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That whole article looks and reads like an automatic translation. I’m guessing the original says “Ist der Lilium Jet eine Luftnummer?” Or perhaps “Luftpumpe”. A “Luftnummer”, an “air number”, is “hot air”. A “Luftpumpe” is an air pump but can also mean someone is a BS artist.

There’s also a bit of a bad pun hiding in there if it was “Luftnummer”, because “eine Nummer schieben” means to have sex, colloquially. If you really wanted to preserve that … you’d reach for the “blow job”.


Or walk and chew gum, like the rest of the world does.


Should have job title changed to Junior Penetration Tester and be rewarded for exposing an outfit of highly questionable competence.


Should have been BREAKING: What went wrong at BA?


Docker allows a mere mortal like myself with only 20+ years of sw engineering experience and a physics PhD under my belt to run a setup in something that resembles production more than a few hosted boxed cobbled together do. I vaguely know about ARP and I can just about follow along this post. So what you seem to regard as just a toy is actually what makes my work possible and/or viable.

I find that pretty super hip.


Actually you still need to learn Docker and once you put your project into production you need to be able to debug it as described in the article.


Oh, for sure. Docker doesn't replace actually knowing what you're doing once your setup grows. But it gets you further with less upfront knowledge, especially as a lot of it is really good dev knowledge for setting up test infrastructure as well. (That's why I started using Docker.)


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