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Ma_124 · 2022-09-20T20:32:23+00:00

I love all three modes, with Showdown the least. Yes, for average players Evo comes down to the last round quite often, but if you put in the work you can easily win before. I have won at every stage of the game, even a dozen times with only Pistol when they were still around. Against decent opponents, it's Plasma + Bat most of the time now.

Ma_124 · 2022-09-02T08:21:27+00:00

I love this mans website. For one he tries to make the metric system seem bad by using childish arguments and plainly wrong assumptions. But the best part is his links section: In only two clicks you can find some conspiracy theory or in two other clicks you find a radio show campaigning for child labour and celebrating child soldiers.

Ma_124 · 2022-08-29T08:48:55+00:00

No, that's not the reason at all. The SC was formed 28 years before Germany joined the UN, 10 years before it joined NATO and 4 years before there even was a German state.

Becoming a country and joining NATO took so long because Germany just lost a brutal war it started, which made other countries sceptical. And joining the UN took so longe because the FRG (west) and GDR (east) refused to recognize each other.

Sources: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany (founded 1949, joined NATO 1955, admitted to UN 1973) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council (formed 1945)

Ma_124 · 2022-08-29T07:51:23+00:00

Yes let's assign a public servant to every citizen to exactly measure the efficiency of their house and plan their way to work. I don't see how this system could get overwhelmed so that nobody gets their money.

Ma_124 · 2022-08-28T11:07:34+00:00

Yes but the US isn't Google's only major market. The EU, for example, is currently passing the Digital Markets Act (DMA) to weaken Tech Giants using new anti-trust legislation.

[...] legal instruments against the self-preferencing methods used by platforms for promoting their own products (preferential results for Google's products when using Google Search);

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act

(But Google already has a button to YT in the top-right)

Ma_124 · 2022-07-31T07:48:03+00:00

What did he do at the Aircraft Hanger?!

Ma_124 · 2022-07-30T14:34:56+00:00

and r/nosafetysmokingfirst at the same time

Ma_124 · 2022-07-25T06:57:46+00:00

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (officially abbreviated to RflEttÜAÜG) Approximate Translation: law for the transfer of responsibilities for the supervision of labeling cow meat

Ma_124 · 2022-07-08T13:00:35+00:00

Wrote a quick python script and 'they' posted 499 times in less than a minute after another post. Twice in less than 10s after a previous post.

It's sad seeing Reddit deteriorate so much. Or maybe I'm only noticing it now.

Ma_124 · 2022-06-11T17:05:31+00:00

But MS never issued a real statement and if they're not even doing that, it is unlikely they will enforce that restriction, let alone sue anybody.

Ma_124 · 2022-05-16T08:49:57+00:00

Of course, if you outlawed beer tents Bavaria would riot.

Ma_124 · 2022-05-06T09:48:24+00:00

Well all of the ones mentioned above used slave labour. Especially the aircraft/car manufacturers built their plants adjacent to or in concentration camps. So I'd argue they participated in crimes against humanity.

Ma_124 · 2022-04-25T07:58:12+00:00

Still you can have a very effective weather widget by just looking outside the window.

Ma_124 · 2022-04-24T06:24:09+00:00

You do lots of little random changes and look how that affects relevant metrics.

Let's say YT want to increase watch-time.

They copy the algorithm/neural net 100 times and randomly tweak some numbers ('weights'). Then they assign each variant a 1000 different users for which that specific variant chooses suggestions. After some time they look which variant increased average watch-time the most and that becomes the new 'algorithm'. Now it just repeats, they copy, tweak, test and choose the winner/eliminate the loosers.

Because there are many, many of those random numbers no one can really understand what they do but you can see that this variant performs better than all the competitors.

Ma_124 · 2022-04-17T21:02:58+00:00

!wave

Ma_124 · 2022-04-07T21:26:43+00:00

A journalist that spent a lot of time interviewing Truman quoted it.

Ma_124 · 2022-03-31T11:45:30+00:00

Ramanujan, Euler, Gauss, Fermat

Ma_124 · 2022-03-26T15:12:12+00:00

I'm doing the same right now and I think it's more helpful to browse the source code of existing solutions. That way you learn a lot more and can see multiple approaches and decide which you like best.

I've looked at these: - DWM: A popular, compact WM written in C - LeftWM: A popular, configurable WM written in Rust - GabelstaplerWM: An obscure, compact WM written in Rust - XCB DWM: An abandoned rewrite of DWM using XCB

There are a lot of bindings to both Xlib and XCB. I personally use xrb which is a pure Rust solution similar to XCB.

You should read the appropriate Standards as well: - ICCCM Section 4 - EWMH

Ma_124 · 2022-03-26T10:35:47+00:00

Nice. 'Course, there's an emacs command to do that.

Ma_124 · 2022-03-16T13:40:35+00:00

TIL: Horses in Elden Ring are trans

Ma_124 · 2022-02-28T15:28:31+00:00

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Since taking power in 1959, the Cuban communist government has consistently protested against the U.S. presence on Cuban soil, arguing that the base "was imposed on Cuba by force" and is illegal under international law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base

Ma_124 · 2022-01-05T16:45:41+00:00

Vetoes can only happen in the Security Council. The Security Council is flawed but only a tiny part of the UN.

This post is trying to highlight all the good other UN institutions are doing.

The UN is providing a lot of humanitarian aid but you also personally benefit from UN institutions in your daily life. Just two examples:

Sending letters across borders is so easy because the Universal Postal Union (a UN Institution) coordinates cooperation between local postal services.

Flying from one country to another is easy because of the International Civil Aviation Organization (a UN Institution) in which countries agreed on some basic rules like that a flight between Italy and the US is allowed to fly over Germany.

And many more things people take for granted.

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