Christian Dickmann

Cloud Native/K8s with focus on vSAN and Storage / PE @VMware. vSAN Architect, Builder of clouds. Opinions are my own.

[Prof. Karl Lauterbach @Karl_Lauterbach]

Wer in Anbetracht des dramatischen Klimawandels von „grüner Ideologie“ spricht sollte nicht regieren. Die Wirtschaft ist in der Krise weil wir von Gas aus Russland und vom Export von Verbrennungsmotoren abhängig waren. Beides ist Geschichte.

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

@bryanl @davidfowl Two things are true: There are cases where I love a good debugger. There are other cases where I use print() to solve my problems.

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

@panzer_michael Auf der Langstrecke macht er sich sehr gut

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

Korrekt. Irre gutes Auto. Ich habe ehrlich gesagt weniger erwartet, und war mega beeindruckt von meinem ID3 mit 77kWh.

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

@Elektro_Robin Vor allem weil der BMW halt alles andere besser macht als der Tesla. Er ist bei WEITEM das besser Auto.

[Tim Tugendhat @TimTugendhat]

That German urge to utterly misappropriate an English term in a commercial way

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

@Lost_Signal @EIAgov So coal/gas need to become expensive with CO2 pricing, but ramp up of solar/wind need to make coal/gas unnecessary, all while consumption goes up significantly due to mass-adoption of EVs and Heat Pumps.

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

I am at 40c (EUR) right now, but yes, prices have to go up (CO2 pricing) unless we finally invest enough in renewables. We have to internalize these external effects and have people pay the “true price”.

[⍼ John Nicholson ⍼ @Lost_Signal]

Germany’s 55-80 cents per KWH makes the maths on cheap AC, not cheap. (I think I’m 12 cents right now).

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

@Lost_Signal @EIAgov In the German/European market, the price is set by the most expensive source we still have to buy to satisfy demand. Today, that often involves coal or gas. Solar and wind are very cheap indeed, but usually not able to meet demand fully.

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

@kostadis_tech Sure, if the tagline was “progress has stalled due to lack of investment due to lack of profits”, sure … but it rarely is in the US.

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

I love how in the US making things more affordable and hence accessible is framed as “evaporated precious profits!”

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

@daveshanley Thank you for sharing this. Good stuff.

[quobix @daveshanley]

I watch (and give) many demos and see the same repeated mistakes made by software engineers, often falling into one of five categories.

Here's a fun video I made that explains how to avoid all five mistakes when giving a demo.

Full video on youtube:
https://t.co/fsgLTGZeBH

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

You can enter your answer in writing, or via Speech-to-Text. I also use a real language coach, and this is a fantastic addition. Less than $0.5/h means I am only limited by my willingness to spend time. Oh, and ChatGPT helped me write all this code in very little time.

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

I made a language learning role play app for myself. I took ChatGPT API, AWS/Azure/GCP Text-to-Speech APIs (to have more voices), and Whisper API, with a hacked up python backend and a Clarity/Angular frontend. It’s absolutely awesome and very cheap. API cost is few cent/h.

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

How the app works: You enter a person/topic (free text or dropdown) you want to have a conversation with/about. The tool picks a voice at random. It asks ChatGPT to do a role play. You can repeatedly listen to the audio, reveal the written text if needed. Infinite variation.

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

Tried this yesterday, and ChatGPT’s summary varied from attempt to attempt, all wrong in key aspects.

[Alfie Whattam @AlfieGWhattam]

@paulg I’ve been using daily to transcribe YouTube videos - so I can get the info I need in 10 seconds rather than 10 minutes

[Lion Hirth @LionHirth]

Entweder man macht marktwirtschaftlichen Klimaschutz oder ordnungspolitischen Klimaschutz oder keinen Klimaschutz.

[Guido Appenzeller @appenz]

My daughter asked GPT-4 for a summary of Shakespeare's Hamlet for Millennials. LLM's are amazing 😂

[Christian Dickmann @cdickmann]

Das wird VIEL zu selten so erzählt. Ist ne super Art zu spenden.

[Martin Hundhausen @M_Hundhausen]

Er: "Ich bau PV-Anlage nur klein, weil ich dann den Strom selbst verbrauche und nichts billig verschenken muss."
Ich: "ist ja nicht verschenkt, verdrängt schmutzigen Strom und senkt Strompreise für Allgemeinheit".
Er: "was hab ich davon, wenn andere meinen Strom billig bekommen?