andres Freund @anarazel.de · 25/10/2025

Please include a frequency limit too. A lot of it just seems to be written because something had to be handed in, rather than something that needed to be said.