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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • If I remember correctly, that was the original idea of AWS, to offer their free capacity to paying customers.

    Do you think that AWS in particular has this problem or Azure and GCP as well? I have mainly worked with DWHs in Snowflake, where you can adjust the compute capacity within seconds. So you pay almost exactly for the capacity you really need.
    Not having to optimize queries is a good selling point for cloud-based databases, too.

    It is certainly still cheaper than self-hosted on-premises infrastructure.





  • Coming from Germany, I don’t know if the traditional way to eat muesli is just adding yoghurt. Most people I know normally add fresh milk to it.

    Personally, I enjoy my daily Müsli with vanilla soy milk (but I tend to be the only one liking that), fruit skyr (or yogurt), some oatmeal and/or crunchy granola, and most importantly, at least two kinds of fresh fruit, like bananas, peaches, apples, pears, or grapes. Without fruit, it just tastes bland.


  • Turing Machine is actually the only game on my wish list this year. It’s the perfect match for me as I love solving logical puzzles, work in IT and like to play board games instead of sitting in front of a display all the time. The Steam game Turing Complete was already a dream come true for me.

    There is no impact on taxes as long as your Nebenverdienst is not higher than 520€ a month. You also don’t have to pay social security contributions in that case.



  • Not yet. I usually don’t make a list until a few days before it starts. But maybe I won’t prepare anything at all this time.

    I’m more focused on playing games for fun now, rather than getting the best deals like I did 5 years ago. The SPIEL is good for trying out games, sometimes even before release, or getting some exclusive bonus expansions, but not so much for getting cheap prices anymore.

    Besides, I don’t want to add to my huge collection until I have more time to play games. So this time I may just go unprepared and see what looks interesting.







  • I’m on vacation with a rented Tesla Y LR in Tuscany right now. We traveled all the way from northern Germany (about 1500 km) and never had any issues finding a free charging station. Just once every single parking spot was used and the charging automatically stopped at 80% in order to make space for others more quickly (and to be honest, this was due to other cars parking in the Tesla reserved parking spots at an Italian supermarket).

    Traveling with kids automatically makes you take a break every 3 hours or so. This time, we just let the car charge during these breaks and had a 100% charged car afterwards. That’s about 55 min of charging time. In about 25 min you can charge from 20% to 80% using a 250 kW supercharger.

    You have to keep in mind that long distance travel is not the usual use case and that being able to slowly charge the vehicle during the night is also important. Most camping sites, hotels and vacation resorts offer at least two 11 kW stations at their own rates.



  • Bei Beton als Baustoff bin ich auch skeptisch und grundsätzlich bei dir. Wie bisher sollten wir nicht weitermachen.

    Im Artikel wird das Thema Umweltfreundlichkeit aber direkt adressiert und die Innovationsmöglichkeiten durch den neuen Ansatz auch erwähnt:

    Ein weiterer Vorteil: Der verwendete Spezial-Beton habe einen deutlich kleineren CO2-Fußabdruck und sei recyclebar. Die Vision von Kraus: “Dass wir in einigen Jahren dieses Gebäude wieder abreißen, schreddern, recyceln und mit erneuerbaren Energien ein neues Gebäude drucken können.”

    Ich hoffe nicht, dass die Idee bald stirbt, sondern sich zu einer echten Alternative für eine nachhaltigere Bauweise entwickelt.