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I wish. Germany usually has a combination of "bad internet", "tech illiteracy" and "no appointments in the next 2-4 years" .
That's fair.
I looked up Internet speed by country expecting to see Germany be in the top 25, because of their incredible engineering, then I see them at 56. That is shocking to me.
Incredible engineering? Germany? Have you ever owned a German car? Over-engineered unreliable expensive POC.
I have never owned a German car. I find the idea that something is over engineered and unreliable together funny.
To sum it up in a meme, over engineered vs simple and reliable
Edit: fixed formatting
Over-engineering is dedicating a team of specialists to shaving off every last piece of material from a pneumatic hose, justified with endless computer simulations based on unrealistic assumptions like constant temperature throughout the year, then wondering why the hoses fail in less than a year in the real world. "But the simulation". "But the data". "But the theory". "The real world is a statistical fluke". That's over-engineering.
Canada and Germany are so alike sometimes...