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April 1st, 2017
Sadly, not an April Fools joke. Reinhard Tgahrt my uncle passed away last night. He would have been 81
years old on July 4th. What can I say here? Reinhard was an interesting
person and a great uncle. He lived in Marbach not far from his workplace the
Schiller Archive and Museum. I believe he loved his work. He loved poems and
not just simple ones. I would recite one he said but I don't know where to look
all I remember one he said was called "Endlich". I think I could dig out a
long list of things he contributed to in Germanistics but it's all online. He
was a great person, and I'd toast to his life with a pistachio that he loved to
eat so much. I'm gonna keep it short so I'd end the conversation quickly
like he always did with a simple, Adieu!
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Turned down the heat
March 27th, 2017
My "Nachtspeicher" heating system is turned down to 2 hours now, and I have
set the setting on the units themselves to level 1. I hope I don't freeze,
but today is extraordinarily warm in my apartment.
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Totally disagree with this SP.ON. article
March 27th, 2017
In this article
on Spiegel Online the author fingers the EU and US industry at trying to
weaken Germany. Dieselgate is the cause of that, but it was braught about
by whom exactly? You got it. VW. And then he goes on to say somewhere in
the article that up to 2 million people are indirectly dependent on the car
industry and that if everyone bought an electric car that there would be job
losses because the car makers are getting less money per e-car than any other
emissions car. Now, I've been on the search for an electric car for the last
little while and I smell hot air from this guy. For one, an electric car costs
three times as much as it's emissions counterpart (Renault Zoe vs. Clio) with
batteries included. So if the producers aren't pocketing great profits on
this I'd be surprised. The fact that I mentioned Renault (a french maker) is
that it's still cheaper than the german competition (Opel e-ampera, BMW, and
VW E-Up and E-Golf), yet it's still expensive. Maybe he overlooked that many
people want an electric car in this country and that the local automakers are
letting us down. They slept, they lied and played with fire at dieselgate.
And we're supposed to feel sorry for job losses? We should buy a friggen
emissions car to keep some assmunch in their job and all they do is turn around
and lie to us? No. I totally disagree with this guys sob story and I'll buy
me a Zoe from surprise surprise not the korean dealer but the next
neighbouring country over. VW should roast and pay up, because VW not only
tarnished it's own leadership, engineering and staff but also all of Germanys
reputation of honest craftsmanship and engineering. You guys can bring all
the sobstories you want, you don't get me feeling sorry for you.
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What science should focus on in my opinion
March 27th, 2017
Science in all of history has largely been a trial and error method. There
was a hypothesis and if some work surrounding that hypothesis matched then
there was material for a positive conclusion. In these days we have a great
system of many many hypothesis's and we get a bit of positive conclusions out
of it.
I personally get angry when I see people working with rare elements and
"waste" their time with it. Such as gold. Why gold? Just because some guy
put it on his crown and shield and it looks nice why do we waste our time
with it? It has no value to me.
I personally would like to see scientist try out the most abundant elements
that we have on earth (32.1% iron, 30.1% oxygen, 15.1% silicon,
13.9% magnesium 2.9% sulfur, 1.8% nickel.. stop). Let's work with the ones
that are over 10% so iron, oxygen, silicon and magnesium. Also we should look
to the Universe and see what elements are abundant there. Hydrogen and Helium.
So we have six elements that we should be focusing science around. Forget the
rest they aren't important enough! One element we could be working with is
Carbon but let's keep it at that. So seven elements in total.
I have dug up this chart from wikipedia which I find pretty interesting:
We should be doing science with the most abundant of elements because there
may come a time when we're short of everything and can only use what's
immediately available. Does it not make sense? To me it does.
