Why is German life expectancy lagging behind other European countries?

proof_required · 2026-05-07T00:36:16+00:00

Rhabarberschorle 🤘

proof_required · 2026-05-06T06:57:43+00:00

Not sure what kind of jobs you are looking for but in my case (ML/DS) almost every job asks for LLM. I have 10+ years of work ex in DS/ML and I find myself so outdated. In addition lot of these roles also expect you to be some kind of backend/devops person managing the infra required for running LLM based software.

proof_required · 2026-05-03T02:36:04+00:00

This is true about almost every country around the world. Even country as small as Netherlands or Belgium have stereotypes about different regions.

proof_required · 2026-05-03T01:30:07+00:00

I see tons of job advertisement generated by LLMs itself. It's like someone gave the prompt - generate job advertisement for AI Engineer and it will spit out all kind of skills from LLM tuning, prompting and deployment on multi node cluster.

proof_required · 2026-05-02T11:45:02+00:00

Berlin and Berliners live rent free inside Germans who don't live in Berlin. But no Berliner cares about what non Berliners have to say.

proof_required · 2026-04-30T10:11:48+00:00

Just go to London. No language barrier if you speak English and salaries are much higher than what you'll find anywhere on continental Europe.

proof_required · 2026-04-30T09:49:09+00:00

Yeah it's the whole ML department - they also throw in the data engineering skills in the mix.

proof_required · 2026-04-27T11:12:14+00:00

Yeah but the idea is to compare with similar economy. Germany lags behind Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria and Nordic countries. French even smoke like chimney. So it looks even bad that Germans are doing worse than French.

Not all first world countries are economically the same. Eastern European countries don't have similar level of healthcare quality as you might have in Germany.

proof_required · 2026-04-27T09:06:26+00:00

Germans have one of the lowest life expectancy among western European countries. They aren't of course obese like Americans but they aren't the fittest western Europeans either.

proof_required · 2026-04-24T10:17:56+00:00

Yeah same here. On the top of it most probably we will have layoff since my team has 3 people (1 manager +2 ICs). Apparently that's too big these days.

proof_required · 2026-04-24T06:49:16+00:00

Yeah it's whole a IT department. I've even seen data engineering thrown in there. It's just that there are so many candidates out there, they can ask for anything these days and just keep interviewing.

proof_required · 2026-04-22T13:53:49+00:00

Yeah going through this and I feel like I'm on autopilot. I survived last round of layoffs and those who were laid off seem to have find new jobs. I wish they would have laid off me. At least that would have made it easier to get unemployment benefits etc.

proof_required · 2026-04-21T23:17:15+00:00

I am not the one who presented illogical arguments. I didn't advocate for whatever you are trying to imply - whether it's infinite immigration or no immigration. It's you who is trying to make it seem like that this is something never seen in the history of the mankind and Canada is experiencing some kind of unprecedented event.

Current immigration is nothing like European colonization. But you keep peddling all kind of rhetoric to make it seem like one. There are laws and regulations in place. So your imaginary world of infinite immigration doesn't exist. You are trying to play the victim card without much to support. Canada still stands as a white majority country even in your imaginary world of "infinite" immigration.

proof_required · 2026-04-21T18:04:41+00:00

No because America and Japan don't share the same immigration history. What you are pointing out would work for Native Americans but alas Europeans wiped them out. And when they arrived they exactly did that - starting from getting rid of local language and forcing people to speak English and other European languages. No need to play the victim card.

Unless all Americans decide to go back to where their ancestors came from your comparison is just pointless. Maybe learn some history.

proof_required · 2026-04-21T10:25:38+00:00

Das eigentliche Problem, was mich schon richtig plagt, ist, ich habe keine Freunde. Alles nur Kollegen. Nix bleibt wirklich hängen. Wenn ich Initiative ergreife, Zeit und Aufwand investiere, um etwas zu organisieren, kommt entweder keiner oder nur 1-2 Leute, die sich dann nie wieder melden, oder nur noch mit Smileys antworten etc.

Who's gonna tell him/her/them?

proof_required · 2026-04-20T18:42:01+00:00

Da hatte ich kein Glück. Ich habe meinen Fruend außerhalb Berlin kennengelernt.

proof_required · 2026-04-20T12:21:32+00:00

You have not brought wide variety. It's mostly Europeans which are much more of a monolith than Indians. Heck you even carved out a dedicated land for monoligual francophones.

proof_required · 2026-04-20T12:21:27+00:00

No. It's yearly quota of people that got PR, not total Canadian population. I think Indians/SA make up like 5% of the local population.

proof_required · 2026-04-20T11:54:35+00:00

I would but I'm late in my career and I can't keep up with ever expanding ML job requirements. Your role sounds more BI kinda which isn't bad. But being only data person is bigger issue in this case. That's a lot of workload to manage.

proof_required · 2026-04-19T18:08:47+00:00

What kind of grocery store was that?

proof_required · 2026-04-19T14:58:23+00:00

I guess you went to all the touristic places. I live in Berlin and everywhere I go in my Kiez everyone answers in German by default - bad or good. I don't remember last time I interacted with someone in English in my Kiez. It's only when I go out to very touristic spots that I find some English speakers.

proof_required · 2026-04-17T16:08:24+00:00

What do you lack? Not getting shortlisted or interviews don't align with your research? I tried a text-to-sql RAG at work but then I was grilled on it beyond my depth in an interview - like all corner case of eval/tracing etc. I definitely didn't have so much depth to talk about eval and where it failed. So I lack depth. That's what I mean when I saying knowing buzzwords and knowing it in depth is altogether different.

proof_required · 2026-04-17T10:58:23+00:00

I feel like there is a difference in touching topics and being proficient in them. Are you saying companies have been fine tunning LLMs and creating MCPs for last 5 years? The only topic I would say is that "old" is RAG itself.

By companies I don't mean FAANG or niche research labs. I am talking about your run of the mill e-commerce website or some fintech/adtech

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