yes. They used it for a heart surgery on a new born that I know.

Thanks. I asked because I didn't know, and my kid had undergone a surgery. The downvote was undeserved-- but maybe it also tells us something.

Once upon a time adidas made shoes that were wide enough for me. Then somehow they decided to make them narrower and I had to search for wider shoes. The search was very difficult, as it seems that most shoe producers do not produce actually foot-shaped shoes. I bought my first pairs of Altra half a year ago, and I am very happy! The fit is really great. I will not switch to anything else, as long as they continue producing in this shape.

> Perhaps the tendency to complain is a necessity to achieve a high level of efficiency.

I am pretty convinced about that. Especially after having lived and worked in other countries where people like to complain less. If people will just accept and not complain, problems also will not get fixed.

I was once in a museum in Bolzano, Italy. And they had the ice man mummy there (we call him Ötzi). He died like 5000years ago. And his "axe" was made of copper from some mine very far away. So even this guy probably did not know how everything he had was made. There is a theory that he was probably very rich. So maybe less rich people were more in touch with what they owned. But still I found it fascinating that even so far back people relied on technology and materials that they didn't really know about.

The A/C cannot keep up the load, due to the exteme heat. So they decided to just not cool one part of the building, to be able to keep cooling the other part .. It is now interesting who was in which part ;)

Clearly those in floors 1->7 were less important and thus allowed to take the day off and/or work remotely, right?

It was 4pm on Friday, so yes, they were probably heading home already.

If that's the case then the building's system was very badly designed...

It was designed for historical, pre-climate-change weather. (Or at least when those were in the know about climate change thought we'd solve it.)

There's probably a "Belgian joke" to be made if their AC is only designed to work when it isn't hot...

Uhh, AC that's designed for a hottest day of 85F or 90F will struggle at 100+F.

That seems true - it's not a historic building - it was built in the mid- to late-1960s.

There is, unfortunately. You cannot install AC, with an outside unit, without approval of your landlord. Lots of people are renting, e.g in Germany. Of course, one can get an indoor unit an seal the window. But it is heavy and takes up a lot of space in a small urban rental..

Are renters in the US specifically permitted by law to install airco units that require permanent modification to the property? Or are landlords mandated to install airco units on a renters request? Or..?

The US is a big place, and states are free to set their own rules, and those rules do vary.

I live in Ohio (USA), where a landlord isn't required to provide air conditioning. Some other parts of the US do require it. It's hard to pin down most things in the US using just one generalized statement.

Most of the rentals I've had did provide aircon, in some form, anyway.

For those that did not provide AC, I've just used window air conditioners. They're very annoying, but they work and they aren't usually absurdly expensive. Nobody ever said a word about me using them, nor any the screw holes that I may have left behind by mounting them securely.

I've lived in places that were operated by smaller landlords who I'm quite certain would have been tickled pink to have properly-installed permanent aircon installed -- as long as I asked first and they approved of my plan. But the expectation would have been that it would remain with the rental after I moved out and I'm not necessarily OK with spending that kind of money on a place that I don't intend to occupy for more than a year or three.

Right. So regulation isn't actually all that different than it is in Europe, except that some especially hot parts of the US mandate airco for rental housing, which is something I don't think is being done in Europe yet.

Changing the goalposts. We've gone from saying that Europe has (never defined) laws that prevent anyone from installing AC, to saying that tenants cannot make major changes to their properties. Landlords can install AC fine. Home owners can install AC. There are no laws that prevent installation of AC in Europe.

I don't think it is changing the goalpost. The law prevents more than half of Germany's inhabitants from installing ACs, because they are renters. Also landlords cannot just install AC just fine. If you just own an appartement, you need the consenst of all other owners in the building. This is also a law. Therefore, practically no landlord will agree to the request to install outside AC, unfortunately.

It sounds like a case for having more laws / regulation. Rental properties should have a maximum temperature, else they're not liveable (same as if they were damp or infested).

Sounds like a quick legal solution: heat and cooling are now the landlords problem. Sort of like the kitchen.

Oops, in Germany the kitchen is usually the tenants responsibility. Does that mean we should lose our heating privileges instead? (I'm sure some landlords would love that)

You know how laws are made? There's this big building where rational people discuss the options. If they don't get it right, the people can vote them out. Of course stupid laws are occasionally passed, but also it's possible (easy, in fact) to write a reasonable law to say you cannot rent property that is either too hot or too cold.

You realize this was intended as a joke, because a base assumption in that comment was, in a very specific and not that relevant way, incorrect, right? The "oops" and the parenthetical was intended to give it away.

I can second this. Our company and department was all-in on AI. And since the token-based pricing came in, we got an email from IT that tried to explain that most developers don't know how to choose models and that the cheap models should be good enough for most of our work ..

Ha, developers know perfectly well how to choose models - they know that the company is footing the bill and Opus will give them the best result and/or require the least clean-up work.

(We've received similar guidance. Even better is that our provider, GitHub Copilot, does not provide usage information to individual users if there is no per-user budget configured. So we just fire our requests into the black box and at the end of the month when IT gets the bill we maybe get a talking-to if it's excessive.)

Have they built an internal ai enablement team?

Yes :D

Old people will be the majority for the foreseeable future, though. To be honest, the only strategy that I currently see for young people is waiting and growing old, unfortunately..

I got a dustmite allergy directly after a Covid infection. Also, I got no proof but it made me suspicious if there could have been a connection..

Yeah, pretty close to what I got. Man that sucks. But I can confirm that taking exercises helps.

A guy at my company (very old company, we need to maintain our software for 30+ years) gave a presentation about how they used opus 4.6 to onboard people, like giving new team members access rights etc. Then another guy (even higher in management) proposed using a team of agents for that.. It's getting pretty wild