Mercedes has some interesting EV options, and they have some models at the moment that are not necessarily that expensive. Through the grapevine I overheard something about surplus production due to mandate to build a certain number of EVs.
If you don’t want/need a new car, the used car market in Germany is pretty active with EQAs and EQBs.
Electricity is sold on the market. If you live next to a data center you can choose not to use any services enabled by that center, but you cannot choose to pay non-datacenter prices for the electricity to charge your car or run your household
3 years ago I was in pharma in Europe. Back then (a political lifetime ago), the FDA had an excellent reputation and was considered a kind of gold standard.
Get your new drug approved by the FDA, and ~50+ countries would follow more or less on autopilot.
This wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, because as far as I know, they really _were_ that good.
> If anything I'm surprised that this is happening in an area that hasn't benefited as much from dramatic reductions in electricity costs
Electricity has been comparatively cheap (to DK at least) for a long time due to all the hydro.
I remember as a kid when visiting family in Norway, we were surprised that there were no rules on turning off the lights when closing the door to an empty room :)
> The only moment time it makes sense is when you have a SHARED understanding of the smallest point AND you can translate it to time. When you do that, story points are useful.
I’d like to disagree on that one. A single story point shouldn’t be translated to time, but should reflect the relative complexity between tasks (ie. a 7 is harder than a 3 and so on).
You could assign relative complexity based on a number of things:
- number of integrations to other systems,
- is the area well known to the team,
- is the code well tested,
- is CI/CD set up,
- do we need a lot of alignment or can we just get started,
- etc.
So you’re not estimating time, but complexity or hardness.
Then, supposing you have a stable team, you can go back six months and find out “we do on average 90 points per month” or similar
Yeah, I remember formatting the HD on a PC back then to do a fresh install of Windows XP.
The CD-ROM I had was pre-SP2 (so no firewall), and our internet setup was basic modem + switch. No router with “drop invalid state” or fancy things like that.
So, installed Windows and plugged in Ethernet to fetch Windows updates.
2 minutes later, with no user interaction whatsoever, the PC was infected with malware.
I do realize the cloud is just someone else’s computer right? Power goes in, tokens and heat come out - just in another place