I just don’t expose myself to the 24h news cycle very much. My life is good, the life of the people around me is good, and nobody is helped by worrying about things I can’t change.

well played.

Agreed, the only argument for oil immersion cooling is, AFAIK, better energy efficiency which is of course not a real consideration for high end consumer grade hardware. A previous iteration of our national compute cluster was oil immersion cooled but the tradeoffs in maintainability etc. were not even close to sensible so the next iteration went back to regular server racks. And the iteration after that needed the floor space and finally dialed in the end of oily door handles and eerily quiet but oppressively hot server rooms.

As you freely admit you have no money and seem to have no specific qualifications.

Even with those boxes checked I would never ever consider moving across country without a signed employment contract at the target location. The risks seem insane and completely outsized to me. But if you’re a way, way more adventurous type than me, at the very least you’d need enough savings to keep you off the streets for a few months if you are planning to start job hunting only after moving. Anything less would just be stupid.

Could also be mineral oil wicking up the cable, there are the absolute madmen who opt for oil immersion cooling their rig

wtf that’s dystopian af

What my dad calls “Lazy Fuck Chicken”: mix instant French onion soup into a cup of cream, pour over chicken breasts in a gratin dish, shredded cheese on top, into the oven for half a hour, done. Serve with instant rice. Can’t get more taste for less work.

Or, it could be that there’s like 300x more non-Aussies than Aussies so constraining the ability of foreigners to speculate on Australian real estate could be seen as a priority by an institution who’s literal job it is to serve the Australian people, first and foremost.

I did specify world view, did I not? A credible commitment to the rule of law, democracy, secular politics, and to the rules-based international order would be a start. I don’t think we should award citizenship to anyone who can’t even make lip service to these principles.

edit: smart selection process on the part of that German state actually. Screening out people who would deny Israel the right to exist probably also catches a lot of those who would fail some of the above requirements.

Good. I hope there are further tests of the applicants’ world view in place, but that’s a start.

This is just the beginning. I am looking forward to at least a decade of merry goalpost-shifting from the creative community before everyone comes to terms with the realization that human creativity may actually not be that special after all.

it’s literally impossible unless some day AI becomes human(impossible) because human is the only thing capable of creativity.

That’s quite a strong claim, what are you basing that on? Now, I’m not saying current “AI” systems are necessarily terribly creative. But why shouldn’t an arbitrarily sophisticated AI be as creative as a human? Or, for that matter, perform any other cognitive function a human can? What makes computation performed by a human brain so qualitatively different from computation performed by another substrate? Please consider publishing your findings in cognitive science journals, the rest of the world needs to know.

I wouldn’t know, haven’t seen an ad on youtube in like 10 years.

Not for much longer.

When it expires I will have to change my data everywhere

Ok, that’s different from our system then. We have to change our legal documents, bank details, cards, relevant contracts etc. in case of a name change but not in case of an ID card change (not even if the original ID was from another EU country, I don’t think). I only know from my wife that changing those documents was a huge hassle.

Well in that case I can see no reason not to do it apart from sentimental ones which you don’t seem to share. So why not if you feel like it.

I mean. Firstly and most importantly, it’s a huge hassle to change all your existing legal stuff, documents, cards, etc. Just ask anyone’s wife. I’d assume even if the legal stuff is managed by the state the rest is also quite a hassle unless Spain has a vastly more efficient system than we do. Secondly, my parents would be quite sad (and I would also be a little weirded out).

Ok, all those things combined happen maybe once a month in my life, tops. At least for me that wouldn’t be worth it.

How often does that realistically happen to you, such as to make it impractical to show an ID? Seems like a non-issue to me

Used it for work. Got more and more annoyed that I couldn’t configure my desktop to the same extent and with the same ease as our server at work. Made the switch and never looked back.

I suppose I’m “that guy” at work now who gets a shit eating grin whenever people are complaining about Windows Update rebooting their devices at the least opportune moment.

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