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Ex-Ledward Barracks starting to be demolished
March 26th, 2017
On December 9th, 2014
I reported about the American Forces leaving Schweinfurt. Now there is the
first demolishing of the old Barracks I just
read
in the mainpost our local newspaper. They have designated the east wing of
the barracks for schooling, in particular the local college FH W"urzburg-
Schweinfurt. I haven't seen it in real life yet but I'm sure one would not
recognize it again. Strangely I read somewhere a few weeks ago that the US
Army is seeking for new Barracks in Northern Germany. That is ex-british
territory in the division that happened after WW2. I disagree with President
Trump that Germany "owes" the US money over protection. The remaining US
forces in Germany are remains of the second world war of an invasion force,
why would we pay a cent for that? Why we'd be crazy. Our military can be
modified to give us a reasonable protection without NATO forces on our soil,
and in a jiffy at that. Anyhow "interests" cost money so much is clear. And
it's in the US best interest that Germany doesn't get invaded by the Russians
even if Germany doesn't pay the Trump government. In regards to conscription
which is something Sweden re-introduced recently, there is probably a chance
that Germany will re-introduce it too in the foreseeable future to come. This
is simply because when forced there is more potential good soldiers that become
"career" soldiers. Currently the advertising of the Bundeswehr is probably not
effective in finding the right persons. That's just a prediction of mine, as
I don't really know as I never had to serve because I lived in a foreign
country at the age when people get conscripted. So I barely missed out.
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Last night Europe turned on Summer Time
March 26th, 2017
When I type date on a UN*X system it says this:
Sun Mar 26 10:52:20 CEST 2017
ahhh! finally summer time CEST! I was once vehemently against the switch
at all, but now I just don't care anymore. It would be nicer to have no
summer time but then again, who cares!
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When Algorithms Fail Humans
March 23rd, 2017
I sent a resume to some place that was hiring. Their algorithm scored my
mail as a spam mail due to the .pdf attachment that was my resume. I sent
a followup a few weeks later asking if they saw my resume and by then they
realised that my mail was not spam. Unfortunately for me, the position for
the job was then already filled. I believe this is one case where an
algorithm failed humans. Or is it sheer bad luck? Between the mailings
I changed my SPF record to a TXT record as per RFC 7208, which changed in
April 2014 and my anti-spam setup was outdated.
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Tomorrow is Equinox
March 19th, 2017
At 10:28 UTC is equinox. That is when the sun crosses the equator of earth.
You may have guessed then, that this only happens twice a year. Officially
after the sun crosses the equator in either direction somewhere on earth it
is spring and otherwhere on earth it is autumn. Namibia is starting autumn,
and Germany is starting spring. That's just how it is in the march equinox.
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The only way to outdo Facebook/Google/Silicon Valley and Co.
March 19th, 2017
When european politicians talk about restricting facebook for example, it won't
do. The only way to beat facebook and apply european law is to create a
competitor platform that offers more than facebook, ie. competing against it.
We are eons behind in this so it's not easy to outdo facebook and google. But
if politicians would have the will to work with private enterprises to create
a competitor platform by investing billions (that's how much it would cost),
then and only then will the european user be under a european law-umbrella.
Politicians don't realise this though. They think it is sooo easy to create
a digital border in "cyberspace". It won't do. Half the people on facebook
are addicted to it and emotionally bonded to it. The only way to break the
spell is to break it with another spell, like mentioned above. With european
law there must come law evolution meaning that some laws are perhaps not in
europes best interests, and serve only a minority. Anyhow. Here is a question
to local politicians then "how long will europe have to be beaten
technologically for you to realise politics can't save us?". Put up.
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We're 10 cm's from the Sun (1mm)
March 16th, 2017
I saw this youtube
clip partially until he set the distance to Jupiter. If the Sun was 1 mm in
diameter (radius off wikipedia says 695,700 km) then the earths to scale
distance I worked out to 107 mm or 10.7 cm given that the distance of an
astronomical unit (AU) is 149,597,870 km. In the video astrium goes on to
say that Mars is 16 cm's from the Sun. I proofed the distance with earth
today and had some discrepancies until realising that 2 * radius == diameter.
:-)
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