I'm pretty sure there should be english announcements. Maybe they were broken. You also get this information via the displays on the wagons and on the screens inside. There is a bus/train from Freising to the airport every 10 min that takes 15min, so you are not trapped there for hours. Google maps also has all the public transport connections available for navigation. That it does not support certain things like train splits or instant train changes is not DBs problem.

The preferred way to get to the airport is via S8 (not S1). Idk how one could push/guide people more to take this one. S8 does not split and it definitely has announcements in english. They also prioritize keeping S8 running above anything else.

I'd also recommend buying tickets via app, not via ticket machines.

On the contrary. Btrfs had a long standing issue where you could make the filesystem checksums not match with non-stable O_DIRECT writes (so even with a single disk).

This has only recently been fixed by disabling O_DIRECT for files with checksums (so the default): https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/54c7002136a047b7140c3647...

ZFS has O_DIRECT do nothing as well, as far as I know.

We cannot even guess what the timeline would be. This is why it is insane to invest in it and expect a positive return in usual investing horizons.

ORCL seems to be the one who'll be left without a chair when the music stops.

And it imitates all the unimportant bits perfectly (like spelling, grammar, word choice) while failing at the hard to verify important bits (truth, consistency, novelty)

I'm afraid you are falling for a psychopath (see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01LK1hxpwcY for analysis). They are sometimes good at lying.

The autonomous drones fighting in the next war (let's hope not...).

the only hope is that there will be not enough electricity, and that population will not be deprived of electricity too brutally

IMHO, it will be autonomous robotics - one way or another.

On one of the latest Odd lots episodes finally an analyst had an investment thesis that made sense to me:

They think they are building an AI god.

If you think of it in religious terms it suddenly makes sense. Expected rate of return? One scenario has has infinite expected return (some kind of pascals wager/mugging)!

Of course there will be no AGI. Just a planet we'll have to live on where those deluded idiots wasted our resources on some boondoggle. Maybe this kind of concentration of power is a bad thing? I think we are going to get to those kind of questions once the party is over.

AI god is probably a bit of an exaggeration. You can explain it that they think they are building AI humans/robots. Which is an easier target.

Yeah, but they are also financing the gold miners.

Also, what to do with the shovels that are not sold if there are no buyers?

Yeah, the latest thing is the the 20 billion $ Argentina bailout (or Bessents hedge fund buddies exit liquidity).

20 billion ... gone.

Another 15 billion will go to soybean farmers to bail them out. And so on.

This went through the court system and it found that the "raid" was not appropriate and unlawful.

Mistakes happen and get corrected. Doesn't mean there is a systemic issue.